MLB / Players

Taffy Wright

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 180 lb

BornAugust 10, 1911 · Tabor City, NC, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1938

Final gameSeptember 16, 1949

Seasons9 (1938–1949)

Washington Senators 1938–1939; Chicago White Sox 1940–1942; Chicago White Sox 1946–1948; Philadelphia Athletics 1949

Percentile snapshot

1948 season — qualified batters

134

35.5

499

22.6

455

23.7

127

39.8

20.4

60.2

33.3

RBI

50.5

78.5

17.2

36.6

.279

39.8

OBP

.341

24.7

SLG

.365

22.6

OPS

.706

22.6

wRC+

88.4

22.6

OPS+

89.9

24.7

wOBA

.337

22.6

sWAR

0.3

of 94 qualified 1948 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

114.9

71.3

OPS+

114.6

71.2

sWAR

16.0

91.6

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
1938	100	281	263	37	92	18	10	2	36	13	17	1	2	.350	.389	.517	.906	128.1	131.5	.407	1.7
1939	129	547	499	77	154	29	11	4	93	38	19	1	2	.309	.359	.435	.794	101.2	102.6	.362	1.3
1940	147	627	581	79	196	31	9	5	88	43	25	4	7	.337	.385	.448	.832	116.6	116.1	.377	2.7
1941	136	580	513	71	165	35	5	10	97	60	27	5	4	.322	.399	.468	.867	132.5	131.4	.399	3.6
1942	85	353	300	43	100	13	5	0	47	48	9	1	8	.333	.432	.410	.842	147.6	141.0	.406	2.8
1946	115	467	422	46	116	19	4	7	52	42	17	10	3	.275	.342	.389	.731	106.6	106.9	.343	1.3
1947	124	455	401	48	130	13	0	4	54	48	17	8	6	.324	.398	.387	.784	125.8	121.7	.376	2.4
1948	134	499	455	50	127	15	6	4	61	38	18	2	1	.279	.341	.365	.706	88.4	89.9	.337	0.3
1949	59	172	149	14	35	2	5	2	25	16	6	0	0	.235	.321	.356	.677	78.6	81.1	.326	-0.1

Career totals

1,029

3,981

3,583

465

1,115

175

RBI

553

346

155

.3112

109th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3761

222nd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4226

OPS

.7987

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
1941-08-08	CWS @ BAL Gameday	6	3	3	1	0	2	6	10
1939-07-18	MIN @ DET Gameday	5	4	5	3	0	0	1	8
1940-06-04	CWS @ NYY Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	1	2	8
1938-09-19	MIN @ DET Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	0	4	7
1939-09-07	MIN @ ATH Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	2	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1938-04-18	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-19	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-20	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-22	MIN @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-23	MIN @ 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.