Al Simmons

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 190 lb

BornMay 22, 1902 · Milwaukee, WI, USA

MLB debutApril 15, 1924

Final gameJuly 1, 1944

Seasons20 (1924–1944)

Philadelphia Athletics 1924–1932; Chicago White Sox 1933–1935; Detroit Tigers 1936; Washington Senators 1937–1938; Boston Bees 1939; Cincinnati Reds 1939; Philadelphia Athletics 1940–1941; Boston Red Sox 1943; Philadelphia Athletics 1944

Percentile snapshot

1938 season — qualified batters

125

28.9

512

28.9

470

36.4

60.3

142

53.7

37.2

51.2

84.3

RBI

32.2

35.5

20.7

32.2

.302

60.3

OBP

.357

48.8

SLG

.511

81.8

OPS

.868

75.2

wRC+

116.3

71.9

OPS+

121.0

71.9

wOBA

.387

73.6

sWAR

2.2

63.6

of 122 qualified 1938 batters (min 471 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

130.2

90.7

OPS+

133.1

92.6

sWAR

61.8

99.4

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
1924	152	644	594	69	183	31	9	8	102	30	60	16	15	.308	.343	.431	.774	93.7	97.5	.359	1.5
1925	153	696	654	122	253	43	12	24	129	35	41	7	14	.387	.419	.599	1.018	148.9	151.6	.459	6.9
1926	147	642	583	90	199	53	10	19	109	48	49	11	3	.341	.392	.564	.957	142.5	144.9	.433	5.8
1927	106	458	406	86	159	36	11	15	108	31	30	10	2	.392	.436	.645	1.081	172.3	175.2	.484	5.7
1928	119	509	464	78	163	33	9	15	107	31	30	1	4	.351	.396	.558	.954	146.0	148.0	.428	4.1
1929	143	629	581	114	212	41	9	34	157	31	38	4	2	.365	.398	.642	1.040	159.3	163.0	.456	6.1
1930	138	611	554	152	211	41	16	36	165	39	34	9	2	.381	.423	.708	1.130	173.3	179.8	.486	7.1
1931	128	563	513	105	200	37	13	22	128	47	45	3	3	.390	.444	.641	1.085	175.2	178.4	.483	6.6
1932	154	718	670	144	216	28	9	35	151	47	76	4	2	.322	.368	.548	.915	128.6	132.6	.406	4.2
1933	146	648	605	85	200	29	10	14	119	39	49	5	1	.331	.373	.481	.854	124.4	127.1	.389	3.4
1934	138	613	558	102	192	36	7	18	104	53	58	3	2	.344	.403	.530	.933	133.7	135.3	.423	4.0
1935	128	561	525	68	140	22	7	16	79	33	43	4	6	.267	.313	.427	.739	82.7	87.3	.336	0.7
1936	143	620	568	96	186	38	6	13	112	49	35	6	4	.327	.383	.484	.867	111.4	113.3	.393	3.0
1937	103	453	419	60	117	21	10	8	84	27	35	3	2	.279	.329	.434	.763	91.2	94.5	.344	0.5
1938	125	512	470	79	142	23	6	21	95	38	40	2	1	.302	.357	.511	.868	116.3	121.0	.387	2.2
1939	102	381	351	39	96	17	5	7	44	24	43	0	0	.274	.324	.410	.734	99.1	101.8	.336	0.8
1940	37	85	81	7	25	4	0	1	19	4	8	0	0	.309	.341	.395	.736	88.3	90.1	.334	0.1
1941	9	25	24	1	3	1	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	.125	.160	.167	.327	-25.6	-13.7	.157	-0.3
1943	40	141	133	9	27	5	0	1	12	8	21	0	1	.203	.248	.263	.511	39.9	48.8	.248	-0.7
1944	4	6	6	1	3	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	195.2	186.7	.471	0.1

Career totals

2,215

141st-most career G

9,515

120th-most career PA

8,759

90th-most career AB

1,507

72nd-most career R

2,927

41st-most career H

539

42nd-most career 2B

149

51st-most career 3B

307

152nd-most career HR

RBI

1,827

21st-most career RBI

615

737

.3342

30th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3798

186th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5349

45th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.9147

62nd-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
1932-07-15	DET @ ATH Gameday	7	4	4	1	0	3	6	14
1930-06-23	CWS @ ATH Gameday	5	5	5	1	0	2	5	12
1938-05-14	MIN @ BOS Gameday	6	3	4	0	1	2	6	12
1929-06-21	ATH @ NYY Gameday	5	5	5	0	0	2	3	11
1930-04-19	MIN @ ATH Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	2	4	11

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1924-04-15	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1924-04-16	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1924-04-17	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1924-04-19	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1924-04-21	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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1953 (BBWAA)

3× 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.