Emil Verban

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 165 lb

BornAugust 27, 1915 · Lincoln, IL, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1944

Final gameOctober 1, 1950

Seasons7 (1944–1950)

St. Louis Cardinals 1944–1945; Philadelphia Phillies 1946; St. Louis Cardinals 1946; Philadelphia Phillies 1947; Chicago Cubs 1948; Philadelphia Phillies 1948; Chicago Cubs 1949; Boston Braves 1950; Chicago Cubs 1950

Percentile snapshot

1947 season — qualified batters

155

94.2

573

47.6

540

16.5

154

69.9

16.5

75.7

RBI

25.2

12.6

82.5

50.5

37.9

.285

55.3

OBP

.316

14.6

SLG

.341

11.7

OPS

.656

7.8

wRC+

72.7

7.8

OPS+

76.4

7.8

wOBA

.304

7.8

sWAR

0.2

9.7

of 104 qualified 1947 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

68.4

2.6

OPS+

73.3

4.5

sWAR

-0.4

16.9

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
1944	146	538	498	51	128	14	2	0	43	19	14	0	.257	.287	.293	.580	60.4	65.1	.274	-0.5
1945	155	635	597	59	166	22	8	0	72	19	15	4	.278	.304	.342	.645	75.3	79.8	.304	0.4
1946	139	508	474	44	130	17	5	0	34	21	18	5	.274	.305	.331	.636	75.0	81.1	.302	0.4
1947	155	573	540	50	154	14	8	0	42	23	8	5	.285	.316	.341	.656	72.7	76.4	.304	0.2
1948	111	445	417	51	112	20	2	1	27	15	12	4	.269	.297	.333	.631	67.6	72.1	.291	-0.1
1949	98	363	343	38	99	11	1	0	22	8	2	3	.289	.309	.327	.635	67.6	72.0	.292	-0.1
1950	49	48	42	8	4	1	0	0	1	3	5	0	.095	.156	.119	.275	-37.1	-26.4	.138	-0.6

Career totals

853

3,110

2,911

301

793

RBI

241

108

.2724

OBP

.3008

SLG

.3253

OPS

.6261

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
1945-08-13	STL @ LAD Gameday	7	1	3	0	2	0	1	7
1946-07-14	PHI @ CIN Gameday	5	3	5	1	0	0	0	6
1945-05-06	CHC @ STL Gameday	5	0	3	1	1	2	0	6
1945-06-16	STL @ PIT Gameday	5	3	3	1	1	2	0	6
1947-07-27	PHI @ CIN Gameday	4	0	4	1	0	0	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1944-04-18	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1944-04-20	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1944-04-21	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1944-04-23	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1944-04-23	STL @ 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

3× 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.