Woody Main
Pittsburgh Pirates 1948; Pittsburgh Pirates 1950; Pittsburgh Pirates 1952–1953
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 17 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -131.7 | -100.0 | .000 | -1.1 |
| 1950 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .400 | .400 | .400 | .800 | 106.2 | 106.0 | .364 | 0.1 |
| 1952 | 48 | 40 | 37 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .054 | .054 | .054 | .108 | -103.7 | -70.7 | .050 | 0.2 |
| 1953 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 25 | 19 | 12 | 4 | 27.0 | 8.33 | 2.000 | 4.00 | 5.71 | 140.6 | 48.8 | -1.1 |
| 1950 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 2 | 20.3 | 4.87 | 1.574 | 5.31 | 4.32 | 99.4 | 89.4 | 0.1 |
| 1952 | 48 | 11 | 2 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 149 | 76 | 52 | 79 | 14 | 153.3 | 4.46 | 1.311 | 4.64 | 3.59 | 91.2 | 88.3 | 0.2 |
| 1953 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4.0 | 11.25 | 1.750 | 9.00 | 5.37 | 122.3 | 39.0 | -0.3 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950-05-14 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1952-05-31 | PHI @ PIT Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1952-07-27 | PIT @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1948-04-19 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948-04-20 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952-05-27 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 5.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 1 |
| 1952-07-31 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 8.0 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| 1952-07-01 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 7.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 1952-07-13 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 7.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 1952-06-17 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 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.