Wes Covington
Milwaukee Braves 1956–1960; Chicago White Sox 1961; Kansas City Athletics 1961; Milwaukee Braves 1961; Philadelphia Phillies 1961–1965; Chicago Cubs 1966; Los Angeles Dodgers 1966
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | 75 | 157 | 138 | 17 | 39 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 16 | 16 | 20 | 1 | 0 | .283 | .361 | .355 | .716 | 102.3 | 100.9 | .325 | 0.4 |
| 1957 | 96 | 371 | 328 | 51 | 93 | 4 | 8 | 21 | 65 | 29 | 44 | 4 | 1 | .284 | .339 | .537 | .875 | 134.8 | 141.0 | .371 | 2.3 |
| 1958 | 90 | 324 | 294 | 43 | 97 | 12 | 1 | 24 | 74 | 20 | 35 | 0 | 0 | .330 | .380 | .622 | 1.003 | 169.2 | 172.6 | .426 | 3.4 |
| 1959 | 103 | 405 | 373 | 38 | 104 | 17 | 3 | 7 | 45 | 26 | 41 | 0 | 1 | .279 | .329 | .397 | .726 | 97.5 | 101.4 | .320 | 0.7 |
| 1960 | 95 | 299 | 281 | 25 | 70 | 16 | 1 | 10 | 35 | 15 | 37 | 1 | 2 | .249 | .288 | .420 | .708 | 96.6 | 98.6 | .314 | 0.5 |
| 1961 | 105 | 321 | 289 | 34 | 78 | 11 | 0 | 12 | 47 | 25 | 33 | 0 | 0 | .270 | .329 | .433 | .762 | 101.3 | 101.7 | .338 | 0.7 |
| 1962 | 116 | 331 | 304 | 36 | 86 | 12 | 1 | 9 | 44 | 19 | 44 | 0 | 0 | .283 | .324 | .418 | .742 | 98.9 | 100.4 | .332 | 0.6 |
| 1963 | 119 | 383 | 353 | 46 | 107 | 24 | 1 | 17 | 64 | 26 | 56 | 1 | 0 | .303 | .354 | .521 | .876 | 152.3 | 151.5 | .385 | 3.1 |
| 1964 | 129 | 383 | 339 | 37 | 95 | 18 | 0 | 13 | 58 | 38 | 50 | 0 | 0 | .280 | .355 | .448 | .803 | 127.7 | 127.1 | .358 | 2.1 |
| 1965 | 101 | 264 | 235 | 27 | 58 | 10 | 1 | 15 | 45 | 26 | 47 | 0 | 0 | .247 | .322 | .489 | .811 | 121.4 | 127.6 | .350 | 1.2 |
| 1966 | 46 | 53 | 44 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .114 | .264 | .227 | .491 | 46.5 | 46.4 | .238 | -0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964-08-24 | PHI @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 12 |
| 1962-06-10 | PHI @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 9 |
| 1961-09-14 | PHI @ SF Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1963-08-11 | SF @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1963-07-17 | HOU @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956-05-20 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1956-05-20 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1956-06-03 | PIT @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1956-06-03 | PIT @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1956-06-18 | ATL @ 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.