Coot Veal
Detroit Tigers 1958–1960; Washington Senators 1961; Pittsburgh Pirates 1962; Detroit Tigers 1963
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | 58 | 230 | 207 | 29 | 53 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 14 | 21 | 1 | 1 | .256 | .304 | .324 | .627 | 66.1 | 68.3 | .291 | 0.1 |
| 1959 | 77 | 103 | 89 | 12 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .202 | .273 | .247 | .520 | 36.9 | 41.2 | .245 | -0.1 |
| 1960 | 27 | 78 | 64 | 8 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .297 | .400 | .406 | .806 | 125.9 | 117.4 | .378 | 0.6 |
| 1961 | 69 | 252 | 218 | 21 | 44 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 19 | 29 | 1 | 8 | .202 | .273 | .248 | .520 | 41.5 | 41.7 | .249 | -0.6 |
| 1962 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -121.6 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1963 | 15 | 37 | 32 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .219 | .297 | .219 | .516 | 47.1 | 45.9 | .251 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958-08-19 | DET @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1958-09-11 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1959-08-11 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1958-08-14 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1961-06-09 | CWS @ TEX Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962-05-17 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1962-05-21 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1962-05-22 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1962-06-10 | PIT @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1962-09-30 | PIT @ ATL 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.