MLB / Players

Buck Weaver

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb

BornAugust 18, 1890 · Pottstown, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 11, 1912

Final gameSeptember 27, 1920

Seasons9 (1912–1920)

Chicago White Sox 1912–1920

Percentile snapshot

1920 season — qualified batters

151

85.2

690

95.1

629

96.5

102

208

95.1

85.9

41.5

RBI

81.7

40.1

87.3

10.6

.331

86.6

OBP

.365

64.8

SLG

.420

65.5

OPS

.785

66.9

wRC+

106.9

OPS+

108.3

51.4

wOBA

.366

59.9

sWAR

3.2

78.9

of 143 qualified 1920 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

88.9

22.1

OPS+

93.3

28.3

sWAR

15.9

91.5

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
1912	147	553	523	55	117	21	8	1	43	9	74	12	20	.224	.245	.300	.546	55.2	59.0	.260	-0.5
1913	151	573	533	51	145	17	8	4	52	15	60	20	0	.272	.302	.356	.659	89.4	94.8	.316	2.0
1914	136	576	541	64	133	20	9	2	28	20	40	14	20	.246	.279	.327	.606	78.0	85.0	.294	1.2
1915	148	644	563	83	151	18	11	3	49	32	58	24	20	.268	.316	.355	.671	95.9	100.1	.328	2.6
1916	151	669	582	78	132	27	6	3	38	30	48	22	13	.227	.280	.309	.589	73.3	78.6	.290	0.7
1917	118	514	447	64	127	16	5	3	32	27	29	19	0	.284	.332	.362	.694	108.9	111.2	.340	2.5
1918	112	453	420	37	126	12	5	0	29	11	24	20	0	.300	.323	.352	.675	98.9	104.1	.329	2.0
1919	140	620	571	89	169	33	9	3	75	11	21	22	0	.296	.315	.401	.716	95.6	100.9	.334	2.1
1920	151	690	629	102	208	34	8	2	75	28	23	19	17	.331	.365	.420	.785	106.9	108.3	.366	3.2

Career totals

1,254

5,292

4,809

623

1,308

198

405th-most career 3B

RBI

421

183

377

172

470th-most career SB

.2720

OBP

.3067

SLG

.3550

OPS

.6617

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	TB
1915-07-30	CWS @ NYY Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	1	3	8
1914-05-30	CWS @ CLE Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	1	2	8
1918-09-02	CWS @ DET Gameday	5	1	5	2	0	0	1	7
1913-09-12	CWS @ ATH Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	3	7
1919-09-28	DET @ CWS Gameday	4	1	3	0	2	0	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1912-04-11	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-12	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-13	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-14	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-15	DET @ CWS 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.