Ed Charles
Kansas City Athletics 1962–1967; New York Mets 1967–1969
Percentile snapshot
1965 season — qualified batters
of 96 qualified 1965 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 147 | 604 | 535 | 81 | 154 | 24 | 7 | 17 | 74 | 54 | 70 | 20 | 4 | .288 | .356 | .454 | .811 | 114.5 | 111.6 | .365 | 3.3 |
| 1963 | 158 | 679 | 603 | 82 | 161 | 28 | 2 | 15 | 79 | 58 | 79 | 15 | 8 | .267 | .332 | .395 | .727 | 96.3 | 97.2 | .326 | 2.3 |
| 1964 | 150 | 634 | 557 | 69 | 134 | 25 | 2 | 16 | 63 | 64 | 92 | 12 | 7 | .241 | .321 | .379 | .700 | 92.1 | 90.4 | .319 | 1.8 |
| 1965 | 134 | 535 | 480 | 55 | 129 | 19 | 7 | 8 | 56 | 44 | 72 | 13 | 4 | .269 | .332 | .388 | .720 | 106.7 | 103.7 | .331 | 2.5 |
| 1966 | 118 | 420 | 385 | 52 | 110 | 18 | 8 | 9 | 42 | 30 | 53 | 12 | 5 | .286 | .337 | .444 | .781 | 126.7 | 124.5 | .350 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 120 | 439 | 384 | 37 | 92 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 36 | 36 | 71 | 5 | 1 | .240 | .313 | .310 | .623 | 84.5 | 81.5 | .296 | 0.9 |
| 1968 | 117 | 409 | 369 | 41 | 102 | 11 | 1 | 15 | 53 | 28 | 57 | 5 | 4 | .276 | .328 | .434 | .761 | 130.4 | 127.9 | .350 | 3.0 |
| 1969 | 61 | 189 | 169 | 21 | 35 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 18 | 18 | 31 | 4 | 2 | .207 | .286 | .320 | .605 | 65.8 | 69.5 | .281 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968-05-20 | PIT @ NYM Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
| 1962-06-16 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1962-06-14 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1968-06-06 | NYM @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1963-07-15 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962-05-26 | LAA @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1962-05-27 | LAA @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1962-06-19 | LAA @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1962-06-20 | LAA @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1962-06-21 | LAA @ ATH 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.