Virgil Davis

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 197 lb

BornDecember 20, 1904 · Birmingham, AL, USA

MLB debutApril 30, 1928

Final gameSeptember 5, 1945

Seasons16 (1928–1945)

Philadelphia Phillies 1928; St. Louis Cardinals 1928; Philadelphia Phillies 1929–1933; St. Louis Cardinals 1934–1936; Cincinnati Reds 1937–1938; Philadelphia Phillies 1938–1939; Pittsburgh Pirates 1940–1941; Pittsburgh Pirates 1944–1945

Percentile snapshot

1933 season — qualified batters

141

67.1

540

51.7

495

54.4

39.6

173

85.2

71.1

27.5

74.5

RBI

65.8

47.7

22.1

35.6

.349

93.3

OBP

.395

87.2

SLG

.473

83.2

OPS

.867

85.9

wRC+

137.3

85.9

OPS+

131.9

82.6

wOBA

.399

87.2

sWAR

5.5

94.6

of 150 qualified 1933 batters (min 471 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

108.7

58.8

OPS+

107.7

sWAR

31.6

96.8

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1928	69	187	168	17	47	2	0	3	19	16	11	0	.280	.342	.345	.688	73.9	74.2	.325	0.4
1929	98	289	263	31	90	18	0	7	48	19	17	1	.342	.391	.490	.881	106.5	106.8	.396	1.8
1930	106	357	329	41	103	16	1	14	65	17	20	1	.313	.349	.495	.844	88.6	91.6	.368	1.3
1931	120	433	393	30	128	32	1	4	51	36	28	0	.326	.382	.443	.825	113.0	110.8	.379	3.1
1932	125	448	402	44	135	23	5	14	70	40	39	1	.336	.399	.522	.921	134.6	131.1	.409	4.4
1933	141	540	495	51	173	28	3	9	65	32	24	2	.349	.395	.473	.867	137.3	131.9	.399	5.5
1934	107	384	347	45	104	22	4	9	65	34	27	0	.300	.366	.464	.830	117.3	116.4	.375	2.9
1935	102	354	315	28	100	24	2	1	60	33	30	0	.317	.386	.416	.802	116.4	113.5	.369	2.5
1936	112	402	363	24	99	26	2	4	59	35	34	0	.273	.342	.388	.730	97.5	96.9	.340	2.0
1937	76	232	209	19	56	10	1	3	33	23	15	0	.268	.341	.368	.709	97.8	96.5	.332	1.2
1938	82	272	251	14	59	8	0	2	24	19	20	1	.235	.292	.291	.582	55.5	57.9	.277	0.0
1939	87	234	202	10	62	8	1	0	23	24	20	0	.307	.383	.356	.740	103.9	99.5	.352	1.6
1940	99	324	285	23	93	14	1	5	39	35	20	0	.326	.404	.435	.839	135.7	131.5	.389	3.2
1941	57	118	107	3	27	4	1	0	6	11	11	0	.252	.322	.308	.630	78.6	78.1	.305	0.5
1944	54	103	93	6	28	7	0	2	14	10	8	0	.301	.369	.441	.810	124.9	123.5	.377	1.0
1945	23	36	33	2	8	2	0	0	6	2	2	0	.242	.306	.303	.609	65.1	66.5	.295	0.1

Career totals

1,458

4,713

4,255

388

1,312

244

RBI

647

386

326

.3083

130th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3689

308th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4303

OPS

.7992

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
1932-07-22	LAD @ PHI Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	2	3	0	10
1940-06-26	PIT @ PHI Gameday	4	3	4	0	0	2	2	1	10
1934-07-07	CIN @ STL Gameday	5	1	4	2	0	1	5	0	9
1932-08-01	PIT @ PHI Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	6	0	8
1933-07-04	PHI @ LAD Gameday	4	1	4	2	1	0	2	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1928-04-11	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-12	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-14	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-15	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-16	CHC @ STL 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.