Casey Stengel

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb

BornJuly 30, 1890 · Kansas City, MO, USA

MLB debutSeptember 17, 1912

Final gameMay 19, 1925

Seasons14 (1912–1925)

Brooklyn Dodgers 1912; Brooklyn Superbas 1913; Brooklyn Robins 1914–1917; Pittsburgh Pirates 1918–1919; Philadelphia Phillies 1920; New York Giants 1921; Philadelphia Phillies 1921; New York Giants 1922–1923; Boston Braves 1924–1925

Percentile snapshot

1924 season — qualified batters

131

63.2

518

61.5

461

60.3

53.4

129

57.5

56.3

59.2

64.9

RBI

39.7

74.1

13.8

74.7

7.5

.280

32.8

OBP

.348

40.8

SLG

.382

38.5

OPS

.730

38.5

wRC+

99.7

44.3

OPS+

98.4

wOBA

.340

36.2

sWAR

1.1

44.3

of 175 qualified 1924 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

121.3

80.7

OPS+

119.7

79.1

sWAR

24.3

95.1

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	17	74	57	9	18	1	0	1	13	15	9	5	0	.316	.466	.386	.852	146.0	135.6	.424	0.7
1913	124	502	438	60	119	16	8	7	43	56	58	19	0	.272	.356	.393	.748	114.6	113.2	.357	2.8
1914	126	483	412	55	130	13	10	4	60	56	55	19	0	.316	.404	.425	.829	147.6	144.0	.400	3.8
1915	132	510	459	52	109	20	12	3	50	34	46	5	10	.237	.294	.353	.647	92.1	94.5	.309	0.5
1916	127	511	462	66	129	27	8	8	53	33	51	11	0	.279	.329	.424	.753	129.2	129.1	.353	2.8
1917	150	622	549	69	141	23	12	6	73	60	62	18	0	.257	.336	.375	.711	118.5	115.9	.341	2.6
1918	39	142	122	18	30	4	1	1	12	16	14	11	0	.246	.343	.320	.663	105.5	100.0	.330	0.4
1919	89	370	321	38	94	10	10	4	43	35	35	12	0	.293	.364	.424	.788	137.9	134.6	.373	2.4
1920	129	504	445	53	130	25	6	9	50	38	35	7	13	.292	.356	.436	.792	120.3	118.4	.370	2.3
1921	42	89	81	11	23	4	1	0	6	7	12	1	2	.284	.341	.358	.699	79.3	79.0	.327	0.0
1922	84	283	250	48	92	8	10	7	48	21	17	4	2	.368	.436	.564	1.000	156.5	157.3	.451	3.1
1923	75	246	218	39	74	11	5	5	43	20	18	6	2	.339	.400	.505	.905	139.9	140.7	.412	2.1
1924	131	518	461	57	129	20	6	5	39	45	39	13	13	.280	.348	.382	.730	99.7	98.4	.340	1.1
1925	12	15	13	0	1	0	0	0	2	1	2	0	1	.077	.143	.077	.220	-40.0	-40.2	.119	-0.2

Career totals

1,277

4,869

4,288

575

1,219

182

220th-most career 3B

RBI

535

437

453

131

.2843

OBP

.3558

SLG

.4102

OPS

.7660

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	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1914-09-19	CIN @ LAD Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	2	8
1913-05-01	ATL @ LAD Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	3	8
1920-06-01	ATL @ PHI Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	3	8
1914-09-21	CIN @ LAD Gameday	4	4	4	0	1	2	7
1922-09-23	STL @ SF Gameday	4	3	4	0	1	1	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1912-04-11	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-12	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-13	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-15	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-16	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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1966 (Veterans)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.