Walt Dropo

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 220 lb

BornJanuary 30, 1923 · Moosup, CT, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1949

Final gameMay 17, 1961

Seasons13 (1949–1961)

Boston Red Sox 1949–1952; Detroit Tigers 1952–1954; Chicago White Sox 1955–1958; Cincinnati Redlegs 1958; Baltimore Orioles 1959; Cincinnati Redlegs 1959; Baltimore Orioles 1960–1961

Percentile snapshot

1955 season — qualified batters

141

38.3

502

9.9

453

12.3

13.6

127

24.7

12.3

11.1

61.7

RBI

66.7

23.5

18.5

77.8

.280

50.6

OBP

.343

38.3

SLG

.448

OPS

.791

wRC+

108.0

48.1

OPS+

112.2

61.7

wOBA

.358

50.6

sWAR

0.9

13.6

of 82 qualified 1955 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

96.8

35.6

OPS+

99.9

41.3

sWAR

3.0

73.8

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
1949	11	44	41	3	6	2	0	0	1	3	7	0	0	.146	.205	.195	.400	-10.8	3.1	.199	-0.6
1950	136	609	559	101	180	28	8	34	144	45	75	0	0	.322	.378	.583	.961	130.0	133.7	.427	3.2
1951	99	398	360	37	86	14	0	11	57	38	52	0	0	.239	.312	.369	.681	72.2	76.0	.320	-0.8
1952	152	633	591	69	163	24	4	29	97	37	85	2	2	.276	.323	.477	.800	113.0	117.0	.363	1.8
1953	152	645	606	61	150	30	3	13	96	29	69	2	0	.248	.289	.371	.660	70.0	76.1	.303	-1.5
1954	107	354	320	27	90	14	2	4	44	24	41	0	1	.281	.328	.375	.703	90.1	93.1	.326	-0.1
1955	141	502	453	55	127	15	2	19	79	42	71	0	1	.280	.343	.448	.791	108.0	112.2	.358	0.9
1956	125	412	361	42	96	13	1	8	52	37	51	1	0	.266	.334	.374	.708	87.1	88.3	.328	-0.3
1957	93	244	223	24	57	2	0	13	49	16	40	0	1	.256	.300	.439	.740	96.0	101.3	.328	0.1
1958	91	238	214	21	57	8	2	9	39	17	42	0	0	.266	.319	.449	.768	99.1	99.2	.339	0.3
1959	88	210	190	21	46	10	0	7	23	16	27	0	0	.242	.303	.405	.708	93.5	94.7	.320	-0.1
1960	79	201	179	16	48	8	0	4	21	20	19	0	1	.268	.343	.380	.723	101.6	98.6	.336	0.1
1961	14	31	27	1	7	0	0	1	2	4	3	0	0	.259	.355	.370	.725	104.5	99.6	.339	0.0

Career totals

1,288

4,521

4,124

478

1,113

168

152

RBI

704

328

582

.2699

OBP

.3256

SLG

.4319

OPS

.7575

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1950-06-08	BAL @ BOS Gameday	6	5	4	0	2	7	1	10
1950-09-07	NYY @ BOS Gameday	4	3	3	1	2	5	1	10
1950-07-16	CLE @ BOS Gameday	4	3	3	1	2	4	1	10
1955-04-27	NYY @ CWS Gameday	4	4	3	1	2	3	0	10
1959-07-04	BOS @ BAL Gameday	5	3	3	0	2	4	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1949-04-19	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1949-04-20	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1949-04-21	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1949-04-22	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1949-04-23	NYY @ BOS 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× 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.