Earl Averill
Cleveland Indians 1956; Cleveland Indians 1958; Chicago Cubs 1959; Chicago White Sox 1960; Chicago Cubs 1960; Los Angeles Angels 1961–1962; Philadelphia Phillies 1963
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 42 | 110 | 93 | 12 | 22 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 25 | 0 | 1 | .237 | .343 | .398 | .740 | 95.6 | 95.0 | .344 | 0.6 |
| 1958 | 17 | 60 | 55 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0 | .182 | .250 | .309 | .559 | 52.4 | 54.9 | .259 | -0.1 |
| 1959 | 74 | 205 | 186 | 22 | 44 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 34 | 15 | 39 | 0 | 1 | .237 | .298 | .452 | .749 | 94.6 | 96.5 | .328 | 0.8 |
| 1960 | 62 | 135 | 116 | 16 | 27 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 15 | 18 | 1 | 1 | .233 | .321 | .293 | .614 | 72.2 | 69.5 | .290 | 0.3 |
| 1961 | 115 | 392 | 323 | 56 | 86 | 9 | 0 | 21 | 59 | 62 | 70 | 1 | 0 | .266 | .384 | .489 | .873 | 129.6 | 126.6 | .391 | 3.5 |
| 1962 | 92 | 232 | 187 | 21 | 41 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 22 | 43 | 47 | 0 | 0 | .219 | .366 | .332 | .698 | 95.1 | 88.6 | .330 | 0.4 |
| 1963 | 47 | 83 | 71 | 8 | 19 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .268 | .341 | .423 | .764 | 120.6 | 121.2 | .342 | 0.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961-08-20 | MIN @ LAA Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 10 |
| 1961-05-03 | BAL @ LAA Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 1959-08-19 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1961-09-04 | LAA @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1959-05-10 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957-09-25 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1957-09-26 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1958-09-23 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1958-09-24 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1959-07-09 | CHC @ PIT 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.