MLB / Players

Sylvester Owens

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Seasons6 (1937–1942)

Birmingham Black Barons 1937–1938; Indianapolis ABCs/Atlanta Black Crackers 1939; Memphis Red Sox 1939; St. Louis-New Orleans Stars 1940; Toledo-Indianapolis Crawfords 1940; Philadelphia Stars 1941; Jacksonville Red Caps 1942

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
-1.5
2.9

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
1937281171091225230144020.229.263.303.56662.156.1.263-0.2
1938259690819110115120.211.253.244.49752.043.5.241-0.2
193916514841231033010.250.294.354.64886.787.4.3070.1
1940725212300123020.143.250.286.53667.359.2.2710.0
19413010910321210046020.117.165.126.291-4.3-17.5.148-1.1
19421035300610023000.200.294.233.52768.658.2.2660.0

Career totals

G
116
PA
433
AB
401
R
28
H
77
2B
8
3B
5
HR
1
RBI
36
BB
24
SO
1
SB
9
BA
.1920
OBP
.2412
SLG
.2444
OPS
.4856

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.