Elbie Fletcher

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornMarch 18, 1916 · Milton, MA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 16, 1934

Final gameOctober 2, 1949

Seasons12 (1934–1949)

Boston Braves 1934–1935; Boston Bees 1937–1939; Pittsburgh Pirates 1939–1943; Pittsburgh Pirates 1946–1947; Boston Braves 1949

Percentile snapshot

1949 season — qualified batters

122

5.3

518

14.7

413

1.3

13.3

108

2.7

22.7

50.7

RBI

74.7

18.7

10.7

49.3

.262

OBP

.396

73.3

SLG

.402

37.3

OPS

.798

50.7

wRC+

126.8

73.3

OPS+

121.0

65.3

wOBA

.376

sWAR

2.3

45.3

of 76 qualified 1949 batters (min 486 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

122.9

83.3

OPS+

117.8

76.1

sWAR

23.5

94.8

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1934	8	4	4	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	181.3	177.8	.458	0.0
1935	39	157	148	12	35	7	1	1	9	7	13	1	.236	.271	.318	.589	60.5	62.7	.269	-0.6
1937	148	605	539	56	133	22	4	1	38	56	64	3	.247	.321	.308	.629	81.9	79.6	.301	-0.6
1938	147	596	529	71	144	24	7	6	48	60	40	5	.272	.351	.378	.729	112.0	110.8	.342	1.6
1939	137	555	476	63	138	25	4	12	77	67	33	4	.290	.381	.435	.816	123.7	120.4	.378	2.3
1940	147	641	510	94	139	22	7	16	104	119	54	5	.273	.418	.437	.856	144.0	136.5	.401	4.3
1941	151	642	521	95	150	29	13	11	74	118	54	5	.288	.421	.457	.878	153.1	147.2	.415	5.0
1942	145	623	506	86	146	22	5	7	57	105	60	0	.289	.417	.393	.810	145.5	135.1	.395	4.1
1943	154	647	544	91	154	24	5	9	70	95	49	1	.283	.395	.395	.791	132.8	125.0	.384	3.3
1946	148	651	532	72	136	25	8	4	66	111	37	4	.256	.384	.355	.739	115.5	107.1	.364	2.0
1947	69	187	157	22	38	9	1	1	22	29	24	2	.242	.364	.331	.695	88.1	82.5	.336	-0.1
1949	122	518	413	57	108	19	3	11	51	84	65	1	.262	.396	.402	.798	126.8	121.0	.376	2.3

Career totals

1,415

5,826

4,879

723

1,323

228

RBI

616

851

220th-most career BB

495

.2712

OBP

.3839

157th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3902

OPS

.7741

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
1941-07-06	CHC @ PIT Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	2	2	0	10
1940-06-22	PIT @ LAD Gameday	3	4	2	0	0	2	3	1	8
1938-09-13	CHC @ ATL Gameday	4	2	4	1	1	0	0	0	7
1943-08-24	PIT @ LAD Gameday	4	2	3	2	1	0	1	0	7
1941-08-31	PIT @ CHC Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	1	2	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1934-04-17	ATL @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-04-18	ATL @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-04-19	ATL @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-04-20	ATL @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-04-21	ATL @ SF 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.