Walt Moryn

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 205 lb

BornApril 12, 1926 · St. Paul, MN, USA

MLB debutJune 29, 1954

Final gameSeptember 28, 1961

Seasons8 (1954–1961)

Brooklyn Dodgers 1954–1955; Chicago Cubs 1956–1960; St. Louis Cardinals 1960; Pittsburgh Pirates 1961; St. Louis Cardinals 1961

Percentile snapshot

1958 season — qualified batters

143

47.9

587

45.1

512

39.4

56.3

135

71.8

76.1

78.9

RBI

66.2

71.8

19.7

8.5

52.1

.264

33.8

OBP

.350

56.3

SLG

.494

78.9

OPS

.845

70.4

wRC+

122.6

OPS+

122.1

66.2

wOBA

.369

66.2

sWAR

2.9

54.9

of 72 qualified 1958 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

8.5

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
1954	48	102	91	16	25	4	2	2	14	7	11	0	0	.275	.330	.429	.759	92.7	94.8	.338	0.1
1955	11	24	19	3	5	1	0	1	3	5	4	0	0	.263	.417	.474	.890	134.6	134.6	.391	0.1
1956	147	588	529	69	151	27	3	23	67	50	67	4	2	.285	.348	.478	.826	122.7	119.9	.364	2.9
1957	149	624	568	76	164	33	0	19	88	50	90	0	2	.289	.348	.447	.795	113.3	112.2	.352	2.3
1958	143	587	512	77	135	26	7	26	77	62	83	1	2	.264	.350	.494	.845	122.6	122.1	.369	2.9
1959	117	432	381	41	89	14	1	14	48	44	66	0	0	.234	.316	.386	.702	87.8	86.3	.318	0.2
1960	113	344	309	36	81	8	3	13	46	30	57	2	1	.262	.323	.434	.756	99.2	101.1	.334	0.6
1961	57	101	97	6	17	3	0	3	11	3	15	0	0	.175	.208	.299	.507	26.1	32.5	.227	-0.7

Career totals

785

2,802

2,506

324

667

116

101

RBI

354

251

393

.2662

OBP

.3354

SLG

.4461

OPS

.7815

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	TB
1958-05-30	LAD @ CHC Gameday	5	3	3	0	3	4	12
1956-09-03	CHC @ STL Gameday	5	2	3	1	2	3	11
1956-04-27	CHC @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	4	9
1956-08-31	CHC @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	2	9
1958-06-19	CHC @ ATL Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	2	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1956-05-02	SF @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1956-05-16	CHC @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1956-05-17	CHC @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1956-05-19	CHC @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1956-06-05	PIT @ CHC 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.