Fred Hatfield

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 171 lb

BornMarch 18, 1925 · Lanett, AL, USA

MLB debutAugust 31, 1950

Final gameMay 13, 1958

Seasons9 (1950–1958)

Boston Red Sox 1950–1952; Detroit Tigers 1952–1955; Chicago White Sox 1956; Detroit Tigers 1956; Chicago White Sox 1957; Cincinnati Redlegs 1958; Cleveland Indians 1958

Percentile snapshot

1955 season — qualified batters

122

1.2

492

4.9

413

1.2

11.1

1.2

12.3

27.2

19.8

RBI

56.8

61.7

60.5

.232

1.2

OBP

.337

33.3

SLG

.341

8.6

OPS

.678

9.9

wRC+

86.4

12.3

OPS+

85.5

14.8

wOBA

.322

18.5

sWAR

1.0

14.8

of 82 qualified 1955 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

2.7

72.8

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
1950	10	15	12	3	3	0	0	0	2	3	1	0	0	.250	.400	.250	.650	75.1	62.8	.339	0.0
1951	80	187	163	23	28	4	2	2	14	22	27	1	0	.172	.274	.258	.532	35.5	38.4	.263	-0.8
1952	131	519	466	48	112	13	3	3	28	39	54	2	5	.240	.309	.300	.609	64.9	67.8	.294	-0.2
1953	109	358	311	41	79	11	1	3	19	40	34	3	5	.254	.341	.325	.666	81.3	79.5	.320	0.5
1954	81	256	218	31	64	12	0	2	25	28	24	4	2	.294	.385	.376	.761	115.9	110.3	.363	1.5
1955	122	492	413	51	96	15	3	8	33	61	49	3	2	.232	.337	.341	.678	86.4	85.5	.322	1.0
1956	114	388	333	48	87	9	1	7	35	39	37	1	0	.261	.351	.357	.708	90.2	88.9	.333	1.0
1957	69	137	114	14	23	3	0	0	8	15	20	1	0	.202	.316	.228	.544	56.7	52.5	.272	-0.2
1958	6	10	9	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	.111	.200	.111	.311	-14.2	-10.3	.166	-0.1

Career totals

722

2,362

2,039

259

493

RBI

165

248

247

.2418

OBP

.3323

SLG

.3212

OPS

.6535

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	HR	RBI	TB
1956-07-15	CWS @ NYY Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	4	9
1955-05-25	DET @ ATH Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	6
1955-07-02	DET @ ATH Gameday	6	1	3	0	1	1	6
1955-08-03	DET @ MIN Gameday	4	1	2	1	1	1	6
1952-06-05	DET @ ATH Gameday	5	1	3	2	0	3	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1950-04-19	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1950-05-30	BOS @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1950-06-16	BOS @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1950-06-17	BOS @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1950-06-20	BOS @ CWS 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.