MLB / Players

Whitey Witt

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 7 in · 150 lb

BornSeptember 28, 1895 · Orange, MA, USA

MLB debutApril 12, 1916

Final gameAugust 19, 1926

Seasons10 (1916–1926)

Philadelphia Athletics 1916–1917; Philadelphia Athletics 1919–1921; New York Yankees 1922–1925; Brooklyn Robins 1926

Percentile snapshot

1924 season — qualified batters

147

83.3

660

89.7

600

82.8

178

86.2

69.5

48.3

17.2

RBI

36.8

74.1

32.2

59.2

25.9

.297

47.7

OBP

.346

39.1

SLG

.362

29.9

OPS

.707

32.2

wRC+

82.4

OPS+

83.3

24.7

wOBA

.337

33.3

sWAR

0.9

37.9

of 175 qualified 1924 batters (min 474 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

98.4

38.3

OPS+

96.2

34.1

sWAR

15.8

91.4

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
1916	143	626	563	64	138	16	15	2	36	55	71	19	0	.245	.315	.337	.652	93.6	95.5	.322	2.5
1917	128	530	452	62	114	13	4	0	28	65	45	12	0	.252	.346	.299	.645	99.4	94.7	.328	2.4
1919	122	518	460	56	123	15	6	0	33	46	26	11	0	.267	.334	.326	.660	83.4	83.1	.321	0.6
1920	65	253	218	29	70	11	3	1	25	27	16	2	3	.321	.396	.413	.809	114.0	111.3	.384	1.1
1921	154	726	629	100	198	31	11	4	45	77	52	16	15	.315	.390	.418	.809	106.1	103.9	.379	2.2
1922	140	628	528	98	157	11	6	4	40	89	29	5	8	.297	.400	.364	.763	106.0	99.5	.368	2.6
1923	146	685	596	113	187	18	10	6	56	67	42	2	7	.314	.386	.408	.794	111.4	109.7	.377	3.4
1924	147	660	600	88	178	26	5	1	36	45	20	9	7	.297	.346	.362	.707	82.4	83.3	.337	0.9
1925	31	46	40	9	8	2	1	0	0	6	2	1	1	.200	.304	.300	.604	58.6	55.7	.296	-0.1
1926	63	99	85	13	22	1	1	0	3	12	6	1	0	.259	.351	.294	.645	81.7	76.1	.316	0.1

Career totals

1,139

4,771

4,171

632

1,195

144

RBI

302

489

309

.2865

492nd-highest career batting average

OBP

.3623

425th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3637

OPS

.7260

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
1919-06-05	CLE @ ATH Gameday	5	3	5	0	1	0	2	0	7
1922-05-13	DET @ NYY Gameday	6	2	4	0	0	1	1	1	7
1924-04-19	NYY @ MIN Gameday	5	1	3	1	0	1	1	0	7
1921-04-17	ATH @ MIN Gameday	5	0	3	0	2	0	0	0	7
1923-05-26	NYY @ ATH Gameday	7	2	5	1	0	0	2	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1916-04-12	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1916-04-13	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1916-04-15	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1916-04-18	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1916-04-19	ATH @ NYY 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.