George Watkins

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 175 lb

BornJune 4, 1900 · Freestone County, TX, USA

MLB debutApril 15, 1930

Final gameSeptember 27, 1936

Seasons7 (1930–1936)

St. Louis Cardinals 1930–1933; New York Giants 1934; Philadelphia Phillies 1935; Brooklyn Dodgers 1936; Philadelphia Phillies 1936

Percentile snapshot

1935 season — qualified batters

150

80.2

655

600

82.8

56.9

162

66.4

41.4

35.3

83.6

RBI

66.4

45.7

22.4

41.4

.270

22.4

OBP

.320

17.2

SLG

.413

38.8

OPS

.733

30.2

wRC+

82.8

14.7

OPS+

85.4

19.8

wOBA

.331

24.1

sWAR

0.1

9.5

of 117 qualified 1935 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

106.5

54.5

OPS+

106.0

54.5

sWAR

10.7

87.7

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1930	119	424	391	85	146	32	7	17	87	24	49	5	.373	.415	.621	1.037	142.4	144.4	.447	3.3
1931	131	541	503	93	145	30	13	13	51	31	66	15	.288	.336	.477	.813	111.9	113.9	.365	2.0
1932	127	511	458	67	143	35	3	9	63	45	46	18	.312	.384	.461	.844	126.5	123.8	.380	2.9
1933	138	585	525	66	146	24	5	5	62	39	62	11	.278	.342	.371	.713	101.8	100.0	.335	1.3
1934	105	328	296	38	73	18	3	6	33	24	34	2	.247	.316	.389	.704	91.4	91.7	.322	0.8
1935	150	655	600	80	162	25	5	17	76	40	78	3	.270	.320	.413	.733	82.8	85.4	.331	0.1
1936	124	482	434	61	110	28	6	6	48	43	47	7	.253	.328	.387	.715	88.9	89.2	.332	0.3

Career totals

894

3,526

3,207

490

925

192

RBI

420

246

382

.2884

454th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3474

SLG

.4428

OPS

.7902

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
1931-06-24	STL @ PHI Gameday	4	3	3	0	3	4	12
1935-06-30	PHI @ ATL Gameday	6	4	5	3	1	2	11
1935-06-26	CIN @ PHI Gameday	5	3	4	0	2	6	10
1934-05-01	LAD @ SF Gameday	4	3	3	0	2	3	9
1935-07-04	PHI @ LAD Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	2	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1930-04-15	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-16	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-17	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-18	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-19	PIT @ STL 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.