Wally Whitehurst
New York Mets 1989–1992; San Diego Padres 1993–1994; New York Yankees 1996
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .500 | 142.5 | 59.6 | .375 | 0.0 |
| 1990 | 38 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 32.9 | 39.2 | .231 | 1.1 |
| 1991 | 36 | 40 | 33 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .182 | .229 | .212 | .441 | 22.8 | 25.8 | .212 | 0.6 |
| 1992 | 44 | 24 | 22 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | .182 | .217 | .227 | .445 | 18.3 | 26.8 | .211 | 0.9 |
| 1993 | 21 | 34 | 24 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .083 | .083 | .083 | .167 | -72.8 | -55.3 | .076 | 1.2 |
| 1994 | 13 | 22 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .105 | .227 | .105 | .333 | -2.0 | -7.9 | .183 | 0.1 |
| 1996 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 7 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 14.0 | 4.50 | 1.571 | 5.79 | 4.30 | 129.3 | 74.0 | 0.0 |
| 1990 | 38 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 63 | 24 | 9 | 46 | 5 | 65.7 | 3.29 | 1.096 | 6.30 | 2.81 | 74.7 | 114.4 | 1.1 |
| 1991 | 36 | 20 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 142 | 62 | 25 | 87 | 12 | 133.3 | 4.19 | 1.253 | 5.87 | 3.31 | 90.7 | 87.2 | 0.6 |
| 1992 | 44 | 11 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 99 | 39 | 33 | 70 | 4 | 97.0 | 3.62 | 1.361 | 6.49 | 3.01 | 86.1 | 96.7 | 0.9 |
| 1993 | 21 | 19 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 109 | 45 | 30 | 57 | 11 | 105.7 | 3.83 | 1.315 | 4.85 | 4.19 | 102.2 | 106.9 | 1.2 |
| 1994 | 13 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 84 | 35 | 26 | 43 | 8 | 64.0 | 4.92 | 1.719 | 6.05 | 4.61 | 111.9 | 83.8 | 0.1 |
| 1996 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8.0 | 6.75 | 1.625 | 1.13 | 5.37 | 108.8 | 73.2 | -0.1 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992-08-06 | NYM @ CHC Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1992-05-20 | NYM @ SD Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1991-04-24 | NYM @ PHI Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1990-05-21 | NYM @ LAD Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1990-08-11 | CHC @ NYM Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1994-04-26 | SD @ NYM Gameday | 7.0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 1 |
| 1992-05-20 | NYM @ SD Gameday | 5.0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 1991-07-04 | NYM @ WSH Gameday | 8.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| 1992-09-01 | ATL @ NYM Gameday | 4.2 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| 1991-06-13 | ATL @ NYM Gameday | 7.0 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 1 |
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.