Al Pilarcik
Kansas City Athletics 1956; Baltimore Orioles 1957–1960; Chicago White Sox 1961; Kansas City Athletics 1961
Percentile snapshot
1957 season — qualified batters
of 75 qualified 1957 batters (min 477 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 69 | 272 | 239 | 28 | 60 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 22 | 30 | 32 | 9 | 2 | .251 | .333 | .351 | .685 | 80.1 | 79.2 | .323 | 0.3 |
| 1957 | 142 | 482 | 407 | 52 | 113 | 16 | 3 | 9 | 49 | 53 | 28 | 14 | 7 | .278 | .359 | .398 | .757 | 113.8 | 114.2 | .346 | 2.0 |
| 1958 | 141 | 430 | 379 | 40 | 92 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 42 | 37 | 7 | 3 | .243 | .320 | .306 | .626 | 81.7 | 79.1 | .296 | 0.0 |
| 1959 | 130 | 317 | 273 | 37 | 77 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 16 | 30 | 25 | 9 | 3 | .282 | .355 | .366 | .722 | 106.0 | 102.6 | .336 | 0.7 |
| 1960 | 104 | 217 | 194 | 30 | 48 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 0 | 2 | .247 | .313 | .345 | .658 | 79.0 | 80.9 | .302 | -0.2 |
| 1961 | 82 | 142 | 122 | 18 | 23 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 15 | 12 | 2 | 1 | .189 | .275 | .246 | .521 | 41.8 | 40.9 | .252 | -0.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957-08-28 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 1956-07-26 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 1958-05-04 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1957-08-13 | BAL @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1957-05-27 | BAL @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956-07-24 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1956-09-18 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1956-09-19 | BOS @ ATH 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.