MLB / Players

Yogi Berra

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 7 in · 185 lb

BornMay 12, 1925 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutSeptember 22, 1946

Final gameMay 9, 1965

Seasons19 (1946–1965)

New York Yankees 1946–1963; New York Mets 1965

Percentile snapshot

1959 season — qualified batters

131

14.5

521

14.5

472

20.3

26.1

134

33.3

7.2

RBI

49.3

8.7

60.9

.284

56.5

OBP

.347

52.2

SLG

.462

62.3

OPS

.809

wRC+

123.9

69.6

OPS+

125.5

69.6

wOBA

.361

62.3

sWAR

4.3

78.3

of 70 qualified 1959 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

123.9

84.9

OPS+

127.6

88.2

sWAR

65.5

99.6

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
1946	7	23	22	3	8	1	0	2	4	1	1	0	0	.364	.391	.682	1.073	198.7	196.0	.477	0.4
1947	83	306	293	41	82	15	3	11	54	13	12	0	1	.280	.310	.464	.775	110.0	116.4	.353	1.7
1948	125	497	469	70	143	24	10	14	98	25	24	3	3	.305	.341	.488	.830	116.2	122.2	.379	3.0
1949	116	443	415	59	115	20	2	20	91	22	25	2	1	.277	.323	.480	.802	105.0	112.8	.368	2.6
1950	151	656	597	116	192	30	6	28	124	55	12	4	2	.322	.383	.533	.915	133.5	137.5	.413	6.1
1951	141	594	547	92	161	19	4	27	88	44	20	5	4	.294	.350	.492	.842	127.4	131.8	.383	5.2
1952	142	605	534	97	146	17	1	30	98	66	24	2	3	.273	.358	.478	.835	137.8	139.8	.384	6.1
1953	137	557	503	80	149	23	5	27	108	50	32	0	3	.296	.363	.523	.886	140.6	143.3	.398	5.8
1954	151	652	584	88	179	28	6	22	125	56	29	0	1	.307	.367	.488	.855	138.8	140.0	.389	6.6
1955	147	615	541	84	147	20	3	27	108	60	20	1	0	.272	.349	.470	.819	120.3	123.1	.371	4.8
1956	140	597	521	93	155	29	2	30	105	65	29	3	2	.298	.378	.534	.911	141.3	145.0	.405	6.1
1957	134	545	482	74	121	14	2	24	82	57	24	1	2	.251	.329	.438	.767	108.0	111.9	.342	3.4
1958	122	476	433	60	115	17	3	22	90	35	35	3	0	.266	.319	.471	.790	116.1	120.4	.347	3.2
1959	131	521	472	64	134	25	1	19	69	43	38	1	2	.284	.347	.462	.809	123.9	125.5	.361	4.3
1960	120	404	359	46	99	14	1	15	62	38	23	2	1	.276	.347	.446	.792	116.5	119.7	.353	2.5
1961	119	437	395	62	107	11	0	22	61	35	28	2	0	.271	.330	.466	.795	112.8	117.1	.350	1.8
1962	86	263	232	25	52	8	0	10	35	24	18	0	1	.224	.297	.388	.685	81.5	87.3	.301	0.4
1963	64	164	147	20	43	6	0	8	28	15	17	1	0	.293	.360	.497	.856	141.4	140.9	.376	1.7
1965	4	9	9	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.222	.222	.222	.444	18.4	26.8	.204	0.0

Career totals

2,120

188th-most career G

8,364

222nd-most career PA

7,555

214th-most career AB

1,175

211th-most career R

2,150

211th-most career H

321

410th-most career 2B

358

94th-most career HR

RBI

1,430

68th-most career RBI

704

379th-most career BB

414

.2846

OBP

.3478

SLG

.4822

211th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8300

284th-highest career OPS

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	TB
1952-05-27	MIN @ NYY Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	2	2	10
1950-08-22	DET @ NYY Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	1	6	9
1951-08-15	NYY @ MIN Gameday	5	1	4	0	1	1	4	9
1956-05-18	NYY @ CWS Gameday	5	1	4	2	0	1	3	9
1962-07-18	NYY @ BOS Gameday	5	2	4	2	0	1	3	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1946-04-16	NYY @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-04-17	NYY @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-04-18	NYY @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-04-19	MIN @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1946-04-20	MIN @ 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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1972 (BBWAA)

3× Most Valuable Player15× 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.