Whitey Platt
Chicago Cubs 1942–1943; Chicago White Sox 1946; St. Louis Browns 1948–1949
Percentile snapshot
1948 season — qualified batters
of 94 qualified 1948 batters (min 480 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 4 | 16 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .063 | .063 | .063 | .125 | -89.6 | -62.9 | .059 | -0.3 |
| 1943 | 20 | 42 | 41 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .171 | .190 | .244 | .434 | 9.2 | 25.3 | .205 | -0.3 |
| 1946 | 84 | 268 | 247 | 28 | 62 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 32 | 17 | 34 | 1 | 7 | .251 | .307 | .360 | .667 | 85.1 | 88.8 | .313 | 0.2 |
| 1948 | 123 | 499 | 454 | 57 | 123 | 22 | 10 | 7 | 82 | 39 | 51 | 1 | 4 | .271 | .331 | .410 | .741 | 88.0 | 92.0 | .347 | 0.3 |
| 1949 | 102 | 269 | 244 | 29 | 63 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 29 | 24 | 27 | 0 | 1 | .258 | .325 | .344 | .669 | 67.5 | 71.7 | .322 | -0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948-05-16 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| 1948-05-25 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1946-06-14 | BOS @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 7 |
| 1948-08-29 | BAL @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 1946-06-16 | BOS @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942-04-14 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942-04-15 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942-04-16 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942-04-17 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942-04-19 | CIN @ 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.