MLB / Players

Wally Moon

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 169 lb

BornApril 3, 1930 · Bay, AR, USA

MLB debutApril 13, 1954

Final gameSeptember 12, 1965

Seasons12 (1954–1965)

St. Louis Cardinals 1954–1958; Los Angeles Dodgers 1959–1965

Percentile snapshot

1961 season — qualified batters

134

15.5

561

22.6

463

14.3

51.2

152

53.6

20.2

51.2

RBI

72.6

88.1

27.4

22.6

.328

95.2

OBP

.434

97.6

SLG

.505

OPS

.940

86.9

wRC+

152.4

86.9

OPS+

148.4

85.7

wOBA

.417

90.5

sWAR

4.8

of 85 qualified 1961 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

120.8

OPS+

118.0

76.3

sWAR

26.6

95.8

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1954	151	716	635	106	193	29	9	12	76	71	73	18	10	.304	.371	.435	.806	110.5	108.6	.363	3.5
1955	152	645	593	86	175	24	8	19	76	47	65	11	11	.295	.349	.459	.808	113.2	111.7	.358	2.6
1956	149	622	540	86	161	22	11	16	68	80	50	12	9	.298	.390	.469	.858	135.2	129.7	.383	3.9
1957	142	586	516	86	152	28	5	24	73	62	57	5	6	.295	.367	.508	.875	129.6	130.8	.377	3.3
1958	108	340	290	36	69	10	3	7	38	47	30	2	3	.238	.342	.366	.708	86.1	85.1	.322	0.1
1959	145	637	543	93	164	26	11	19	74	81	64	15	6	.302	.394	.495	.890	136.6	129.7	.399	4.2
1960	138	547	469	74	140	21	6	13	69	67	53	6	10	.299	.383	.452	.835	128.8	124.0	.377	3.1
1961	134	561	463	79	152	25	3	17	88	89	79	7	5	.328	.434	.505	.940	152.4	148.4	.417	4.8
1962	95	278	244	36	59	9	1	4	31	30	33	5	2	.242	.326	.336	.662	83.5	82.3	.306	-0.1
1963	122	398	343	41	90	13	2	8	48	45	43	5	5	.262	.345	.382	.727	118.4	117.3	.332	1.6
1964	68	132	118	8	26	2	1	2	9	12	22	1	1	.220	.292	.305	.597	72.1	75.8	.270	-0.1
1965	53	104	89	6	18	3	0	1	11	13	22	2	0	.202	.304	.270	.574	67.8	70.1	.265	-0.2

Career totals

1,457

5,566

4,843

737

1,399

212

142

RBI

661

644

463rd-most career BB

591

.2889

437th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3715

268th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4454

OPS

.8169

376th-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
1957-09-15	PIT @ STL Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	2	4	0	10
1956-08-07	STL @ CIN Gameday	5	2	5	1	0	1	1	0	9
1954-06-11	PIT @ STL Gameday	5	1	4	0	1	1	3	0	9
1961-04-19	STL @ LAD Gameday	3	3	3	0	0	2	5	1	9
1955-06-14	PIT @ STL Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	4	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1954-04-29	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1954-05-03	SF @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1954-05-25	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1954-06-12	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1954-06-13	PIT @ 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.

Honors

1× Rookie of the Year1× Gold Glove2× 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.