MLB / Players

Don Wert

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 162 lb

BornJuly 29, 1938 · Strasburg, PA, USA

MLB debutMay 11, 1963

Final gameJune 11, 1971

Seasons9 (1963–1971)

Detroit Tigers 1963–1970; Washington Senators 1971

Percentile snapshot

1968 season — qualified batters

150

43.2

589

37.5

536

45.5

10.2

107

6.8

15.9

4.5

RBI

29.5

.200

1.1

OBP

.258

2.3

SLG

.299

OPS

.556

4.5

wRC+

60.5

4.5

OPS+

67.4

4.5

wOBA

.259

4.5

sWAR

-0.4

3.4

of 89 qualified 1968 batters (min 508 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

87.2

19.3

OPS+

87.3

18.8

sWAR

10.0

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
1963	78	283	251	31	65	6	2	7	25	24	51	3	3	.259	.326	.382	.709	96.1	95.7	.320	1.0
1964	148	594	525	63	135	18	5	9	55	50	74	3	4	.257	.325	.362	.687	89.7	90.2	.311	1.5
1965	162	697	609	81	159	22	2	12	54	73	71	5	6	.261	.341	.363	.704	103.4	99.9	.327	3.0
1966	150	642	559	56	150	20	2	11	70	64	69	6	3	.268	.342	.370	.713	107.0	103.6	.327	3.0
1967	142	598	534	60	137	23	2	6	40	44	59	1	1	.257	.320	.341	.661	96.0	94.1	.309	2.0
1968	150	589	536	44	107	15	1	12	37	37	79	0	3	.200	.258	.299	.556	60.5	67.4	.259	-0.4
1969	132	478	423	46	95	11	1	14	50	49	60	3	1	.225	.303	.355	.658	78.3	81.5	.304	0.6
1970	128	419	363	34	79	13	0	6	33	44	56	1	3	.218	.307	.303	.610	66.5	69.0	.285	-0.1
1971	20	46	40	2	2	1	0	0	2	4	10	0	0	.050	.156	.075	.231	-48.4	-32.3	.120	-0.6

Career totals

1,110

4,346

3,840

417

929

129

RBI

366

389

529

.2419

OBP

.3145

SLG

.3435

OPS

.6580

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
1969-07-12	CLE @ DET Gameday	5	4	4	0	0	2	2	0	10
1967-05-30	CWS @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	2	0	9
1968-05-22	DET @ MIN Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	2	0	8
1964-09-11	TEX @ DET Gameday	4	2	4	1	1	0	0	0	7
1964-07-11	BOS @ DET Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	1	2	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.

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.