Gene Stephens
Boston Red Sox 1952–1953; Boston Red Sox 1955–1959; Baltimore Orioles 1960; Boston Red Sox 1960; Baltimore Orioles 1961; Kansas City Athletics 1961–1962; Chicago White Sox 1963–1964
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 21 | 57 | 53 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 2 | .226 | .268 | .321 | .589 | 49.2 | 58.6 | .275 | -0.2 |
| 1953 | 78 | 254 | 221 | 30 | 45 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 18 | 29 | 56 | 3 | 3 | .204 | .302 | .290 | .591 | 56.0 | 56.8 | .287 | -0.9 |
| 1955 | 109 | 183 | 157 | 25 | 46 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 20 | 34 | 0 | 0 | .293 | .374 | .459 | .832 | 118.0 | 116.0 | .384 | 0.7 |
| 1956 | 104 | 75 | 63 | 22 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 1 | .270 | .387 | .349 | .736 | 95.5 | 87.5 | .357 | -0.1 |
| 1957 | 120 | 204 | 173 | 25 | 46 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 26 | 26 | 20 | 0 | 2 | .266 | .353 | .399 | .752 | 102.0 | 100.5 | .346 | 0.3 |
| 1958 | 134 | 295 | 270 | 38 | 59 | 10 | 1 | 9 | 25 | 22 | 46 | 1 | 2 | .219 | .279 | .363 | .642 | 66.5 | 70.5 | .291 | -0.7 |
| 1959 | 92 | 310 | 270 | 34 | 75 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 39 | 29 | 33 | 5 | 2 | .278 | .353 | .367 | .720 | 97.2 | 93.8 | .335 | 0.6 |
| 1960 | 119 | 346 | 302 | 47 | 71 | 15 | 0 | 7 | 22 | 39 | 47 | 9 | 3 | .235 | .322 | .354 | .676 | 85.6 | 83.6 | .316 | 0.0 |
| 1961 | 94 | 275 | 241 | 26 | 49 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 28 | 30 | 34 | 4 | 3 | .203 | .297 | .295 | .591 | 60.6 | 57.9 | .282 | -0.7 |
| 1962 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .200 | .000 | .200 | -32.0 | -41.9 | .148 | -0.1 |
| 1963 | 6 | 20 | 18 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .389 | .421 | .556 | .977 | 183.8 | 176.6 | .434 | 0.2 |
| 1964 | 82 | 171 | 141 | 21 | 33 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 17 | 21 | 28 | 1 | 2 | .234 | .335 | .355 | .690 | 96.3 | 97.1 | .313 | 0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957-06-23 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1955-05-12 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1958-07-30 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1961-07-02 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1959-09-01 | MIN @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952-06-17 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1952-07-26 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1956-07-24 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1956-09-18 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1956-09-19 | BOS @ ATH 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.