Tom Poholsky
St. Louis Cardinals 1950–1951; St. Louis Cardinals 1954–1956; Chicago Cubs 1957
Percentile snapshot
1956 season — qualified pitchers
of 54 qualified 1956 pitchers (min 156 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -132.0 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.2 |
| 1951 | 38 | 74 | 67 | 5 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 1 | 0 | .209 | .221 | .224 | .444 | 7.4 | 20.0 | .205 | 0.9 |
| 1954 | 25 | 34 | 27 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .148 | .143 | .185 | .328 | -40.2 | -15.5 | .143 | 2.2 |
| 1955 | 30 | 50 | 44 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .182 | .200 | .250 | .450 | 9.8 | 18.2 | .203 | 1.9 |
| 1956 | 33 | 73 | 69 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .159 | .171 | .188 | .360 | -15.8 | -3.2 | .164 | 2.3 |
| 1957 | 28 | 22 | 19 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .105 | .190 | .105 | .296 | -21.0 | -17.4 | .156 | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 14.7 | 3.68 | 1.295 | 1.23 | 4.57 | 107.4 | 115.5 | 0.2 |
| 1951 | 38 | 26 | 7 | 13 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 204 | 96 | 68 | 70 | 15 | 195.0 | 4.43 | 1.395 | 3.23 | 3.71 | 93.8 | 89.2 | 0.9 |
| 1954 | 25 | 13 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 101 | 36 | 20 | 55 | 11 | 106.0 | 3.06 | 1.142 | 4.67 | 3.41 | 82.5 | 135.1 | 2.2 |
| 1955 | 30 | 24 | 9 | 11 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 143 | 64 | 35 | 66 | 26 | 151.0 | 3.81 | 1.179 | 3.93 | 4.41 | 107.8 | 107.1 | 1.9 |
| 1956 | 33 | 29 | 9 | 14 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 210 | 81 | 44 | 95 | 27 | 203.0 | 3.59 | 1.251 | 4.21 | 3.75 | 99.0 | 105.5 | 2.3 |
| 1957 | 28 | 11 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 117 | 46 | 22 | 28 | 9 | 84.0 | 4.93 | 1.655 | 3.00 | 4.10 | 105.3 | 78.9 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-05-20 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3 |
| 1955-07-20 | STL @ SF Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1951-09-23 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1951-05-28 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1951-09-07 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951-05-28 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 10.0 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 3 |
| 1951-09-23 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
| 1954-09-15 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 0 |
| 1955-07-09 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 2 |
| 1956-09-23 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 2 |
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.