Charlie Neal
Brooklyn Dodgers 1956–1957; Los Angeles Dodgers 1958–1961; New York Mets 1962; Cincinnati Reds 1963; New York Mets 1963
Percentile snapshot
1962 season — qualified batters
of 104 qualified 1962 batters (min 499 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 62 | 150 | 136 | 22 | 39 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 14 | 19 | 2 | 2 | .287 | .353 | .382 | .736 | 97.5 | 94.0 | .334 | 0.6 |
| 1957 | 128 | 514 | 448 | 62 | 121 | 13 | 7 | 12 | 62 | 53 | 83 | 11 | 4 | .270 | .356 | .411 | .767 | 105.8 | 100.4 | .349 | 2.6 |
| 1958 | 140 | 549 | 473 | 87 | 120 | 9 | 6 | 22 | 65 | 61 | 91 | 7 | 6 | .254 | .341 | .438 | .779 | 100.5 | 99.5 | .347 | 2.2 |
| 1959 | 151 | 685 | 616 | 103 | 177 | 30 | 11 | 19 | 83 | 43 | 86 | 17 | 6 | .287 | .337 | .464 | .802 | 107.8 | 106.0 | .356 | 3.2 |
| 1960 | 139 | 547 | 477 | 60 | 122 | 23 | 2 | 8 | 40 | 48 | 75 | 5 | 5 | .256 | .321 | .363 | .684 | 84.6 | 83.8 | .312 | 1.0 |
| 1961 | 108 | 377 | 341 | 40 | 80 | 6 | 1 | 10 | 48 | 30 | 49 | 3 | 2 | .235 | .297 | .346 | .643 | 66.3 | 69.9 | .287 | -0.2 |
| 1962 | 136 | 579 | 508 | 59 | 132 | 14 | 9 | 11 | 58 | 56 | 90 | 2 | 8 | .260 | .330 | .388 | .718 | 89.8 | 88.6 | .328 | 1.6 |
| 1963 | 106 | 352 | 317 | 28 | 67 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 21 | 32 | 64 | 1 | 3 | .211 | .286 | .287 | .573 | 63.1 | 64.2 | .268 | -0.2 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958-06-29 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1959-09-16 | CIN @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1962-04-28 | PHI @ NYM Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1959-04-26 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1960-06-30 | LAD @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.