MLB / Players

Oris Hockett

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 182 lb

BornSeptember 29, 1909 · Bluffton, IN, USA

MLB debutSeptember 4, 1938

Final gameSeptember 7, 1945

Seasons7 (1938–1945)

Brooklyn Dodgers 1938–1939; Cleveland Indians 1941–1944; Chicago White Sox 1945

Percentile snapshot

1944 season — qualified batters

124

28.2

497

25.5

457

26.4

25.5

132

43.6

72.7

51.8

15.5

RBI

44.5

58.2

77.3

5.5

.289

58.2

OBP

.339

42.7

SLG

.381

44.5

OPS

.720

43.6

wRC+

108.1

OPS+

109.1

51.8

wOBA

.341

44.5

sWAR

2.0

59.1

of 111 qualified 1944 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

7.2

83.1

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
1938	21	74	70	8	23	5	1	1	8	4	9	0	0	.329	.365	.471	.836	125.9	126.1	.380	0.5
1939	9	14	13	3	3	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	.231	.286	.231	.516	35.5	38.8	.252	-0.1
1941	2	8	6	0	2	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	.333	.500	.333	.833	149.1	130.6	.420	0.1
1942	148	654	601	85	150	22	7	7	48	45	45	12	12	.250	.305	.344	.650	84.8	87.7	.309	0.2
1943	141	657	601	70	166	33	4	2	51	45	45	13	18	.276	.331	.354	.685	104.2	105.7	.329	2.3
1944	124	497	457	47	132	29	5	1	50	35	27	8	9	.289	.339	.381	.720	108.1	109.1	.341	2.0
1945	106	449	417	46	122	23	4	2	55	27	30	10	9	.293	.340	.381	.721	109.8	111.4	.345	2.2

Career totals

551

2,353

2,165

259

598

112

RBI

214

159

157

.2762

OBP

.3286

SLG

.3654

OPS

.6940

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
1945-08-27	CWS @ BAL Gameday	5	1	3	1	0	1	4	0	7
1942-06-19	NYY @ CLE Gameday	2	2	2	0	1	1	2	2	7
1945-08-08	MIN @ CWS Gameday	5	1	5	1	0	0	1	0	6
1944-05-19	CLE @ ATH Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	0	2	0	6
1938-09-09	LAD @ SF Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	0	1	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1938-04-19	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-20	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-21	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-22	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-23	SF @ LAD 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.