Andy Carey

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 190 lb

BornOctober 18, 1931 · Oakland, CA, USA

MLB debutMay 2, 1952

Final gameOctober 2, 1962

Seasons11 (1952–1962)

New York Yankees 1952–1959; Kansas City Athletics 1960; New York Yankees 1960; Chicago White Sox 1961; Kansas City Athletics 1961; Los Angeles Dodgers 1962

Percentile snapshot

1956 season — qualified batters

132

9.8

480

422

2.4

9.8

100

19.5

7.3

14.6

RBI

18.3

29.3

63.4

80.5

13.4

.237

8.5

OBP

.310

14.6

SLG

.339

OPS

.649

7.3

wRC+

73.9

9.8

OPS+

76.3

12.2

wOBA

.302

6.1

sWAR

0.2

7.3

of 83 qualified 1956 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

96.3

34.3

OPS+

98.4

38.6

sWAR

10.8

87.8

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
1952	16	45	40	6	6	0	0	0	1	3	10	0	0	.150	.209	.150	.359	-1.8	5.0	.183	-0.4
1953	51	91	81	14	26	5	0	4	8	9	12	2	1	.321	.389	.531	.920	151.8	152.9	.415	1.0
1954	122	471	411	60	124	14	6	8	65	43	38	5	5	.302	.373	.423	.797	126.0	124.7	.370	3.3
1955	135	570	510	73	131	19	11	7	47	44	51	3	3	.257	.313	.378	.692	84.3	89.1	.317	1.0
1956	132	480	422	54	100	18	2	7	50	45	53	9	6	.237	.310	.339	.649	73.9	76.3	.302	0.2
1957	85	273	247	30	63	6	5	6	33	15	42	2	2	.255	.309	.393	.701	90.1	94.1	.316	0.7
1958	102	365	315	39	90	19	4	12	45	34	43	1	2	.286	.363	.486	.849	137.0	137.7	.377	3.0
1959	41	109	101	11	26	1	0	3	9	7	17	1	1	.257	.306	.356	.662	85.8	85.6	.304	0.2
1960	106	379	346	31	81	14	4	12	54	26	53	0	0	.234	.287	.402	.689	79.6	82.6	.311	0.5
1961	95	304	266	41	68	18	5	3	25	26	47	0	1	.256	.329	.395	.724	93.8	92.9	.330	0.9
1962	53	130	111	12	26	5	1	2	13	16	23	0	0	.234	.333	.351	.685	91.0	88.3	.318	0.4

Career totals

938

3,217

2,850

371

741

119

RBI

350

268

389

.2600

OBP

.3265

SLG

.3958

OPS

.7223

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
1958-06-01	NYY @ BOS Gameday	5	3	5	1	2	4	0	12
1958-06-19	NYY @ CLE Gameday	3	2	3	0	2	3	2	9
1958-07-12	CLE @ NYY Gameday	4	3	2	0	2	5	1	8
1957-05-12	NYY @ BAL Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	3	0	8
1959-04-18	NYY @ BOS Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	4	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1952-05-16	NYY @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1952-05-18	NYY @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1952-06-19	NYY @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1952-06-23	NYY @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1952-06-24	NYY @ 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.