Tom Saffell
Pittsburgh Pirates 1949–1951; Kansas City Athletics 1955; Pittsburgh Pirates 1955
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 73 | 233 | 205 | 36 | 66 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 25 | 21 | 27 | 5 | 0 | .322 | .385 | .395 | .780 | 109.3 | 106.6 | .362 | 1.1 |
| 1950 | 67 | 202 | 182 | 18 | 37 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 14 | 34 | 1 | 0 | .203 | .264 | .275 | .539 | 32.1 | 38.4 | .252 | -1.0 |
| 1951 | 49 | 71 | 65 | 11 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 18 | 1 | 1 | .200 | .257 | .246 | .503 | 25.0 | 32.4 | .239 | -0.4 |
| 1955 | 82 | 173 | 150 | 26 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 19 | 29 | 2 | 0 | .180 | .272 | .207 | .479 | 26.5 | 29.7 | .230 | -1.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950-08-16 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 1949-08-20 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1949-08-12 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1951-08-13 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1949-09-18 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949-04-19 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949-04-20 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949-04-21 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949-04-22 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949-04-24 | CIN @ PIT 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.