MLB / Players

Andre Thornton

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 200 lb

BornAugust 13, 1949 · Tuskegee, AL, USA

MLB debutJuly 28, 1973

Final gameAugust 31, 1987

Seasons14 (1973–1987)

Chicago Cubs 1973–1976; Montreal Expos 1976; Cleveland Indians 1977–1979; Cleveland Indians 1981–1987

Percentile snapshot

1985 season — qualified batters

124

2.2

514

6.6

461

5.1

109

4.4

2.2

69.9

RBI

74.3

38.2

50.7

26.5

73.5

.236

8.1

OBP

.304

16.2

SLG

.408

40.4

OPS

.711

29.4

wRC+

93.0

27.9

OPS+

93.3

28.7

wOBA

.317

25.7

sWAR

-0.1

2.2

of 137 qualified 1985 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

123.0

83.5

OPS+

122.0

82.1

sWAR

24.0

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
1973	17	42	35	3	7	3	0	0	2	7	9	0	0	.200	.333	.286	.619	78.6	68.8	.309	-0.1
1974	107	357	303	41	79	16	4	10	46	48	50	2	1	.261	.368	.439	.807	125.0	121.0	.378	1.5
1975	120	473	372	70	109	21	4	18	60	88	63	3	2	.293	.428	.516	.944	159.3	155.5	.430	3.9
1976	96	326	268	28	52	11	2	11	38	48	46	4	1	.194	.323	.373	.696	98.3	93.6	.333	0.3
1977	131	517	433	77	114	20	5	28	70	70	82	3	4	.263	.378	.527	.904	150.2	147.6	.401	3.9
1978	145	617	508	97	133	22	4	33	105	93	72	4	7	.262	.377	.516	.893	152.1	150.3	.400	4.7
1979	143	617	515	89	120	31	1	26	93	90	93	5	4	.233	.347	.449	.796	114.8	112.7	.358	2.0
1981	69	256	226	22	54	12	0	6	30	23	37	3	1	.239	.303	.372	.675	93.2	94.6	.311	-0.1
1982	161	708	589	90	161	26	1	32	116	109	81	6	7	.273	.386	.484	.870	136.3	137.3	.382	3.6
1983	141	605	508	78	143	27	1	17	77	87	72	4	2	.281	.383	.439	.822	122.8	122.9	.366	2.1
1984	155	689	587	91	159	26	0	33	99	91	79	6	5	.271	.366	.484	.850	131.0	131.5	.374	3.1
1985	124	514	461	49	109	13	0	22	88	47	75	3	2	.236	.304	.408	.711	93.0	93.3	.317	-0.1
1986	120	475	401	49	92	14	0	17	66	65	67	4	1	.229	.333	.392	.724	100.0	97.2	.329	0.3
1987	36	97	85	8	10	2	0	0	5	10	25	1	0	.118	.206	.141	.347	-4.6	-5.6	.175	-1.2

Career totals

1,565

6,293

5,291

792

1,342

244

253

248th-most career HR

RBI

895

410th-most career RBI

876

195th-most career BB

851

.2536

OBP

.3598

487th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4515

469th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8113

416th-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	BB	TB
1978-04-22	CLE @ BOS Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	1	2	0	10
1982-04-13	MIL @ CLE Gameday	6	3	3	1	0	2	2	0	10
1977-06-17	DET @ CLE Gameday	6	2	3	0	0	2	6	0	9
1984-06-29	TEX @ CLE Gameday	6	2	3	0	0	2	4	1	9
1978-07-15	CLE @ SEA Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	3	0	9

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

1× Silver Slugger2× 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.