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Chicago Cubs 1938–1941
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 13 | 27 | 26 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .154 | .154 | .154 | .308 | -33.1 | -15.7 | .142 | 0.5 |
| 1939 | 27 | 52 | 47 | 2 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .255 | .300 | .319 | .619 | 62.4 | 66.0 | .290 | 1.7 |
| 1940 | 31 | 14 | 13 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .308 | .357 | .462 | .819 | 125.8 | 126.5 | .372 | 0.3 |
| 1941 | 25 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .375 | .286 | .661 | 97.5 | 90.4 | .329 | 0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 90 | 29 | 13 | 18 | 4 | 68.0 | 3.84 | 1.515 | 2.38 | 3.54 | 92.3 | 100.0 | 0.5 |
| 1939 | 27 | 17 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 169 | 60 | 37 | 43 | 8 | 139.3 | 3.88 | 1.478 | 2.78 | 3.76 | 95.5 | 101.5 | 1.7 |
| 1940 | 30 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 29 | 26 | 22 | 1 | 59.0 | 4.42 | 1.542 | 3.36 | 3.54 | 93.9 | 85.3 | 0.3 |
| 1941 | 25 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 48 | 23 | 30 | 17 | 2 | 48.3 | 4.28 | 1.614 | 3.17 | 4.39 | 124.1 | 82.5 | 0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-05-06 | CHC @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1939-05-11 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1939-09-27 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1940-05-11 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1940-08-11 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-07-30 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 |
| 1939-09-04 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 8.1 | 12 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
| 1939-07-16 | CHC @ LAD Gameday | 8.0 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| 1939-08-06 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 7.0 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 0 |
| 1940-05-30 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 6.1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 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.