Willard Marshall
New York Giants 1942; New York Giants 1946–1949; Boston Braves 1950–1952; Cincinnati Reds 1952–1953; Chicago White Sox 1954–1955
Percentile snapshot
1952 season — qualified batters
of 76 qualified 1952 batters (min 480 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 116 | 434 | 401 | 41 | 103 | 9 | 2 | 11 | 59 | 26 | 20 | 1 | 0 | .257 | .307 | .372 | .679 | 94.7 | 98.2 | .320 | 0.9 |
| 1946 | 131 | 550 | 510 | 63 | 144 | 18 | 3 | 13 | 48 | 33 | 29 | 3 | 0 | .282 | .327 | .406 | .733 | 102.7 | 105.8 | .344 | 1.7 |
| 1947 | 155 | 656 | 587 | 102 | 171 | 19 | 6 | 36 | 107 | 67 | 30 | 3 | 0 | .291 | .366 | .528 | .894 | 131.4 | 133.0 | .400 | 4.0 |
| 1948 | 143 | 604 | 537 | 72 | 146 | 21 | 8 | 14 | 86 | 64 | 34 | 2 | 0 | .272 | .350 | .419 | .769 | 106.7 | 106.4 | .355 | 1.8 |
| 1949 | 141 | 581 | 499 | 81 | 153 | 19 | 3 | 12 | 70 | 78 | 20 | 4 | 0 | .307 | .401 | .429 | .830 | 127.5 | 123.2 | .385 | 3.2 |
| 1950 | 105 | 336 | 298 | 38 | 70 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 40 | 36 | 5 | 1 | 0 | .235 | .319 | .332 | .652 | 77.6 | 76.8 | .304 | -0.2 |
| 1951 | 136 | 523 | 469 | 65 | 132 | 24 | 7 | 11 | 62 | 48 | 18 | 0 | 3 | .281 | .351 | .433 | .784 | 115.8 | 116.4 | .356 | 2.1 |
| 1952 | 128 | 513 | 463 | 57 | 121 | 27 | 2 | 10 | 57 | 41 | 25 | 0 | 1 | .261 | .324 | .393 | .717 | 97.0 | 98.4 | .330 | 0.9 |
| 1953 | 122 | 400 | 357 | 51 | 95 | 14 | 6 | 17 | 62 | 41 | 28 | 0 | 0 | .266 | .342 | .482 | .824 | 109.0 | 110.1 | .362 | 1.3 |
| 1954 | 47 | 83 | 71 | 7 | 18 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .254 | .349 | .324 | .673 | 89.1 | 86.0 | .325 | 0.0 |
| 1955 | 22 | 55 | 41 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .171 | .364 | .171 | .534 | 63.3 | 48.3 | .290 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-07-18 | CIN @ SF Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 12 |
| 1942-05-15 | CIN @ SF Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 10 |
| 1948-06-17 | PIT @ SF Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1942-07-28 | CHC @ SF Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 8 |
| 1949-06-01 | CHC @ SF Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942-04-14 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942-04-15 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942-04-16 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942-04-17 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942-04-18 | SF @ ATL 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.