Al Zarilla

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 180 lb

BornMay 1, 1919 · Los Angeles, CA, USA

MLB debutJune 30, 1943

Final gameSeptember 26, 1953

Seasons10 (1943–1953)

St. Louis Browns 1943–1944; St. Louis Browns 1946–1948; Boston Red Sox 1949; St. Louis Browns 1949; Boston Red Sox 1950; Chicago White Sox 1951; Boston Red Sox 1952; Chicago White Sox 1952; St. Louis Browns 1952; Boston Red Sox 1953

Percentile snapshot

1950 season — qualified batters

130

15.7

556

22.9

471

16.9

57.8

153

80.7

89.2

31.3

RBI

44.6

67.5

45.8

24.1

19.3

.325

92.8

OBP

.423

90.4

SLG

.493

73.5

OPS

.915

81.9

wRC+

127.3

74.7

OPS+

124.7

73.5

wOBA

.423

sWAR

3.1

61.4

of 84 qualified 1950 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

102.7

46.9

OPS+

102.1

45.7

sWAR

9.8

86.7

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
1943	70	251	228	27	58	7	1	2	17	17	20	1	1	.254	.309	.320	.629	79.8	82.9	.304	-0.1
1944	100	330	288	43	86	13	6	6	45	29	33	1	1	.299	.375	.448	.823	132.6	130.3	.387	1.9
1946	125	403	371	46	96	14	9	4	43	27	37	3	5	.259	.311	.377	.688	83.1	87.3	.321	0.0
1947	127	434	380	34	85	15	6	3	38	40	45	3	6	.224	.303	.318	.621	66.6	69.6	.299	-0.8
1948	144	596	529	77	174	39	3	12	74	48	48	11	6	.329	.389	.482	.871	125.0	125.7	.405	3.4
1949	139	593	530	78	147	33	4	10	77	56	53	5	5	.277	.352	.411	.763	93.4	95.9	.362	0.8
1950	130	556	471	92	153	32	10	9	74	76	47	2	3	.325	.423	.493	.915	127.3	124.7	.423	3.1
1951	120	449	382	56	98	21	2	10	60	60	57	2	4	.257	.363	.401	.764	111.5	109.7	.361	1.5
1952	108	341	289	43	65	10	2	5	24	48	29	5	1	.225	.339	.325	.664	86.2	83.0	.324	0.2
1953	57	81	67	11	13	2	0	0	4	14	13	0	1	.194	.333	.224	.557	56.9	49.5	.288	-0.2

Career totals

1,120

4,034

3,535

507

975

186

RBI

456

415

382

.2758

OBP

.3568

SLG

.4045

OPS

.7613

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
1950-06-08	BAL @ BOS Gameday	7	4	5	4	0	0	0	0	9
1944-07-24	BOS @ BAL Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	1	0	8
1950-06-04	CWS @ BOS Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	0	4	1	7
1948-05-08	BAL @ BOS Gameday	4	2	4	0	0	1	3	1	7
1943-09-22	BAL @ MIN Gameday	6	1	4	1	1	0	2	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1943-06-30	ATH @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-07-01	ATH @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-07-02	ATH @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-07-03	MIN @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-07-04	MIN @ BAL 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× 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.