Terry Whitfield
New York Yankees 1974–1976; San Francisco Giants 1977–1980; Los Angeles Dodgers 1984–1986
Percentile snapshot
1978 season — qualified batters
of 140 qualified 1978 batters (min 502 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | 5.8 | 16.9 | .187 | 0.0 |
| 1975 | 28 | 84 | 81 | 9 | 22 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 17 | 1 | 0 | .272 | .274 | .309 | .582 | 60.5 | 66.7 | .267 | -0.3 |
| 1976 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
| 1977 | 114 | 352 | 326 | 41 | 93 | 21 | 3 | 7 | 36 | 20 | 46 | 2 | 3 | .285 | .329 | .433 | .761 | 104.2 | 103.6 | .342 | 1.0 |
| 1978 | 149 | 543 | 488 | 70 | 141 | 20 | 2 | 10 | 32 | 33 | 69 | 5 | 11 | .289 | .335 | .400 | .734 | 108.8 | 108.7 | .338 | 1.6 |
| 1979 | 133 | 445 | 394 | 52 | 113 | 20 | 4 | 5 | 44 | 36 | 47 | 5 | 4 | .287 | .349 | .396 | .745 | 109.6 | 109.7 | .340 | 1.4 |
| 1980 | 118 | 348 | 321 | 38 | 95 | 16 | 2 | 4 | 26 | 20 | 44 | 4 | 2 | .296 | .337 | .396 | .733 | 107.7 | 107.3 | .337 | 1.0 |
| 1984 | 87 | 200 | 180 | 15 | 44 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 18 | 17 | 35 | 1 | 4 | .244 | .313 | .356 | .669 | 90.6 | 90.3 | .312 | 0.1 |
| 1985 | 79 | 110 | 104 | 8 | 27 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 16 | 6 | 27 | 0 | 0 | .260 | .300 | .413 | .713 | 99.4 | 101.7 | .322 | 0.2 |
| 1986 | 19 | 19 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .071 | .316 | .071 | .387 | 7.0 | 17.1 | .187 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978-07-17 | SF @ STL Gameday | 5 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1977-09-17 | CIN @ SF Gameday | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1979-06-07 | SF @ STL Gameday | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1978-05-28 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| 1977-06-16 | STL @ SF Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
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.