MLB / Players

Andy Pafko

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 190 lb

BornFebruary 25, 1921 · Boyceville, WI, USA

MLB debutSeptember 24, 1943

Final gameSeptember 29, 1959

Seasons17 (1943–1959)

Chicago Cubs 1943–1950; Brooklyn Dodgers 1951; Chicago Cubs 1951; Brooklyn Dodgers 1952; Milwaukee Braves 1953–1959

Percentile snapshot

1954 season — qualified batters

138

33.3

570

33.3

510

40.7

22.2

146

45.7

30.9

55.6

RBI

53.1

13.6

7.4

60.5

.286

56.8

OBP

.335

33.3

SLG

.427

49.4

OPS

.763

43.2

wRC+

103.3

49.4

OPS+

105.8

50.6

wOBA

.339

32.1

sWAR

1.4

27.2

of 82 qualified 1954 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

116.8

74.5

OPS+

117.6

75.7

sWAR

34.9

97.3

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	13	60	58	7	22	3	0	0	10	2	5	1	0	.379	.400	.431	.831	142.8	140.5	.393	0.5
1944	128	512	469	47	126	16	2	6	62	28	23	2	0	.269	.315	.350	.665	86.2	88.4	.313	1.0
1945	144	608	534	64	159	24	12	12	110	45	36	5	0	.298	.361	.455	.816	127.5	129.5	.381	4.2
1946	65	273	234	18	66	6	4	3	39	27	15	4	0	.282	.366	.380	.746	118.0	115.1	.359	1.6
1947	129	550	513	68	155	25	7	13	66	31	39	4	0	.302	.346	.454	.800	111.8	114.5	.362	2.8
1948	142	606	548	82	171	30	2	26	101	50	50	3	0	.312	.375	.516	.891	141.2	142.4	.401	5.4
1949	144	592	519	79	146	29	2	18	69	63	33	4	0	.281	.369	.449	.818	121.2	120.2	.373	3.7
1950	146	595	514	95	156	24	8	36	92	69	32	4	0	.304	.397	.591	.989	155.8	156.1	.431	6.2
1951	133	519	455	68	116	16	3	30	93	52	37	2	5	.255	.347	.501	.848	123.0	123.7	.377	2.9
1952	150	624	551	76	158	17	5	19	85	64	48	4	3	.287	.366	.439	.805	124.4	122.5	.369	3.2
1953	140	568	516	70	153	23	4	17	72	37	33	2	1	.297	.347	.455	.803	112.9	114.5	.355	2.1
1954	138	570	510	61	146	22	4	14	69	37	36	1	2	.286	.335	.427	.763	103.3	105.8	.339	1.4
1955	86	267	252	29	67	3	5	5	34	7	23	1	2	.266	.293	.377	.670	79.7	82.4	.297	0.0
1956	45	104	93	15	24	5	0	2	9	10	13	0	0	.258	.330	.376	.706	100.8	96.5	.323	0.2
1957	83	235	220	31	61	6	1	8	27	10	22	1	0	.277	.308	.423	.730	98.8	102.6	.319	0.4
1958	95	185	164	17	39	7	1	3	23	15	17	0	0	.238	.306	.348	.654	77.3	81.3	.292	-0.4
1959	71	158	142	17	31	8	2	1	15	14	15	0	0	.218	.293	.324	.617	72.8	72.0	.284	-0.2

Career totals

1,852

368th-most career G

7,026

453rd-most career PA

6,292

444th-most career AB

844

1,796

411th-most career H

264

213

345th-most career HR

RBI

976

333rd-most career RBI

561

477

.2854

OBP

.3504

SLG

.4487

497th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.7991

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
1948-05-16	CIN @ CHC Gameday	5	4	5	1	0	2	4	0	12
1950-08-02	CHC @ SF Gameday	3	3	3	0	0	3	5	1	12
1954-05-23	ATL @ CHC Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	2	5	0	11
1953-09-11	LAD @ ATL Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	2	4	1	10
1950-04-18	CHC @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	2	4	1	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1943-04-21	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-22	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-24	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-25	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-27	CHC @ STL 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

5× 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.