Don Demeter
Brooklyn Dodgers 1956; Los Angeles Dodgers 1958–1961; Philadelphia Phillies 1961–1963; Detroit Tigers 1964–1965; Boston Red Sox 1966; Detroit Tigers 1966; Boston Red Sox 1967; Cleveland Indians 1967
Percentile snapshot
1963 season — qualified batters
of 102 qualified 1963 batters (min 502 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | 1.333 | 1.667 | 335.7 | 311.1 | .679 | 0.1 |
| 1958 | 43 | 112 | 106 | 11 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 32 | 2 | 3 | .189 | .225 | .349 | .574 | 37.3 | 45.6 | .254 | -0.6 |
| 1959 | 139 | 401 | 371 | 55 | 95 | 11 | 1 | 18 | 70 | 16 | 87 | 5 | 6 | .256 | .294 | .437 | .731 | 84.1 | 87.0 | .321 | 0.8 |
| 1960 | 64 | 181 | 168 | 23 | 46 | 7 | 1 | 9 | 29 | 8 | 34 | 0 | 1 | .274 | .306 | .488 | .794 | 107.2 | 109.7 | .345 | 0.9 |
| 1961 | 121 | 444 | 411 | 57 | 103 | 18 | 4 | 21 | 70 | 22 | 80 | 2 | 1 | .251 | .297 | .467 | .764 | 98.7 | 99.8 | .334 | 1.0 |
| 1962 | 153 | 617 | 550 | 85 | 169 | 24 | 3 | 29 | 107 | 41 | 93 | 2 | 7 | .307 | .359 | .520 | .879 | 133.3 | 136.2 | .384 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 154 | 560 | 515 | 63 | 133 | 20 | 2 | 22 | 83 | 31 | 93 | 1 | 4 | .258 | .306 | .433 | .739 | 108.9 | 112.7 | .326 | 2.2 |
| 1964 | 134 | 470 | 441 | 57 | 113 | 22 | 1 | 22 | 80 | 17 | 85 | 4 | 1 | .256 | .290 | .460 | .750 | 99.1 | 104.1 | .324 | 1.2 |
| 1965 | 122 | 424 | 389 | 50 | 108 | 16 | 4 | 16 | 58 | 23 | 65 | 4 | 2 | .278 | .325 | .463 | .788 | 120.8 | 120.9 | .351 | 2.2 |
| 1966 | 105 | 341 | 325 | 43 | 87 | 18 | 1 | 14 | 41 | 8 | 61 | 2 | 0 | .268 | .284 | .458 | .742 | 99.6 | 102.2 | .325 | 1.2 |
| 1967 | 71 | 177 | 164 | 22 | 37 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 16 | 9 | 27 | 0 | 0 | .226 | .274 | .390 | .665 | 90.2 | 92.6 | .302 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961-09-12 | PHI @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 13 |
| 1959-04-21 | SF @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 12 |
| 1959-06-11 | LAD @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 10 |
| 1960-05-03 | CIN @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| 1962-06-22 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 9 |
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.