Tony Kubek
New York Yankees 1957–1965
Percentile snapshot
1963 season — qualified batters
of 102 qualified 1963 batters (min 499 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | 127 | 475 | 431 | 56 | 128 | 21 | 3 | 3 | 39 | 24 | 48 | 6 | 6 | .297 | .335 | .381 | .716 | 97.8 | 99.2 | .327 | 1.6 |
| 1958 | 138 | 597 | 559 | 66 | 148 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 48 | 25 | 57 | 5 | 4 | .265 | .295 | .317 | .612 | 69.2 | 73.2 | .280 | 0.5 |
| 1959 | 132 | 553 | 512 | 67 | 143 | 25 | 7 | 6 | 51 | 24 | 46 | 3 | 3 | .279 | .313 | .391 | .704 | 94.0 | 96.6 | .317 | 1.6 |
| 1960 | 147 | 618 | 568 | 77 | 155 | 25 | 3 | 14 | 62 | 31 | 42 | 3 | 0 | .273 | .312 | .401 | .713 | 93.9 | 97.8 | .320 | 2.2 |
| 1961 | 153 | 658 | 617 | 84 | 170 | 38 | 6 | 8 | 46 | 27 | 60 | 1 | 3 | .276 | .306 | .395 | .701 | 89.3 | 92.1 | .314 | 2.0 |
| 1962 | 45 | 184 | 169 | 28 | 53 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 12 | 17 | 2 | 1 | .314 | .357 | .432 | .789 | 118.3 | 116.8 | .356 | 1.2 |
| 1963 | 135 | 592 | 557 | 72 | 143 | 21 | 3 | 7 | 44 | 28 | 68 | 4 | 2 | .257 | .294 | .343 | .637 | 76.4 | 80.6 | .285 | 1.0 |
| 1964 | 106 | 447 | 415 | 46 | 95 | 16 | 3 | 8 | 31 | 26 | 55 | 4 | 1 | .229 | .275 | .340 | .615 | 66.3 | 70.6 | .277 | 0.2 |
| 1965 | 109 | 370 | 339 | 26 | 74 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 35 | 20 | 48 | 1 | 3 | .218 | .258 | .295 | .553 | 54.8 | 58.4 | .256 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962-09-11 | NYY @ DET Gameday | 6 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1960-06-24 | NYY @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 9 |
| 1957-10-05 | NYY @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| 1959-07-11 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| 1960-04-24 | BAL @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
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.