Birdie Tebbetts

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb

BornNovember 10, 1912 · Burlington, VT, USA

MLB debutSeptember 16, 1936

Final gameSeptember 14, 1952

Seasons14 (1936–1952)

Detroit Tigers 1936–1942; Detroit Tigers 1946; Boston Red Sox 1947; Detroit Tigers 1947; Boston Red Sox 1948–1950; Cleveland Indians 1951–1952

Percentile snapshot

1948 season — qualified batters

128

513

31.2

446

23.7

125

36.6

66.7

6.5

38.7

RBI

62.4

61.3

64.5

54.8

26.9

.280

OBP

.371

54.8

SLG

.381

31.2

OPS

.752

37.6

wRC+

98.6

33.3

OPS+

96.9

31.2

wOBA

.361

44.1

sWAR

2.6

52.7

of 94 qualified 1948 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

81.1

11.6

OPS+

81.6

11.2

sWAR

12.8

89.5

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
1936	10	38	33	7	10	1	2	1	4	5	3	0	0	.303	.395	.545	.940	127.0	130.5	.420	0.3
1937	50	175	162	15	31	4	3	2	16	10	13	0	0	.191	.238	.290	.528	25.6	32.0	.244	-0.7
1938	53	158	143	16	42	6	2	1	25	12	13	1	2	.294	.348	.385	.733	77.8	79.0	.340	0.4
1939	106	376	341	37	89	22	2	4	53	25	20	2	1	.261	.315	.372	.688	68.8	71.3	.317	0.5
1940	111	417	379	46	112	24	4	4	46	35	14	4	5	.296	.357	.412	.768	92.0	92.3	.350	1.8
1941	110	400	359	28	102	19	4	2	47	38	29	1	2	.284	.354	.376	.730	86.3	86.2	.343	1.4
1942	99	352	308	24	76	11	0	1	27	39	17	4	0	.247	.335	.292	.627	74.4	72.2	.311	0.9
1946	87	312	280	20	68	11	2	1	34	28	23	1	3	.243	.312	.307	.619	67.1	69.8	.298	0.6
1947	110	374	344	23	92	11	0	1	30	24	33	2	5	.267	.315	.308	.623	65.4	69.6	.299	0.6
1948	128	513	446	54	125	26	2	5	68	62	32	5	2	.280	.371	.381	.752	98.6	96.9	.361	2.6
1949	122	472	403	42	109	14	0	5	48	62	22	8	1	.270	.369	.342	.712	86.0	83.6	.350	1.7
1950	79	299	268	33	83	10	1	8	45	29	26	1	1	.310	.377	.444	.821	100.7	101.4	.380	1.6
1951	55	146	137	8	36	6	0	2	18	8	7	0	0	.263	.308	.350	.659	80.3	83.9	.308	0.5
1952	42	117	101	4	25	4	0	1	8	12	9	0	1	.248	.339	.317	.656	92.4	90.1	.319	0.6

Career totals

1,162

4,149

3,704

357

1,000

169

RBI

469

389

261

.2700

OBP

.3413

SLG

.3583

OPS

.6996

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
1940-08-18	CWS @ DET Gameday	4	3	4	0	1	1	1	0	9
1950-05-06	CWS @ BOS Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	4	1	8
1950-07-02	NYY @ BOS Gameday	5	1	4	0	0	1	3	0	7
1939-07-17	BOS @ DET Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	5	0	7
1941-09-22	DET @ CWS Gameday	5	2	3	2	1	0	2	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1936-04-14	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1936-04-15	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1936-04-17	CWS @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1936-04-19	CWS @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1936-04-20	BAL @ DET 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

4× 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.