MLB / Players

Buddy Blattner

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornFebruary 8, 1920 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1942

Final gameOctober 2, 1949

Seasons5 (1942–1949)

St. Louis Cardinals 1942; New York Giants 1946–1948; Philadelphia Phillies 1949

Percentile snapshot

1946 season — qualified batters

126

43.3

488

36.1

420

60.8

107

41.2

61.9

77.3

RBI

49.5

61.9

26.8

88.7

.255

22.7

OBP

.351

45.4

SLG

.405

53.6

OPS

.755

48.5

wRC+

114.2

49.5

OPS+

112.4

47.4

wOBA

.360

48.5

sWAR

2.6

61.9

of 98 qualified 1946 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

3.5

75.4

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1942	19	27	23	3	1	0	0	0	1	3	6	0	.043	.185	.043	.229	-32.6	-32.5	.147	-0.3
1946	126	488	420	63	107	18	6	11	49	56	52	12	.255	.351	.405	.755	114.2	112.4	.360	2.6
1947	55	175	153	28	40	9	2	0	13	21	19	4	.261	.351	.346	.697	86.5	84.2	.331	0.4
1948	8	24	20	3	4	1	0	0	0	3	2	2	.200	.304	.250	.554	53.3	50.8	.275	0.0
1949	64	118	97	15	24	6	0	5	21	19	17	0	.247	.371	.464	.835	124.7	123.0	.381	0.8

Career totals

272

832

713

112

176

RBI

102

.2468

OBP

.3467

SLG

.3843

OPS

.7310

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	TB
1946-05-26	ATL @ SF Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	5	9
1946-05-30	SF @ PHI Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	2	7
1946-07-04	LAD @ SF Gameday	5	1	3	1	1	1	7
1946-08-04	PIT @ SF Gameday	5	3	5	1	0	2	6
1949-08-04	PHI @ CIN Gameday	5	0	4	2	0	4	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1942-04-14	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-15	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-16	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-17	STL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-18	STL @ PIT 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.