Al Closter
Washington Senators 1966; New York Yankees 1971–1972; Atlanta Braves 1973
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
| 1971 | 14 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -134.8 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.4 |
| 1972 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -138.7 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.3 |
| 1973 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0.3 | 0.00 | 9.000 | 0.00 | 20.44 | 595.0 | — | 0.0 |
| 1971 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 16 | 13 | 22 | 4 | 28.3 | 5.08 | 1.624 | 6.99 | 4.23 | 123.0 | 67.7 | -0.4 |
| 1972 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2.3 | 11.57 | 2.571 | 7.71 | 11.27 | 378.2 | 25.7 | -0.3 |
| 1973 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4.3 | 14.54 | 2.538 | 4.15 | 7.40 | 188.6 | 27.0 | -0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966-04-19 | TEX @ BAL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1971-07-19 | CWS @ NYY Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1971-07-25 | NYY @ MIL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1971-07-27 | NYY @ CWS Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1971-07-30 | NYY @ MIN Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971-09-04 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 5.0 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| 1971-07-25 | NYY @ MIL Gameday | 5.2 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1971-08-29 | NYY @ KC Gameday | 4.2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 1971-07-19 | CWS @ NYY Gameday | 3.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 1971-07-31 | NYY @ MIN Gameday | 2.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 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.