Wally Moses

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 160 lb

BornOctober 8, 1910 · Uvalda, GA, USA

MLB debutApril 17, 1935

Final gameSeptember 30, 1951

Seasons17 (1935–1951)

Philadelphia Athletics 1935–1941; Chicago White Sox 1942–1945; Boston Red Sox 1946; Chicago White Sox 1946; Boston Red Sox 1947–1948; Philadelphia Athletics 1949–1951

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified batters

140

63.1

641

85.6

569

86.5

77.5

168

89.2

96.4

99.1

35.1

RBI

50.5

80.2

41.4

17.1

.295

OBP

.373

71.2

SLG

.420

71.2

OPS

.793

73.9

wRC+

134.9

83.8

OPS+

132.5

wOBA

.380

77.5

sWAR

4.0

84.7

of 112 qualified 1945 batters (min 465 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

108.0

57.5

OPS+

107.4

57.4

sWAR

27.0

95.9

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
1935	85	373	345	60	112	21	3	5	35	25	18	3	4	.325	.375	.446	.822	110.0	110.6	.378	1.3
1936	146	655	585	98	202	35	11	7	66	62	32	12	6	.345	.410	.479	.888	118.5	118.4	.407	3.8
1937	154	712	649	113	208	48	13	25	86	54	38	9	7	.320	.374	.550	.925	126.3	129.4	.409	3.9
1938	142	650	589	86	181	29	8	8	49	58	31	15	5	.307	.369	.424	.794	98.1	98.4	.366	1.3
1939	115	486	437	68	134	28	7	3	33	44	23	7	4	.307	.370	.423	.793	101.9	101.8	.366	1.2
1940	142	619	537	91	166	41	9	9	50	75	44	6	4	.309	.396	.469	.865	124.9	123.2	.392	3.3
1941	116	509	438	78	132	31	4	4	35	62	27	3	3	.301	.388	.418	.806	115.4	112.8	.377	2.1
1942	146	652	577	73	156	28	4	7	49	74	27	16	10	.270	.353	.369	.722	107.9	106.4	.347	2.1
1943	150	656	599	82	147	22	12	3	48	55	47	56	14	.245	.310	.337	.647	87.3	89.6	.312	0.5
1944	136	588	535	82	150	26	9	3	34	52	22	21	7	.280	.345	.379	.725	108.3	107.8	.345	1.8
1945	140	641	569	79	168	35	15	2	50	69	33	11	5	.295	.373	.420	.793	134.9	132.5	.380	4.0
1946	104	378	343	43	82	20	4	6	33	31	35	4	6	.239	.306	.373	.679	84.6	88.7	.318	0.2
1947	90	285	255	32	70	18	2	2	27	27	16	3	0	.275	.344	.384	.728	96.3	97.1	.345	0.5
1948	78	212	189	26	49	12	1	2	29	21	19	5	0	.259	.340	.365	.705	83.4	84.4	.337	0.0
1949	110	370	308	49	85	19	3	1	25	51	19	1	3	.276	.381	.367	.747	103.8	100.5	.365	0.9
1950	88	309	265	47	70	16	5	2	21	40	17	0	1	.264	.365	.385	.750	94.8	93.0	.356	0.6
1951	70	158	136	17	26	6	0	0	9	21	9	2	2	.191	.304	.235	.539	48.9	45.5	.274	-0.6

Career totals

2,012

245th-most career G

8,253

245th-most career PA

7,356

240th-most career AB

1,124

248th-most career R

2,138

217th-most career H

435

139th-most career 2B

110

128th-most career 3B

RBI

679

821

250th-most career BB

457

174

460th-most career SB

.2906

388th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3635

409th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4160

OPS

.7795

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	TB
1937-06-04	ATH @ BAL Gameday	6	3	3	1	0	2	3	10
1938-09-18	ATH @ CLE Gameday	5	3	4	2	0	1	2	9
1937-06-11	ATH @ CLE Gameday	6	3	3	0	0	2	4	9
1945-08-30	CLE @ CWS Gameday	5	1	5	1	1	0	0	8
1940-07-27	ATH @ DET Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	1	4	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1934-08-09	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-08-10	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-08-11	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-08-12	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1934-08-13	ATH @ MIN 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

2× 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.