Preston Ward
Brooklyn Dodgers 1948; Chicago Cubs 1950; Chicago Cubs 1953; Pittsburgh Pirates 1953–1955; Cleveland Indians 1956; Pittsburgh Pirates 1956; Cleveland Indians 1957–1958; Kansas City Athletics 1958–1959
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 42 | 162 | 146 | 9 | 38 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 21 | 15 | 23 | 0 | 0 | .260 | .329 | .370 | .699 | 86.3 | 87.2 | .325 | -0.1 |
| 1950 | 80 | 319 | 285 | 31 | 72 | 11 | 2 | 6 | 33 | 27 | 42 | 3 | 0 | .253 | .317 | .368 | .686 | 77.8 | 79.7 | .313 | -0.5 |
| 1953 | 121 | 450 | 381 | 45 | 82 | 12 | 1 | 12 | 39 | 62 | 60 | 4 | 4 | .215 | .327 | .346 | .673 | 75.6 | 73.5 | .312 | -0.6 |
| 1954 | 117 | 406 | 360 | 37 | 97 | 16 | 2 | 7 | 48 | 39 | 61 | 0 | 0 | .269 | .337 | .383 | .721 | 86.7 | 87.2 | .328 | 0.1 |
| 1955 | 84 | 208 | 179 | 16 | 38 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 25 | 22 | 28 | 0 | 0 | .212 | .296 | .380 | .675 | 73.5 | 78.3 | .297 | -0.4 |
| 1956 | 103 | 207 | 180 | 21 | 48 | 10 | 1 | 7 | 32 | 22 | 24 | 0 | 0 | .267 | .345 | .450 | .795 | 110.3 | 109.9 | .362 | 0.3 |
| 1957 | 10 | 11 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .182 | .182 | .273 | .455 | 9.5 | 23.7 | .203 | -0.1 |
| 1958 | 129 | 464 | 416 | 50 | 118 | 13 | 2 | 10 | 45 | 37 | 63 | 0 | 2 | .284 | .340 | .397 | .737 | 101.1 | 101.6 | .334 | 1.2 |
| 1959 | 58 | 119 | 109 | 8 | 27 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 19 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .248 | .286 | .358 | .644 | 66.6 | 73.5 | .287 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958-09-09 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 12 |
| 1955-05-24 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 |
| 1956-05-30 | CWS @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1953-09-13 | PIT @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 1953-09-02 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948-04-20 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948-04-21 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948-04-22 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948-04-23 | PHI @ LAD Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948-04-24 | PHI @ LAD 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.