MLB / Players

Frank Welch

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 175 lb

BornAugust 10, 1897 · Birmingham, AL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 9, 1919

Final gameAugust 13, 1927

Seasons9 (1919–1927)

Philadelphia Athletics 1919–1926; Boston Red Sox 1927

Percentile snapshot

1923 season — qualified batters

125

56.4

490

54.2

421

52.5

48.6

125

53.6

55.9

71.5

55.9

RBI

55.9

73.2

15.1

3.4

39.7

.297

50.8

OBP

.374

63.7

SLG

.413

53.1

OPS

.788

55.9

wRC+

105.9

49.7

OPS+

105.0

wOBA

.373

sWAR

1.4

53.1

of 180 qualified 1923 batters (min 474 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.1

77.1

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
1919	15	62	54	5	9	1	1	2	7	7	10	0	0	.167	.262	.333	.596	60.3	64.3	.287	-0.1
1920	100	396	360	43	93	17	5	4	40	26	41	2	9	.258	.312	.367	.679	74.0	76.7	.319	0.0
1921	115	455	403	48	115	18	6	7	45	34	43	6	0	.285	.347	.412	.759	89.5	90.7	.352	1.0
1922	114	432	375	43	97	17	3	11	49	40	40	3	4	.259	.335	.408	.743	88.0	89.3	.345	0.3
1923	125	490	421	56	125	19	9	4	55	48	40	1	4	.297	.374	.413	.788	105.9	105.0	.373	1.4
1924	94	345	293	47	85	13	2	5	31	35	27	2	3	.290	.372	.399	.771	98.6	97.4	.367	0.7
1925	85	251	202	40	56	5	4	4	41	29	14	2	1	.277	.373	.401	.774	94.9	93.1	.367	0.4
1926	75	213	174	26	49	8	1	4	23	26	9	2	5	.282	.381	.408	.789	106.4	103.8	.375	0.6
1927	15	34	28	2	5	2	0	0	4	5	1	0	2	.179	.303	.250	.553	51.2	44.9	.280	-0.1

Career totals

738

2,678

2,310

310

634

100

RBI

295

250

225

.2745

OBP

.3504

SLG

.3978

OPS

.7482

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	TB
1921-06-03	DET @ ATH Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	4	9
1924-06-15	ATH @ BAL Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	1	2	8
1922-08-07	ATH @ CWS Gameday	5	1	4	0	0	1	3	7
1923-08-17	ATH @ DET Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	0	1	7
1922-05-09	CLE @ ATH Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	4	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1919-04-23	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1919-04-24	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1919-04-28	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1919-04-29	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1919-04-30	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.