MLB / Players

Fred Whitfield

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 190 lb

BornJanuary 7, 1938 · Vandiver, AL, USA

MLB debutMay 27, 1962

Final gameAugust 11, 1970

Seasons9 (1962–1970)

St. Louis Cardinals 1962; Cleveland Indians 1963–1967; Cincinnati Reds 1968–1969; Montreal Expos 1970

Percentile snapshot

1966 season — qualified batters

137

11.7

538

12.8

502

24.5

121

11.7

8.5

13.8

74.5

RBI

68.1

11.7

45.7

7.4

75.5

.241

11.7

OBP

.283

4.3

SLG

.440

61.7

OPS

.723

42.6

wRC+

99.2

36.2

OPS+

105.2

45.7

wOBA

.313

31.9

sWAR

0.5

4.3

of 95 qualified 1966 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

3.8

76.3

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
1962	73	167	158	20	42	7	1	8	34	7	30	1	0	.266	.299	.475	.774	93.7	97.5	.339	0.1
1963	109	383	346	44	87	17	3	21	54	24	61	0	1	.251	.302	.500	.802	115.9	121.1	.343	1.2
1964	101	311	293	29	79	13	1	10	29	12	58	0	5	.270	.301	.423	.724	96.0	99.9	.318	0.2
1965	132	492	468	49	137	23	1	26	90	16	42	2	2	.293	.316	.513	.829	128.5	131.6	.361	2.2
1966	137	538	502	59	121	15	2	27	78	27	76	1	2	.241	.283	.440	.723	99.2	105.2	.313	0.5
1967	100	284	257	24	56	10	0	9	31	25	45	3	3	.218	.290	.362	.652	84.3	91.9	.291	-0.2
1968	87	182	171	15	44	8	0	6	32	9	29	0	3	.257	.302	.409	.712	109.4	107.0	.330	0.4
1969	74	92	74	2	11	0	0	1	8	18	27	0	0	.149	.315	.189	.504	55.9	42.0	.272	-0.3
1970	4	16	15	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	.067	.125	.067	.192	-54.7	-47.2	.105	-0.3

Career totals

817

2,465

2,284

242

578

108

RBI

356

139

371

.2531

OBP

.2982

SLG

.4426

OPS

.7408

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
1963-07-04	BOS @ CLE Gameday	6	2	4	1	2	3	11
1966-08-07	NYY @ CLE Gameday	3	2	3	0	2	4	9
1966-07-25	CLE @ TEX Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	2	9
1962-08-12	PHI @ STL Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	5	8
1965-07-25	NYY @ CLE Gameday	4	1	4	1	1	3	8

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.