MLB / Players

Eddie Yost

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 170 lb

BornOctober 13, 1926 · Brooklyn, NY, USA

MLB debutAugust 16, 1944

Final gameJuly 28, 1962

Seasons18 (1944–1962)

Washington Senators 1944; Washington Senators 1946–1958; Detroit Tigers 1959–1960; Los Angeles Angels 1961–1962

Percentile snapshot

1960 season — qualified batters

143

43.2

636

77.8

497

38.3

61.7

129

29.6

54.3

13.6

48.1

RBI

23.5

125

100

39.5

54.3

39.5

.260

28.4

OBP

.414

98.8

SLG

.398

38.3

OPS

.812

74.1

wRC+

130.8

82.7

OPS+

119.5

72.8

wOBA

.385

87.7

sWAR

4.8

90.1

of 82 qualified 1960 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

116.7

74.3

OPS+

108.7

59.7

sWAR

52.1

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
1944	7	16	14	3	2	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	.143	.200	.143	.343	-5.5	1.0	.177	-0.1
1946	8	31	25	2	2	1	0	0	1	5	5	2	1	.080	.233	.120	.353	7.5	3.2	.201	-0.2
1947	115	485	428	52	102	17	3	0	14	45	57	3	5	.238	.314	.292	.606	69.0	69.9	.296	0.0
1948	145	648	555	74	138	32	11	2	50	82	51	4	3	.249	.349	.357	.706	90.7	89.2	.342	1.6
1949	124	531	435	57	110	19	7	9	45	91	41	3	3	.253	.383	.391	.774	109.3	105.5	.376	2.5
1950	155	731	573	114	169	26	2	11	58	141	63	6	6	.295	.440	.405	.845	128.8	120.3	.408	5.2
1951	154	716	568	109	161	36	4	12	65	126	55	6	4	.283	.423	.424	.847	137.7	131.1	.404	5.9
1952	157	734	587	92	137	32	3	12	49	129	73	4	3	.233	.378	.359	.738	117.3	109.7	.360	4.2
1953	152	713	577	107	157	30	7	9	45	123	59	7	4	.272	.403	.395	.799	126.4	119.3	.381	4.9
1954	155	687	539	101	138	26	4	11	47	131	71	7	3	.256	.405	.380	.786	131.9	121.6	.381	5.2
1955	122	490	375	64	91	17	5	7	48	95	54	4	3	.243	.407	.371	.778	123.7	111.6	.381	3.2
1956	152	684	515	94	119	17	2	11	53	151	82	8	5	.231	.412	.336	.748	111.6	100.1	.367	3.4
1957	110	492	414	47	104	13	5	9	38	73	49	1	11	.251	.370	.372	.742	109.7	102.0	.352	2.4
1958	134	503	406	55	91	16	0	8	37	81	43	3	6	.224	.361	.323	.683	98.1	90.0	.328	1.7
1959	148	675	521	115	145	19	0	21	61	135	77	9	2	.278	.435	.436	.871	146.4	135.4	.407	6.4
1960	143	636	497	78	129	23	2	14	47	125	69	5	4	.260	.414	.398	.812	130.8	119.5	.385	4.8
1961	76	267	213	29	43	4	0	3	15	50	48	0	1	.202	.358	.263	.621	77.3	65.6	.313	0.2
1962	52	136	104	22	25	9	1	0	10	30	21	0	2	.240	.412	.346	.758	119.7	105.6	.367	0.8

Career totals

2,109

190th-most career G

9,175

144th-most career PA

7,346

242nd-most career AB

1,215

181st-most career R

1,863

369th-most career H

337

358th-most career 2B

139

RBI

683

1,614

11th-most career BB

920

486th-most career SO

.2536

OBP

.3940

93rd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3715

OPS

.7655

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
1959-05-20	DET @ NYY Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	6	2	9
1956-07-19	CLE @ MIN Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	2	1	9
1954-07-18	CLE @ MIN Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	1	1	0	9
1948-09-08	ATH @ MIN Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	0	2	0	8
1950-06-27	MIN @ NYY Gameday	6	2	3	0	1	1	1	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1944-04-18	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1944-04-20	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1944-04-22	MIN @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1944-04-25	BOS @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1944-04-26	BOS @ MIN 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.