Earl Battey
Chicago White Sox 1955–1959; Washington Senators 1960; Minnesota Twins 1961–1967
Percentile snapshot
1963 season — qualified batters
of 102 qualified 1963 batters (min 499 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 5 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .444 | .286 | .730 | 120.8 | 100.6 | .377 | 0.1 |
| 1956 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .400 | .250 | .650 | 93.1 | 76.7 | .337 | 0.0 |
| 1957 | 48 | 129 | 115 | 12 | 20 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 38 | 0 | 2 | .174 | .246 | .322 | .568 | 49.0 | 55.2 | .261 | 0.0 |
| 1958 | 68 | 198 | 168 | 24 | 38 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 26 | 24 | 34 | 1 | 0 | .226 | .325 | .417 | .742 | 106.6 | 106.7 | .335 | 1.3 |
| 1959 | 26 | 72 | 64 | 9 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .219 | .306 | .391 | .696 | 94.3 | 92.8 | .320 | 0.4 |
| 1960 | 137 | 530 | 466 | 49 | 126 | 24 | 2 | 15 | 60 | 48 | 68 | 4 | 5 | .270 | .346 | .427 | .773 | 105.0 | 105.3 | .349 | 3.3 |
| 1961 | 133 | 522 | 460 | 70 | 139 | 24 | 1 | 17 | 55 | 53 | 66 | 3 | 3 | .302 | .377 | .470 | .847 | 123.7 | 121.5 | .380 | 4.4 |
| 1962 | 148 | 591 | 522 | 58 | 146 | 20 | 3 | 11 | 57 | 57 | 48 | 0 | 0 | .280 | .348 | .393 | .741 | 98.0 | 96.8 | .337 | 3.1 |
| 1963 | 147 | 586 | 508 | 64 | 145 | 17 | 1 | 26 | 84 | 61 | 75 | 0 | 0 | .285 | .369 | .476 | .845 | 136.0 | 134.0 | .374 | 5.8 |
| 1964 | 131 | 471 | 405 | 33 | 110 | 17 | 1 | 12 | 52 | 51 | 49 | 1 | 1 | .272 | .348 | .407 | .756 | 109.7 | 109.9 | .338 | 3.3 |
| 1965 | 131 | 456 | 394 | 36 | 117 | 22 | 2 | 6 | 60 | 50 | 23 | 0 | 0 | .297 | .375 | .409 | .783 | 122.4 | 120.0 | .356 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 115 | 412 | 364 | 30 | 93 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 34 | 43 | 30 | 4 | 1 | .255 | .337 | .327 | .664 | 88.7 | 88.6 | .305 | 1.9 |
| 1967 | 48 | 123 | 109 | 6 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 13 | 24 | 0 | 0 | .165 | .254 | .211 | .465 | 31.4 | 35.1 | .228 | -0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961-07-09 | MIN @ TEX Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| 1958-07-12 | CWS @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 9 |
| 1957-09-24 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 1961-08-11 | DET @ MIN Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1965-07-27 | MIN @ TEX Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.