MLB / Players

Al Rosen

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 180 lb

BornFebruary 29, 1924 · Spartanburg, SC, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1947

Final gameSeptember 30, 1956

Seasons10 (1947–1956)

Cleveland Indians 1947–1956

Percentile snapshot

1956 season — qualified batters

121

1.2

481

2.4

416

1.2

111

4.9

19.5

7.3

48.8

RBI

40.2

54.9

12.2

46.3

.267

34.1

OBP

.351

53.7

SLG

.428

37.8

OPS

.779

43.9

wRC+

103.3

40.2

OPS+

104.8

41.5

wOBA

.355

45.1

sWAR

2.0

37.8

of 83 qualified 1956 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

138.9

95.7

OPS+

140.0

95.5

sWAR

36.4

97.5

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
1947	7	9	9	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.111	.111	.111	.222	-58.4	-36.2	.104	-0.1
1948	5	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	-4.0	9.1	.188	0.0
1949	23	51	44	3	7	2	0	0	5	7	4	0	1	.159	.275	.205	.479	32.7	30.6	.251	-0.2
1950	155	668	554	100	159	23	4	37	116	100	72	5	7	.287	.405	.543	.948	144.7	147.7	.429	6.2
1951	154	661	573	82	152	30	1	24	102	85	71	7	5	.265	.362	.447	.809	124.2	125.4	.376	4.4
1952	148	649	567	101	171	32	5	28	105	75	54	8	6	.302	.387	.524	.911	159.9	161.2	.416	7.1
1953	155	688	599	115	201	27	5	43	145	85	48	8	7	.336	.422	.613	1.034	181.6	183.0	.460	9.5
1954	137	566	466	76	140	20	2	24	102	85	43	6	2	.300	.404	.506	.910	152.6	150.5	.414	5.3
1955	139	596	492	61	120	13	1	21	81	92	44	4	2	.244	.362	.402	.765	108.1	106.1	.358	2.4
1956	121	481	416	64	111	18	2	15	61	58	44	1	3	.267	.351	.428	.779	103.3	104.8	.355	2.0

Career totals

1,044

4,374

3,725

603

1,063

165

192

419th-most career HR

RBI

717

587

385

.2854

OBP

.3842

156th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4950

144th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8792

110th-highest career OPS

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1952-04-29	CLE @ ATH Gameday	6	4	4	0	3	7	1	13
1953-09-25	DET @ CLE Gameday	6	3	4	0	2	4	0	10
1954-05-18	BOS @ CLE Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	3	0	10
1950-05-09	CLE @ ATH Gameday	5	3	4	2	1	2	0	9
1953-08-21	BAL @ CLE Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	5	1	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1947-04-15	CWS @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-18	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-19	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-22	BAL @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-23	BAL @ CLE 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.

Honors

1× Most Valuable Player4× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.