Ernie Whitt
Boston Red Sox 1976; Toronto Blue Jays 1977–1978; Toronto Blue Jays 1980–1989; Atlanta Braves 1990; Baltimore Orioles 1991
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 8 | 20 | 18 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .300 | .500 | .800 | 122.3 | 121.6 | .365 | 0.2 |
| 1977 | 23 | 45 | 41 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .171 | .200 | .244 | .444 | 9.6 | 19.5 | .200 | -0.2 |
| 1978 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .200 | .000 | .200 | -27.3 | -39.6 | .149 | -0.1 |
| 1980 | 106 | 325 | 295 | 23 | 70 | 12 | 2 | 6 | 34 | 22 | 30 | 1 | 3 | .237 | .288 | .353 | .640 | 70.6 | 72.0 | .293 | 0.9 |
| 1981 | 74 | 222 | 195 | 16 | 46 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 20 | 30 | 5 | 2 | .236 | .307 | .297 | .604 | 69.6 | 71.8 | .284 | 0.6 |
| 1982 | 105 | 316 | 284 | 28 | 74 | 14 | 2 | 11 | 42 | 26 | 34 | 3 | 1 | .261 | .317 | .440 | .758 | 94.3 | 99.4 | .330 | 1.7 |
| 1983 | 123 | 400 | 344 | 53 | 88 | 15 | 2 | 17 | 56 | 50 | 55 | 1 | 1 | .256 | .346 | .459 | .805 | 114.9 | 115.5 | .356 | 3.1 |
| 1984 | 124 | 364 | 315 | 35 | 75 | 12 | 1 | 15 | 46 | 43 | 49 | 0 | 3 | .238 | .327 | .425 | .752 | 101.8 | 105.1 | .332 | 2.3 |
| 1985 | 139 | 465 | 412 | 55 | 101 | 21 | 2 | 19 | 64 | 47 | 59 | 3 | 6 | .245 | .323 | .444 | .767 | 103.3 | 106.9 | .334 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 131 | 433 | 395 | 48 | 106 | 19 | 2 | 16 | 56 | 35 | 39 | 0 | 1 | .268 | .326 | .448 | .774 | 106.5 | 107.9 | .340 | 2.9 |
| 1987 | 135 | 494 | 446 | 57 | 120 | 24 | 1 | 19 | 75 | 44 | 50 | 0 | 1 | .269 | .334 | .455 | .789 | 105.3 | 106.4 | .343 | 3.1 |
| 1988 | 127 | 468 | 398 | 63 | 100 | 11 | 2 | 16 | 70 | 61 | 38 | 4 | 2 | .251 | .348 | .410 | .757 | 115.9 | 114.4 | .344 | 3.6 |
| 1989 | 129 | 440 | 385 | 42 | 101 | 24 | 1 | 11 | 53 | 52 | 53 | 5 | 4 | .262 | .349 | .416 | .764 | 120.0 | 117.2 | .352 | 3.5 |
| 1990 | 67 | 204 | 180 | 14 | 31 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 23 | 27 | 0 | 2 | .172 | .265 | .250 | .515 | 38.9 | 39.3 | .249 | -0.3 |
| 1991 | 35 | 70 | 62 | 5 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .242 | .329 | .274 | .603 | 77.5 | 71.1 | .293 | 0.2 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987-09-14 | BAL @ TOR Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 12 |
| 1988-06-16 | TOR @ DET Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| 1988-09-27 | TOR @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 9 |
| 1988-08-11 | TOR @ NYY Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1983-06-12 | TOR @ LAA Gameday | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.