MLB / Players

Max West

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 182 lb

BornNovember 28, 1916 · Dexter, MO, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1938

Final gameOctober 1, 1948

Seasons7 (1938–1948)

Boston Bees 1938–1940; Boston Braves 1941–1942; Boston Braves 1946; Cincinnati Reds 1946; Pittsburgh Pirates 1948

Percentile snapshot

1942 season — qualified batters

134

58.2

525

51.4

452

47.3

51.4

115

47.9

57.5

92.5

RBI

68.5

80.8

10.3

47.9

39.7

.254

26.7

OBP

.354

60.3

SLG

.409

69.2

OPS

.764

64.4

wRC+

125.8

76.7

OPS+

123.3

72.6

wOBA

.364

63.7

sWAR

2.3

65.1

of 147 qualified 1942 batters (min 465 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

113.2

68.1

OPS+

112.6

67.5

sWAR

11.1

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
1938	123	459	418	47	98	16	5	10	63	38	38	5	.234	.300	.368	.668	90.3	92.4	.310	0.3
1939	130	513	449	67	128	26	6	19	82	51	55	1	.285	.364	.497	.861	135.0	136.4	.390	3.5
1940	139	590	524	72	137	27	5	7	72	65	54	2	.261	.344	.372	.716	103.1	101.2	.336	1.7
1941	138	560	484	63	134	28	4	12	68	72	68	5	.277	.373	.426	.798	129.3	127.3	.376	3.2
1942	134	525	452	54	115	22	0	16	56	68	59	4	.254	.354	.409	.764	125.8	123.3	.364	2.3
1946	73	236	203	16	43	13	0	5	18	32	37	1	.212	.322	.350	.672	94.9	94.0	.326	0.3
1948	87	174	146	19	26	4	0	8	21	27	29	1	.178	.310	.370	.680	81.7	80.9	.320	-0.2

Career totals

824

3,057

2,676

338

681

136

RBI

380

353

340

.2545

OBP

.3442

SLG

.4066

OPS

.7508

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1942-09-25	ATL @ LAD Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	4	0	9
1939-08-06	ATL @ CHC Gameday	5	2	3	2	1	2	1	8
1939-06-05	STL @ ATL Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	4	0	8
1942-05-30	PHI @ ATL Gameday	3	2	2	0	2	4	1	8
1938-05-21	STL @ ATL Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	3	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1938-04-19	ATL @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-20	ATL @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-21	ATL @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-23	PHI @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-24	PHI @ ATL 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

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.