MLB / Players

Phil Cavarretta

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb

BornJuly 19, 1916 · Chicago, IL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 16, 1934

Final gameMay 8, 1955

Seasons22 (1934–1955)

Chicago Cubs 1934–1953; Chicago White Sox 1954–1955

Percentile snapshot

1947 season — qualified batters

127

26.2

522

31.1

459

27.2

25.2

144

56.3

43.7

38.8

16.5

RBI

51.5

54.4

16.5

37.9

.314

83.5

OBP

.391

79.6

SLG

.397

40.8

OPS

.787

55.3

wRC+

116.4

OPS+

113.2

57.3

wOBA

.369

56.3

sWAR

2.2

51.5

of 104 qualified 1947 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

120.7

79.9

OPS+

119.3

78.2

sWAR

33.0

96.9

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
1934	7	23	21	5	8	0	1	1	6	2	3	1	.381	.435	.619	1.054	183.6	184.3	.465	0.3
1935	146	636	589	85	162	28	12	8	82	39	61	4	.275	.322	.404	.726	94.5	95.8	.329	0.4
1936	124	486	458	55	125	18	1	9	56	17	36	8	.273	.306	.376	.682	79.5	82.8	.313	-0.6
1937	106	366	329	43	94	18	7	5	56	32	35	7	.286	.349	.429	.778	108.1	108.3	.357	1.2
1938	92	290	268	29	64	11	4	1	28	14	27	4	.239	.287	.321	.608	62.0	65.8	.284	-0.8
1939	22	59	55	4	15	3	1	0	0	4	3	2	.273	.322	.364	.686	81.3	83.5	.319	-0.1
1940	65	231	193	34	54	11	4	2	22	31	18	3	.280	.388	.409	.797	127.0	122.1	.374	1.1
1941	107	407	346	46	99	18	4	6	40	53	28	2	.286	.384	.413	.797	131.0	127.7	.378	2.6
1942	136	566	482	59	130	28	4	3	54	71	42	7	.270	.365	.363	.728	120.5	116.2	.353	2.7
1943	143	620	530	93	154	27	9	8	73	75	42	3	.291	.382	.421	.802	136.4	132.1	.384	3.4
1944	152	692	614	106	197	35	15	5	82	67	42	4	.321	.390	.451	.841	140.2	138.0	.392	4.4
1945	132	586	498	94	177	34	10	6	97	81	34	5	.355	.449	.500	.949	170.2	167.7	.446	5.9
1946	139	602	510	89	150	28	10	8	78	88	54	2	.294	.401	.435	.836	146.6	140.8	.399	4.5
1947	127	522	459	56	144	22	5	2	63	58	35	2	.314	.391	.397	.787	116.4	113.2	.369	2.2
1948	111	373	334	41	93	16	5	3	40	35	29	4	.278	.349	.383	.732	101.2	100.7	.341	0.7
1949	105	414	360	46	106	22	4	8	49	45	31	2	.294	.374	.444	.819	122.0	120.7	.374	1.7
1950	82	300	256	49	70	11	1	10	31	40	31	1	.273	.376	.441	.817	116.5	114.0	.371	1.0
1951	89	237	206	24	64	7	1	6	28	27	28	0	.311	.393	.442	.835	125.6	121.9	.382	1.1
1952	41	72	63	7	15	1	1	1	8	9	3	0	.238	.333	.333	.667	85.8	83.7	.317	0.0
1953	27	27	21	3	6	3	0	0	3	6	3	0	.286	.444	.429	.873	135.7	125.9	.404	0.2
1954	71	188	158	21	50	6	0	3	24	26	12	4	.316	.417	.411	.829	136.6	128.4	.393	1.0
1955	6	4	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.2	-100.0	.000	-0.1

Career totals

2,030

234th-most career G

7,701

337th-most career PA

6,754

350th-most career AB

990

370th-most career R

1,977

311th-most career H

347

327th-most career 2B

165th-most career 3B

RBI

920

389th-most career RBI

820

251st-most career BB

598

.2927

351st-highest career batting average

OBP

.3723

259th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4156

OPS

.7879

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
1949-07-10	CHC @ PIT Gameday	5	1	4	1	2	0	5	0	9
1936-08-30	SF @ CHC Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	3	0	9
1944-09-26	CHC @ PHI Gameday	5	2	4	0	2	0	4	1	8
1945-08-03	CHC @ CIN Gameday	4	3	3	2	0	1	5	1	8
1945-08-05	CHC @ CIN Gameday	6	1	5	0	1	0	5	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1934-04-17	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-04-18	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-04-19	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-04-21	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-04-22	CHC @ 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.

Honors

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.