Walter Blair
New York Highlanders 1907–1911; Buffalo Buffeds 1914; Buffalo Blues 1915
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1907 | 7 | 24 | 22 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .182 | .250 | .182 | .432 | 33.2 | 32.4 | .225 | 0.0 |
| 1908 | 76 | 230 | 211 | 9 | 40 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 11 | 31 | 4 | 0 | .190 | .237 | .237 | .474 | 48.2 | 51.1 | .235 | -0.1 |
| 1909 | 42 | 121 | 110 | 5 | 23 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 7 | 17 | 2 | 0 | .209 | .269 | .264 | .533 | 64.6 | 66.0 | .266 | 0.3 |
| 1910 | 6 | 23 | 22 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .227 | .227 | .318 | .545 | 54.5 | 66.0 | .258 | 0.0 |
| 1911 | 85 | 254 | 222 | 18 | 43 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 26 | 16 | 24 | 2 | 0 | .194 | .257 | .252 | .510 | 36.8 | 37.8 | .253 | -0.4 |
| 1914 | 128 | 416 | 378 | 22 | 92 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 33 | 32 | 64 | 6 | 0 | .243 | .304 | .283 | .587 | 67.6 | 67.4 | .287 | 0.9 |
| 1915 | 98 | 312 | 290 | 23 | 65 | 15 | 3 | 2 | 20 | 18 | 32 | 4 | 0 | .224 | .274 | .317 | .591 | 69.2 | 73.6 | .284 | 0.8 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1910-10-05 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1908-09-07 | MIN @ NYY Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 1908-06-02 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 1908-08-15 | CLE @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1908-06-10 | NYY @ DET Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1907-04-11 | NYY @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1907-04-13 | NYY @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1907-04-15 | NYY @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1907-04-16 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1907-04-17 | ATH @ NYY 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.