Pat Patterson

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 185 lb

BornDecember 19, 1911 · East Chicago, IN, USA

Seasons10 (1934–1947)

Cleveland Red Sox 1934; Homestead Grays 1934; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1935; Kansas City Monarchs 1936; Pittsburgh Crawfords 1937; Philadelphia Stars 1938–1939; Philadelphia Stars 1941–1942; Newark Eagles 1946–1947

Percentile snapshot

1946 season — qualified batters

7.2

219

14.4

192

14.4

35.1

18.6

29.9

61.9

25.8

RBI

17.5

18.6

72.2

47.4

.307

74.2

OBP

.376

73.2

SLG

.479

82.5

OPS

.855

84.5

wRC+

130.3

73.2

OPS+

137.9

81.4

wOBA

.402

86.6

sWAR

1.7

48.5

of 98 qualified 1946 batters (min 198 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

10.3

87.2

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
1934	22	88	81	12	27	4	1	1	16	5	0	4	.333	.372	.444	.817	123.7	128.6	.381	0.6
1935	39	177	167	34	64	13	7	3	41	8	2	1	.383	.411	.599	1.010	142.5	151.6	.446	1.6
1936	11	49	48	13	22	5	3	1	19	1	0	1	.458	.469	.750	1.219	199.0	233.2	.546	1.0
1937	10	45	39	8	11	3	0	1	8	5	0	0	.282	.364	.436	.800	105.1	105.0	.364	0.2
1938	44	183	158	33	48	13	2	7	36	20	0	3	.304	.382	.544	.926	132.4	142.0	.415	1.5
1939	40	171	161	36	56	12	3	2	29	9	0	2	.348	.382	.497	.879	125.2	131.7	.400	1.3
1941	24	96	89	8	28	2	2	0	6	6	0	0	.315	.358	.382	.740	106.6	107.5	.347	0.5
1942	37	148	134	20	33	2	2	2	20	12	2	1	.246	.306	.336	.642	83.7	82.9	.308	0.3
1946	48	219	192	49	59	15	6	2	30	21	1	4	.307	.376	.479	.855	130.3	137.9	.402	1.7
1947	45	198	178	31	59	11	2	4	21	14	0	2	.331	.383	.483	.867	130.5	136.2	.403	1.5

Career totals

320

1,374

1,247

244

407

RBI

226

101

.3264

OBP

.3770

SLG

.4908

OPS

.8678

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
1947-06-02	NE @ HOM Gameday	5	3	4	3	0	1	3	0	10
1935-08-27	TIC @ CAG Gameday	6	4	5	1	1	0	4	0	8
1938-07-09	NE @ PHS Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	1	4	0	8
1938-06-23	BEG @ PHS Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	3	0	8
1947-06-22	NBY @ NE Gameday	5	2	2	0	0	2	2	1	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1934-05-27	CRS @ BEG Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-05-27	CRS @ BEG Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-05-29	CRS @ BEG Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-05-30	CRS @ BEG Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-05-30	CRS @ BEG 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

4× 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.