George Binks
Washington Senators 1944–1946; Philadelphia Athletics 1947–1948; St. Louis Browns 1948
Percentile snapshot
1945 season — qualified batters
of 112 qualified 1945 batters (min 483 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 35.6 | 46.2 | .236 | -0.1 |
| 1945 | 145 | 594 | 550 | 62 | 153 | 32 | 6 | 6 | 81 | 34 | 52 | 11 | 7 | .278 | .324 | .391 | .715 | 110.5 | 114.2 | .339 | 2.4 |
| 1946 | 65 | 141 | 134 | 13 | 26 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 16 | 1 | 0 | .194 | .229 | .216 | .445 | 16.6 | 27.8 | .214 | -1.0 |
| 1947 | 104 | 363 | 333 | 33 | 86 | 19 | 4 | 2 | 34 | 23 | 36 | 8 | 2 | .258 | .308 | .357 | .665 | 78.3 | 83.0 | .314 | -0.3 |
| 1948 | 32 | 71 | 64 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | .141 | .191 | .156 | .347 | -18.4 | -7.8 | .176 | -0.9 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945-07-07 | MIN @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1945-07-22 | CLE @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 1947-05-06 | ATH @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1945-08-20 | MIN @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 1945-08-15 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944-04-18 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1944-04-20 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1944-04-22 | MIN @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1944-04-25 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1944-04-26 | BOS @ MIN 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.