Grady Hatton

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 170 lb

BornOctober 7, 1922 · Beaumont, TX, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1946

Final gameOctober 1, 1960

Seasons12 (1946–1960)

Cincinnati Reds 1946–1953; Boston Red Sox 1954; Chicago White Sox 1954; Cincinnati Redlegs 1954; Boston Red Sox 1955; Baltimore Orioles 1956; Boston Red Sox 1956; St. Louis Cardinals 1956; Chicago Cubs 1960

Percentile snapshot

1952 season — qualified batters

128

9.3

506

433

1.3

6.7

34.7

RBI

30.7

37.3

.212

OBP

.319

13.3

SLG

.312

2.7

OPS

.631

2.7

wRC+

77.9

5.3

OPS+

75.5

wOBA

.303

sWAR

0.5

of 76 qualified 1952 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

98.9

39.4

OPS+

96.3

34.4

sWAR

17.5

92.4

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
1946	116	507	436	56	118	18	3	14	69	66	53	6	0	.271	.369	.422	.791	130.8	128.1	.376	3.8
1947	146	610	524	91	147	24	8	16	77	81	50	7	0	.281	.377	.448	.825	120.6	119.0	.380	3.8
1948	133	533	458	58	110	17	2	9	44	72	50	7	0	.240	.343	.345	.688	91.7	88.7	.328	1.4
1949	137	605	537	71	141	38	5	11	69	62	48	4	0	.263	.342	.413	.756	100.2	100.3	.346	2.2
1950	130	514	438	67	114	17	1	11	54	70	39	6	0	.260	.366	.379	.745	99.4	95.8	.346	1.9
1951	96	366	331	41	84	9	3	4	37	33	32	4	2	.254	.321	.335	.657	74.6	75.6	.306	0.2
1952	128	506	433	48	92	14	1	9	57	66	60	5	4	.212	.319	.312	.631	77.9	75.5	.303	0.5
1953	83	191	159	22	37	3	1	7	22	29	24	0	1	.233	.351	.396	.747	95.7	92.9	.341	0.5
1954	113	403	333	43	90	13	3	5	36	63	28	2	1	.270	.388	.372	.760	109.1	101.7	.365	1.9
1955	126	465	380	48	93	11	4	4	49	76	28	0	1	.245	.367	.326	.693	87.3	81.8	.338	1.0
1956	76	169	139	14	29	2	2	1	12	26	13	1	0	.209	.333	.273	.607	73.4	66.0	.296	0.1
1960	28	43	38	3	13	0	0	0	7	2	5	0	0	.342	.381	.342	.723	97.6	100.3	.326	0.1

Career totals

1,312

4,912

4,206

562

1,068

166

RBI

533

646

461st-most career BB

430

.2539

OBP

.3544

SLG

.3740

OPS

.7284

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
1947-08-11	PIT @ CIN Gameday	4	2	4	2	1	1	3	1	11
1946-08-15	CIN @ CHC Gameday	5	3	4	2	0	1	1	0	9
1949-05-18	ATL @ CIN Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	1	4	1	9
1950-05-04	ATL @ CIN Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	1	3	0	8
1949-07-24	CIN @ PHI Gameday	5	3	4	2	1	0	1	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1946-04-16	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-04-17	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-04-18	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-04-20	CIN @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-04-21	CIN @ PIT 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.