MLB / Players

Artie Wilson

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 10 in · 162 lb
BornOctober 28, 1920 · Jefferson County, AL, USA
MLB debutApril 18, 1951
Final gameMay 23, 1951
Seasons6 (1944–1951)

Birmingham Black Barons 1944–1948; New York Giants 1951

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
5.4
80.3

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
1944311401322250750146020.379.410.508.918175.9184.0.4361.9
1945271211101738600128221.345.395.400.795129.9133.0.3791.0
194610474071300007030.325.426.325.751127.2122.0.3820.3
19471573591120110411020.339.443.390.833126.9124.8.4100.5
19482913612031527601715060.433.500.5921.092179.1191.5.5021.8
19511924222400012120.182.250.182.43214.318.4.214-0.2

Career totals

G
131
PA
541
AB
483
R
90
H
177
2B
21
3B
12
HR
0
RBI
48
BB
49
SO
3
SB
17
BA
.3665
OBP
.4280
SLG
.4596
OPS
.8876

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
1944-07-20BBB @ KCM Gameday634110407
1944-05-14KCM @ BBB Gameday522020106
1944-06-04BBB @ PHS Gameday534100005
1944-09-29HOM @ BBB Gameday624100005
1948-06-20CAG @ BBB Gameday624100015

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1944-05-07BBB @ CAG Gameday0.0000000
1944-05-07BBB @ CAG Gameday0.0000000
1944-05-10CAG @ BBB Gameday0.0000000
1944-05-14KCM @ BBB Gameday0.0000000
1944-05-14KCM @ BBB 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.

Honors

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.