Walton Cruise
St. Louis Cardinals 1914; St. Louis Cardinals 1916–1918; Boston Braves 1919; St. Louis Cardinals 1919; Boston Braves 1920–1924
Percentile snapshot
1917 season — qualified batters
of 121 qualified 1917 batters (min 477 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1914 | 95 | 290 | 256 | 20 | 58 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 28 | 25 | 42 | 3 | 0 | .227 | .303 | .332 | .635 | 88.9 | 89.4 | .309 | 0.4 |
| 1916 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .667 | .750 | .667 | 1.417 | 356.6 | 332.8 | .660 | 0.1 |
| 1917 | 153 | 589 | 529 | 70 | 156 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 59 | 38 | 73 | 16 | 0 | .295 | .343 | .399 | .742 | 128.6 | 128.1 | .352 | 3.7 |
| 1918 | 70 | 280 | 240 | 34 | 65 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 39 | 30 | 26 | 2 | 0 | .271 | .359 | .400 | .759 | 136.3 | 133.3 | .367 | 1.8 |
| 1919 | 82 | 288 | 262 | 23 | 54 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 21 | 18 | 35 | 8 | 0 | .206 | .257 | .248 | .505 | 50.7 | 53.9 | .247 | -1.0 |
| 1920 | 91 | 331 | 288 | 40 | 80 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 21 | 31 | 26 | 5 | 3 | .278 | .352 | .347 | .699 | 107.8 | 104.5 | .337 | 1.0 |
| 1921 | 108 | 403 | 344 | 47 | 119 | 16 | 7 | 8 | 55 | 48 | 24 | 10 | 8 | .346 | .429 | .503 | .932 | 153.7 | 151.0 | .426 | 3.6 |
| 1922 | 104 | 413 | 352 | 51 | 98 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 46 | 44 | 20 | 4 | 4 | .278 | .360 | .412 | .772 | 103.1 | 102.0 | .359 | 1.0 |
| 1923 | 21 | 43 | 38 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | .211 | .268 | .263 | .531 | 42.1 | 42.3 | .255 | -0.2 |
| 1924 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .444 | .444 | .889 | 1.333 | 254.9 | 254.4 | .580 | 0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1921-06-14 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
| 1922-09-01 | PHI @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1918-06-06 | STL @ SF Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1921-06-07 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1920-05-27 | ATL @ SF Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1914-04-14 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1914-04-15 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1914-04-16 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1914-04-17 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1914-04-18 | CHC @ STL 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.