Elmer Valo

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 190 lb

BornMarch 5, 1921 · Rybnik, Plzenský, Czechoslovakia

MLB debutSeptember 22, 1940

Final gameOctober 1, 1961

Seasons20 (1940–1961)

Philadelphia Athletics 1940–1943; Philadelphia Athletics 1946–1954; Kansas City Athletics 1955–1956; Philadelphia Phillies 1956; Brooklyn Dodgers 1957; Los Angeles Dodgers 1958; Cleveland Indians 1959; New York Yankees 1960; Washington Senators 1960; Minnesota Twins 1961; Philadelphia Phillies 1961

Percentile snapshot

1952 season — qualified batters

129

17.3

495

9.3

388

109

1.3

62.7

42.7

17.3

RBI

101

97.3

85.3

2.7

.281

57.3

OBP

.432

SLG

.407

45.3

OPS

.839

78.7

wRC+

138.8

82.7

OPS+

127.1

73.3

wOBA

.405

90.7

sWAR

3.4

62.7

of 76 qualified 1952 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

119.7

78.5

OPS+

113.4

69.2

sWAR

27.8

96.1

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
1940	6	26	23	6	8	0	0	0	0	3	0	2	0	.348	.423	.348	.771	109.0	102.2	.367	0.1
1941	15	54	50	13	21	0	1	2	6	4	2	0	0	.420	.463	.580	1.043	176.5	173.9	.472	0.6
1942	133	542	459	64	115	13	10	2	40	70	21	13	8	.251	.355	.336	.690	97.0	92.8	.338	0.9
1943	77	287	249	31	55	6	2	3	18	35	13	2	6	.221	.319	.297	.616	82.0	80.0	.307	0.0
1946	108	411	348	59	107	21	6	1	31	60	18	9	8	.307	.411	.411	.822	137.8	130.0	.391	2.8
1947	112	450	370	60	111	12	6	5	36	64	21	11	3	.300	.406	.405	.811	130.6	124.0	.389	2.5
1948	113	475	383	72	117	17	4	3	46	81	13	10	6	.305	.432	.394	.826	128.9	120.9	.403	2.7
1949	150	680	547	86	155	27	12	5	85	119	32	14	11	.283	.413	.404	.817	124.8	119.2	.398	3.5
1950	129	542	446	62	125	16	5	10	46	82	22	12	7	.280	.400	.406	.806	112.1	107.7	.384	2.0
1951	123	530	444	75	134	27	8	7	55	75	20	11	6	.302	.412	.446	.858	133.6	129.3	.404	3.5
1952	129	495	388	69	109	26	4	5	47	101	16	12	11	.281	.432	.407	.839	138.8	127.1	.405	3.4
1953	50	107	85	15	19	3	0	0	9	22	7	0	1	.224	.383	.259	.642	84.0	71.5	.330	0.0
1954	95	281	224	28	48	11	6	1	33	51	18	2	1	.214	.356	.330	.686	92.5	86.1	.336	0.3
1955	112	338	283	50	103	17	4	3	37	52	18	5	3	.364	.460	.484	.944	159.2	150.5	.441	3.2
1956	107	356	300	41	86	13	3	5	39	49	22	7	6	.287	.389	.400	.789	119.0	114.8	.357	1.6
1957	81	189	161	14	44	10	1	4	26	25	16	0	1	.273	.370	.422	.793	110.7	107.3	.356	0.7
1958	65	115	101	9	25	2	1	1	14	12	11	0	1	.248	.322	.317	.639	66.8	65.9	.297	-0.2
1959	34	33	24	3	7	0	0	0	5	7	0	0	0	.292	.424	.292	.716	108.7	104.6	.340	0.1
1960	84	92	69	7	18	3	0	0	16	19	5	0	0	.261	.413	.304	.717	109.5	95.0	.355	0.4
1961	83	88	75	4	13	4	0	1	12	11	9	0	0	.173	.295	.267	.562	53.3	51.6	.268	-0.2

Career totals

1,806

404th-most career G

6,091

5,029

768

1,420

228

354th-most career 3B

RBI

601

942

156th-most career BB

284

110

.2824

OBP

.3983

73rd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3913

OPS

.7896

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
1955-07-30	ATH @ NYY Gameday	5	3	4	3	0	1	3	0	10
1950-08-02	ATH @ CWS Gameday	6	3	4	1	1	1	1	0	10
1951-07-12	ATH @ BAL Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	2	1	10
1951-07-01	MIN @ ATH Gameday	3	3	3	0	0	2	5	1	9
1956-07-04	PHI @ PIT Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	3	1	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1940-04-16	NYY @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-17	NYY @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-19	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-19	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-23	ATH @ NYY 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.