Gene Woodling

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 195 lb

BornAugust 16, 1922 · Akron, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 23, 1943

Final gameSeptember 16, 1962

Seasons17 (1943–1962)

Cleveland Indians 1943; Cleveland Indians 1946; Pittsburgh Pirates 1947; New York Yankees 1949–1954; Baltimore Orioles 1955; Cleveland Indians 1955–1957; Baltimore Orioles 1958–1960; Washington Senators 1961; New York Mets 1962; Washington Senators 1962

Percentile snapshot

1960 season — qualified batters

140

38.3

529

22.2

435

3.7

123

19.8

28.4

39.5

RBI

43.2

92.6

81.5

34.6

85.2

.283

OBP

.401

95.1

SLG

.414

49.4

OPS

.815

75.3

wRC+

129.2

81.5

OPS+

124.5

wOBA

.377

81.5

sWAR

3.0

of 82 qualified 1960 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

126.8

87.7

OPS+

124.5

85.1

sWAR

36.0

97.4

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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
1943	8	27	25	5	8	2	1	1	5	1	5	0	0	.320	.346	.600	.946	176.8	181.9	.431	0.3
1946	61	155	133	8	25	1	4	0	9	16	13	1	2	.188	.280	.256	.536	53.3	54.6	.265	-0.3
1947	22	87	79	7	21	2	2	0	10	7	5	0	0	.266	.326	.342	.667	72.7	74.4	.313	0.0
1949	112	356	296	60	80	13	7	5	44	52	21	2	2	.270	.381	.412	.793	113.4	111.8	.381	1.3
1950	122	523	449	81	127	20	10	6	60	70	31	5	3	.283	.381	.412	.793	109.0	107.4	.373	1.8
1951	120	485	420	65	118	15	8	15	71	62	37	0	4	.281	.373	.462	.835	129.9	130.8	.387	2.9
1952	122	471	408	58	126	19	6	12	63	59	31	1	4	.309	.397	.473	.870	152.0	150.8	.404	3.9
1953	125	482	395	64	121	26	4	10	58	82	29	2	7	.306	.429	.468	.898	153.7	148.7	.418	4.2
1954	97	360	304	33	76	12	5	3	40	53	35	3	4	.250	.358	.352	.710	105.5	101.3	.341	1.0
1955	126	476	404	55	104	21	3	8	53	60	33	3	5	.257	.354	.384	.737	100.5	100.8	.344	0.9
1956	100	399	317	56	83	17	0	8	38	69	29	2	6	.262	.395	.391	.787	115.3	108.4	.374	1.6
1957	133	506	430	74	138	25	2	19	78	64	35	0	5	.321	.408	.521	.929	159.6	154.6	.419	4.7
1958	133	485	413	57	114	16	1	15	65	66	49	4	2	.276	.378	.429	.806	133.0	128.9	.369	2.9
1959	140	524	440	63	132	22	2	14	77	78	35	1	1	.300	.402	.455	.856	142.2	139.3	.389	3.8
1960	140	529	435	68	123	18	3	11	62	84	40	3	0	.283	.401	.414	.815	129.2	124.5	.377	3.0
1961	110	396	342	39	107	16	4	10	57	50	24	1	0	.313	.403	.471	.873	138.1	134.9	.394	2.7
1962	125	352	297	37	82	12	1	10	40	48	27	1	0	.276	.379	.424	.803	114.3	114.0	.361	1.4

Career totals

1,796

421st-most career G

6,613

5,587

830

1,585

257

493rd-most career 3B

147

RBI

830

482nd-most career RBI

921

171st-most career BB

479

.2837

OBP

.3859

144th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4312

OPS

.8171

374th-highest career OPS

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
1951-08-01	DET @ NYY Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	2	0	10
1957-06-23	CLE @ MIN Gameday	4	3	4	2	0	1	4	1	9
1961-05-09	TEX @ DET Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	1	2	0	9
1962-05-09	CWS @ TEX Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	2	0	9
1958-08-11	BAL @ NYY Gameday	5	2	5	0	0	1	3	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1943-04-21	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-22	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-24	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-25	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1943-04-25	DET @ CLE 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.

Honors

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.