Vern Benson
Philadelphia Athletics 1943; Philadelphia Athletics 1946; St. Louis Cardinals 1951–1953
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -137.2 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1946 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .167 | .000 | .167 | -50.6 | -50.7 | .126 | -0.1 |
| 1951 | 13 | 52 | 46 | 8 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .261 | .346 | .435 | .781 | 109.1 | 108.8 | .355 | 0.2 |
| 1952 | 20 | 53 | 47 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .191 | .269 | .362 | .631 | 69.5 | 73.8 | .290 | 0.0 |
| 1953 | 13 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .200 | .000 | .200 | -30.1 | -42.2 | .147 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952-08-20 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1952-08-19 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 1951-09-18 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 1952-08-14 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1951-09-30 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1943-04-20 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1943-04-22 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1943-04-23 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1943-04-24 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1943-04-25 | MIN @ ATH 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.