MLB / Players

Virgil Barnes

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 165 lb

BornMarch 5, 1897 · Ontario, KS, USA

MLB debutSeptember 25, 1919

Final gameSeptember 15, 1928

Seasons9 (1919–1928)

New York Giants 1919–1920; New York Giants 1922–1927; Boston Braves 1928; New York Giants 1928

Percentile snapshot

1927 season — qualified pitchers

65.9

80.6

72.1

34.9

75.2

53.5

SHO

65.9

251

18.6

101

16.3

56.6

58.1

8.5

228.7

77.5

ERA

3.98

WHIP

1.321

64.3

K/9

2.60

27.1

FIP

3.93

58.1

FIP-

101.2

35.7

ERA+

97.7

34.9

sWAR

1.3

27.1

of 130 qualified 1927 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

106.5

62.9

sWAR

10.6

87.5

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; 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	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1919	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4
1920	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.6	-100.0	.000	0.0
1922	22	13	12	1	2	0	0	5	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	-22.5	-13.4	.154	0.8
1923	22	14	14	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-114.8	-100.0	.000	0.3
1924	35	87	77	8	14	4	6	26	1	.182	.241	.182	.423	13.0	15.2	.210	4.1
1925	32	91	89	4	9	0	0	26	1	.101	.101	.101	.202	-58.2	-47.0	.093	2.7
1926	31	57	56	1	3	1	0	15	0	.054	.054	.054	.107	-87.7	-70.9	.050	3.0
1927	35	87	83	5	9	4	0	29	0	.108	.108	.108	.217	-55.5	-41.5	.101	1.3
1928	26	42	39	1	3	0	1	15	0	.077	.100	.077	.177	-68.5	-52.9	.088	-1.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1919	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	4	1	1	0	2.0	18.00	3.500	4.50	2.94	103.3	15.8	-0.4
1920	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	9	3	1	2	0	7.0	3.86	1.429	2.57	2.46	80.3	79.4	0.0
1922	22	3	1	0	2	1	0	46	20	11	16	1	51.7	3.48	1.103	2.79	3.34	82.4	116.4	0.8
1923	22	2	2	3	1	0	0	59	23	19	6	2	53.0	3.91	1.472	1.02	4.30	110.8	99.4	0.3
1924	35	29	16	10	3	15	1	239	78	57	59	10	229.3	3.06	1.291	2.32	3.75	97.5	125.7	4.1
1925	32	27	15	11	2	17	1	242	87	53	53	9	221.7	3.53	1.331	2.15	3.89	95.4	115.3	2.7
1926	31	25	8	13	1	9	2	183	59	56	54	4	185.0	2.87	1.292	2.63	3.56	94.6	131.1	3.0
1927	35	29	14	11	2	12	2	251	101	51	66	14	228.7	3.98	1.321	2.60	3.93	101.2	97.7	1.3
1928	26	19	5	10	0	4	1	157	70	44	18	6	115.7	5.45	1.738	1.40	4.28	109.3	71.9	-1.2

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

205

393

371

RBI

119

.1078

OBP

.1243

SLG

.1078

OPS

.2321

Pitching

G (P)

205

135

SHO

1,094

SO (P)

275

BB allowed

293

ERA

3.661

WHIP

1.3574

K/9

2.26

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	RBI	TB
1924-07-19	SF @ PIT Gameday	3	1	3	0	3
1924-09-01	SF @ ATL Gameday	4	2	2	2	2
1925-07-01	SF @ PHI Gameday	5	0	2	0	2
1925-09-18	SF @ CHC Gameday	4	0	2	0	2
1927-06-12	SF @ CHC Gameday	2	0	1	2	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1922-08-13	ATL @ SF Gameday	9.0	7	2	1	2	7	0
1927-09-14	SF @ STL Gameday	9.0	7	4	4	3	7	1
1926-04-13	LAD @ SF Gameday	8.0	8	3	0	3	7	0
1927-04-21	PHI @ SF Gameday	7.0	6	3	3	1	7	1
1927-05-27	SF @ LAD Gameday	8.0	10	5	5	2	6	1

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.