Murray Watkins
Philadelphia Stars 1941; Newark Eagles 1942–1946; Philadelphia Stars 1946–1948
Percentile snapshot
1948 season — qualified batters
of 94 qualified 1948 batters (min 182 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -86.4 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1942 | 7 | 27 | 24 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .222 | .125 | .347 | 19.1 | 0.1 | .191 | -0.2 |
| 1943 | 33 | 156 | 138 | 22 | 32 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 13 | 0 | 6 | 0 | .232 | .298 | .239 | .537 | 55.4 | 44.2 | .272 | -0.3 |
| 1944 | 34 | 155 | 131 | 20 | 26 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 22 | 1 | 2 | 0 | .198 | .314 | .229 | .543 | 61.0 | 46.9 | .281 | -0.2 |
| 1945 | 23 | 109 | 96 | 11 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 0 | .198 | .280 | .208 | .489 | 48.7 | 38.0 | .251 | -0.3 |
| 1946 | 53 | 235 | 203 | 36 | 54 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 25 | 1 | 3 | 0 | .266 | .352 | .296 | .648 | 88.4 | 81.7 | .324 | 0.5 |
| 1947 | 45 | 190 | 178 | 31 | 46 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 0 | .258 | .298 | .331 | .629 | 71.9 | 72.1 | .299 | 0.0 |
| 1948 | 47 | 209 | 196 | 26 | 47 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 9 | 0 | 6 | 0 | .240 | .273 | .270 | .544 | 57.7 | 57.5 | .262 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948-07-11 | PHS @ NYC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1944-06-25 | PHS @ NE Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1947-06-21 | NBY @ PHS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1948-08-08 | PHS @ NYC Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1948-05-10 | PHS @ BEG Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941-05-10 | NYC @ PHS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1941-05-11 | PHS @ NBY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1941-05-11 | PHS @ NBY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1941-05-12 | PHS @ NBY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1941-05-17 | BEG @ PHS 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.