Pete Whisenant
Boston Braves 1952; St. Louis Cardinals 1955; Chicago Cubs 1956; Cincinnati Redlegs 1957–1959; Cincinnati Reds 1960; Cleveland Indians 1960; Washington Senators 1960; Cincinnati Reds 1961; Minnesota Twins 1961
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 24 | 56 | 52 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 13 | 1 | 1 | .192 | .250 | .231 | .481 | 32.7 | 37.3 | .231 | -0.3 |
| 1955 | 58 | 122 | 115 | 10 | 22 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 29 | 2 | 0 | .191 | .223 | .304 | .527 | 31.8 | 37.9 | .236 | -0.8 |
| 1956 | 103 | 347 | 314 | 37 | 75 | 16 | 3 | 11 | 46 | 24 | 53 | 8 | 2 | .239 | .292 | .414 | .706 | 86.9 | 87.8 | .312 | 0.7 |
| 1957 | 67 | 98 | 90 | 18 | 19 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 5 | 24 | 0 | 1 | .211 | .250 | .456 | .706 | 75.4 | 80.2 | .304 | -0.1 |
| 1958 | 85 | 229 | 203 | 33 | 48 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 40 | 18 | 37 | 3 | 0 | .236 | .292 | .463 | .755 | 88.3 | 91.6 | .328 | 0.1 |
| 1959 | 36 | 79 | 71 | 13 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 11 | 8 | 18 | 0 | 0 | .239 | .316 | .479 | .795 | 107.9 | 106.0 | .352 | 0.2 |
| 1960 | 66 | 141 | 122 | 19 | 27 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 19 | 16 | 2 | 1 | .221 | .326 | .369 | .695 | 89.3 | 85.9 | .326 | 0.2 |
| 1961 | 36 | 24 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 0 | .143 | .250 | .143 | .393 | 12.0 | 7.4 | .206 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956-05-12 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 10 |
| 1958-06-15 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 1957-07-07 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 1958-07-16 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1959-06-28 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952-05-04 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1952-06-13 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1952-06-30 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1952-07-16 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1952-07-19 | ATL @ STL 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.