Paul Waner

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 153 lb

BornApril 16, 1903 · Harrah, OK, USA

MLB debutApril 13, 1926

Final gameApril 26, 1945

Seasons20 (1926–1945)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1926–1940; Brooklyn Dodgers 1941; Boston Braves 1941–1942; Brooklyn Dodgers 1943–1944; New York Yankees 1944–1945

Percentile snapshot

1939 season — qualified batters

125

27.6

506

461

29.9

26.4

151

47.1

67.8

48.3

19.5

RBI

20.7

25.3

75.9

48.3

.328

87.4

OBP

.375

50.6

SLG

.438

OPS

.813

51.7

wRC+

119.6

55.2

OPS+

118.9

57.5

wOBA

.374

47.1

sWAR

2.3

47.1

of 88 qualified 1939 batters (min 474 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

136.7

94.9

OPS+

133.6

sWAR

71.8

99.7

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1926	144	618	536	101	180	35	22	8	79	66	19	11	.336	.413	.528	.941	148.9	147.7	.429	5.2
1927	155	709	623	114	237	42	18	9	131	60	14	5	.380	.437	.549	.986	158.5	156.2	.450	6.7
1928	152	697	602	142	223	50	19	6	86	77	16	6	.370	.446	.547	.992	158.5	154.8	.451	6.6
1929	151	703	596	131	200	43	15	15	100	89	24	15	.336	.424	.534	.958	134.8	134.0	.430	4.7
1930	145	665	589	117	217	32	18	8	77	57	18	18	.368	.428	.525	.952	129.5	128.6	.422	4.1
1931	150	646	559	88	180	35	10	6	70	73	21	6	.322	.404	.453	.857	134.9	130.9	.396	4.1
1932	154	697	630	107	215	62	10	8	82	56	24	13	.341	.397	.510	.906	145.4	143.7	.403	5.5
1933	154	694	618	101	191	38	16	7	70	60	20	3	.309	.372	.456	.828	138.5	135.7	.381	4.7
1934	146	677	599	122	217	32	16	14	90	68	24	8	.362	.429	.539	.968	158.7	155.9	.435	6.4
1935	139	623	549	98	176	29	12	11	78	61	22	2	.321	.392	.477	.869	131.9	130.2	.393	3.8
1936	148	666	585	107	218	53	9	5	94	74	29	7	.373	.446	.520	.965	161.8	158.3	.442	6.5
1937	154	690	619	94	219	30	9	2	74	63	34	4	.354	.413	.441	.855	136.6	133.4	.396	4.6
1938	148	680	625	77	175	31	6	6	69	47	28	2	.280	.331	.378	.709	93.6	94.5	.329	0.9
1939	125	506	461	62	151	30	6	3	45	35	18	0	.328	.375	.438	.813	119.6	118.9	.374	2.3
1940	89	261	238	32	69	16	1	1	32	23	14	0	.290	.352	.378	.731	102.9	101.7	.341	0.6
1941	106	385	329	45	88	10	2	2	50	55	14	1	.267	.372	.328	.701	106.8	100.2	.343	1.1
1942	114	404	333	43	86	17	1	1	39	62	20	2	.258	.376	.324	.701	114.5	106.0	.348	1.5
1943	82	267	225	29	70	16	0	1	26	35	9	0	.311	.406	.396	.802	138.2	130.5	.389	1.7
1944	92	173	143	17	40	4	1	0	17	29	8	1	.280	.401	.322	.723	115.3	104.7	.358	0.7
1945	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	—	1.000	—	—	405.0	—	.767	0.0

Career totals

2,549

50th-most career G

10,762

46th-most career PA

9,459

47th-most career AB

1,627

41st-most career R

3,152

20th-most career H

605

15th-most career 2B

191

10th-most career 3B

113

RBI

1,309

110th-most career RBI

1,091

88th-most career BB

376

104

.3332

33rd-highest career batting average

OBP

.4043

56th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4734

275th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8777

113th-highest career OPS

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	TB
1932-06-25	CIN @ PIT Gameday	5	4	5	1	0	2	4	12
1926-08-26	SF @ PIT Gameday	6	1	6	2	1	0	2	10
1935-09-11	SF @ PIT Gameday	5	4	4	0	1	1	6	9
1933-05-18	PHI @ PIT Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	1	2	9
1926-06-25	CIN @ PIT Gameday	5	3	5	1	1	0	1	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1926-04-13	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-14	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-15	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-16	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-17	PIT @ CIN 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

Hall of Fame, 1952 (BBWAA)

1× Most Valuable Player4× 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.