Tubby Spencer
St. Louis Browns 1905–1908; Boston Red Sox 1909; Philadelphia Phillies 1911; Detroit Tigers 1916–1918
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1905 | 35 | 125 | 115 | 6 | 27 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 15 | 2 | 0 | .235 | .285 | .278 | .563 | 82.8 | 82.5 | .276 | 0.5 |
| 1906 | 58 | 200 | 188 | 15 | 33 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 0 | .176 | .205 | .218 | .423 | 30.3 | 34.1 | .207 | -0.5 |
| 1907 | 71 | 244 | 230 | 27 | 61 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 7 | 25 | 1 | 0 | .265 | .299 | .335 | .634 | 100.4 | 103.4 | .308 | 1.4 |
| 1908 | 91 | 310 | 286 | 19 | 60 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 17 | 24 | 1 | 0 | .210 | .254 | .238 | .492 | 61.0 | 61.9 | .245 | 0.5 |
| 1909 | 28 | 82 | 74 | 6 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 0 | .162 | .225 | .176 | .401 | 24.2 | 25.6 | .208 | -0.2 |
| 1911 | 11 | 35 | 32 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .156 | .229 | .281 | .510 | 38.7 | 41.9 | .247 | -0.1 |
| 1916 | 19 | 65 | 54 | 7 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 0 | .370 | .443 | .481 | .924 | 179.2 | 173.6 | .448 | 1.0 |
| 1917 | 70 | 218 | 192 | 13 | 46 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 22 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .240 | .324 | .313 | .637 | 94.4 | 92.8 | .320 | 1.2 |
| 1918 | 66 | 178 | 155 | 11 | 34 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 19 | 18 | 1 | 0 | .219 | .313 | .284 | .596 | 84.0 | 82.1 | .305 | 0.7 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1907-09-27 | BAL @ NYY Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1911-08-14 | PHI @ SF Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1907-09-30 | BAL @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1916-08-29 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 1907-05-26 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1905-04-14 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1905-04-15 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1905-04-16 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1905-04-17 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1905-04-19 | CLE @ BAL 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.