Karl Olson
Boston Red Sox 1951; Boston Red Sox 1953–1955; Washington Senators 1956; Detroit Tigers 1957; Washington Senators 1957
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | 5 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .100 | .100 | .100 | .200 | -75.5 | -48.0 | .093 | -0.2 |
| 1953 | 25 | 58 | 57 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .123 | .138 | .211 | .348 | -30.8 | -9.0 | .158 | -0.8 |
| 1954 | 101 | 245 | 227 | 25 | 59 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 12 | 23 | 2 | 1 | .260 | .293 | .344 | .637 | 59.0 | 67.5 | .295 | -0.6 |
| 1955 | 26 | 50 | 48 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .265 | .354 | .619 | 52.0 | 60.3 | .284 | -0.2 |
| 1956 | 106 | 353 | 313 | 34 | 77 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 22 | 28 | 41 | 1 | 1 | .246 | .305 | .329 | .635 | 65.5 | 68.0 | .297 | -0.3 |
| 1957 | 16 | 28 | 26 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .154 | .185 | .154 | .339 | -20.1 | -6.6 | .165 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956-04-17 | NYY @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1955-09-25 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1956-06-21 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1954-06-07 | DET @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 1956-08-28 | CWS @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
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.