Fred Sanford

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 200 lb

BornAugust 9, 1919 · Garfield, UT, USA

MLB debutMay 5, 1943

Final gameSeptember 14, 1951

Seasons7 (1943–1951)

St. Louis Browns 1943; St. Louis Browns 1946–1948; New York Yankees 1949–1951; St. Louis Browns 1951; Washington Senators 1951

Percentile snapshot

1948 season — qualified pitchers

83.3

88.9

52.8

73.6

40.3

SHO

27.8

250

5.6

117

4.2

26.4

52.8

9.7

227.0

80.6

ERA

4.64

9.7

WHIP

1.502

16.7

K/9

3.13

15.3

FIP

4.37

18.1

FIP-

97.3

38.9

ERA+

96.8

20.8

sWAR

1.7

27.8

of 73 qualified 1948 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.8

78.8

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1943	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3
1946	3	8	7	0	2	1	0	1	1	0	0	.286	.375	.429	.804	122.9	119.1	.377	0.7
1947	34	62	54	5	11	2	0	1	1	23	1	.204	.218	.241	.459	8.9	25.2	.216	2.1
1948	43	79	73	9	11	3	1	4	4	17	0	.151	.195	.233	.428	-3.0	10.9	.205	1.7
1949	29	37	34	1	4	0	0	1	1	9	0	.118	.143	.118	.261	-47.5	-30.1	.130	1.0
1950	26	37	35	4	8	2	0	3	1	6	0	.229	.250	.286	.536	31.8	39.9	.249	1.0
1951	27	31	26	3	3	1	0	0	4	12	0	.115	.233	.154	.387	8.0	6.1	.207	-2.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1943	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	2	4	2	0	9.3	1.93	1.179	1.93	3.21	95.9	173.3	0.3
1946	3	3	2	1	0	2	2	19	5	9	8	0	22.0	2.05	1.273	3.27	2.95	80.5	179.1	0.7
1947	34	23	7	16	4	9	0	186	77	76	62	17	186.7	3.71	1.404	2.99	4.17	108.3	103.5	2.1
1948	42	33	12	21	2	9	1	250	117	91	79	19	227.0	4.64	1.502	3.13	4.37	97.3	96.8	1.7
1949	29	11	7	3	0	3	0	100	41	57	51	9	95.3	3.87	1.647	4.81	4.44	107.7	106.5	1.0
1950	26	12	5	4	0	2	0	103	57	79	54	9	112.7	4.55	1.615	4.31	4.92	112.3	96.2	1.0
1951	27	16	4	10	0	1	0	103	69	75	29	13	91.0	6.82	1.956	2.87	6.27	152.6	60.0	-2.0

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

165

255

229

RBI

.1703

OBP

.2116

SLG

.2227

OPS

.4343

Pitching

G (P)

164

SHO

744

SO (P)

285

BB allowed

391

ERA

4.452

WHIP

1.5578

K/9

3.45

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
1948-07-09	BAL @ CLE Gameday	3	2	2	0	1	1	5
1947-08-03	BAL @ ATH Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	0	4
1948-05-19	NYY @ BAL Gameday	3	2	2	1	0	0	3
1947-09-10	BAL @ ATH Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	0	2
1947-09-16	BAL @ NYY Gameday	2	0	2	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1950-06-11	BAL @ NYY Gameday	9.0	4	2	2	5	9	1
1948-09-01	BAL @ NYY Gameday	11.2	11	5	5	6	6	2
1949-06-16	CWS @ NYY Gameday	9.0	8	4	1	3	6	0
1948-05-01	BAL @ CWS Gameday	8.1	5	2	2	2	6	0
1948-06-24	ATH @ BAL Gameday	7.2	9	6	6	8	6	1

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.