Steel Arm Davis

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 175 lb

BornJune 22, 1896 · Wortham, TX, USA

Seasons10 (1920–1935)

Chicago Giants 1920; Dayton Marcos 1920; Detroit Stars 1923; Chicago American Giants 1927–1930; Chicago American Giants 1932–1933; Nashville Elite Giants 1934; Chicago American Giants 1935

Percentile snapshot

1933 season — qualified batters

25.5

176

26.2

162

26.8

24.2

24.8

29.5

48.3

35.6

RBI

29.5

18.8

67.8

22.1

35.6

.278

41.6

OBP

.331

34.2

SLG

.444

64.4

OPS

.776

59.1

wRC+

107.8

OPS+

110.3

wOBA

.349

53.7

sWAR

0.5

29.5

of 150 qualified 1933 batters (min 164 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

9.1

85.9

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
1920	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-92.7	-100.0	.000	-0.7
1923	34	90	80	16	27	4	3	1	12	7	0	0	0	.338	.391	.500	.891	125.4	131.0	.406	1.0
1927	83	364	323	59	127	21	9	3	63	23	0	15	1	.393	.445	.542	.987	161.7	164.5	.449	3.7
1928	59	243	226	38	72	12	5	2	31	13	4	7	3	.319	.364	.442	.806	116.7	119.0	.369	1.0
1929	73	286	257	41	72	14	6	5	47	18	1	10	0	.280	.327	.440	.767	96.2	98.2	.346	0.4
1930	76	286	245	39	81	14	5	7	59	26	1	8	0	.331	.404	.514	.918	136.6	142.7	.414	1.9
1932	43	178	163	21	48	6	4	4	29	12	0	1	0	.294	.350	.454	.804	137.7	144.5	.380	1.1
1933	40	176	162	29	45	11	5	2	28	11	0	2	0	.278	.331	.444	.776	107.8	110.3	.349	0.5
1934	3	12	11	1	4	0	0	1	2	1	0	0	0	.364	.417	.636	1.053	176.2	192.7	.478	0.2
1935	30	112	96	11	26	5	1	2	22	8	0	0	0	.271	.346	.406	.752	90.7	89.1	.345	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1920	3	1	0	0	0	0	10	8	3	3	0	3.3	21.60	3.900	8.10	4.01	111.8	16.6	-0.7
1923	12	10	5	4	1	4	64	35	37	27	7	66.3	4.75	1.523	3.66	5.52	125.5	92.6	1.0
1930	5	0	0	0	0	0	7	5	8	6	0	8.7	5.19	1.731	6.23	5.91	129.7	87.8	1.9
1933	1	1	0	0	0	0	9	3	0	1	0	4.0	6.75	2.250	2.25	3.35	77.7	63.9	0.5

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

445

1,748

1,564

255

502

RBI

293

119

.3210

OBP

.3768

SLG

.4770

OPS

.8538

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

5.575

WHIP

1.6761

K/9

4.04

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1930-08-25	KCM @ CAG Gameday	3	2	3	0	2	3	2	9
1932-05-07	BBB @ CAG Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	3	0	8
1930-05-12	CAG @ SLS Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	3	0	7
1930-06-28	CAG @ SLS Gameday	3	1	3	0	1	4	0	6
1935-06-22	CAG @ PHS Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	4	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1923-05-08	CUB @ DTS Gameday	5.0	6	6	6	3	8	0
1923-05-05	CUB @ DTS Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	5	4	1
1923-06-23	DTS @ CAG Gameday	3.0	4	4	2	4	4	1
1923-05-20	KCM @ DTS Gameday	9.0	6	6	3	6	3	3
1930-08-23	KCM @ CAG Gameday	3.2	0	0	0	1	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.

Honors

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.