Gus Zernial

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 210 lb

BornJune 27, 1923 · Beaumont, TX, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1949

Final gameSeptember 25, 1959

Seasons11 (1949–1959)

Chicago White Sox 1949–1951; Philadelphia Athletics 1951–1954; Kansas City Athletics 1955–1957; Detroit Tigers 1958–1959

Percentile snapshot

1957 season — qualified batters

131

16.2

478

437

6.8

16.2

103

2.7

4.1

82.4

RBI

59.5

21.6

14.9

6.8

68.9

.236

5.4

OBP

.290

2.7

SLG

.471

OPS

.761

wRC+

99.5

41.9

OPS+

102.2

48.6

wOBA

.339

40.5

sWAR

1.0

18.9

of 75 qualified 1957 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

111.1

64.1

OPS+

114.4

70.9

sWAR

16.0

91.5

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
1949	73	213	198	29	63	17	2	5	38	15	26	0	1	.318	.366	.500	.866	125.8	130.6	.400	1.2
1950	143	584	543	75	152	16	4	29	93	38	110	0	2	.280	.330	.484	.815	103.6	109.5	.367	1.5
1951	143	638	571	92	153	30	5	33	129	63	101	2	2	.268	.345	.511	.856	123.2	126.9	.387	3.2
1952	145	621	549	76	144	15	1	29	100	70	87	5	1	.262	.347	.452	.799	113.9	114.3	.369	2.4
1953	147	617	556	85	158	21	3	42	108	57	79	4	0	.284	.355	.559	.914	135.4	137.3	.407	4.0
1954	97	373	336	42	84	8	2	14	62	30	60	0	0	.250	.316	.411	.727	91.8	95.0	.335	0.4
1955	120	454	413	62	105	9	3	30	84	30	90	1	0	.254	.304	.508	.812	106.1	112.3	.361	1.3
1956	109	311	272	36	61	12	0	16	44	33	66	2	0	.224	.315	.445	.760	93.3	96.7	.343	0.4
1957	131	478	437	56	103	20	1	27	69	34	84	1	1	.236	.290	.471	.761	99.5	102.2	.339	1.0
1958	66	131	124	8	40	7	1	5	23	6	25	0	0	.323	.351	.516	.867	131.4	129.3	.384	0.8
1959	60	141	132	11	30	4	0	7	26	7	27	0	0	.227	.262	.417	.679	74.2	79.8	.300	-0.3

Career totals

1,234

4,561

4,131

572

1,093

159

237

290th-most career HR

RBI

776

383

755

.2646

OBP

.3291

SLG

.4858

188th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8149

387th-highest career OPS

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	BB	TB
1950-10-01	BAL @ CWS Gameday	4	3	3	0	3	5	0	12
1952-06-22	ATH @ DET Gameday	6	3	5	0	2	4	0	11
1953-06-11	ATH @ CWS Gameday	5	3	4	1	2	4	0	11
1951-06-24	BAL @ ATH Gameday	3	3	3	1	2	7	1	10
1955-08-05	ATH @ BOS Gameday	4	3	3	1	2	3	0	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1949-04-19	CWS @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1949-04-20	CWS @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1949-04-21	CWS @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1949-04-22	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1949-04-23	BAL @ CWS 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.