Sammy Taylor
Chicago Cubs 1958–1962; New York Mets 1962; Cincinnati Reds 1963; Cleveland Indians 1963; New York Mets 1963
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.
Season by season
Batting
| Season | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 96 | 329 | 301 | 30 | 78 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 36 | 27 | 46 | 2 | 1 | .259 | .319 | .372 | .691 | 81.6 | 83.7 | .310 | 1.1 |
| 1959 | 110 | 390 | 353 | 41 | 95 | 13 | 2 | 13 | 43 | 35 | 47 | 1 | 0 | .269 | .336 | .428 | .764 | 96.1 | 102.2 | .331 | 2.0 |
| 1960 | 74 | 159 | 150 | 14 | 31 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 6 | 18 | 0 | 1 | .207 | .241 | .327 | .567 | 49.3 | 53.8 | .256 | -0.1 |
| 1961 | 89 | 264 | 235 | 26 | 56 | 8 | 2 | 8 | 23 | 23 | 39 | 0 | 0 | .238 | .316 | .391 | .707 | 79.2 | 84.2 | .309 | 0.8 |
| 1962 | 75 | 204 | 173 | 12 | 37 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 26 | 20 | 0 | 0 | .214 | .319 | .318 | .637 | 69.7 | 68.8 | .298 | 0.4 |
| 1963 | 29 | 57 | 51 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .235 | .298 | .275 | .573 | 59.1 | 65.0 | .263 | 0.1 |
Career totals
A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.
Best games
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961-06-27 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 10 |
| 1961-07-02 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1959-09-18 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1961-07-01 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1958-05-30 | LAD @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.