Steve Whitaker
New York Yankees 1966–1968; Seattle Pilots 1969; San Francisco Giants 1970
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 31 | 124 | 114 | 15 | 28 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 15 | 9 | 24 | 0 | 0 | .246 | .306 | .491 | .798 | 131.3 | 129.3 | .354 | 0.9 |
| 1967 | 122 | 472 | 441 | 37 | 107 | 12 | 3 | 11 | 50 | 23 | 89 | 2 | 5 | .243 | .283 | .358 | .641 | 89.4 | 92.0 | .294 | 0.4 |
| 1968 | 28 | 68 | 60 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 18 | 0 | 1 | .117 | .221 | .150 | .371 | 16.1 | 16.2 | .196 | -0.5 |
| 1969 | 69 | 130 | 116 | 15 | 29 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 13 | 12 | 29 | 2 | 0 | .250 | .323 | .440 | .763 | 111.1 | 112.2 | .347 | 0.4 |
| 1970 | 16 | 30 | 27 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .167 | .148 | .315 | -19.4 | -14.2 | .155 | -0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967-08-29 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 7 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1966-08-27 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1966-08-26 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1967-05-30 | MIN @ NYY Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1967-07-31 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
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.