Stan Spence
Boston Red Sox 1940–1941; Washington Senators 1942–1944; Washington Senators 1946–1947; Boston Red Sox 1948–1949; St. Louis Browns 1949
Percentile snapshot
1947 season — qualified batters
of 104 qualified 1947 batters (min 477 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 51 | 72 | 68 | 5 | 19 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 1 | .279 | .319 | .426 | .746 | 85.5 | 88.9 | .334 | 0.0 |
| 1941 | 86 | 227 | 203 | 22 | 47 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 28 | 18 | 14 | 1 | 0 | .232 | .304 | .340 | .643 | 68.2 | 70.0 | .302 | -0.4 |
| 1942 | 149 | 696 | 629 | 94 | 203 | 27 | 15 | 4 | 79 | 62 | 16 | 5 | 2 | .323 | .384 | .432 | .817 | 130.1 | 128.9 | .385 | 5.1 |
| 1943 | 149 | 663 | 570 | 72 | 152 | 23 | 10 | 12 | 88 | 84 | 39 | 8 | 1 | .267 | .366 | .405 | .771 | 130.6 | 127.5 | .371 | 4.9 |
| 1944 | 153 | 669 | 592 | 83 | 187 | 31 | 8 | 18 | 100 | 69 | 28 | 3 | 7 | .316 | .391 | .486 | .877 | 156.2 | 155.3 | .410 | 7.0 |
| 1946 | 152 | 652 | 578 | 83 | 169 | 50 | 10 | 16 | 87 | 62 | 31 | 1 | 7 | .292 | .365 | .497 | .861 | 144.6 | 144.9 | .394 | 5.9 |
| 1947 | 147 | 588 | 506 | 62 | 141 | 22 | 6 | 16 | 73 | 81 | 41 | 2 | 2 | .279 | .378 | .441 | .819 | 130.7 | 128.5 | .385 | 4.4 |
| 1948 | 114 | 477 | 391 | 71 | 92 | 17 | 4 | 12 | 61 | 82 | 33 | 0 | 2 | .235 | .368 | .391 | .759 | 101.7 | 98.7 | .366 | 1.1 |
| 1949 | 111 | 402 | 334 | 49 | 80 | 14 | 3 | 13 | 46 | 58 | 37 | 1 | 1 | .240 | .355 | .416 | .771 | 96.8 | 97.3 | .368 | 1.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943-07-03 | MIN @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 11 |
| 1943-08-23 | MIN @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 10 |
| 1944-06-01 | MIN @ BAL Gameday | 6 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 9 |
| 1943-08-24 | MIN @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 9 |
| 1947-09-26 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 9 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-04-16 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-18 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-19 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-19 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940-04-23 | MIN @ BOS 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.