Fred Valentine
Baltimore Orioles 1959; Baltimore Orioles 1963; Washington Senators 1964–1967; Baltimore Orioles 1968; Washington Senators 1968
Percentile snapshot
1967 season — qualified batters
of 99 qualified 1967 batters (min 499 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 12 | 22 | 19 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | .316 | .409 | .316 | .725 | 116.6 | 106.2 | .351 | 0.1 |
| 1963 | 26 | 49 | 41 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .268 | .388 | .293 | .680 | 111.6 | 99.2 | .332 | 0.2 |
| 1964 | 102 | 240 | 212 | 20 | 48 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 20 | 21 | 44 | 4 | 2 | .226 | .304 | .307 | .610 | 71.6 | 69.8 | .286 | -0.2 |
| 1965 | 12 | 34 | 29 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 0 | .241 | .353 | .241 | .594 | 83.9 | 72.9 | .298 | 0.0 |
| 1966 | 146 | 578 | 508 | 77 | 140 | 29 | 7 | 16 | 59 | 51 | 63 | 22 | 10 | .276 | .351 | .455 | .806 | 135.1 | 130.5 | .363 | 3.9 |
| 1967 | 151 | 527 | 457 | 52 | 107 | 16 | 1 | 11 | 44 | 56 | 76 | 17 | 3 | .234 | .330 | .346 | .676 | 108.6 | 102.8 | .321 | 2.0 |
| 1968 | 84 | 209 | 192 | 20 | 41 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 12 | 13 | 31 | 1 | 0 | .214 | .273 | .339 | .611 | 85.8 | 86.3 | .287 | 0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966-05-10 | TEX @ LAA Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 1966-06-08 | TEX @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1966-05-09 | TEX @ LAA Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1966-06-26 | TEX @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
| 1966-08-24 | MIN @ TEX Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 |
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.