Val Picinich

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 165 lb

BornSeptember 8, 1896 · New York, NY, USA

MLB debutJuly 25, 1916

Final gameAugust 28, 1933

Seasons18 (1916–1933)

Philadelphia Athletics 1916–1917; Washington Senators 1918–1922; Boston Red Sox 1923–1925; Cincinnati Reds 1926–1928; Brooklyn Robins 1929–1931; Brooklyn Dodgers 1932–1933; Pittsburgh Pirates 1933

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

wRC+

86.0

17.4

OPS+

85.4

16.3

sWAR

12.7

89.4

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
1916	40	127	118	8	23	3	1	0	5	6	33	1	0	.195	.234	.237	.471	31.8	41.3	.234	-0.2
1917	2	8	6	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	.333	.429	.333	.762	140.6	130.0	.388	0.1
1918	47	162	148	13	34	3	3	0	12	9	25	0	0	.230	.274	.291	.564	66.1	72.5	.280	0.3
1919	80	241	212	18	58	12	3	3	22	17	43	6	0	.274	.330	.401	.731	104.4	106.6	.346	1.6
1920	48	145	133	14	27	6	2	3	14	9	33	0	0	.203	.259	.346	.605	56.5	61.0	.282	0.1
1921	45	163	141	10	39	9	0	0	12	16	21	0	3	.277	.354	.340	.695	84.6	81.6	.333	0.6
1922	76	244	210	16	48	12	2	0	19	23	33	1	0	.229	.311	.305	.615	66.2	64.7	.297	0.4
1923	87	327	268	33	74	21	1	2	31	46	32	3	5	.276	.386	.384	.770	106.3	101.8	.372	2.0
1924	69	198	161	25	44	6	3	1	24	29	19	5	1	.273	.394	.366	.760	102.1	95.9	.372	1.1
1925	90	297	251	31	64	21	0	1	25	33	21	2	0	.255	.344	.351	.694	77.0	75.2	.333	0.6
1926	89	277	240	33	63	16	1	2	31	29	22	4	0	.263	.342	.363	.705	95.2	93.4	.334	1.5
1927	65	205	173	16	44	8	3	0	12	24	15	3	0	.254	.345	.335	.680	90.1	86.3	.327	0.9
1928	96	358	324	29	98	15	1	7	35	20	25	1	0	.302	.343	.420	.763	98.6	100.6	.349	1.9
1929	93	315	273	28	71	16	6	4	31	34	24	3	0	.260	.342	.407	.749	87.5	87.1	.343	1.1
1930	23	52	46	4	10	3	0	0	3	5	6	1	0	.217	.294	.283	.577	44.4	41.5	.271	0.0
1931	24	49	45	5	12	4	0	1	4	4	9	1	0	.267	.327	.422	.749	99.5	101.1	.342	0.3
1932	41	74	70	8	18	6	0	1	11	4	8	0	0	.257	.297	.386	.683	80.6	83.1	.306	0.3
1933	22	66	58	7	14	5	0	1	7	5	11	0	0	.241	.302	.379	.681	92.4	93.9	.315	0.4

Career totals

1,037

3,308

2,877

298

743

166

RBI

298

314

382

.2583

OBP

.3335

SLG

.3611

OPS

.6946

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1928-06-11	CIN @ SF Gameday	3	2	3	1	2	4	1	10
1929-09-04	LAD @ PHI Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	1	0	8
1928-06-01	CIN @ ATL Gameday	4	2	4	0	1	2	1	7
1928-09-20	CIN @ ATL Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	3	0	7
1923-07-24	MIN @ BOS Gameday	4	1	4	2	0	2	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1916-04-12	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1916-04-13	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1916-04-15	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1916-04-18	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1916-04-19	ATH @ 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.