Gil Coan
Washington Senators 1946–1953; Baltimore Orioles 1954–1955; Chicago White Sox 1955; New York Giants 1955–1956
Percentile snapshot
1951 season — qualified batters
of 82 qualified 1951 batters (min 477 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 59 | 147 | 134 | 17 | 28 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 7 | 37 | 2 | 2 | .209 | .269 | .328 | .597 | 64.0 | 70.3 | .281 | -0.3 |
| 1947 | 11 | 47 | 42 | 5 | 21 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | .500 | .553 | .667 | 1.220 | 250.4 | 240.1 | .559 | 1.0 |
| 1948 | 138 | 565 | 513 | 56 | 119 | 13 | 9 | 7 | 60 | 41 | 78 | 23 | 9 | .232 | .298 | .333 | .631 | 64.7 | 68.7 | .301 | -1.3 |
| 1949 | 111 | 389 | 358 | 36 | 78 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 25 | 29 | 58 | 9 | 6 | .218 | .278 | .307 | .586 | 48.5 | 55.2 | .282 | -1.5 |
| 1950 | 104 | 403 | 366 | 58 | 111 | 17 | 4 | 7 | 50 | 28 | 46 | 10 | 5 | .303 | .359 | .429 | .788 | 101.6 | 103.7 | .364 | 0.9 |
| 1951 | 135 | 591 | 538 | 85 | 163 | 25 | 7 | 9 | 62 | 39 | 62 | 8 | 5 | .303 | .357 | .426 | .782 | 110.8 | 112.4 | .363 | 2.1 |
| 1952 | 107 | 365 | 332 | 50 | 68 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 20 | 32 | 35 | 9 | 4 | .205 | .277 | .319 | .596 | 63.9 | 68.4 | .283 | -0.9 |
| 1953 | 68 | 195 | 168 | 28 | 33 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 17 | 22 | 23 | 7 | 0 | .196 | .301 | .286 | .586 | 62.3 | 61.1 | .286 | -0.5 |
| 1954 | 94 | 287 | 265 | 29 | 74 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 20 | 16 | 17 | 9 | 4 | .279 | .320 | .351 | .671 | 82.5 | 86.0 | .314 | 0.2 |
| 1955 | 87 | 176 | 160 | 18 | 36 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 13 | 21 | 4 | 2 | .225 | .287 | .300 | .587 | 62.1 | 63.5 | .281 | -0.5 |
| 1956 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -127.6 | -100.0 | .000 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952-07-26 | MIN @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 9 |
| 1951-07-04 | MIN @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 9 |
| 1947-09-20 | MIN @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1948-04-25 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1949-05-01 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946-04-16 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946-04-17 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946-04-18 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946-04-19 | MIN @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946-04-20 | MIN @ NYY 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.