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Philadelphia Athletics 1935–1939; Boston Red Sox 1941–1945; Philadelphia Phillies 1946–1947
Percentile snapshot
1944 season — qualified batters
of 111 qualified 1944 batters (min 483 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | 59 | 151 | 145 | 18 | 30 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 1 | .207 | .233 | .290 | .523 | 25.5 | 33.8 | .241 | -0.8 |
| 1936 | 127 | 508 | 471 | 41 | 106 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 46 | 25 | 27 | 13 | 4 | .225 | .266 | .265 | .531 | 29.5 | 31.3 | .251 | -2.4 |
| 1937 | 122 | 489 | 438 | 53 | 111 | 22 | 1 | 1 | 30 | 37 | 22 | 11 | 5 | .253 | .312 | .315 | .627 | 56.8 | 58.0 | .295 | -0.5 |
| 1938 | 17 | 51 | 48 | 7 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | .271 | .286 | .354 | .640 | 53.8 | 59.4 | .291 | -0.1 |
| 1939 | 99 | 282 | 248 | 22 | 55 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 19 | 12 | 5 | 7 | .222 | .277 | .266 | .543 | 38.2 | 39.1 | .259 | -0.8 |
| 1941 | 93 | 263 | 227 | 28 | 51 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 17 | 22 | 11 | 10 | 4 | .225 | .296 | .278 | .574 | 51.7 | 52.5 | .277 | -0.3 |
| 1942 | 29 | 105 | 95 | 7 | 26 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | .274 | .337 | .337 | .673 | 87.1 | 87.4 | .325 | 0.3 |
| 1943 | 114 | 480 | 449 | 48 | 119 | 21 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 21 | 21 | 5 | 6 | .265 | .301 | .327 | .628 | 77.4 | 82.7 | .300 | 0.9 |
| 1944 | 136 | 524 | 472 | 41 | 114 | 26 | 3 | 0 | 41 | 33 | 21 | 4 | 3 | .242 | .291 | .309 | .600 | 68.2 | 72.1 | .288 | 0.4 |
| 1945 | 125 | 476 | 438 | 45 | 127 | 30 | 1 | 1 | 48 | 20 | 15 | 6 | 3 | .290 | .322 | .370 | .692 | 94.8 | 98.7 | .329 | 1.6 |
| 1946 | 112 | 422 | 375 | 35 | 87 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 30 | 23 | 4 | 0 | .232 | .289 | .277 | .566 | 56.4 | 61.6 | .276 | -0.2 |
| 1947 | 95 | 336 | 310 | 36 | 71 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 22 | 24 | 24 | 4 | 0 | .229 | .284 | .287 | .572 | 50.8 | 54.0 | .270 | -0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943-08-03 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1939-07-22 | ATH @ DET Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1944-05-12 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1945-08-01 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1943-07-10 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935-04-17 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1935-04-18 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1935-04-19 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1935-04-20 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1935-04-21 | ATH @ NYY 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.