MLB / Players

Frankie Zak

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 10 in · 150 lb
BornFebruary 22, 1922 · Passaic, NJ, USA
MLB debutApril 21, 1944
Final gameJune 10, 1946
Seasons3 (1944–1946)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1944–1946

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

sWAR
0.8
62.1

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
194487186160334831011221860.300.385.331.716105.599.4.3481.1
19451532282420033500.143.226.214.44016.920.6.221-0.2
19462122208400001000.200.238.200.4389.722.9.216-0.1

Career totals

G
123
PA
240
AB
208
R
43
H
56
2B
5
3B
1
HR
0
RBI
14
BB
26
SO
23
SB
6
BA
.2692
OBP
.3504
SLG
.3029
OPS
.6533

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1944-06-10CHC @ PIT Gameday424000104
1944-07-20PIT @ PHI Gameday413100004
1944-07-21PIT @ PHI Gameday413000003
1944-06-02PIT @ SF Gameday312100013
1945-04-17PIT @ CIN Gameday522100013

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1944-04-18PIT @ STL Gameday0.0000000
1944-04-20PIT @ STL Gameday0.0000000
1944-04-21CIN @ PIT Gameday0.0000000
1944-04-26CHC @ PIT Gameday0.0000000
1944-04-28PIT @ CIN Gameday0.0000000

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

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.