Tom Alston
St. Louis Cardinals 1954–1957
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954 | 66 | 271 | 244 | 28 | 60 | 14 | 2 | 4 | 34 | 24 | 41 | 3 | 5 | .246 | .317 | .369 | .686 | 76.2 | 77.7 | .313 | -0.5 |
| 1955 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .125 | .125 | .250 | -49.7 | -33.5 | .113 | -0.2 |
| 1956 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -128.7 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1957 | 9 | 18 | 17 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .294 | .333 | .353 | .686 | 85.6 | 83.8 | .313 | 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.
Best games
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-05-02 | SF @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 1954-06-24 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1954-05-17 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1954-05-09 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1954-04-18 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-04-29 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954-05-03 | SF @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954-05-25 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954-06-12 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954-06-13 | PIT @ 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.