Vada Pinson

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb

BornAugust 11, 1938 · Memphis, TN, USA

MLB debutApril 15, 1958

Final gameSeptember 28, 1975

Seasons18 (1958–1975)

Cincinnati Redlegs 1958–1959; Cincinnati Reds 1960–1968; St. Louis Cardinals 1969; Cleveland Indians 1970–1971; California Angels 1972–1973; Kansas City Royals 1974–1975

Percentile snapshot

1972 season — qualified batters

136

29.7

527

25.2

484

35.1

36.9

133

48.6

60.4

18.9

31.5

RBI

32.4

14.4

72.1

79.3

33.3

.275

65.8

OBP

.321

36.9

SLG

.376

41.4

OPS

.697

38.7

wRC+

107.4

42.3

OPS+

113.0

50.5

wOBA

.318

35.1

sWAR

1.4

23.4

of 112 qualified 1972 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

110.6

62.9

OPS+

110.6

63.1

sWAR

47.1

98.6

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
1958	27	110	96	20	26	7	0	1	8	11	18	2	1	.271	.352	.375	.727	93.4	88.5	.336	0.2
1959	154	706	648	131	205	47	9	20	84	55	98	21	6	.316	.371	.509	.880	133.2	129.1	.390	5.6
1960	154	706	652	107	187	37	12	20	61	47	96	32	12	.287	.339	.472	.811	120.6	118.3	.361	4.5
1961	154	659	607	101	208	34	8	16	87	39	63	23	10	.343	.379	.504	.883	134.1	131.7	.389	5.3
1962	155	675	619	107	181	31	7	23	100	45	68	26	8	.292	.341	.477	.817	113.4	115.6	.360	3.7
1963	162	695	652	96	204	37	14	22	106	36	80	27	8	.313	.347	.514	.861	146.6	143.4	.382	6.5
1964	156	676	625	99	166	23	11	23	84	42	99	8	2	.266	.316	.448	.764	111.6	110.2	.341	3.6
1965	159	728	669	97	204	34	10	22	94	43	81	21	8	.305	.352	.484	.836	130.9	127.2	.374	5.5
1966	156	669	618	70	178	35	6	16	76	33	83	18	10	.288	.326	.442	.768	103.9	104.4	.339	2.7
1967	158	684	650	90	187	28	13	18	66	26	86	26	8	.288	.318	.454	.771	111.6	108.5	.351	3.6
1968	130	542	499	60	135	29	6	5	48	32	59	17	11	.271	.311	.383	.694	100.4	102.5	.318	2.1
1969	132	543	495	58	126	22	6	10	70	35	63	4	4	.255	.303	.384	.686	90.1	92.0	.315	0.5
1970	148	611	574	74	164	28	6	24	82	28	69	7	6	.286	.319	.481	.800	109.8	113.4	.353	2.0
1971	146	599	566	60	149	23	4	11	35	21	58	25	6	.263	.295	.376	.672	80.4	83.0	.310	0.5
1972	136	527	484	56	133	24	2	7	49	30	54	17	6	.275	.321	.376	.697	107.4	113.0	.318	1.4
1973	124	501	466	56	121	14	6	8	57	20	55	5	5	.260	.286	.367	.653	83.7	89.4	.296	0.3
1974	115	436	406	46	112	18	2	6	41	21	45	21	5	.276	.312	.374	.686	89.4	93.0	.314	0.4
1975	103	336	319	37	71	14	5	4	21	10	21	5	6	.223	.248	.335	.583	52.7	62.8	.261	-1.2

Career totals

2,469

68th-most career G

10,403

61st-most career PA

9,645

42nd-most career AB

1,365

105th-most career R

2,757

56th-most career H

485

80th-most career 2B

127

87th-most career 3B

256

240th-most career HR

RBI

1,169

180th-most career RBI

574

1,196

238th-most career SO

305

167th-most career SB

.2858

OBP

.3270

SLG

.4421

OPS

.7691

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
1975-05-14	KC @ DET Gameday	5	2	4	2	0	1	2	0	9
1964-09-23	CIN @ PHI Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	4	0	9
1959-05-29	PIT @ CIN Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	3	0	9
1959-05-27	PHI @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	1	2	1	9
1963-05-12	CIN @ NYM Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	1	5	0	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

1× Gold Glove2× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.