Wally Roettger
St. Louis Cardinals 1927–1929; New York Giants 1930; Cincinnati Reds 1931; St. Louis Cardinals 1931; Cincinnati Reds 1932–1933; Pittsburgh Pirates 1934
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .500 | 117.5 | 42.4 | .379 | 0.0 |
| 1928 | 68 | 283 | 261 | 27 | 89 | 17 | 4 | 6 | 44 | 10 | 22 | 2 | 0 | .341 | .372 | .506 | .878 | 125.7 | 127.2 | .396 | 1.5 |
| 1929 | 79 | 289 | 269 | 27 | 68 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 42 | 13 | 27 | 0 | 0 | .253 | .287 | .349 | .637 | 53.5 | 57.1 | .289 | -1.1 |
| 1930 | 121 | 457 | 420 | 51 | 119 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 51 | 25 | 29 | 1 | 0 | .283 | .330 | .379 | .708 | 73.7 | 73.4 | .319 | -0.1 |
| 1931 | 89 | 367 | 336 | 41 | 108 | 23 | 6 | 1 | 37 | 16 | 23 | 1 | 0 | .321 | .360 | .435 | .794 | 113.9 | 114.5 | .363 | 1.4 |
| 1932 | 106 | 378 | 347 | 26 | 96 | 18 | 3 | 3 | 43 | 23 | 24 | 0 | 0 | .277 | .323 | .372 | .695 | 88.1 | 88.6 | .316 | 0.2 |
| 1933 | 84 | 221 | 209 | 13 | 50 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 17 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .239 | .267 | .297 | .564 | 55.4 | 61.2 | .263 | -0.8 |
| 1934 | 47 | 109 | 106 | 7 | 26 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .245 | .266 | .311 | .577 | 47.5 | 53.1 | .263 | -0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1931-06-05 | PHI @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1931-04-16 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1932-06-22 | CIN @ ATL Gameday | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1932-07-02 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1928-06-10 | STL @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1927-04-12 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1927-04-13 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1927-04-15 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1927-04-16 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1927-04-17 | STL @ CIN 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.