Pinky Whitney

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 165 lb

BornJanuary 2, 1905 · San Antonio, TX, USA

MLB debutApril 11, 1928

Final gameSeptember 5, 1939

Seasons12 (1928–1939)

Philadelphia Phillies 1928–1932; Boston Braves 1933; Philadelphia Phillies 1933; Boston Braves 1934–1935; Boston Bees 1936; Philadelphia Phillies 1936–1939

Percentile snapshot

1937 season — qualified batters

138

47.5

542

38.4

487

35.4

20.2

166

64.6

26.3

19.2

53.5

RBI

66.7

43.4

33.3

48.5

.341

86.9

OBP

.395

74.7

SLG

.446

58.6

OPS

.841

62.6

wRC+

121.9

67.7

OPS+

119.3

64.6

wOBA

.388

64.6

sWAR

3.5

75.8

of 100 qualified 1937 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

93.0

OPS+

93.9

29.2

sWAR

17.1

92.2

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1928	151	636	585	73	176	35	4	10	103	36	30	3	.301	.342	.426	.768	90.5	93.0	.351	1.6
1929	154	697	612	89	200	43	14	8	115	61	35	7	.327	.390	.482	.872	104.6	104.6	.393	2.8
1930	149	662	606	87	207	41	5	8	117	40	41	3	.342	.383	.465	.849	94.0	94.3	.377	1.8
1931	130	541	501	64	144	36	5	9	74	30	38	6	.287	.331	.433	.765	91.9	94.4	.347	1.5
1932	154	678	624	93	186	33	11	13	124	35	66	6	.298	.335	.449	.784	94.8	96.5	.348	2.0
1933	131	546	503	54	126	21	2	11	68	33	31	3	.250	.299	.366	.665	89.9	92.5	.308	1.4
1934	146	597	563	58	146	26	2	12	79	25	54	7	.259	.294	.377	.671	81.5	84.4	.304	0.8
1935	126	491	458	41	125	23	4	4	60	24	36	2	.273	.312	.367	.679	86.4	87.7	.310	1.0
1936	124	507	451	45	128	17	3	6	64	39	37	2	.284	.343	.375	.718	83.8	83.9	.335	0.8
1937	138	542	487	56	166	19	4	8	79	43	44	6	.341	.395	.446	.841	121.9	119.3	.388	3.5
1938	102	332	300	27	83	9	1	3	38	27	22	0	.277	.336	.343	.680	83.7	83.6	.320	0.5
1939	34	88	75	9	14	0	1	1	6	7	4	0	.187	.256	.253	.509	32.9	37.1	.245	-0.5

Career totals

1,539

6,317

5,765

696

1,701

483rd-most career H

303

476th-most career 2B

RBI

927

383rd-most career RBI

400

438

.2951

304th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3426

SLG

.4154

OPS

.7580

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
1929-07-30	PHI @ PIT Gameday	5	3	4	1	2	1	2	12
1933-05-23	PHI @ CHC Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	3	8
1934-06-01	LAD @ ATL Gameday	7	1	4	1	0	1	2	8
1930-08-17	PHI @ CHC Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	1	8
1936-05-18	STL @ PHI Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	5	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1928-04-11	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-13	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-15	PHI @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-16	PHI @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-18	PHI @ SF 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× 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.