Hoot Evers

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 180 lb

BornFebruary 8, 1921 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutSeptember 16, 1941

Final gameSeptember 30, 1956

Seasons12 (1941–1956)

Detroit Tigers 1941; Detroit Tigers 1946–1951; Boston Red Sox 1952; Detroit Tigers 1952; Boston Red Sox 1953–1954; Detroit Tigers 1954; New York Giants 1954; Baltimore Orioles 1955; Cleveland Indians 1955; Baltimore Orioles 1956; Cleveland Indians 1956

Percentile snapshot

1950 season — qualified batters

143

48.2

610

51.8

526

44.6

100

73.5

170

74.7

90.4

95.2

63.9

RBI

103

78.3

65.1

54.2

61.4

.323

90.4

OBP

.408

81.9

SLG

.551

89.2

OPS

.959

91.6

wRC+

140.4

84.3

OPS+

141.9

90.4

wOBA

.433

95.2

sWAR

4.4

77.1

of 84 qualified 1950 batters (min 486 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

106.8

55.3

OPS+

107.1

56.7

sWAR

15.1

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
1941	1	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-133.2	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1946	81	341	304	42	81	8	4	4	33	34	43	7	1	.266	.344	.359	.703	93.3	92.5	.334	1.0
1947	126	525	460	67	136	24	5	10	67	45	49	8	7	.296	.366	.435	.801	121.0	120.5	.375	3.2
1948	139	606	538	81	169	33	6	10	103	51	31	3	4	.314	.378	.454	.831	118.0	119.1	.388	3.5
1949	132	508	432	68	131	21	6	7	72	70	38	6	7	.303	.403	.428	.831	123.7	121.2	.398	2.8
1950	143	610	526	100	170	35	11	21	103	71	40	5	9	.323	.408	.551	.959	140.4	141.9	.433	4.4
1951	116	440	393	47	88	15	2	11	46	40	47	5	3	.224	.297	.356	.653	72.5	75.9	.307	-0.3
1952	107	442	402	53	106	17	4	14	59	29	55	5	2	.264	.320	.430	.750	97.6	101.4	.345	0.8
1953	99	330	300	39	72	10	1	11	31	23	41	2	1	.240	.301	.390	.691	76.5	81.3	.317	-0.2
1954	48	85	79	7	12	4	0	1	8	5	16	1	0	.152	.212	.241	.452	11.5	23.5	.216	-0.8
1955	99	280	251	31	63	17	2	8	39	22	40	2	2	.251	.309	.430	.739	99.3	101.6	.339	0.6
1956	51	139	112	21	27	3	0	1	4	25	18	1	0	.241	.380	.295	.674	99.2	85.9	.338	0.3

Career totals

1,142

4,310

3,801

556

1,055

187

RBI

565

415

420

.2776

OBP

.3527

SLG

.4257

OPS

.7784

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
1950-09-07	CLE @ DET Gameday	6	3	5	1	2	1	6	0	13
1946-09-15	MIN @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	2	1	9
1949-06-09	NYY @ DET Gameday	5	3	5	1	1	0	2	0	8
1947-09-14	DET @ MIN Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	3	1	8
1949-08-21	DET @ BAL Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	0	1	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1941-04-16	DET @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-18	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-19	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-20	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-22	CWS @ DET 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

2× 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.