Danny Cater
Philadelphia Phillies 1964; Chicago White Sox 1965–1966; Kansas City Athletics 1966–1967; Oakland Athletics 1968–1969; New York Yankees 1970–1971; Boston Red Sox 1972–1974; St. Louis Cardinals 1975
Percentile snapshot
1970 season — qualified batters
of 114 qualified 1970 batters (min 505 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 60 | 160 | 152 | 13 | 45 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 7 | 15 | 1 | 0 | .296 | .325 | .388 | .713 | 101.8 | 102.2 | .321 | 0.3 |
| 1965 | 142 | 555 | 514 | 74 | 139 | 18 | 4 | 14 | 55 | 33 | 65 | 3 | 3 | .270 | .316 | .403 | .719 | 111.8 | 111.0 | .327 | 2.0 |
| 1966 | 137 | 524 | 485 | 50 | 135 | 17 | 4 | 7 | 56 | 28 | 47 | 4 | 5 | .278 | .317 | .373 | .691 | 100.1 | 100.3 | .312 | 1.1 |
| 1967 | 142 | 573 | 529 | 55 | 143 | 17 | 4 | 4 | 46 | 34 | 56 | 4 | 5 | .270 | .317 | .340 | .657 | 93.0 | 96.6 | .300 | 0.8 |
| 1968 | 147 | 550 | 504 | 53 | 146 | 28 | 3 | 6 | 62 | 35 | 43 | 8 | 7 | .290 | .336 | .393 | .729 | 126.2 | 123.8 | .337 | 2.2 |
| 1969 | 152 | 620 | 584 | 64 | 153 | 24 | 2 | 10 | 76 | 28 | 40 | 1 | 4 | .262 | .296 | .361 | .657 | 83.9 | 87.5 | .302 | -0.4 |
| 1970 | 155 | 621 | 582 | 64 | 175 | 26 | 5 | 6 | 76 | 34 | 44 | 4 | 2 | .301 | .340 | .393 | .734 | 106.3 | 107.5 | .334 | 1.4 |
| 1971 | 121 | 456 | 428 | 39 | 118 | 16 | 5 | 4 | 50 | 19 | 25 | 0 | 3 | .276 | .308 | .364 | .672 | 87.2 | 91.2 | .308 | 0.2 |
| 1972 | 92 | 342 | 317 | 32 | 75 | 17 | 1 | 8 | 39 | 15 | 33 | 0 | 1 | .237 | .270 | .372 | .642 | 78.8 | 85.9 | .294 | -0.6 |
| 1973 | 63 | 208 | 195 | 30 | 61 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 10 | 22 | 0 | 0 | .313 | .348 | .390 | .738 | 103.5 | 103.3 | .340 | 0.5 |
| 1974 | 56 | 140 | 126 | 14 | 31 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 20 | 10 | 13 | 1 | 0 | .246 | .309 | .405 | .714 | 97.9 | 99.5 | .328 | 0.1 |
| 1975 | 22 | 36 | 35 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .229 | .250 | .286 | .536 | 30.0 | 46.8 | .238 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973-08-12 | LAA @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1971-06-08 | NYY @ LAA Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1967-04-29 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 7 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 1971-05-04 | NYY @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1971-07-30 | NYY @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
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.