Aaron Ward
New York Yankees 1917–1926; Chicago White Sox 1927; Cleveland Indians 1928
Percentile snapshot
1927 season — qualified batters
of 170 qualified 1927 batters (min 474 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1917 | 8 | 27 | 26 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .115 | .148 | .115 | .264 | -33.3 | -20.1 | .136 | -0.3 |
| 1918 | 20 | 36 | 32 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | .125 | .176 | .156 | .333 | -13.5 | -0.4 | .173 | -0.3 |
| 1919 | 27 | 40 | 34 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .206 | .308 | .265 | .572 | 65.0 | 61.7 | .289 | -0.1 |
| 1920 | 127 | 547 | 496 | 62 | 127 | 18 | 7 | 11 | 55 | 33 | 84 | 7 | 5 | .256 | .304 | .387 | .691 | 77.5 | 81.3 | .321 | 0.5 |
| 1921 | 153 | 635 | 556 | 77 | 170 | 30 | 10 | 5 | 75 | 42 | 68 | 6 | 8 | .306 | .363 | .423 | .786 | 99.3 | 99.8 | .364 | 2.2 |
| 1922 | 154 | 641 | 558 | 69 | 149 | 19 | 5 | 7 | 68 | 45 | 64 | 6 | 4 | .267 | .328 | .357 | .685 | 77.2 | 78.0 | .322 | 0.5 |
| 1923 | 152 | 640 | 567 | 79 | 161 | 26 | 11 | 10 | 82 | 56 | 65 | 8 | 8 | .284 | .351 | .422 | .773 | 102.1 | 103.6 | .362 | 2.5 |
| 1924 | 120 | 465 | 400 | 42 | 101 | 13 | 10 | 8 | 66 | 40 | 45 | 1 | 4 | .253 | .324 | .395 | .719 | 82.9 | 85.4 | .338 | 0.7 |
| 1925 | 125 | 500 | 439 | 41 | 108 | 22 | 3 | 4 | 38 | 49 | 49 | 1 | 4 | .246 | .326 | .337 | .663 | 71.8 | 70.6 | .318 | 0.0 |
| 1926 | 22 | 34 | 31 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .323 | .364 | .387 | .751 | 98.0 | 98.7 | .354 | 0.1 |
| 1927 | 145 | 551 | 463 | 75 | 125 | 25 | 8 | 5 | 56 | 63 | 56 | 6 | 5 | .270 | .360 | .391 | .751 | 99.3 | 97.7 | .355 | 2.0 |
| 1928 | 6 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .200 | .111 | .311 | -16.6 | -16.8 | .168 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1921-09-22 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| 1920-07-17 | CWS @ NYY Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1920-09-26 | MIN @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 9 |
| 1922-07-20 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1923-07-16 | NYY @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1917-04-11 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1917-04-12 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1917-04-14 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1917-04-17 | MIN @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1917-04-18 | MIN @ 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.