MLB / Players

Sammy Drake

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb
BornOctober 7, 1934 · Little Rock, AR, USA
MLB debutApril 17, 1960
Final gameSeptember 30, 1962
Seasons3 (1960–1962)

Chicago Cubs 1960–1961; New York Mets 1962

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
-0.7
10.4

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19601516155100001400.067.125.067.192-55.7-45.6.103-0.2
196113651000001100.000.167.000.167-43.2-51.2.123-0.1
1962255952210000761200.192.276.192.46822.526.2.226-0.3

Career totals

G
53
PA
81
AB
72
R
8
H
11
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
7
BB
8
SO
17
SB
0
BA
.1528
OBP
.2375
SLG
.1528
OPS
.3903

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1962-09-18HOU @ NYM Gameday502000302
1962-08-07NYM @ LAD Gameday101000101
1962-09-18HOU @ NYM Gameday401000101
1962-09-21CHC @ NYM Gameday301000111
1960-09-19SF @ CHC Gameday101000001

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.