Pete Reiser

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 185 lb

BornMarch 17, 1919 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutJuly 23, 1940

Final gameJuly 5, 1952

Seasons10 (1940–1952)

Brooklyn Dodgers 1940–1942; Brooklyn Dodgers 1946–1948; Boston Braves 1949–1950; Pittsburgh Pirates 1951; Cleveland Indians 1952

Percentile snapshot

1942 season — qualified batters

125

45.9

537

55.5

480

54.1

89.7

149

75.3

89.7

66.4

80.1

RBI

73.3

63.7

21.9

97.3

39.7

.310

OBP

.375

SLG

.463

OPS

.838

86.3

wRC+

145.9

OPS+

144.1

86.3

wOBA

.393

84.2

sWAR

4.9

92.5

of 147 qualified 1942 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

131.1

91.4

OPS+

129.1

89.7

sWAR

21.4

94.2

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
1940	58	241	225	34	66	11	4	3	20	15	33	2	0	.293	.338	.418	.755	102.4	103.7	.345	0.8
1941	137	601	536	117	184	39	17	14	76	46	71	4	0	.343	.406	.558	.964	168.4	167.7	.440	7.2
1942	125	537	480	89	149	33	5	10	64	48	45	20	0	.310	.375	.463	.838	145.9	144.1	.393	4.9
1946	122	482	423	75	117	21	5	11	73	55	58	34	0	.277	.361	.428	.789	125.0	123.2	.373	2.7
1947	110	462	388	68	120	23	2	5	46	68	41	14	0	.309	.415	.418	.832	125.3	119.2	.391	2.8
1948	64	159	127	17	30	8	2	1	19	29	21	4	0	.236	.382	.354	.736	106.7	98.6	.356	0.6
1949	84	258	221	32	60	8	3	8	40	33	42	3	0	.271	.369	.443	.812	124.2	123.3	.372	1.5
1950	53	98	78	12	16	2	0	1	10	18	22	1	0	.205	.367	.269	.637	87.3	75.6	.319	0.1
1951	74	167	140	22	38	9	3	2	13	27	20	4	2	.271	.389	.421	.811	117.5	112.2	.375	0.8
1952	34	48	44	7	6	1	0	3	7	4	16	1	1	.136	.208	.364	.572	52.4	62.9	.261	-0.1

Career totals

861

3,053

2,662

473

786

155

RBI

368

343

369

.2953

298th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3798

186th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4497

485th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8295

287th-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	BB	TB
1942-06-02	LAD @ PIT Gameday	5	3	5	3	0	1	3	0	11
1941-08-18	PIT @ LAD Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	1	3	0	8
1942-05-03	LAD @ STL Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	3	1	7
1942-05-31	ATL @ LAD Gameday	4	4	3	1	0	1	3	0	7
1946-08-18	PHI @ LAD Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	2	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1940-04-16	LAD @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-19	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-23	ATL @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-24	ATL @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1940-04-25	LAD @ PHI 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

3× 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.