Sammy Esposito
Chicago White Sox 1952; Chicago White Sox 1955–1963; Kansas City Athletics 1963
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 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 27.4 | 40.4 | .233 | 0.0 |
| 1955 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .200 | .000 | .200 | -28.3 | -42.1 | .152 | -0.1 |
| 1956 | 81 | 234 | 184 | 30 | 42 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 25 | 41 | 19 | 1 | 2 | .228 | .371 | .342 | .714 | 99.8 | 91.2 | .348 | 1.0 |
| 1957 | 94 | 223 | 176 | 26 | 36 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 38 | 27 | 5 | 1 | .205 | .344 | .256 | .600 | 78.9 | 67.9 | .304 | 0.4 |
| 1958 | 98 | 97 | 81 | 16 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 6 | 1 | 1 | .247 | .358 | .284 | .642 | 89.0 | 82.9 | .310 | 0.4 |
| 1959 | 69 | 81 | 66 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 11 | 16 | 0 | 1 | .167 | .282 | .227 | .509 | 45.8 | 44.0 | .247 | -0.1 |
| 1960 | 57 | 88 | 77 | 14 | 14 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 20 | 0 | 0 | .182 | .273 | .286 | .558 | 49.8 | 53.2 | .260 | -0.1 |
| 1961 | 63 | 109 | 94 | 12 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 12 | 21 | 0 | 0 | .170 | .259 | .255 | .515 | 40.3 | 40.3 | .246 | -0.3 |
| 1962 | 75 | 100 | 81 | 14 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 17 | 13 | 0 | 1 | .235 | .367 | .247 | .614 | 80.9 | 71.3 | .305 | 0.3 |
| 1963 | 19 | 29 | 25 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .276 | .240 | .516 | 39.6 | 42.1 | .246 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956-08-15 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1960-09-10 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1956-09-22 | ATH @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 1956-08-01 | MIN @ CWS Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1958-07-28 | MIN @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
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.