MLB / Players

Pete Runnels

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb

BornJanuary 28, 1928 · Lufkin, TX, USA

MLB debutJuly 1, 1951

Final gameMay 14, 1964

Seasons14 (1951–1964)

Washington Senators 1951–1957; Boston Red Sox 1958–1962; Houston Colt .45's 1963–1964

Percentile snapshot

1962 season — qualified batters

152

45.6

650

57.3

562

48.5

46.6

183

82.5

89.3

41.7

21.4

RBI

30.1

87.4

72.8

29.1

39.8

.326

97.1

OBP

.408

95.1

SLG

.456

62.1

OPS

.863

81.6

wRC+

131.3

80.6

OPS+

129.0

79.6

wOBA

.387

84.5

sWAR

3.3

64.1

of 104 qualified 1962 batters (min 496 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

109.5

60.6

OPS+

105.3

52.8

sWAR

30.8

96.7

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1951	78	307	273	31	76	12	2	0	25	31	24	0	3	.278	.354	.337	.691	90.8	88.9	.332	1.0
1952	152	632	555	70	158	18	3	1	64	72	55	0	10	.285	.368	.333	.701	103.2	99.5	.340	3.1
1953	137	559	486	64	125	15	5	2	50	64	36	3	4	.257	.347	.321	.668	86.8	83.8	.322	1.6
1954	139	570	488	75	131	17	15	3	56	78	60	2	3	.268	.368	.383	.751	115.2	111.2	.357	3.6
1955	134	567	503	66	143	16	4	2	49	55	51	3	9	.284	.353	.344	.697	91.6	89.3	.333	1.5
1956	147	646	578	72	179	29	9	8	76	58	64	5	5	.310	.372	.433	.805	113.8	112.4	.371	2.7
1957	134	536	473	53	109	18	4	2	35	55	51	2	3	.230	.310	.298	.608	64.5	66.0	.287	-1.1
1958	147	666	568	103	183	32	5	8	59	87	49	1	2	.322	.416	.438	.854	138.5	129.0	.395	5.3
1959	147	661	560	95	176	33	6	6	57	95	48	6	5	.314	.415	.427	.841	135.0	126.7	.391	4.9
1960	143	613	528	80	169	29	2	2	35	71	51	5	2	.320	.401	.394	.795	118.7	112.1	.371	3.2
1961	143	414	360	49	114	20	3	3	38	46	32	5	1	.317	.396	.414	.810	118.7	114.4	.372	1.4
1962	152	650	562	80	183	33	5	10	60	79	57	3	4	.326	.408	.456	.863	131.3	129.0	.387	3.3
1963	124	447	388	35	98	9	1	2	23	45	42	2	0	.253	.332	.296	.628	92.3	88.0	.298	0.5
1964	22	60	51	3	10	1	0	0	3	8	7	0	0	.196	.305	.216	.521	58.8	54.9	.254	-0.2

Career totals

1,799

413th-most career G

7,328

396th-most career PA

6,373

425th-most career AB

876

1,854

374th-most career H

282

478th-most career 3B

RBI

630

844

230th-most career BB

627

.2909

386th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3745

239th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3783

OPS

.7528

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
1956-05-18	MIN @ CLE Gameday	6	1	5	1	1	0	2	8
1958-07-18	DET @ BOS Gameday	6	2	5	3	0	0	2	8
1953-07-25	MIN @ CLE Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	3	8
1959-07-18	CLE @ BOS Gameday	7	2	4	1	0	1	2	8
1958-09-27	BOS @ MIN Gameday	6	3	3	0	1	1	3	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1951-07-17	MIN @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1951-07-17	MIN @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1951-07-18	MIN @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1951-07-19	MIN @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1951-08-23	MIN @ DET 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.