Al Aber
Cleveland Indians 1950; Cleveland Indians 1953; Detroit Tigers 1953–1957; Kansas City Athletics 1957
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .333 | 36.2 | -6.3 | .254 | 0.3 |
| 1953 | 23 | 27 | 23 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .130 | .231 | .130 | .361 | -2.8 | -19.3 | .194 | 0.1 |
| 1954 | 32 | 45 | 39 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 0 | 0 | .128 | .167 | .128 | .295 | -35.7 | -17.9 | .147 | 0.7 |
| 1955 | 39 | 19 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .059 | .059 | .059 | .118 | -90.6 | -67.8 | .055 | 1.1 |
| 1956 | 42 | 13 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .300 | .364 | .300 | .664 | 83.3 | 78.5 | .322 | 1.2 |
| 1957 | 31 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .300 | .222 | .522 | 46.3 | 41.7 | .260 | -1.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 9.0 | 2.00 | 1.000 | 4.00 | 3.16 | 72.8 | 216.7 | 0.3 |
| 1953 | 23 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 69 | 38 | 50 | 38 | 3 | 72.7 | 4.71 | 1.638 | 4.71 | 4.12 | 102.8 | 85.4 | 0.1 |
| 1954 | 32 | 18 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 121 | 55 | 40 | 54 | 8 | 124.7 | 3.97 | 1.291 | 3.90 | 3.38 | 91.2 | 93.4 | 0.7 |
| 1955 | 39 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 86 | 30 | 28 | 37 | 9 | 80.0 | 3.38 | 1.425 | 4.16 | 4.02 | 103.6 | 114.9 | 1.1 |
| 1956 | 42 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 24 | 25 | 21 | 1 | 63.0 | 3.43 | 1.429 | 3.00 | 3.33 | 80.8 | 120.2 | 1.2 |
| 1957 | 31 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 32 | 13 | 15 | 8 | 40.0 | 7.20 | 1.625 | 3.38 | 5.30 | 137.9 | 53.3 | -1.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953-08-30 | ATH @ DET Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1954-04-14 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1954-06-26 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1954-07-28 | ATH @ DET Gameday | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1957-06-10 | NYY @ DET Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1954-08-13 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 15.1 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
| 1953-09-27 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
| 1954-07-28 | ATH @ DET Gameday | 9.0 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
| 1953-08-30 | ATH @ DET Gameday | 8.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| 1954-07-02 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 7.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 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.