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Ossie Vitt

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 150 lb

BornJanuary 4, 1890 · San Francisco, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 11, 1912

Final gameOctober 1, 1921

Seasons10 (1912–1921)

Detroit Tigers 1912–1918; Boston Red Sox 1919–1921

Percentile snapshot

1919 season — qualified batters

133

70.2

561

75.8

469

58.1

69.4

114

41.1

29.8

23.4

RBI

49.2

78.2

70.2

41.1

.243

19.4

OBP

.309

18.5

SLG

.277

7.3

OPS

.587

10.5

wRC+

70.8

8.9

OPS+

70.1

11.3

wOBA

.290

8.9

sWAR

0.1

11.3

of 125 qualified 1919 batters (min 427 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

80.8

11.2

OPS+

79.6

sWAR

6.5

82.1

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1912	76	298	273	39	67	4	4	0	19	18	12	17	8	.245	.297	.289	.586	66.0	65.9	.289	-0.3
1913	99	415	359	45	86	11	3	2	33	31	18	5	0	.240	.304	.304	.607	76.3	77.5	.301	0.4
1914	66	246	195	35	49	7	0	0	8	31	8	10	8	.251	.354	.287	.641	96.0	89.7	.329	0.8
1915	152	686	560	116	140	18	13	1	48	80	22	26	18	.250	.348	.334	.682	102.0	99.7	.343	2.7
1916	153	705	597	88	135	17	12	0	42	75	28	18	0	.226	.314	.295	.608	80.8	80.2	.308	1.0
1917	140	600	512	65	130	13	6	0	47	56	15	18	0	.254	.329	.303	.631	92.8	91.3	.318	1.7
1918	81	319	267	29	64	5	2	0	17	32	6	5	0	.240	.321	.273	.594	83.6	81.5	.305	0.6
1919	133	561	469	64	114	10	3	0	40	44	11	9	0	.243	.309	.277	.587	70.8	70.1	.290	0.1
1920	87	366	296	50	65	10	4	1	28	43	10	5	4	.220	.321	.291	.611	70.9	66.2	.302	0.0
1921	78	290	232	29	44	11	1	0	13	45	13	1	2	.190	.321	.246	.567	57.0	48.4	.289	-0.5

Career totals

1,065

4,486

3,760

560

894

106

RBI

295

455

143

114

.2378

OBP

.3220

SLG

.2947

OPS

.6167

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	RBI	TB
1915-08-28	NYY @ DET Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	2	7
1921-06-10	BAL @ BOS Gameday	4	2	4	2	0	0	6
1918-06-18	DET @ BAL Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	1	6
1915-06-30	CLE @ DET Gameday	5	2	2	0	2	1	6
1917-07-30	DET @ MIN Gameday	6	4	5	0	0	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1912-04-11	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-12	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-13	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-14	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1912-04-15	DET @ CWS 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.