Wally Gerber

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 152 lb

BornAugust 18, 1891 · Columbus, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 23, 1914

Final gameOctober 6, 1929

Seasons15 (1914–1929)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1914–1915; St. Louis Browns 1917–1927; Boston Red Sox 1928; St. Louis Browns 1928; Boston Red Sox 1929

Percentile snapshot

1927 season — qualified batters

142

76.3

498

55.6

438

53.8

27.8

37.9

28.4

75.1

RBI

38.5

54.4

11.8

12.4

.224

4.1

OBP

.284

4.1

SLG

.295

5.9

OPS

.579

4.1

wRC+

44.5

2.4

OPS+

47.1

wOBA

.277

3.6

sWAR

-1.2

2.4

of 170 qualified 1927 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

66.1

1.9

OPS+

66.3

1.4

sWAR

1.9

69.4

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
1914	17	58	54	5	13	1	1	0	5	2	8	0	0	.241	.281	.296	.577	72.5	75.7	.279	0.1
1915	56	158	144	8	28	2	0	0	7	9	16	6	1	.194	.252	.208	.460	39.3	41.2	.230	-0.5
1917	14	43	39	2	12	1	1	0	2	3	2	1	0	.308	.357	.385	.742	127.0	128.2	.362	0.4
1918	56	195	171	10	41	4	0	0	10	19	11	2	0	.240	.316	.263	.579	77.2	75.9	.297	0.5
1919	140	544	462	43	105	14	6	1	37	49	36	1	0	.227	.308	.290	.598	65.2	65.3	.295	0.3
1920	154	663	584	70	163	26	2	2	60	58	32	4	13	.279	.346	.341	.687	80.8	79.5	.330	1.4
1921	114	495	436	55	121	12	9	2	48	34	19	4	7	.278	.337	.360	.697	72.7	73.6	.328	0.4
1922	153	689	604	81	161	22	8	1	51	52	34	6	4	.267	.326	.334	.660	69.3	70.2	.313	0.4
1923	154	689	605	85	170	26	3	1	62	54	50	4	6	.281	.342	.339	.681	75.5	75.8	.327	0.9
1924	148	566	496	61	135	20	4	0	55	43	34	4	5	.272	.341	.329	.670	73.4	72.5	.325	0.6
1925	72	277	246	29	67	13	1	0	19	26	15	1	2	.272	.344	.333	.678	68.4	67.6	.326	0.1
1926	131	473	411	37	111	8	0	0	42	40	29	0	2	.270	.339	.290	.629	60.8	60.2	.309	-0.1
1927	142	498	438	44	98	13	9	0	45	35	25	3	6	.224	.284	.295	.579	44.5	47.1	.277	-1.2
1928	110	363	318	22	69	7	1	0	28	33	34	6	1	.217	.291	.245	.536	43.8	42.2	.263	-0.8
1929	61	105	91	6	15	3	1	0	5	8	12	1	0	.165	.232	.220	.452	17.0	18.1	.220	-0.6

Career totals

1,522

5,816

5,099

558

1,309

172

RBI

476

465

357

.2567

OBP

.3229

SLG

.3126

OPS

.6355

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
1923-06-16	BAL @ NYY Gameday	4	1	4	0	0	1	1	0	7
1923-07-07	NYY @ BAL Gameday	5	2	5	1	0	0	0	0	6
1922-05-05	BAL @ DET Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	0	2	0	6
1919-07-02	DET @ BAL Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	0	1	0	6
1921-05-19	MIN @ BAL Gameday	3	2	3	0	0	1	3	2	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1914-04-14	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914-04-15	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914-04-16	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914-04-17	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1914-04-18	PIT @ CIN 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.