Vern Stephens

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 185 lb

BornOctober 23, 1920 · McAlister, NM, USA

MLB debutSeptember 13, 1941

Final gameJune 30, 1955

Seasons15 (1941–1955)

St. Louis Browns 1941–1947; Boston Red Sox 1948–1952; Chicago White Sox 1953; St. Louis Browns 1953; Baltimore Orioles 1954–1955; Chicago White Sox 1955

Percentile snapshot

1950 season — qualified batters

149

63.9

693

90.4

628

95.2

125

97.6

185

90.4

86.7

51.8

RBI

144

98.8

45.8

50.6

9.6

44.6

.295

62.7

OBP

.361

38.6

SLG

.511

78.3

OPS

.872

72.3

wRC+

109.0

OPS+

112.6

54.2

wOBA

.393

61.4

sWAR

3.7

69.9

of 84 qualified 1950 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

117.5

75.5

OPS+

119.3

78.2

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
1941	3	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	167.3	160.4	.463	0.0
1942	145	619	575	84	169	26	6	14	92	41	53	1	3	.294	.341	.433	.774	112.3	115.0	.361	3.7
1943	137	571	512	75	148	27	3	22	91	54	73	3	2	.289	.357	.482	.839	142.6	142.9	.392	5.4
1944	145	628	559	91	164	32	1	20	109	62	54	2	2	.293	.365	.462	.826	132.2	131.1	.386	5.3
1945	149	632	571	90	165	27	3	24	89	55	70	2	1	.289	.352	.473	.825	134.4	134.8	.387	5.5
1946	115	488	450	67	138	19	4	14	64	35	49	0	1	.307	.357	.460	.817	122.2	121.9	.376	3.5
1947	150	634	562	74	157	18	4	15	83	70	61	8	4	.279	.359	.406	.765	109.5	108.5	.362	3.6
1948	155	716	635	114	171	25	8	29	137	77	56	1	0	.269	.350	.471	.821	110.4	113.7	.380	4.0
1949	155	711	610	113	177	31	2	39	159	101	73	2	2	.290	.391	.539	.930	136.0	138.1	.428	6.3
1950	149	693	628	125	185	34	6	30	144	65	43	1	0	.295	.361	.511	.872	109.0	112.6	.393	3.7
1951	109	415	377	62	113	21	2	17	78	38	33	1	2	.300	.364	.501	.865	120.9	122.7	.394	2.6
1952	92	337	295	35	75	13	2	7	44	39	31	2	2	.254	.343	.383	.726	96.6	96.0	.344	1.3
1953	90	329	294	30	77	14	0	5	31	31	42	2	0	.262	.332	.361	.693	85.8	86.5	.325	0.7
1954	101	393	365	31	104	17	1	8	46	17	36	0	3	.285	.311	.403	.714	90.3	96.7	.325	1.0
1955	25	72	62	10	15	3	0	3	7	7	11	0	0	.242	.324	.435	.759	102.7	103.8	.349	0.3

Career totals

1,720

488th-most career G

7,240

407th-most career PA

6,497

396th-most career AB

1,001

354th-most career R

1,859

373rd-most career H

307

460th-most career 2B

247

263rd-most career HR

RBI

1,174

178th-most career RBI

692

391st-most career BB

685

.2861

OBP

.3550

SLG

.4604

387th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8154

384th-highest career OPS

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
1951-05-30	NYY @ BOS Gameday	7	3	5	0	0	2	4	1	11
1943-06-04	BAL @ NYY Gameday	4	3	4	1	0	2	3	1	11
1949-04-23	NYY @ BOS Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	2	5	1	11
1942-07-29	MIN @ BAL Gameday	5	3	5	2	0	1	3	0	10
1950-06-07	BAL @ BOS Gameday	6	3	4	0	0	2	5	0	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1941-04-16	DET @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-18	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-22	BAL @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-23	BAL @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1941-04-24	BAL @ DET 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.

Honors

8× 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.