Walt French
Philadelphia Athletics 1923; Philadelphia Athletics 1925–1929
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1923 | 16 | 44 | 39 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 1 | .231 | .318 | .308 | .626 | 64.6 | 63.5 | .306 | 0.0 |
| 1925 | 67 | 104 | 100 | 20 | 37 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 1 | .370 | .376 | .460 | .836 | 104.8 | 107.6 | .384 | 0.3 |
| 1926 | 112 | 441 | 397 | 51 | 121 | 18 | 7 | 1 | 36 | 18 | 24 | 2 | 3 | .305 | .340 | .393 | .733 | 85.6 | 88.7 | .342 | 0.1 |
| 1927 | 109 | 356 | 326 | 48 | 99 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 41 | 16 | 14 | 9 | 1 | .304 | .338 | .365 | .703 | 79.0 | 80.8 | .329 | -0.2 |
| 1928 | 48 | 77 | 74 | 9 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 1 | .257 | .286 | .311 | .597 | 52.6 | 56.6 | .278 | -0.3 |
| 1929 | 45 | 49 | 45 | 7 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .267 | .298 | .356 | .653 | 63.5 | 67.2 | .299 | -0.1 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1926-07-16 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1927-07-25 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1926-08-17 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1925-09-21 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1927-07-26 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1923-04-18 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1923-04-19 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1923-04-20 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1923-04-21 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1923-04-23 | BOS @ ATH 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.