David Whatley
Birmingham Black Barons 1937–1938; Memphis Red Sox 1938; Cleveland Bears 1939; Homestead Grays 1939–1942; Homestead Grays 1944; New York Black Yankees 1944
Percentile snapshot
1942 season — qualified batters
of 147 qualified 1942 batters (min 105 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 27 | 118 | 112 | 25 | 40 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 31 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | .357 | .385 | .679 | 1.063 | 167.0 | 189.0 | .468 | 1.3 |
| 1938 | 27 | 115 | 106 | 21 | 42 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 0 | .396 | .439 | .491 | .929 | 155.5 | 167.9 | .435 | 1.1 |
| 1939 | 30 | 118 | 110 | 26 | 48 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 19 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | .436 | .461 | .600 | 1.061 | 168.7 | 181.2 | .481 | 1.4 |
| 1940 | 53 | 241 | 217 | 42 | 64 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 21 | 22 | 3 | 9 | 1 | .295 | .360 | .392 | .752 | 95.6 | 95.6 | .352 | 0.5 |
| 1941 | 47 | 205 | 185 | 37 | 58 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 16 | 16 | 3 | 5 | 0 | .314 | .371 | .486 | .858 | 132.3 | 139.0 | .393 | 1.3 |
| 1942 | 51 | 213 | 189 | 39 | 59 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 19 | 0 | 3 | 0 | .312 | .384 | .397 | .781 | 120.6 | 122.7 | .376 | 1.1 |
| 1944 | 11 | 33 | 29 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .241 | .333 | .276 | .609 | 73.9 | 64.1 | .305 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941-08-28 | NYC @ HOM Gameday | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 12 |
| 1937-08-16 | SLS @ BBB Gameday | 6 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 10 |
| 1941-07-29 | PHS @ HOM Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1940-07-09 | BEG @ HOM Gameday | 6 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1937-05-16 | SLS @ BBB Gameday | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-05-09 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-09 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-15 | SLS @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-16 | SLS @ BBB Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937-05-16 | SLS @ BBB 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.