Stu Martin
St. Louis Cardinals 1936–1940; Pittsburgh Pirates 1941–1942; Chicago Cubs 1943
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936 | 92 | 366 | 332 | 63 | 99 | 21 | 4 | 6 | 41 | 29 | 27 | 17 | 0 | .298 | .356 | .440 | .796 | 113.7 | 114.0 | .365 | 2.0 |
| 1937 | 90 | 260 | 223 | 34 | 58 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 32 | 18 | 3 | 0 | .260 | .353 | .309 | .662 | 84.6 | 79.7 | .321 | 0.4 |
| 1938 | 114 | 460 | 417 | 54 | 116 | 26 | 2 | 1 | 27 | 30 | 28 | 4 | 0 | .278 | .328 | .357 | .685 | 83.0 | 84.4 | .320 | 0.7 |
| 1939 | 120 | 472 | 425 | 60 | 114 | 26 | 7 | 3 | 30 | 33 | 40 | 4 | 0 | .268 | .325 | .384 | .709 | 83.2 | 85.3 | .328 | 0.7 |
| 1940 | 112 | 407 | 369 | 45 | 88 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 32 | 33 | 35 | 4 | 0 | .238 | .301 | .336 | .637 | 70.2 | 72.3 | .298 | 0.0 |
| 1941 | 88 | 251 | 233 | 37 | 71 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 19 | 10 | 17 | 2 | 0 | .305 | .341 | .378 | .719 | 100.7 | 102.4 | .337 | 0.9 |
| 1942 | 42 | 130 | 120 | 16 | 27 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 1 | 0 | .225 | .273 | .317 | .590 | 64.4 | 70.6 | .281 | -0.1 |
| 1943 | 64 | 135 | 118 | 13 | 26 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 15 | 10 | 1 | 0 | .220 | .308 | .254 | .563 | 65.0 | 63.6 | .284 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-05-08 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1939-09-03 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 6 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1939-06-06 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 6 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 1936-05-31 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 7 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1938-09-30 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936-04-14 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1936-04-15 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1936-04-16 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1936-04-19 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1936-04-20 | CIN @ STL 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.