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George Wright

George DeWitt Wright

Position: Centerfielder
Bats: Both, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 180 lb.

Born: December 22, 1958 in Oklahoma City, OK
High School: Capitol Hill HS (Oklahoma City, OK)
Drafted by the Texas Rangers in the 4th round of the 1977 amateur draft. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 10, 1982
Teams (by GP): Rangers/Expos 1982-1986

Final Game: October 5, 1986
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Standard Batting

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	Awards
1977	18	TEX-min	Rk	31	100	87	11	16	0	2	0	8	6	1	12	14	.184	.283	.230	.513		20		0	1	0			RGS · GULF
1978	19	TEX-min	A	110	335	335		83	16	1	1						.248	.248	.310	.558		104							AVL · WCRS
1979	20	TEX-min	A	115	379	379		97	17	4	4						.256	.256	.354	.609		134							AVL · WCRS
1980	21	TEX-min	AA	136	507	458	60	126	22	5	5	65	14	10	33	73	.275	.328	.378	.706		173		5	7	4			TUL · TL
1981	22	TEX-min	AA	133	542	489	58	127	29	8	11	58	22	11	41	64	.260	.321	.419	.740		205		5	3	4	5		TUL · TL
1982	23	TEX	AL	150	599	557	69	147	20	5	11	50	3	7	30	78	.264	.305	.377	.682	91	210	11	3	8	1	4	*8/97
1983	24	TEX	AL	*162*	681	634	79	175	28	6	18	80	8	7	41	82	.276	.321	.424	.745	106	269	9	2	1	3	9	*8	MVP-24
1984	25	TEX-min	AAA	8	33	30	7	10	2	1	1	8	0	0	2	5	.333	.394	.567	.961		17		1	0	0	0		OKC · AA
1984	25	TEX	AL	101	405	383	40	93	19	4	9	48	0	2	15	54	.243	.273	.384	.657	78	147	6	2	1	3	2	89D
1985	26	TEX-min	AAA	39	158	142	22	36	4	2	8	27	1	2	13	21	.254	.316	.479	.795		68		1	0	2	3		OKC · AA
1985	26	TEX	AL	109	395	363	21	69	13	0	2	18	4	7	25	49	.190	.241	.242	.483	33	88	9	0	3	2	5	98/D
1986	27	WSN-min	AAA	14	66	52	9	17	3	0	5	21	4	0	10	6	.327	.446	.673	1.119		35		2	1	1	0		INA · AA
1986	27	TOT	MLB	105	245	223	22	45	8	3	2	12	4	6	15	51	.202	.254	.291	.546	49	65	5	2	1	4	1	987
1986	27	TEX	AL	49	112	106	10	23	3	1	2	7	3	5	4	23	.217	.250	.321	.571	53	34	2	1	0	1	1	97/8
1986	27	MON	NL	56	133	117	12	22	5	2	0	5	1	1	11	28	.188	.258	.265	.523	45	31	3	1	1	3	0	87/9
1987	28	WSN-min	AA	87	367	328	50	86	15	3	10	58	4	3	33	32	.262	.330	.418	.747		137		2	0	4	3		JCK · SOUL
1988	29	NAK	Fgn																										NAK · JPPL
1989	30	CHW-SFG-min	AAA	129	516	446	66	108	32	2	8	39	3	7	63	69	.242	.342	.377	.718		168		5	1	1	3		VAN,PHX · PCL
1990	31	KCR-min	AA,AAA	18	64	51	6	11	0	0	2	5	0	1	11	11	.216	.365	.333	.698		17		1	1	0	0		MEM,YUC · SOUL,MEX
1991	32	KCR-min	AA,AAA	18	67	52	8	11	2	0	1	6	0	0	14	11	.212	.379	.308	.686		16	1	0	1	0	1		MEM,YUC · SOUL,MEX
1992	33	SLT	AAA																										SLT · MEX
1993	34	FKA	Fgn																										FKA · JPPL
1994	35	SLT	AAA																										SLT · MEX
1995	36	SLT	AAA																										SLT · MEX
1996	37	SLT	AAA																										SLT · MEX
1997	38	QRO,ASC	AAA																										QRO,ASC · MEX
5 Yrs				627	2325	2160	231	529	88	18	42	208	19	29	126	314	.245	.288	.361	.648	79	779	40	9	14	13	21
162 Game Avg.				162	601	558	60	137	23	5	11	54	5	7	33	81	.245	.288	.361	.648	79	201	10	2	4	3	5

TEX (5 yrs)				571	2192	2043	219	507	83	16	42	203	18	28	115	286	.248	.290	.366	.656	81	748	37	8	13	10	21
MON (1 yr)				56	133	117	12	22	5	2	0	5	1	1	11	28	.188	.258	.265	.523	45	31	3	1	1	3	0

AL (5 yrs)				571	2192	2043	219	507	83	16	42	203	18	28	115	286	.248	.290	.366	.656	81	748	37	8	13	10	21
NL (1 yr)				56	133	117	12	22	5	2	0	5	1	1	11	28	.188	.258	.265	.523	45	31	3	1	1	3	0

Player Value--Batters

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	G	PA	Rbat	Rbaser	Rdp	Rfield	Rpos	RAA	WAA	Rrep	RAR	WAR	waaWL%	162WL%	oWAR	dWAR	oRAR	Salary	Pos	Awards
1982	23	TEX	AL	150	599	-10	-2	1	7	-1	-4	-0.3	18	14	1.4	.497	.497	0.8	0.7	8	$	*8/97
1983	24	TEX	AL	162	681	-0	0	1	6	0	7	1.0	21	28	2.9	.504	.504	2.3	0.8	22	$	*8	MVP-24
1984	25	TEX	AL	101	405	-11	-0	2	-13	-3	-26	-2.6	12	-14	-1.5	.473	.483	-0.1	-1.6	-0	$	89D
1985	26	TEX	AL	109	395	-36	-4	-0	-5	-3	-49	-5.0	12	-37	-3.9	.453	.468	-3.3	-0.8	-31	$400,000	98/D
1986	27	TEX	AL	49	112	-8	-2	0	0	-2	-11	-1.1	3	-8	-0.8	.477	.493	-0.8	-0.1	-8	$	97/8
1986	27	MON	NL	56	133	-8	0	0	-5	-1	-13	-1.4	4	-9	-1.0	.474	.491	-0.5	-0.6	-4	$	87/9
5 Seasons				627	2325	-73	-7	4	-10	-9	-96	-9.4	71	-24	-2.9	.484	.490	-1.6	-1.5	-14	$400,000

TEX (5 yrs)				571	2192	-65	-7	4	-6	-9	-82	-7.9	67	-15	-1.9	.485	.489	-1.1	-1.0	-10	$400,000
MON (1 yr)				56	133	-8	0	0	-5	-1	-13	-1.4	4	-9	-1.0	.474	.491	-0.5	-0.6	-4	$

Advanced Batting

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Outs	RC	RC/G	AIR	BAbip	BA	lgBA	OBP	lgOBP	SLG	lgSLG	OPS	lgOPS	OPS+	OWn%	BtRuns	BtWins	TotA	SecA	ISO	PwrSpd
1982	23	TEX	AL	599	437	61	3.8	93	.290	.264	.257	.305	.320	.377	.392	.682	.711	91	.409	-7.6	-0.8	.558	.160	.113	4.7
1983	24	TEX	AL	681	479	84	4.7	95	.292	.276	.262	.321	.324	.424	.395	.745	.719	106	.515	3.8	0.4	.659	.215	.148	11.1
1984	25	TEX	AL	405	302	39	3.5	99	.260	.243	.267	.273	.330	.384	.403	.657	.733	78	.380	-13.2	-1.3	.544	.175	.141	.0
1985	26	TEX	AL	395	315	19	1.6	100	.213	.190	.262	.241	.328	.242	.407	.483	.736	33	.128	-34.2	-3.4	.355	.113	.052	2.7
1986	27	TOT	MLB	245	194	15	2.1	100	.247	.202	.263	.254	.332	.291	.402	.546	.734	49	.197	-16.2	-1.6	.423	.148	.090	2.7
1986	27	TEX	AL	112	91	7	2.1	102	.256	.217	.264	.250	.332	.321	.412	.571	.744	53	.183	-7.4	-0.7	.411	.123	.104	2.4
1986	27	MON	NL	133	103	8	2.1	97	.239	.188	.261	.258	.332	.265	.394	.523	.726	45	.211	-8.8	-0.9	.434	.171	.077	.0
5 Yrs				2325	1727	218	3.4	97	.268	.245	.262	.288	.325	.361	.398	.648	.724	79	.368	-67.3	-6.8	.532	.169	.116	26.2
162 Game Avg.				601	446	56	3.4	97	.268	.245	.262	.288	.325	.361	.398	.648	.724	79	.368	-67.3	-6.8	.532	.169	.116	7

TEX (5 yrs)				2192	1624	210	3.5	97	.270	.248	.262	.290	.325	.366	.399	.656	.724	81	.376	-58.5	-5.8	.538	.169	.118	25.2
MON (1 yr)				133	103	8	2.1	97	.239	.188	.261	.258	.332	.265	.394	.523	.726	45	.211	-8.8	-0.9	.434	.171	.077	.0

AL (5 yrs)				2192	1624	210	3.5	97	.270	.248	.262	.290	.325	.366	.399	.656	.724	81	.376	-58.5	-5.8	.538	.169	.118	25.2
NL (1 yr)				133	103	8	2.1	97	.239	.188	.261	.258	.332	.265	.394	.523	.726	45	.211	-8.8	-0.9	.434	.171	.077	.0

Ratio Batting*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	SO/BB	AB/SO	AB/HR	AB/RBI	GO/AO	IP%
1982	23	TEX	AL	599	1.8%	13.0%	5.0%	6.0%	25%	2.60	7.1	50.6	11.1	1.19	78%
1983	24	TEX	AL	681	2.6%	12.0%	6.0%	7.6%	30%	2.00	7.7	35.2	7.9	0.78	79%
1984	25	TEX	AL	405	2.2%	13.3%	3.7%	7.9%	34%	3.60	7.1	42.6	8.0	1.07	80%
1985	26	TEX	AL	395	0.5%	12.4%	6.3%	3.8%	22%	1.96	7.4	181.5	20.2	1.11	79%
1986	27	TOT	MLB	245	0.8%	20.8%	6.1%	5.3%	29%	3.40	4.4	111.5	18.6	0.79	71%
1986	27	TEX	AL	112	1.8%	20.5%	3.6%	5.4%	26%	5.75	4.6	53.0	15.1	0.51	73%
1986	27	MON	NL	133	0.0%	21.1%	8.3%	5.3%	32%	2.55	4.2		23.4	1.12	69%
5 Yrs				2325	1.8%	13.5%	5.4%	6.4%	28%	2.49	6.9	51.4	10.4	0.98	78%
MLB Averages					2.2%	14.0%	8.5%	6.7%	29%	1.65	6.4	41.4	8.4	1.07	74%

Win Probability

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	BtRuns	BtWins	Plays	WPA	WPA+	WPA-	aLI	WPA/LI	Clutch	RE24	REW	boLI	RE24/boLI	PHlev	AB
1982	23	TEX	AL	-8.4	-0.8	617	-1.3	9.4	-10.7	.98	-1.0	-0.4	-8.7	-0.9	0.92	-11.5		0
1983	24	TEX	AL	3.8	0.4	700	1.1	14.3	-13.2	1.09	0.6	0.5	5.2	0.5	0.92	5.6	0.85	2
1984	25	TEX	AL	-13.2	-1.3	413	-0.9	7.3	-8.2	1.15	-0.7	-0.0	-4.3	-0.4	0.96	-6.6	1.99	2
1985	26	TEX	AL	-34.2	-3.4	410	-5.1	4.1	-9.1	1.04	-3.9	-1.0	-49.4	-5.0	0.92	-44.9	1.78	4
1986	27	TOT	MLB	-16.2	-1.6	258	-1.7	3.4	-5.1	1.08	-1.5	-0.1	-19.8	-2.0	0.94	-17.9	1.65	36
1986	27	TEX	AL	-7.4	-0.7	121	-0.8	1.6	-2.4	1.05	-0.8	0.0	-11.4	-1.1	0.94	-10.4	1.34	10
1986	27	MON	NL	-8.8	-0.9	137	-0.9	1.7	-2.6	1.10	-0.7	-0.2	-8.4	-0.9	0.95	-7.5	1.77	26
5 Yrs				-68.1	-6.8	2398	-7.8	38.5	-46.3	1.06	-6.5	-0.9	-77.1	-7.7	0.93	-75.2	1.64	44

Baserunning & Misc. Stats*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	ROE	XI	RS%	SBO	SB	CS	SB%	SB2	CS2	SB3	CS3	CSH	PO	PCS	OOB	BT	XBT%	1^stS	1^stS2	1^stS3	1^stD	1^stD3	1^stDH	2^ndS	2^ndS3	2^ndSH
1982	23	TEX	AL	3	0	34%	243	3	7	30%	3	7	0	0	0	5	2	5	14	47%	29	20	6	8	4	4	23	5	18
1983	24	TEX	AL	4	0	31%	250	8	7	53%	7	6	1	1	0	3	1	6	10	67%	38	17	21	13	3	9	19	2	17
1984	25	TEX	AL	7	1	31%	139	0	2	0%	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	3	11	43%	21	15	6	5	3	2	14	4	9
1985	26	TEX	AL	3	2	21%	107	4	7	36%	4	6	0	1	0	2	0	5	2	39%	18	11	6	2	0	2	8	5	3
1986	27	TOT	MLB	3	0	33%	69	4	6	40%	4	5	0	0	1	2	1	1	4	44%	12	10	2	7	1	6	6	3	3
1986	27	TEX	AL	1	0	31%	33	3	5	38%	3	4	0	0	1	1	1	0	1	39%	6	5	1	2	1	1	5	2	3
1986	27	MON	NL	2	0	35%	36	1	1	50%	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	3	50%	6	5	1	5	0	5	1	1	0
5 Yrs				20	3	30%	808	19	29	40%	18	26	1	2	1	12	4	20	41	51%	118	73	41	35	11	23	70	19	50

Situational Hitting*

						Hits			Pinch Hitting					Home Runs								SH			GIDP			PrdOut			BaseRunners			Advances
Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	Ptn%	H	Inf	Bnt	AB	H	HR	RBI	PHlev	All	GS	GSo	vRH	vLH	Hm	Rd	IP	Att	Suc	%	Opp	DP	%	Opp	Suc	%	BR	BRS	BRS%	<2,3B	Scr	%	0,2B	Adv	%	PAu
1982	23	TEX	AL	599	100%	147			0	0	0	0		11	0	10	4	7	3	8	1	12	8	67%	97	11	11%	47	15	32%	275	40	15%	17	7	41%	15	7	47%	0
1983	24	TEX	AL	681	100%	175			2	0	0	0	0.85	18	0	10	9	9	7	11	0	3	1	33%	123	9	7%	61	15	25%	407	67	16%	36	15	42%	25	11	44%	0
1984	25	TEX	AL	405	100%	93			2	0	0	0	1.99	9	0	10	6	3	6	3	0	1	1	100%	94	6	6%	40	10	25%	253	39	15%	23	12	52%	13	6	46%	0
1985	26	TEX	AL	395	100%	69			4	0	0	0	1.78	2	0	9	2	0	2	0	0	3	3	100%	72	9	13%	44	11	25%	243	17	7%	19	6	32%	14	8	57%	0
1986	27	TOT	MLB	245	100%	45			36	2	0	1	1.65	2	0	4	2	0	1	1	0	1	1	100%	53	5	9%	28	9	32%	132	10	8%	12	6	50%	9	4	44%	0
1986	27	TEX	AL	112	100%	23			10	1	0	0	1.34	2	0	2	2	0	1	1	0	0	0		20	2	10%	14	3	21%	60	5	8%	4	1	25%	5	2	40%	0
1986	27	MON	NL	133	100%	22			26	1	0	1	1.77	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	100%	33	3	9%	14	6	43%	72	5	7%	8	5	63%	4	2	50%	0
5 Yrs				2325	100%	529			44	2	0	1	1.64	42	0	43	23	19	19	23	1	20	14	70%	439	40	9%	220	60	27%	1310	173	13%	107	46	43%	76	36	47%	0
MLB Averages					59%																			83%			11%			35%			15%			52%			55%

Cumulative Batting

Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	CS	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	OPS+	TB	GDP	HBP	SH	SF	IBB
1982	23	150	599	557	69	147	20	5	11	50	3	7	30	78	.264	.305	.377	.682	91	210	11	3	8	1	4
1983	24	312	1280	1191	148	322	48	11	29	130	11	14	71	160	.270	.313	.402	.715	99	479	20	5	9	4	13
1984	25	413	1685	1574	188	415	67	15	38	178	11	16	86	214	.264	.303	.398	.701	94	626	26	7	10	7	15
1985	26	522	2080	1937	209	484	80	15	40	196	15	23	111	263	.250	.292	.369	.660	82	714	35	7	13	9	20
1986	27	627	2325	2160	231	529	88	18	42	208	19	29	126	314	.245	.288	.361	.648	79	779	40	9	14	13	21

Neutralized Batting

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Year	Age	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	SB	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	RC	Gact
1982	23	150	611	567	77	157	21	5	12	56	3	32	78	.277	.318	.395	.713	71	150
1983	24	162	691	642	85	183	29	6	19	86	8	43	82	.285	.330	.438	.768	93	162
1984	25	101	405	384	41	94	19	4	9	49	0	15	54	.245	.275	.385	.660	41	101
1985	26	109	394	364	22	70	13	0	2	19	4	25	49	.192	.243	.245	.487	22	109
1986	27	105	246	224	23	46	8	3	2	12	4	15	51	.205	.257	.295	.552	17	105
5 Yrs		627	2347	2181	248	550	90	18	44	222	19	130	314	.252	.295	.370	.666	244	627
162 Game Avg.		162	606	564	64	142	23	5	11	57	5	34	81	.252	.295	.370	.666	63	627

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr)) 1983 AL (24, 0%) 0.00 Career Shares (1712th)	Games Played s c a p y 1983 AL 162 (1st)	At Bats s c a p y 1983 AL 634 (4th)	Plate Appearances s c a p y 1983 AL 681 (7th)
Outs Made s c a p y 1983 AL 479 (6th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black Ink	Batting - 1 (743), Average HOFer ≈ 27
Gray Ink	Batting - 2 (2156), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame Standards	Batting - 2 (2725), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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Harry Craft (985) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Mickey Stanley (970) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Jay Johnstone (984) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

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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.

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Total Zone Rating and Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com.

Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of 24-7 Baseball.

Player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Many thanks to him. We have only selected seasons (players who debuted before 1960) for which we believe the image has reverted into the public domain. We will quickly remove any images for which that can be shown to not be the case.Please let us know if you are aware of any such images on this site.

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