MLB / Players

Buddy Hassett

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 180 lb

BornSeptember 5, 1911 · New York, NY, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1936

Final gameSeptember 27, 1942

Seasons7 (1936–1942)

Brooklyn Dodgers 1936–1938; Boston Bees 1939–1940; Boston Braves 1941; New York Yankees 1942

Percentile snapshot

1942 season — qualified batters

132

54.1

581

67.1

538

71.2

80.8

153

77.4

46.6

77.4

58.2

RBI

54.8

46.6

54.8

58.2

15.1

.284

67.1

OBP

.325

35.6

SLG

.364

43.8

OPS

.689

40.4

wRC+

94.5

36.3

OPS+

97.6

39.7

wOBA

.326

sWAR

0.3

20.5

of 147 qualified 1942 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

90.7

OPS+

91.9

26.3

sWAR

1.0

63.6

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
1936	156	683	635	79	197	29	11	3	82	35	17	5	0	.310	.350	.405	.755	100.7	101.3	.348	1.0
1937	137	595	556	71	169	31	6	1	53	20	19	13	0	.304	.334	.387	.721	91.2	93.2	.331	0.2
1938	115	376	335	49	98	11	6	0	40	32	19	3	0	.293	.356	.361	.717	97.4	95.6	.338	0.6
1939	147	638	590	72	182	15	3	2	60	29	14	13	0	.308	.342	.354	.696	91.7	93.1	.325	0.2
1940	124	485	458	59	107	19	4	0	27	25	16	4	0	.234	.273	.293	.566	55.1	59.1	.264	-2.0
1941	118	449	405	59	120	9	4	1	33	36	15	10	0	.296	.354	.346	.699	101.1	99.9	.334	0.6
1942	132	581	538	80	153	16	6	5	48	32	16	5	5	.284	.325	.364	.689	94.5	97.6	.326	0.3

Career totals

929

3,807

3,517

469

1,026

130

RBI

343

209

116

.2917

365th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3334

SLG

.3617

OPS

.6951

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
1936-06-28	STL @ LAD Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	1	0	8
1942-05-29	MIN @ NYY Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	1	4	0	7
1937-08-04	LAD @ PIT Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	0	2	0	7
1938-08-07	CIN @ LAD Gameday	4	2	4	1	1	0	0	0	7
1936-07-29	STL @ LAD Gameday	5	4	3	0	2	0	5	1	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1936-04-14	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1936-04-15	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1936-04-16	LAD @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1936-04-17	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1936-04-18	PHI @ LAD 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.