Walter Barbare

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 162 lb

BornAugust 11, 1891 · Greenville, SC, USA

MLB debutSeptember 17, 1914

Final gameOctober 1, 1922

Seasons8 (1914–1922)

Cleveland Naps 1914; Cleveland Indians 1915–1916; Boston Red Sox 1918; Pittsburgh Pirates 1919–1920; Boston Braves 1921–1922

Percentile snapshot

1921 season — qualified batters

134

55.7

600

61.1

550

65.1

50.3

166

65.1

53.7

48.3

RBI

45.6

28.2

33.6

51.7

.302

53.7

OBP

.331

28.2

SLG

.367

31.5

OPS

.698

29.5

wRC+

87.1

28.2

OPS+

88.5

29.5

wOBA

.322

24.2

sWAR

1.6

52.3

of 150 qualified 1921 batters (min 474 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

0.3

53.7

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
1914	15	58	52	6	16	2	2	0	5	2	5	1	4	.308	.345	.423	.769	123.2	126.1	.369	0.4
1915	77	274	246	15	47	3	1	0	11	10	27	6	5	.191	.235	.211	.446	26.1	31.3	.225	-1.4
1916	13	54	48	3	11	1	0	0	3	4	9	0	0	.229	.288	.250	.538	54.6	58.2	.273	-0.1
1918	13	33	29	2	5	3	0	0	2	0	1	1	0	.172	.172	.276	.448	19.1	37.8	.212	-0.2
1919	85	328	293	34	80	11	5	1	34	18	18	11	0	.273	.317	.355	.672	99.4	100.3	.320	1.2
1920	57	199	186	9	51	5	2	0	12	9	11	5	3	.274	.308	.323	.630	77.8	80.5	.299	0.4
1921	134	600	550	66	166	22	7	0	49	24	28	11	4	.302	.331	.367	.698	87.1	88.5	.322	1.6
1922	106	408	373	38	86	5	4	0	40	21	22	2	0	.231	.272	.265	.537	40.4	41.3	.255	-1.7

Career totals

500

1,954

1,777

173

462

RBI

156

121

.2600

OBP

.2972

SLG

.3146

OPS

.6118

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	RBI	TB
1921-06-01	LAD @ ATL Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	0	6
1921-09-19	ATL @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	2	6
1921-04-26	ATL @ PHI Gameday	5	2	5	0	0	0	5
1919-07-24	CIN @ PIT Gameday	4	0	2	1	1	1	5
1921-09-04	ATL @ SF Gameday	4	0	2	1	1	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1914-04-14	CLE @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914-04-15	CLE @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914-04-16	CLE @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914-04-17	CLE @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914-04-18	CLE @ DET 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.