Dick Wakefield
Detroit Tigers 1941; Detroit Tigers 1943–1944; Detroit Tigers 1946–1949; New York Yankees 1950; New York Giants 1952
Percentile snapshot
1943 season — qualified batters
of 139 qualified 1943 batters (min 480 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .286 | -48.4 | -27.0 | .132 | -0.1 |
| 1943 | 155 | 697 | 633 | 91 | 200 | 38 | 8 | 7 | 79 | 62 | 60 | 4 | 5 | .316 | .377 | .434 | .811 | 133.9 | 131.3 | .385 | 4.3 |
| 1944 | 78 | 332 | 276 | 53 | 98 | 15 | 5 | 12 | 53 | 55 | 29 | 2 | 2 | .355 | .464 | .576 | 1.040 | 197.7 | 191.2 | .481 | 4.6 |
| 1946 | 111 | 458 | 396 | 64 | 106 | 11 | 5 | 12 | 59 | 59 | 55 | 3 | 5 | .268 | .364 | .412 | .776 | 115.2 | 112.0 | .365 | 1.8 |
| 1947 | 112 | 453 | 368 | 59 | 104 | 15 | 5 | 8 | 51 | 80 | 44 | 1 | 4 | .283 | .412 | .416 | .828 | 136.6 | 128.8 | .398 | 3.0 |
| 1948 | 110 | 393 | 322 | 50 | 89 | 20 | 5 | 11 | 53 | 70 | 55 | 0 | 1 | .276 | .406 | .472 | .878 | 133.7 | 131.5 | .413 | 2.5 |
| 1949 | 59 | 159 | 126 | 17 | 26 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 19 | 32 | 24 | 0 | 0 | .206 | .367 | .389 | .756 | 104.8 | 101.3 | .368 | 0.5 |
| 1950 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .667 | .500 | 1.167 | 227.8 | 208.9 | .565 | 0.1 |
| 1952 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .333 | 39.9 | -0.4 | .248 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946-08-09 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| 1946-09-05 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| 1944-07-30 | NYY @ DET Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1946-08-23 | DET @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1947-07-16 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941-04-16 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1941-04-18 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1941-04-19 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1941-04-20 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1941-04-22 | CWS @ DET 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.