Wally Westlake

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 186 lb

BornNovember 8, 1920 · Gridley, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 15, 1947

Final gameMay 12, 1956

Seasons10 (1947–1956)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1947–1951; St. Louis Cardinals 1951; Cincinnati Reds 1952; Cleveland Indians 1952; St. Louis Cardinals 1952; Cleveland Indians 1953–1954; Baltimore Orioles 1955; Cleveland Indians 1955; Philadelphia Phillies 1956

Percentile snapshot

1951 season — qualified batters

123

8.6

491

7.4

448

12.3

27.2

119

12.3

2.5

44.4

76.5

RBI

69.1

4.9

17.3

9.9

.266

27.2

OBP

.324

13.6

SLG

.462

71.6

OPS

.786

54.3

wRC+

104.3

38.3

OPS+

106.2

43.2

wOBA

.351

39.5

sWAR

1.8

33.3

of 82 qualified 1951 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

109.7

OPS+

110.1

62.2

sWAR

13.6

90.1

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
1947	112	443	407	59	111	17	4	17	69	27	63	5	0	.273	.324	.459	.784	98.7	102.5	.353	0.9
1948	132	479	428	78	122	10	6	17	65	46	40	2	0	.285	.360	.456	.815	116.5	116.4	.372	2.4
1949	147	577	525	77	148	24	8	23	104	45	69	6	0	.282	.345	.490	.835	116.6	118.2	.373	2.7
1950	139	534	477	69	136	15	6	24	95	48	78	1	0	.285	.359	.493	.852	115.8	116.1	.378	2.8
1951	123	491	448	64	119	12	5	22	84	33	68	1	3	.266	.324	.462	.786	104.3	106.2	.351	1.8
1952	109	380	326	47	69	11	1	4	33	47	56	2	3	.212	.315	.288	.603	71.8	69.7	.293	-0.2
1953	82	259	218	42	72	7	1	9	46	35	29	2	0	.330	.427	.495	.923	157.8	154.4	.425	2.3
1954	85	274	240	36	63	9	2	11	42	26	37	0	1	.263	.337	.454	.791	115.7	117.3	.362	1.1
1955	24	53	44	2	8	2	0	0	1	9	10	0	0	.182	.321	.227	.548	56.8	50.9	.276	-0.2
1956	5	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	.000	.200	.000	.200	-25.3	-39.1	.147	-0.1

Career totals

958

3,495

3,117

474

848

107

127

RBI

539

317

453

.2721

OBP

.3453

SLG

.4498

483rd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.7951

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
1949-07-16	PIT @ SF Gameday	4	2	4	0	0	2	4	1	10
1948-05-30	STL @ PIT Gameday	4	3	4	0	0	2	3	0	10
1949-06-14	ATL @ PIT Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	1	3	0	10
1948-07-30	PIT @ LAD Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	1	2	0	10
1950-04-21	CIN @ PIT Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	6	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1947-04-15	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-17	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-18	CIN @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-19	CIN @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1947-04-20	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.

Honors

1× 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.