Paul Schaal
Los Angeles Angels 1964; California Angels 1965–1968; Kansas City Royals 1969–1973; California Angels 1974; Kansas City Royals 1974
Percentile snapshot
1972 season — qualified batters
of 112 qualified 1972 batters (min 477 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 17 | 34 | 32 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | .125 | .176 | .125 | .301 | -17.5 | -10.9 | .150 | -0.3 |
| 1965 | 155 | 556 | 483 | 48 | 108 | 12 | 2 | 9 | 45 | 61 | 88 | 6 | 3 | .224 | .310 | .313 | .622 | 81.9 | 82.4 | .289 | 0.9 |
| 1966 | 138 | 461 | 386 | 59 | 94 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 24 | 68 | 56 | 6 | 4 | .244 | .362 | .365 | .728 | 122.3 | 113.1 | .342 | 3.1 |
| 1967 | 99 | 322 | 272 | 31 | 51 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 20 | 38 | 39 | 2 | 2 | .188 | .286 | .294 | .580 | 74.7 | 74.5 | .275 | 0.3 |
| 1968 | 60 | 253 | 219 | 22 | 46 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 29 | 25 | 5 | 7 | .210 | .307 | .279 | .585 | 87.3 | 81.3 | .288 | 0.6 |
| 1969 | 61 | 237 | 205 | 22 | 54 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 25 | 27 | 2 | 1 | .263 | .346 | .307 | .653 | 87.1 | 84.0 | .314 | 0.5 |
| 1970 | 124 | 427 | 380 | 50 | 102 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 35 | 43 | 39 | 7 | 4 | .268 | .343 | .355 | .698 | 97.0 | 93.5 | .328 | 1.5 |
| 1971 | 161 | 659 | 548 | 80 | 150 | 31 | 6 | 11 | 63 | 103 | 51 | 7 | 5 | .274 | .387 | .412 | .799 | 136.5 | 129.2 | .375 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 127 | 503 | 435 | 47 | 99 | 19 | 3 | 6 | 41 | 61 | 59 | 1 | 3 | .228 | .323 | .326 | .650 | 97.7 | 92.1 | .315 | 1.9 |
| 1973 | 121 | 471 | 396 | 61 | 114 | 14 | 3 | 8 | 42 | 63 | 45 | 5 | 6 | .288 | .389 | .399 | .788 | 125.9 | 118.0 | .372 | 3.3 |
| 1974 | 65 | 226 | 199 | 13 | 47 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 24 | 23 | 32 | 2 | 2 | .236 | .316 | .317 | .632 | 87.9 | 85.9 | .302 | 0.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965-05-02 | LAA @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1973-07-03 | MIN @ KC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1971-08-15 | KC @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 1971-05-16 | ATH @ KC Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1966-09-18 | LAA @ BOS Gameday | 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
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.