Ken Silvestri
Chicago White Sox 1939–1940; New York Yankees 1941; New York Yankees 1946–1947; Philadelphia Phillies 1949–1951
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 22 | 83 | 75 | 6 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 13 | 0 | 1 | .173 | .244 | .293 | .537 | 34.9 | 37.2 | .252 | -0.3 |
| 1940 | 28 | 28 | 24 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .357 | .583 | .940 | 135.8 | 140.5 | .408 | 0.2 |
| 1941 | 17 | 47 | 40 | 6 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .362 | .450 | .812 | 117.5 | 117.5 | .374 | 0.4 |
| 1946 | 13 | 24 | 21 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .375 | .333 | .708 | 104.4 | 99.1 | .344 | 0.2 |
| 1947 | 3 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .333 | .200 | .533 | 61.7 | 52.3 | .283 | 0.0 |
| 1949 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .333 | 37.4 | -2.9 | .249 | 0.0 |
| 1950 | 11 | 26 | 20 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .400 | .350 | .750 | 111.5 | 102.0 | .360 | 0.2 |
| 1951 | 4 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .417 | .222 | .639 | 100.8 | 79.6 | .338 | 0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941-09-24 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1941-07-01 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| 1939-05-04 | MIN @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1940-06-05 | CWS @ NYY Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1940-09-12 | ATH @ CWS Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939-04-18 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-04-20 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-04-22 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-04-23 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1939-04-24 | CWS @ CLE 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.