George Freese
Detroit Tigers 1953; Pittsburgh Pirates 1955; Chicago Cubs 1961
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -133.4 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1955 | 51 | 202 | 179 | 17 | 46 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 22 | 17 | 18 | 1 | 1 | .257 | .327 | .374 | .701 | 86.2 | 86.2 | .316 | 0.4 |
| 1961 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .375 | .286 | .661 | 85.9 | 76.8 | .319 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955-04-30 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 1955-05-26 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1955-05-22 | SF @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 1955-05-01 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 1955-05-31 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955-05-01 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955-05-01 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955-05-03 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955-05-07 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955-05-10 | PIT @ ATL 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.