Wes Bankston

Wesley Wade Bankston

Position: First Baseman
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 4", Weight: 215 lb.

Born: November 23, 1983 in Dallas, TX
High School: Plano East (Plano, TX)
Drafted by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the 4th round of the 2002 amateur draft.
Signed June 17, 2002. (All Transactions)
Debut: July 2, 2008
Team: Athletics 2008

Final Game: July 30, 2008
About biographical information

View team uniforms at Dressed to the Nines a Baseball Hall of Fame on-line exhibit / Report an error

Like this page? Sponsor it for $15. Your message will replace this ad.

Fan EloRater

Fine Details · Last Updated Feb 11, 2012, 9:05AM

All-Time Rank (among Batters): #1. Babe Ruth… #2. Willie Mays… #3. Ty Cobb… #4. Ted Williams… #5. Lou Gehrig… #6. Stan Musial… #7. Rogers Hornsby…

All-Time Rank (among Batters): #1. Babe Ruth… #2. Willie Mays… #3. Ty Cobb… #4. Ted Williams… #5. Lou Gehrig… #6. Stan Musial… #7. Rogers Hornsby…

Standard Batting

More Stats

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB	Pos
2002	18	TBD-min	Rk,A-	70	303	279	50	84	11	1	18	58	3	1	18	52	.301	.340	.541	.881		151	3	1	0	5	1	PRI,HDV · APPY,NYPL
2003	19	TBD-min	A	103	436	375	46	96	18	1	12	60	2	3	53	94	.256	.346	.405	.752		152	11	2	0	6	3	CHS · SALL
2004	20	TBD-min	A	127	551	470	82	136	30	3	23	101	9	0	73	104	.289	.390	.513	.903		241	5	6	0	2	8	CHS · SALL
2005	21	TBD-min	AA,A+	99	415	363	57	112	21	3	15	70	3	5	45	81	.309	.390	.507	.897		184	9	5	0	2	4	MTG,VIS · SOUL,CALL
2006	22	TBD-min	AAA,AA	97	390	362	42	102	20	1	9	48	4	2	22	77	.282	.328	.417	.745		151	7	4	0	2	1	DHM,MTG · IL,SOUL
2007	23	TBD-min	AAA	104	426	390	46	93	23	1	15	59	2	0	25	88	.238	.282	.418	.700		163	10	2	0	9	1	DHM · IL
2008	24	OAK-min	AAA	97	405	375	56	105	19	1	20	73	0	2	21	71	.280	.328	.496	.824		186	8	7	0	2	2	SAC · PCL
2008	24	OAK	AL	17	63	59	4	12	3	0	1	4	0	0	2	15	.203	.238	.305	.543	47	18	0	1	0	1	0	3
2009	25	CIN-min	AAA	122	493	457	57	122	26	3	17	75	2	1	30	88	.267	.313	.449	.762		205	9	2	1	3	2	LOU · IL
2010	26	TEX-min	AA,AAA	62	269	246	24	56	19	0	5	32	2	0	17	48	.228	.284	.366	.649		90	15	3	1	2	0	FRI,OKC · TL,PCL
1 Season				17	63	59	4	12	3	0	1	4	0	0	2	15	.203	.238	.305	.543	47	18	0	1	0	1	0
162 Game Avg.				162	600	562	38	114	29	0	10	38	0	0	19	143	.203	.238	.305	.543	47	172	0	10	0	10	0

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rroe	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	Rrep	RAR	WAR	oRAR	oWAR	dWAR	Salary	Pos	Awards
2008	24	OAK	AL	63	-4	-1	0	0	1	-1	2	-3	-0.3	-4	-0.4	0.1	$	3
1 Season				63	-4	-1	0	0	1	-1	2	-3	-0.3	-4	-0.4	0.1	$

Standard Fielding

More Stats

Adv Fielding w/ run summary

Year	Tm	Lg	Age	Pos	G	GS	Ch	PO	A	E	DP	Fld%	Rtot	Rdrs	RF/G	lgFld%	lgRFG
2008	OAK	AL	24	1B	13		111	104	6	1	10	.991	1	-1	8.46	.994	9.18
2008	OAK	AL	24	DH	4	4
	1 Season			1B	13		111	104	6	1	10	.991	1	-1	8.46	.994	9.18
	1 Season			TOT	13		111	104	6	1	10	.991	1	-1	8.46	.994	9.18

Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.

View Complete Notes on Fielding Data

Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.

Pre-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
From 1950 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1950 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1919 on.
Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1950 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Transactions

June 4, 2002: Drafted by the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in the 4th round of the 2002 amateur draft. Player signed June 17, 2002.
September 21, 2007: Selected off waivers by the Kansas City Royals from the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
November 28, 2007: Selected off waivers by the Oakland Athletics from the Kansas City Royals.
October 1, 2008: Granted Free Agency.
December 18, 2008: Signed as a Free Agent with the Cincinnati Reds.
November 9, 2009: Granted Free Agency.
February 24, 2010: Signed as a Free Agent with the Texas Rangers.
June 23, 2010: Released by the Texas Rangers.

The transaction information used here was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet. We attempt to update transactions throughout the season.

Other Resources & Links

Error? Compare Search SABR's Baseball Index Other Links@google.com Baseball-Almanac.com Retrosheet The Baseball Page WhatIfSports: Wes Bankston

Viewed 6,067 times through February 11, 2012.
Name and misspellings: Wesley Wade Wes Bankston

Player Page Tricks and Tips

Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
Default Setting for this feature: Turn On / Turn Off
Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons or career game numbers (like '#1972:batting_standard', '#1970-1980-sum:batting_standard', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum:pitching_standard') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

The play-by-play information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet.