Woodie Held

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 167 lb

BornMarch 25, 1932 · Sacramento, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 5, 1954

Final gameSeptember 28, 1969

Seasons14 (1954–1969)

New York Yankees 1954; Kansas City Athletics 1957; New York Yankees 1957; Cleveland Indians 1958; Kansas City Athletics 1958; Cleveland Indians 1959–1964; Washington Senators 1965; Baltimore Orioles 1966–1967; California Angels 1967–1968; Chicago White Sox 1968–1969

Percentile snapshot

1962 season — qualified batters

139

14.6

555

20.4

466

6.8

9.7

116

3.9

12.6

59.2

RBI

23.3

78.6

107

4.9

51.5

70.9

.249

10.7

OBP

.362

70.9

SLG

.406

OPS

.768

45.6

wRC+

112.6

55.3

OPS+

109.3

50.5

wOBA

.351

53.4

sWAR

3.4

68.9

of 104 qualified 1962 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

108.1

57.7

OPS+

107.6

57.7

sWAR

22.4

94.5

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
1954	4	5	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	.000	.400	.000	.400	78.3	20.6	.302	0.0
1957	93	372	327	48	78	14	3	20	50	37	81	4	0	.239	.320	.483	.803	113.9	113.9	.360	2.0
1958	114	313	275	25	56	6	1	7	33	25	64	1	3	.204	.281	.309	.590	61.5	62.4	.276	-0.2
1959	143	577	525	82	132	19	3	29	71	46	118	1	2	.251	.313	.465	.778	113.3	114.7	.347	3.5
1960	109	430	376	45	97	15	1	21	67	44	73	0	1	.258	.342	.471	.813	119.1	120.8	.362	3.0
1961	146	590	509	67	136	23	5	23	78	69	111	0	0	.267	.354	.468	.822	116.9	120.7	.361	3.9
1962	139	555	466	55	116	12	2	19	58	73	107	5	1	.249	.362	.406	.768	112.6	109.3	.351	3.4
1963	133	493	416	61	103	19	4	17	61	61	96	2	2	.248	.352	.435	.787	119.7	120.2	.349	2.9
1964	118	415	364	50	86	13	0	18	49	43	88	1	0	.236	.328	.420	.748	105.8	107.4	.332	1.7
1965	122	390	332	46	82	16	2	16	54	49	74	0	0	.247	.345	.452	.797	129.0	125.3	.361	2.2
1966	56	95	82	6	17	3	1	1	7	12	30	0	0	.207	.309	.305	.613	85.2	79.3	.292	0.1
1967	84	216	182	19	37	6	0	5	23	24	53	0	2	.203	.310	.319	.628	95.1	88.7	.303	0.7
1968	73	115	99	9	14	2	0	0	2	10	29	0	0	.141	.239	.162	.401	23.8	24.0	.209	-0.8
1969	56	79	63	9	9	2	0	3	6	13	19	0	0	.143	.299	.317	.616	61.8	68.4	.284	-0.1

Career totals

1,390

4,645

4,019

524

963

150

179

470th-most career HR

RBI

559

508

944

456th-most career SO

.2396

OBP

.3312

SLG

.4215

OPS

.7527

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
1959-07-26	MIN @ CLE Gameday	5	4	4	0	0	2	4	0	10
1960-09-04	CLE @ ATH Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	2	6	1	10
1961-09-28	CLE @ MIN Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	5	0	10
1960-04-29	ATH @ CLE Gameday	3	2	3	0	0	2	4	0	9
1959-09-12	CLE @ MIN Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	3	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1954-08-12	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1954-09-25	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1957-06-21	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1957-07-23	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1957-07-25	ATH @ BOS 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.