Junior Walsh
Pittsburgh Pirates 1946; Pittsburgh Pirates 1948–1951
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -144.7 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
| 1948 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -131.7 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.3 |
| 1949 | 9 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .077 | .000 | .077 | -92.9 | -78.0 | .057 | -0.1 |
| 1950 | 38 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .444 | .333 | .778 | 123.2 | 102.9 | .389 | 0.2 |
| 1951 | 36 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .333 | .143 | .476 | 43.8 | 29.3 | .267 | -1.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 10.3 | 5.23 | 1.839 | 1.74 | 5.13 | 145.5 | 67.4 | -0.2 |
| 1948 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4.3 | 10.38 | 2.077 | 0.00 | 9.03 | 222.1 | 39.1 | -0.3 |
| 1949 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 40 | 24 | 16 | 24 | 5 | 42.7 | 5.06 | 1.313 | 5.06 | 4.05 | 97.5 | 82.1 | -0.1 |
| 1950 | 38 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 56 | 35 | 34 | 33 | 6 | 62.3 | 5.05 | 1.444 | 4.76 | 4.33 | 99.6 | 86.1 | 0.2 |
| 1951 | 36 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 92 | 56 | 46 | 32 | 9 | 73.3 | 6.87 | 1.882 | 3.93 | 5.03 | 120.3 | 60.8 | -1.5 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950-05-30 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1951-08-07 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1946-04-16 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946-04-17 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946-04-18 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950-05-26 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 5.2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| 1949-09-06 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 9.2 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 1949-09-01 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 2.1 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 |
| 1950-06-13 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 3.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1949-08-25 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 7.0 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 |
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.