Satchel Davis
Cleveland Bears 1939; Baltimore Elite Giants 1940; Cleveland Buckeyes 1943; Cleveland Buckeyes 1947
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.4 |
| 1940 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 35.0 | 30.4 | .234 | 0.5 |
| 1943 | 5 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .091 | .000 | .091 | -49.9 | -71.3 | .069 | -1.6 |
| 1947 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -84.4 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.4 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.7 | 54.00 | 10.500 | 0.00 | 8.01 | 202.3 | 7.3 | -0.4 |
| 1940 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 11.0 | 1.64 | 1.091 | 3.27 | 4.94 | 94.6 | 319.1 | 0.5 |
| 1943 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 27 | 10 | 22 | 2 | 26.0 | 9.35 | 1.923 | 7.62 | 3.95 | 105.0 | 40.3 | -1.6 |
| 1947 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 12.3 | 2.19 | 1.135 | 4.38 | 5.35 | 108.6 | 225.1 | 0.4 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-05-30 | BEG @ NE Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1947-06-04 | KCM @ CLB Gameday | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-05-13 | CAG @ JRC Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-05-14 | CAG @ JRC Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-05-14 | CAG @ JRC Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943-07-02 | CAG @ CLB Gameday | 9.0 | 14 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 1 |
| 1943-05-02 | HSL @ CLB Gameday | 5.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 1943-07-14 | CLB @ BEG Gameday | 6.0 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1947-06-04 | KCM @ CLB Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 1940-05-30 | BEG @ NE Gameday | 3.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 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.