Wally Post

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 190 lb

BornJuly 9, 1929 · St. Wendelin, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 18, 1949

Final gameMay 9, 1964

Seasons15 (1949–1964)

Cincinnati Reds 1949; Cincinnati Reds 1951–1953; Cincinnati Redlegs 1954–1957; Philadelphia Phillies 1958–1959; Cincinnati Reds 1960; Philadelphia Phillies 1960; Cincinnati Reds 1961–1963; Minnesota Twins 1963; Cleveland Indians 1964

Percentile snapshot

1959 season — qualified batters

132

15.9

510

7.2

468

14.5

21.7

119

10.1

15.9

59.4

72.5

RBI

79.7

18.8

101

4.3

94.2

.254

17.4

OBP

.310

10.1

SLG

.457

59.4

OPS

.767

43.5

wRC+

97.9

OPS+

99.5

31.9

wOBA

.336

31.9

sWAR

1.0

11.6

of 70 qualified 1959 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

108.7

58.9

OPS+

109.7

61.4

sWAR

14.0

90.4

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
1949	6	8	8	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	22.6	33.5	.229	-0.1
1951	15	44	41	6	9	3	0	1	7	3	4	0	0	.220	.273	.366	.639	63.0	68.9	.289	0.0
1952	19	63	58	5	9	1	0	2	7	4	20	0	0	.155	.222	.276	.498	29.4	37.2	.233	-0.4
1953	11	37	33	3	8	1	0	1	4	4	6	1	0	.242	.324	.364	.688	77.7	77.6	.314	0.0
1954	130	485	451	46	115	21	3	18	83	26	70	2	2	.255	.297	.435	.731	80.3	85.8	.321	-0.2
1955	154	668	601	116	186	33	3	40	109	60	102	7	4	.309	.372	.574	.946	144.1	142.0	.409	5.1
1956	143	586	539	94	134	25	3	36	83	37	124	6	0	.249	.301	.506	.807	107.4	107.1	.349	1.8
1957	134	507	467	68	114	26	2	20	74	33	84	2	2	.244	.291	.437	.727	83.0	87.7	.315	-0.1
1958	110	420	379	51	107	21	3	12	62	32	74	0	2	.282	.340	.449	.788	106.6	107.8	.346	1.3
1959	132	510	468	62	119	17	6	22	94	36	101	0	0	.254	.310	.457	.767	97.9	99.5	.336	1.0
1960	111	374	333	47	94	20	1	19	50	37	75	0	2	.282	.350	.520	.870	133.8	133.5	.380	2.3
1961	99	306	282	44	83	16	3	20	57	22	61	0	1	.294	.346	.585	.932	142.1	141.4	.402	2.3
1962	109	321	285	43	75	10	3	17	62	32	67	1	0	.263	.341	.498	.839	120.8	120.8	.371	1.5
1963	26	57	54	7	9	0	1	2	6	2	18	0	0	.167	.211	.315	.525	38.6	43.5	.236	-0.3
1964	5	11	8	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	4	0	0	.000	.273	.000	.273	12.1	-15.7	.201	-0.1

Career totals

1,204

4,397

4,007

594

1,064

194

210

353rd-most career HR

RBI

699

331

813

.2655

OBP

.3225

SLG

.4852

193rd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8077

429th-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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1956-09-21	STL @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	4	0	11
1955-07-14	CIN @ PIT Gameday	6	5	4	0	2	4	1	10
1956-04-29	CHC @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	4	0	9
1956-06-05	PHI @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	4	0	9
1955-09-08	PHI @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	3	1	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1949-04-19	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1949-04-21	STL @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1949-04-22	CIN @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1949-04-24	CIN @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1949-04-24	CIN @ PIT 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.