Pete Ward
Baltimore Orioles 1962; Chicago White Sox 1963–1969; New York Yankees 1970
Percentile snapshot
1967 season — qualified batters
of 99 qualified 1967 batters (min 502 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 8 | 25 | 21 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .280 | .238 | .518 | 54.1 | 46.4 | .258 | -0.1 |
| 1963 | 157 | 667 | 600 | 80 | 177 | 34 | 6 | 22 | 84 | 52 | 77 | 7 | 6 | .295 | .353 | .482 | .835 | 138.2 | 136.0 | .370 | 5.7 |
| 1964 | 144 | 607 | 539 | 61 | 152 | 28 | 3 | 23 | 94 | 56 | 76 | 1 | 1 | .282 | .348 | .473 | .821 | 129.0 | 131.5 | .358 | 4.4 |
| 1965 | 138 | 574 | 507 | 62 | 125 | 25 | 3 | 10 | 57 | 56 | 83 | 2 | 4 | .247 | .327 | .367 | .694 | 102.8 | 104.7 | .315 | 2.4 |
| 1966 | 84 | 284 | 251 | 22 | 55 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 28 | 24 | 49 | 3 | 1 | .219 | .290 | .291 | .581 | 76.3 | 74.5 | .272 | -0.2 |
| 1967 | 146 | 542 | 467 | 49 | 109 | 16 | 2 | 18 | 62 | 61 | 109 | 3 | 2 | .233 | .334 | .392 | .726 | 120.0 | 119.6 | .333 | 2.3 |
| 1968 | 125 | 487 | 399 | 43 | 86 | 15 | 0 | 15 | 50 | 76 | 85 | 4 | 3 | .216 | .354 | .366 | .720 | 125.7 | 118.3 | .341 | 2.8 |
| 1969 | 105 | 238 | 199 | 22 | 49 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 32 | 33 | 38 | 0 | 0 | .246 | .359 | .372 | .731 | 105.7 | 99.8 | .347 | 0.7 |
| 1970 | 66 | 87 | 77 | 5 | 20 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 18 | 9 | 17 | 0 | 0 | .260 | .333 | .377 | .710 | 103.4 | 100.9 | .330 | 0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967-08-16 | ATH @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 10 |
| 1964-09-04 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1964-07-28 | CWS @ DET Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1968-05-09 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 |
| 1964-05-23 | TEX @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 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.