MLB / Players

Stan Lopata

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 210 lb

BornSeptember 12, 1925 · Delray, MI, USA

MLB debutSeptember 19, 1948

Final gameJune 12, 1960

Seasons13 (1948–1960)

Philadelphia Phillies 1948–1958; Milwaukee Braves 1959–1960

Percentile snapshot

1956 season — qualified batters

146

47.6

624

62.2

535

53.7

84.1

143

43.9

95.1

67.1

87.8

RBI

80.5

7.3

51.2

65.9

.267

34.1

OBP

.353

54.9

SLG

.535

90.2

OPS

.888

wRC+

135.6

80.5

OPS+

136.8

80.5

wOBA

.380

sWAR

5.4

90.2

of 83 qualified 1956 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

20.9

93.9

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	6	15	15	2	2	1	0	0	2	0	4	0	0	.133	.133	.200	.333	-28.3	-10.2	.148	-0.2
1949	83	261	240	31	65	9	2	8	27	21	44	1	0	.271	.330	.425	.755	99.3	101.3	.342	1.3
1950	58	151	129	10	27	2	2	1	11	22	25	1	0	.209	.325	.279	.604	67.1	62.7	.293	0.3
1951	3	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.3	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1952	57	217	179	25	49	9	1	4	27	36	33	1	1	.274	.395	.402	.798	130.8	124.2	.375	2.0
1953	81	266	234	34	56	12	3	8	31	28	39	3	1	.239	.321	.419	.739	92.0	93.0	.330	1.3
1954	86	297	259	42	75	14	5	14	42	33	37	1	3	.290	.369	.544	.914	137.8	137.2	.398	3.0
1955	99	366	303	49	82	9	3	22	58	58	62	4	1	.271	.388	.538	.926	145.3	145.4	.402	3.6
1956	146	624	535	96	143	33	7	32	95	75	93	5	2	.267	.353	.535	.888	135.6	136.8	.380	5.4
1957	116	450	388	50	92	18	2	18	67	56	81	2	2	.237	.331	.433	.764	104.4	105.8	.336	2.7
1958	86	322	258	36	64	9	0	9	33	60	63	0	1	.248	.391	.388	.779	112.0	108.6	.354	2.2
1959	25	51	48	0	5	0	0	0	4	3	13	0	0	.104	.157	.104	.261	-28.7	-25.3	.133	-0.6
1960	7	9	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	.125	.222	.125	.347	7.0	2.2	.184	0.0

Career totals

853

3,034

2,601

375

661

116

RBI

397

393

497

.2541

OBP

.3511

SLG

.4517

465th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8028

474th-highest career OPS

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
1956-05-13	PHI @ PIT Gameday	5	3	4	2	0	2	4	12
1956-07-25	STL @ PHI Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	1	1	9
1957-07-21	CIN @ PHI Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	2	9
1956-08-04	CIN @ PHI Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	1	4	8
1956-08-23	PHI @ ATL Gameday	5	2	2	0	0	2	4	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1948-04-20	ATL @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1948-04-21	ATL @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1948-04-22	ATL @ PHI 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.

Honors

2× 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.