Vic Wertz

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 186 lb

BornFebruary 9, 1925 · York, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 15, 1947

Final gameSeptember 19, 1963

Seasons17 (1947–1963)

Detroit Tigers 1947–1952; St. Louis Browns 1952–1953; Baltimore Orioles 1954; Cleveland Indians 1954–1958; Boston Red Sox 1959–1961; Detroit Tigers 1961–1963; Minnesota Twins 1963

Percentile snapshot

1960 season — qualified batters

131

14.8

487

3.7

443

11.1

3.7

125

23.5

49.4

69.1

RBI

103

92.6

60.5

.282

59.3

OBP

.335

SLG

.460

72.8

OPS

.796

66.7

wRC+

107.1

43.2

OPS+

109.3

51.9

wOBA

.354

61.7

sWAR

1.0

of 82 qualified 1960 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

121.0

80.4

OPS+

122.1

82.4

sWAR

30.6

96.6

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
1947	102	382	333	60	96	22	4	6	44	47	66	2	0	.288	.376	.432	.809	125.1	122.9	.381	2.0
1948	119	448	391	49	97	19	9	7	67	48	70	0	0	.248	.335	.396	.731	90.8	92.8	.346	0.4
1949	155	695	608	96	185	26	6	20	133	80	61	2	3	.304	.385	.465	.851	124.7	125.9	.399	3.6
1950	149	657	559	99	172	37	4	27	123	91	55	0	1	.308	.408	.533	.941	137.0	137.7	.428	4.5
1951	138	581	501	86	143	24	4	27	94	78	61	0	3	.285	.383	.511	.894	138.7	139.8	.408	4.0
1952	122	486	415	68	115	20	3	23	70	69	64	1	0	.277	.381	.506	.887	143.6	141.7	.407	3.6
1953	128	518	440	61	118	18	6	19	70	72	44	1	4	.268	.376	.466	.842	127.0	125.2	.387	2.8
1954	123	441	389	38	100	15	2	15	61	45	57	0	2	.257	.330	.422	.751	104.3	106.8	.345	0.8
1955	74	295	257	30	65	11	2	14	55	32	33	1	1	.253	.332	.475	.807	110.6	115.6	.362	0.8
1956	136	568	481	65	127	22	0	32	106	75	87	0	0	.264	.364	.509	.874	123.9	128.5	.387	2.4
1957	144	606	515	84	145	21	0	28	105	78	88	2	3	.282	.371	.485	.857	134.8	134.4	.384	3.4
1958	25	48	43	5	12	1	0	3	12	5	7	0	0	.279	.354	.512	.866	141.0	138.2	.386	0.3
1959	94	273	247	38	68	13	0	7	49	22	32	0	0	.275	.337	.413	.750	96.6	100.4	.334	0.2
1960	131	487	443	45	125	22	0	19	103	37	54	0	2	.282	.335	.460	.796	107.1	109.3	.354	1.0
1961	107	369	323	33	84	16	2	11	61	38	44	0	0	.260	.336	.424	.760	97.4	99.7	.340	0.4
1962	74	112	105	7	34	2	0	5	18	5	13	0	0	.324	.357	.486	.843	123.8	122.6	.374	0.6
1963	41	55	49	3	6	0	0	3	7	6	6	0	0	.122	.218	.306	.524	28.8	44.9	.224	-0.3

Career totals

1,862

358th-most career G

7,021

457th-most career PA

6,099

488th-most career AB

867

1,692

494th-most career H

289

266

226th-most career HR

RBI

1,178

173rd-most career RBI

828

245th-most career BB

842

.2774

OBP

.3640

398th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4694

296th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8334

267th-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
1947-09-14	DET @ MIN Gameday	5	5	4	1	1	1	4	1	10
1956-07-18	CLE @ MIN Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	2	4	0	10
1949-06-05	BOS @ DET Gameday	4	4	4	0	0	2	3	1	10
1957-07-28	CLE @ BOS Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	2	5	0	10
1953-08-27	ATH @ BAL Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	2	3	0	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1947-04-15	DET @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-17	DET @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-18	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-19	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-21	CWS @ 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

4× 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.