Steve Baker
Detroit Tigers 1978–1979; Oakland Athletics 1982–1983; St. Louis Cardinals 1983
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.1 |
| 1979 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -1.3 |
| 1982 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.1 |
| 1983 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.6 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 15 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 66 | 32 | 42 | 39 | 6 | 63.3 | 4.55 | 1.705 | 5.54 | 4.54 | 118.0 | 84.6 | 0.1 |
| 1979 | 21 | 12 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 97 | 62 | 51 | 54 | 13 | 84.0 | 6.64 | 1.762 | 5.79 | 5.53 | 127.9 | 65.1 | -1.3 |
| 1982 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 13 | 4 | 14 | 3 | 25.7 | 4.56 | 1.325 | 4.91 | 3.59 | 90.8 | 86.6 | 0.1 |
| 1983 | 43 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 28 | 30 | 24 | 4 | 64.0 | 3.94 | 1.547 | 3.38 | 4.41 | 114.1 | 98.2 | 0.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983-09-06 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983-09-10 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983-09-12 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983-09-16 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1983-09-20 | STL @ WSH Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978-05-30 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 7.0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 0 |
| 1982-09-22 | TEX @ ATH Gameday | 7.0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| 1978-05-25 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 6.1 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| 1979-04-26 | DET @ MIL Gameday | 5.2 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 1 |
| 1978-06-11 | KC @ DET Gameday | 8.1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 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.