Whitey Lockman

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 175 lb

BornJuly 25, 1926 · Lowell, NC, USA

MLB debutJuly 5, 1945

Final gameJune 24, 1960

Seasons15 (1945–1960)

New York Giants 1945; New York Giants 1947–1956; St. Louis Cardinals 1956; New York Giants 1957; San Francisco Giants 1958; Baltimore Orioles 1959; Cincinnati Redlegs 1959; Cincinnati Reds 1960

Percentile snapshot

1957 season — qualified batters

133

18.9

502

9.5

456

14.9

10.8

113

6.8

33.8

20.3

RBI

1.4

25.7

97.3

56.8

28.4

.248

10.8

OBP

.308

12.2

SLG

.331

5.4

OPS

.639

6.8

wRC+

71.9

9.5

OPS+

72.5

6.8

wOBA

.291

5.4

sWAR

-1.1

of 75 qualified 1957 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

95.7

33.1

OPS+

95.9

33.4

sWAR

8.8

85.5

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
1945	32	148	129	16	44	9	0	3	18	13	10	1	0	.341	.410	.481	.890	145.3	143.7	.417	1.3
1947	2	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	171.8	164.2	.461	0.0
1948	146	659	584	117	167	24	10	18	59	68	63	8	0	.286	.361	.454	.815	118.5	118.3	.372	3.6
1949	151	685	617	97	186	32	7	11	65	62	31	12	0	.301	.368	.429	.798	114.5	113.7	.365	2.7
1950	129	582	532	72	157	28	5	6	52	42	29	1	0	.295	.349	.400	.749	96.6	97.1	.340	1.0
1951	153	673	614	85	173	27	7	12	73	50	32	4	5	.282	.339	.407	.746	99.2	100.2	.340	0.9
1952	154	686	606	99	176	17	4	13	58	67	52	2	4	.290	.363	.396	.759	112.3	110.2	.352	1.9
1953	150	664	607	85	179	22	4	9	61	52	36	3	4	.295	.351	.389	.739	92.4	92.1	.334	0.4
1954	148	639	570	73	143	17	3	16	60	59	31	2	2	.251	.318	.375	.694	79.5	81.4	.314	-0.8
1955	147	627	576	76	157	19	0	15	49	39	34	3	3	.273	.320	.384	.704	87.9	87.5	.317	0.2
1956	118	402	362	27	94	7	3	1	20	34	25	2	4	.260	.322	.304	.625	68.4	70.2	.285	-0.7
1957	133	502	456	51	113	9	4	7	30	39	19	5	5	.248	.308	.331	.639	71.9	72.5	.291	-1.1
1958	92	141	122	15	29	5	0	2	7	13	8	0	0	.238	.311	.328	.639	63.9	71.0	.283	-0.3
1959	90	167	153	17	37	6	2	0	9	12	10	0	0	.242	.295	.307	.602	63.7	63.1	.280	-0.5
1960	21	13	10	6	2	0	0	1	1	2	3	0	0	.200	.385	.500	.885	147.3	138.8	.400	0.1

Career totals

1,666

6,590

5,940

836

1,658

222

114

RBI

563

552

383

.2791

OBP

.3416

SLG

.3906

OPS

.7322

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
1948-06-01	SF @ LAD Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	4	1	9
1952-04-19	SF @ LAD Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	3	0	9
1948-04-24	SF @ ATL Gameday	6	2	4	0	2	0	7	0	8
1955-04-18	PIT @ SF Gameday	4	3	4	1	0	1	2	0	8
1948-04-22	LAD @ SF Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	1	1	1	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1945-04-17	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1945-04-18	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1945-04-19	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1945-04-19	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1945-04-20	LAD @ SF 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.