Lloyd Waner

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 150 lb

BornMarch 16, 1906 · Harrah, OK, USA

MLB debutApril 12, 1927

Final gameSeptember 16, 1945

Seasons18 (1927–1945)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1927–1940; Boston Braves 1941; Cincinnati Reds 1941; Pittsburgh Pirates 1941; Philadelphia Phillies 1942; Brooklyn Dodgers 1944; Pittsburgh Pirates 1944–1945

Percentile snapshot

1938 season — qualified batters

147

658

84.3

619

91.7

60.3

194

91.7

48.8

63.6

34.7

RBI

20.7

80.2

55.4

.313

77.7

OBP

.343

34.7

SLG

.401

42.1

OPS

.744

wRC+

102.3

49.6

OPS+

103.9

50.4

wOBA

.342

33.9

sWAR

2.6

70.2

of 122 qualified 1938 batters (min 471 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

99.0

39.8

OPS+

99.1

39.8

sWAR

27.8

96.1

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1927	150	683	629	133	223	17	6	2	27	37	23	14	.355	.396	.410	.806	112.8	110.8	.377	3.4
1928	152	720	659	121	221	22	14	5	61	40	13	8	.335	.377	.434	.811	109.0	108.7	.373	3.4
1929	151	726	662	134	234	28	20	5	74	37	20	6	.353	.395	.479	.874	114.1	113.9	.395	3.8
1930	68	274	260	32	94	8	3	1	36	5	5	3	.362	.376	.427	.803	93.4	93.6	.359	0.7
1931	154	726	681	90	214	25	13	4	57	39	16	7	.314	.352	.407	.759	103.9	104.4	.349	3.0
1932	134	599	565	90	188	27	11	2	38	31	11	6	.333	.367	.430	.798	116.0	115.4	.359	3.4
1933	121	526	500	59	138	14	5	0	26	22	8	3	.276	.307	.324	.631	77.5	80.3	.295	0.0
1934	140	650	611	95	173	27	6	1	48	38	12	6	.283	.326	.352	.678	79.6	80.4	.313	0.7
1935	122	562	537	83	166	22	14	0	46	22	10	1	.309	.336	.402	.739	94.3	95.9	.335	1.6
1936	106	446	414	67	133	13	8	1	31	31	5	1	.321	.369	.399	.767	106.8	105.9	.357	2.0
1937	129	582	537	80	177	23	4	1	45	34	12	3	.330	.370	.393	.762	109.0	108.3	.354	2.8
1938	147	658	619	79	194	25	7	5	57	28	11	5	.313	.343	.401	.744	102.3	103.9	.342	2.6
1939	112	410	379	49	108	15	3	0	24	17	13	0	.285	.321	.340	.661	75.9	78.6	.308	0.3
1940	72	172	166	30	43	3	0	0	3	5	5	2	.259	.285	.277	.562	50.8	55.7	.263	-0.4
1941	77	234	219	26	64	5	1	0	11	12	0	1	.292	.329	.324	.653	84.5	86.0	.310	0.2
1942	101	305	287	23	75	7	3	0	10	16	6	1	.261	.300	.307	.607	75.5	79.6	.291	0.3
1944	34	33	28	5	9	0	0	0	3	5	0	0	.321	.424	.321	.746	121.1	109.7	.369	0.2
1945	23	20	19	5	5	0	0	0	1	1	3	0	.263	.300	.263	.563	51.3	54.6	.274	-0.1

Career totals

1,993

261st-most career G

8,326

228th-most career PA

7,772

180th-most career AB

1,201

185th-most career R

2,459

114th-most career H

281

118

103rd-most career 3B

RBI

598

420

173

.3164

78th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3535

SLG

.3933

OPS

.7468

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
1938-05-04	LAD @ PIT Gameday	4	3	4	0	2	1	5	0	11
1929-06-15	SF @ PIT Gameday	8	2	6	1	1	0	2	1	9
1928-09-20	PIT @ PHI Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	3	0	8
1937-06-10	PIT @ PHI Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	1	1	7
1931-05-03	PIT @ CIN Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	0	3	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1927-04-12	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-14	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-15	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-16	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-17	PIT @ CHC 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

Hall of Fame, 1967 (Veterans)

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.