MLB / Players

Wally Gilbert

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornDecember 19, 1900 · Oscoda, MI, USA

MLB debutAugust 18, 1928

Final gameSeptember 24, 1932

Seasons5 (1928–1932)

Brooklyn Robins 1928–1931; Cincinnati Reds 1932

Percentile snapshot

1931 season — qualified batters

145

67.2

608

66.4

552

66.4

39.7

147

51.7

47.4

53.4

RBI

40.5

51.7

32.8

25.9

38.8

.266

16.4

OBP

.322

17.2

SLG

.333

15.5

OPS

.655

17.2

wRC+

76.9

14.7

OPS+

77.4

16.4

wOBA

.307

14.7

sWAR

0.5

23.3

of 117 qualified 1931 batters (min 474 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

-0.3

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	39	171	153	26	31	4	0	0	3	14	8	2	.203	.274	.229	.503	33.2	33.8	.247	-0.8
1929	143	641	569	88	173	31	4	3	58	42	29	7	.304	.359	.388	.748	88.6	87.7	.345	1.3
1930	150	688	623	92	183	34	5	3	67	47	33	7	.294	.345	.379	.724	77.4	76.3	.328	0.4
1931	145	608	552	60	147	25	6	0	46	39	38	3	.266	.322	.333	.655	76.9	77.4	.307	0.5
1932	114	450	420	35	90	18	2	1	40	20	23	2	.214	.252	.274	.526	39.0	42.9	.241	-1.8

Career totals

591

2,558

2,317

301

624

112

RBI

214

162

131

.2693

OBP

.3217

SLG

.3414

OPS

.6631

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	HR	RBI	TB
1931-05-30	LAD @ SF Gameday	7	3	6	1	0	2	7
1930-06-23	LAD @ PIT Gameday	5	4	3	1	1	3	7
1929-07-07	PIT @ LAD Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	2	7
1929-09-25	LAD @ PHI Gameday	6	0	4	2	0	1	6
1930-08-13	LAD @ CHC Gameday	6	3	4	2	0	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1928-04-11	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-13	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-15	ATL @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-16	ATL @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1928-04-18	ATL @ LAD 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.