Samuel Byrd
New York Yankees 1929–1934; Cincinnati Reds 1935–1936
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | 62 | 202 | 170 | 32 | 53 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 28 | 28 | 18 | 1 | 4 | .312 | .409 | .471 | .880 | 133.6 | 132.4 | .404 | 1.4 |
| 1930 | 92 | 254 | 218 | 46 | 62 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 31 | 30 | 18 | 5 | 1 | .284 | .371 | .440 | .811 | 109.5 | 108.8 | .369 | 0.8 |
| 1931 | 115 | 281 | 248 | 51 | 67 | 18 | 2 | 3 | 32 | 29 | 26 | 5 | 0 | .270 | .349 | .395 | .744 | 101.2 | 100.5 | .347 | 0.7 |
| 1932 | 105 | 243 | 209 | 49 | 62 | 12 | 1 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 20 | 1 | 2 | .297 | .385 | .478 | .863 | 122.5 | 122.9 | .392 | 1.5 |
| 1933 | 85 | 122 | 107 | 26 | 30 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 15 | 12 | 0 | 1 | .280 | .369 | .411 | .780 | 114.1 | 113.2 | .365 | 0.4 |
| 1934 | 106 | 218 | 191 | 32 | 47 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 23 | 18 | 22 | 1 | 2 | .246 | .318 | .335 | .653 | 75.8 | 74.9 | .310 | -0.4 |
| 1935 | 121 | 460 | 416 | 51 | 109 | 25 | 4 | 9 | 52 | 37 | 51 | 4 | 0 | .262 | .322 | .406 | .729 | 95.5 | 96.3 | .331 | 1.2 |
| 1936 | 59 | 153 | 141 | 17 | 35 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .248 | .303 | .348 | .650 | 77.6 | 78.9 | .303 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932-09-08 | NYY @ DET Gameday | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 11 |
| 1932-04-12 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1932-09-10 | NYY @ DET Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| 1932-04-16 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 |
| 1933-09-28 | MIN @ NYY Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929-04-18 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1929-04-19 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1929-04-21 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1929-04-23 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1929-04-24 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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.