Danny Litwhiler

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 198 lb

BornAugust 31, 1916 · Ringtown, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 25, 1940

Final gameSeptember 25, 1951

Seasons11 (1940–1951)

Philadelphia Phillies 1940–1942; Philadelphia Blue Jays 1943; St. Louis Cardinals 1943–1944; Boston Braves 1946; St. Louis Cardinals 1946; Boston Braves 1947–1948; Cincinnati Reds 1948–1951

Percentile snapshot

1944 season — qualified batters

140

55.5

551

49.1

492

43.6

39.1

130

41.8

56.4

51.8

86.4

RBI

78.2

44.5

13.6

11.8

.264

20.9

OBP

.328

36.4

SLG

.427

63.6

OPS

.755

52.7

wRC+

111.5

54.5

OPS+

113.3

56.4

wOBA

.349

48.2

sWAR

1.8

of 111 qualified 1944 batters (min 486 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

116.9

74.7

OPS+

118.1

76.5

sWAR

15.6

91.4

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1940	36	146	142	10	49	2	2	5	17	3	13	1	.345	.363	.493	.856	133.7	134.9	.385	0.9
1941	151	635	590	72	180	29	6	18	66	39	43	1	.305	.350	.466	.816	127.4	129.6	.376	3.4
1942	151	627	591	59	160	25	9	9	56	27	42	2	.271	.310	.389	.700	102.1	106.2	.328	1.4
1943	116	433	397	63	108	20	3	12	48	30	45	2	.272	.326	.428	.755	115.1	117.6	.354	1.6
1944	140	551	492	53	130	25	5	15	82	37	56	2	.264	.328	.427	.755	111.5	113.3	.349	1.8
1946	85	281	252	29	72	12	2	8	38	20	24	1	.286	.343	.444	.788	120.4	121.5	.367	1.2
1947	91	254	226	38	59	5	2	7	31	25	43	1	.261	.337	.394	.731	96.3	96.8	.339	0.4
1948	119	431	371	51	102	21	2	14	50	52	43	1	.275	.367	.456	.823	124.4	123.6	.377	2.3
1949	102	336	292	35	85	18	1	11	48	44	42	0	.291	.384	.473	.857	128.8	126.9	.390	1.9
1950	54	133	112	15	29	4	0	6	12	20	21	0	.259	.371	.455	.827	117.6	115.5	.374	0.6
1951	12	31	29	3	8	1	0	2	3	2	5	0	.276	.323	.517	.840	117.1	120.5	.369	0.1

Career totals

1,057

3,858

3,494

428

982

162

107

RBI

451

299

377

.2811

OBP

.3424

SLG

.4376

OPS

.7800

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	TB
1947-04-24	SF @ ATL Gameday	6	2	4	0	1	1	4	9
1941-06-02	CHC @ PHI Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	2	9
1948-07-20	ATL @ CIN Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	1	1	8
1944-09-23	STL @ PHI Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	1	4	8
1943-06-27	STL @ CHC Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	3	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1940-04-16	PHI @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-23	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-24	SF @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-25	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-26	LAD @ PHI 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

1× All-Star

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