Eddie Waitkus

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb

BornSeptember 4, 1919 · Cambridge, MA, USA

MLB debutApril 15, 1941

Final gameSeptember 20, 1955

Seasons11 (1941–1955)

Chicago Cubs 1941; Chicago Cubs 1946–1948; Philadelphia Phillies 1949–1953; Baltimore Orioles 1954–1955; Philadelphia Phillies 1955

Percentile snapshot

1952 season — qualified batters

146

49.3

568

29.3

499

29.3

5.3

144

77.3

42.7

RBI

18.7

57.3

93.3

17.3

73.3

.289

69.3

OBP

.371

70.7

SLG

.375

29.3

OPS

.745

wRC+

113.0

49.3

OPS+

109.5

42.7

wOBA

.350

42.7

sWAR

1.5

of 76 qualified 1952 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

96.1

33.8

OPS+

96.7

35.2

sWAR

4.1

77.1

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
1941	12	29	28	1	5	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.179	.207	.179	.385	2.0	10.7	.187	-0.3
1946	113	472	441	50	134	24	5	4	55	23	14	3	0	.304	.340	.408	.748	112.2	114.9	.351	1.2
1947	130	554	514	60	150	28	6	2	35	32	17	3	0	.292	.336	.381	.717	91.4	93.4	.331	0.2
1948	139	614	562	87	166	27	10	7	44	43	19	11	0	.295	.348	.416	.764	107.7	108.9	.351	1.5
1949	54	246	209	41	64	16	3	1	28	33	12	3	0	.306	.403	.426	.829	127.7	123.0	.385	1.2
1950	154	702	641	102	182	32	5	2	44	55	29	3	0	.284	.341	.359	.700	86.8	87.0	.322	-0.1
1951	145	664	610	65	157	27	4	1	46	53	22	0	3	.257	.317	.320	.636	73.2	74.3	.297	-1.3
1952	146	568	499	51	144	29	4	2	49	64	23	2	2	.289	.371	.375	.745	113.0	109.5	.350	1.5
1953	81	262	247	24	72	9	2	1	16	13	23	1	1	.291	.330	.356	.686	79.2	80.8	.310	-0.3
1954	95	349	311	35	88	17	4	2	33	28	25	0	1	.283	.341	.383	.724	99.4	100.3	.338	0.4
1955	71	220	192	12	52	6	1	2	23	28	17	2	1	.271	.364	.344	.707	95.8	93.9	.329	0.1

Career totals

1,140

4,680

4,254

528

1,214

215

RBI

373

372

204

.2854

OBP

.3442

SLG

.3735

OPS

.7177

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	RBI	BB	TB
1949-06-09	PIT @ PHI Gameday	8	0	4	2	1	2	0	8
1947-08-02	LAD @ CHC Gameday	6	1	5	0	1	4	0	7
1950-08-27	PHI @ CHC Gameday	6	1	5	2	0	0	0	7
1950-09-15	CIN @ PHI Gameday	9	2	5	2	0	0	1	7
1950-07-05	SF @ PHI Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	2	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1941-04-15	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-17	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-18	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-20	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-22	CIN @ CHC 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.

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.