MLB / Players

Al Richter

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 11 in · 165 lb
BornFebruary 7, 1927 · Norfolk, VA, USA
MLB debutSeptember 23, 1951
Final gameApril 21, 1953
Seasons2 (1951–1953)

Boston Red Sox 1951; Boston Red Sox 1953

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
-0.1
32.4

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
1951514111100003000.091.286.091.37713.30.8.229-0.1
195310000000000000.0

Career totals

G
6
PA
14
AB
11
R
1
H
1
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
3
SO
0
SB
0
BA
.0909
OBP
.2857
SLG
.0909
OPS
.3766

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1951-09-30BOS @ NYY Gameday401000001
1951-09-23NYY @ BOS Gameday100000000
1951-09-28BOS @ NYY Gameday100000000
1951-09-29BOS @ NYY Gameday300000010
1951-09-29BOS @ NYY Gameday210000020

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1952-06-17BOS @ BAL Gameday0.0000000
1952-07-26BOS @ BAL Gameday0.0000000

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.