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Debs Garms

Debs C. Garms (Tex)

Positions: Outfielder and Third Baseman
Bats: Left, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 8", Weight: 165 lb.

Born: June 26, 1907 in Bangs, TX
School: Howard Payne University (All Transactions)
Debut: August 10, 1932
Teams (by GP): Bees/Cardinals/Browns/Pirates 1932-1945

Final Game: September 25, 1945
Died: December 16, 1984 in Glen Rose, TX
Buried: Squaw Creek Cemetery, Glen Rose, TX
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 12, 2012, 12:06AM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #1337. Eric Hinske… #1338. George Watkins… #1339. Glenn Wilson… #1340. DEBS GARMS… #1341. Ken Landreaux… #1342. Jim McTamany… #1343. Marty Cordova… 

Standard Batting

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1932 25 SLB AL 34 152 134 20 38 7 1 1 8 4 3 17 7 .284 .364 .373 .737 88 50 0 1 O
1933 26 SLB AL 78 223 189 35 60 10 2 4 24 2 5 30 21 .317 .416 .455 .871 125 86 2 2 O
1934 27 SLB AL 91 266 232 25 68 14 4 0 31 0 0 27 19 .293 .372 .388 .760 91 90 2 5 O
1935 28 SLB AL 10 17 15 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 .267 .353 .267 .620 60 4 0 0 /O
1937 30 BSN NL 125 521 478 60 124 15 8 2 37 2 37 33 .259 .317 .337 .653 85 161 4 3 3 O5
1938 31 BSN NL 117 474 428 62 135 19 1 0 47 4 34 22 .315 .371 .364 .736 113 156 10 4 8 O5/4 MVP-21
1939 32 BSN NL 132 566 513 68 153 24 9 2 37 2 39 20 .298 .350 .392 .742 106 201 4 2 12 O5
1940 33 PIT NL 103 385 358 76 127 23 7 5 57 3 23 6 .355 .395 .500 .895 146 179 3 1 3 5O MVP-13
1941 34 PIT NL 83 245 220 25 58 9 3 3 42 0 22 12 .264 .331 .373 .703 98 82 2 0 3 5O
1943 36 STL NL 90 268 249 26 64 10 2 0 22 1 13 8 .257 .299 .313 .612 73 78 4 2 4 O5/6
1944 37 STL NL 73 164 149 17 30 3 0 0 5 0 13 8 .201 .265 .221 .487 36 33 2 0 2 O5
1945 38 STL NL 74 180 146 23 49 7 2 0 18 0 31 3 .336 .452 .411 .863 138 60 3 0 3 5O
12 Seasons 1010 3461 3111 438 910 141 39 17 328 18 8 288 161 .293 .355 .379 .735 102 1180 32 16 46
162 Game Avg. 162 555 499 70 146 23 6 3 53 3 46 26 .293 .355 .379 .735 102 189 3 7
SLB (4 yrs) 213 658 570 81 170 31 7 5 63 6 8 76 49 .298 .385 .404 .788 101 230 4 8
BSN (3 yrs) 374 1561 1419 190 412 58 18 4 121 8 110 75 .290 .345 .365 .710 101 518 18 9 23
STL (3 yrs) 237 612 544 66 143 20 4 0 45 1 57 19 .263 .335 .314 .649 82 171 9 2 9
PIT (2 yrs) 186 630 578 101 185 32 10 8 99 3 45 18 .320 .370 .452 .822 128 261 5 1 6
NL (8 yrs) 797 2803 2541 357 740 110 32 12 265 12 212 112 .291 .349 .374 .723 103 950 32 12 38
AL (4 yrs) 213 658 570 81 170 31 7 5 63 6 8 76 49 .298 .385 .404 .788 101 230 4 8

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1932 25 SLB AL 152 -2 0 0 0 -2 0 5 1 0.1 3 0.3 -0.2 $ O
1933 26 SLB AL 223 9 -1 0 0 -3 -2 7 10 1.0 13 1.3 -0.3 $ O
1934 27 SLB AL 266 -4 -1 0 0 -2 -3 9 -1 -0.1 1 0.1 -0.2 $ O
1935 28 SLB AL 17 -1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 $ /O
1937 30 BSN NL 521 -9 0 0 0 2 -2 15 6 0.6 4 0.4 0.2 $ O5
1938 31 BSN NL 474 9 0 0 0 2 -2 14 23 2.4 21 2.1 0.3 $ O5/4 MVP-21
1939 32 BSN NL 566 4 0 0 0 5 -4 16 21 2.1 16 1.6 0.5 $ O5
1940 33 PIT NL 385 26 3 0 0 -1 -1 14 41 4.3 42 4.3 0.0 $ 5O MVP-13
1941 34 PIT NL 245 -1 0 0 0 -2 -1 9 5 0.5 7 0.7 -0.2 $ 5O
1943 36 STL NL 268 -9 0 0 0 -2 -2 8 -5 -0.6 -3 -0.3 -0.3 $ O5/6
1944 37 STL NL 164 -12 0 0 0 -1 -1 5 -9 -1.0 -8 -0.8 -0.2 $ O5
1945 38 STL NL 180 12 -1 0 0 -2 0 6 15 1.5 17 1.7 -0.2 $ 5O
12 Seasons 3461 22 0 0 0 -6 -18 109 107 10.8 113 11.4 -0.6 $
SLB (4 yrs) 658 2 -2 0 0 -7 -5 22 10 1.0 17 1.7 -0.7 $
BSN (3 yrs) 1561 4 0 0 0 9 -8 45 50 5.1 41 4.1 1.0 $
STL (3 yrs) 612 -9 -1 0 0 -5 -3 19 1 -0.1 6 0.6 -0.7 $
PIT (2 yrs) 630 25 3 0 0 -3 -2 23 46 4.8 49 5.0 -0.2 $

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1943 36 STL NL WS NYY L 2 6 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 1 0 0
1944 37 STL NL WS SLB W 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0
2 Seasons (2 Series) 4 8 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 1 0 0
2 WS 4 8 7 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 1 0 0

Standard Fielding

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Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1932 SLB AL 25 OF 33 86 79 3 4 1 .953 2.48 .967 2.42
1932 SLB AL 25 CF 32 29 29 85 78 3 4 1 .953 2.53 .971 2.94
1932 SLB AL 25 RF 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .960 2.10
1933 SLB AL 26 OF 47 100 91 5 4 1 .960 2.04 .970 2.37
1933 SLB AL 26 LF 28 27 24 60 56 2 2 1 .967 2.07 .971 2.27
1933 SLB AL 26 CF 17 14 12 39 34 3 2 0 .949 2.18 .976 2.75
1933 SLB AL 26 RF 3 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0.33 .960 2.10
1934 SLB AL 27 OF 56 120 111 2 7 0 .942 2.02 .968 2.29
1934 SLB AL 27 LF 43 39 39 99 90 2 7 0 .929 2.14 .968 2.17
1934 SLB AL 27 RF 13 13 13 21 21 0 0 0 1.000 1.62 .964 2.07
1935 SLB AL 28 OF 2 5 4 0 1 0 .800 2.00 .970 2.40
1935 SLB AL 28 RF 2 2 2 5 4 0 1 0 .800 2.00 .968 2.10
1937 BSN NL 30 OF 81 173 168 1 4 0 .977 2.09 .974 2.24
1937 BSN NL 30 3B 36 103 32 68 3 2 .971 2.78 .954 2.87
1937 BSN NL 30 LF 64 60 56 126 122 0 4 0 .968 1.91 .973 2.10
1937 BSN NL 30 CF 15 14 13 42 41 1 0 0 1.000 2.80 .977 2.63
1937 BSN NL 30 RF 3 2 2 5 5 0 0 0 1.000 1.67 .972 2.00
1938 BSN NL 31 OF 63 134 126 6 2 2 .985 2.10 .976 2.34 MVP-21
1938 BSN NL 31 3B 54 155 48 98 9 6 .942 2.70 .945 3.03 MVP-21
1938 BSN NL 31 2B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.70 MVP-21
1938 BSN NL 31 LF 52 47 42 102 97 4 1 1 .990 1.94 .971 2.23 MVP-21
1938 BSN NL 31 RF 12 8 5 32 29 2 1 1 .969 2.58 .978 2.08 MVP-21
1938 BSN NL 31 CF 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.70 MVP-21
1939 BSN NL 32 OF 96 196 183 6 7 2 .964 1.97 .975 2.32
1939 BSN NL 32 3B 37 119 31 83 5 5 .958 3.08 .942 3.00
1939 BSN NL 32 RF 73 70 54 152 143 4 5 0 .967 2.01 .973 2.12
1939 BSN NL 32 LF 24 23 18 44 40 2 2 2 .955 1.75 .974 2.16
1940 PIT NL 33 3B 64 195 65 123 7 15 .964 2.94 .948 3.01 MVP-13
1940 PIT NL 33 OF 19 37 32 3 2 0 .946 1.84 .977 2.32 MVP-13
1940 PIT NL 33 LF 12 11 8 24 22 1 1 0 .958 1.92 .974 2.25 MVP-13
1940 PIT NL 33 RF 8 6 5 13 10 2 1 0 .923 1.50 .974 2.04 MVP-13
1941 PIT NL 34 3B 29 79 28 44 7 1 .911 2.48 .949 3.33
1941 PIT NL 34 OF 24 47 45 0 2 0 .957 1.88 .975 2.31
1941 PIT NL 34 LF 23 19 17 44 42 0 2 0 .955 1.83 .976 2.34
1941 PIT NL 34 RF 1 1 1 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 3.00 .967 2.00
1943 STL NL 36 OF 47 98 93 3 2 0 .980 2.04 .977 2.41
1943 STL NL 36 3B 23 47 18 22 7 5 .851 1.74 .948 3.17
1943 STL NL 36 SS 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .950 5.30
1943 STL NL 36 RF 29 24 22 57 55 1 1 0 .982 1.93 .976 2.21
1943 STL NL 36 LF 18 13 12 41 38 2 1 0 .976 2.22 .977 2.26
1944 STL NL 37 OF 23 34 34 0 0 0 1.000 1.48 .980 2.47
1944 STL NL 37 3B 21 31 14 16 1 1 .968 1.43 .948 3.29
1944 STL NL 37 RF 19 14 12 31 31 0 0 0 1.000 1.63 .974 2.10
1944 STL NL 37 LF 3 1 0 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .980 2.33
1944 STL NL 37 CF 2 0 0 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 1.50 .987 2.95
1945 STL NL 38 3B 32 68 23 42 3 4 .956 2.03 .941 3.20
1945 STL NL 38 OF 10 8 7 1 0 0 1.000 0.80 .978 2.45
1945 STL NL 38 RF 9 6 2 8 7 1 0 0 1.000 0.89 .978 2.14
1945 STL NL 38 LF 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 2.30
12 Seasons OF 501 1038 973 30 35 6 .966 2.00 .973 2.34
8 Seasons 3B 296 797 259 496 42 39 .947 2.55 .947 3.08
10 Seasons LF 268 241 217 543 510 13 20 4 .963 1.95 .972 2.20
12 Seasons RF 173 149 121 329 310 10 9 1 .973 1.85 .973 2.12
5 Seasons CF 67 57 54 169 156 7 6 1 .964 2.43 .974 2.82
1 Season 2B 1 0 0 0 0 0 0.00 5.70
1 Season SS 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 1.00 .950 5.30
12 Seasons TOT 799 1836 1233 526 77 45 .958 2.20 .962 2.62
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1950 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
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Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1938 NL (21, 1%)
1940 NL (13, 8%)
0.09 Career Shares (940th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
1940 NL  4.3 (9th)

Batting Average s c a p y
1938 NL  .315 (7th)
1940 NL  .355 (1st)

On-Base% s c a p y
1938 NL  .371 (9th)
1940 NL  .395 (5th)

Slugging % s c a p y
1940 NL  .500 (6th)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1940 NL  .895 (4th)

Triples s c a p y
1939 NL  9 (7th)

Singles s c a p y
1938 NL  115 (8th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
1940 NL  146 (3rd)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1940 NL  .750 (2nd)

Hit By Pitch s c a p y
1938 NL  4 (8th)

AB per SO s c a p y
1939 NL  25.7 (8th)
1940 NL  59.7 (1st)
Career  19.3 (131st)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkBatting - 4 (421), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray InkBatting - 12 (1289), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 14 (1022), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 16 (1059), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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  6. Frenchy Bordagaray (935)
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  5. Chick Fullis (977)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Harry Walker (959)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Harry Walker (972)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Harry Walker (968)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  9. Harry Walker (952)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  10. Frank Baumholtz (955)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

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