Sylvester Owens
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 28 | 117 | 109 | 12 | 25 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .229 | .263 | .303 | .566 | 62.1 | 56.1 | .263 | -0.2 |
| 1938 | 25 | 96 | 90 | 8 | 19 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .211 | .253 | .244 | .497 | 52.0 | 43.5 | .241 | -0.2 |
| 1939 | 16 | 51 | 48 | 4 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .250 | .294 | .354 | .648 | 86.7 | 87.4 | .307 | 0.1 |
| 1940 | 7 | 25 | 21 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .143 | .250 | .286 | .536 | 67.3 | 59.2 | .271 | 0.0 |
| 1941 | 30 | 109 | 103 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | .117 | .165 | .126 | .291 | -4.3 | -17.5 | .148 | -1.1 |
| 1942 | 10 | 35 | 30 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .294 | .233 | .527 | 68.6 | 58.2 | .266 | 0.0 |
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.