MLB / Players

Bud Thomas

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb
BornSeptember 9, 1910 · Faber, VA, USA
MLB debutSeptember 13, 1932
Final gameSeptember 27, 1941
Seasons7 (1932–1941)

Washington Senators 1932–1933; Philadelphia Athletics 1937–1938; Detroit Tigers 1939; Philadelphia Athletics 1939; Washington Senators 1939; Detroit Tigers 1940–1941

Percentile snapshot

1938 season — qualified pitchers

G
42
85.1
GS
29
74.5
W
9
34
L
14
11.7
SV
0
0
CG
7
26.6
SHO
1
39.4
H
259
8.5
ER
116
9.6
BB
62
41.5
SO
48
29.8
HR
23
3.2
IP
212.3
73.4
ERA
4.92
19.1
WHIP
1.512
22.3
K/9
2.03
6.4
FIP
4.98
11.7
FIP-
103.8
24.5
ERA+
97.5
26.6
sWAR
1.6
31.9

of 95 qualified 1938 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
3.1
74.4

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
193220000000000000.2
19332110000000000.000.000.000.000-112.8-100.0.000-0.5
193735584736101542500.128.196.213.409-3.12.8.1961.0
193842816949100553000.130.189.145.334-18.3-15.2.1691.6
19393315140100000800.071.071.071.143-79.8-64.2.0660.2
19403000000000000-0.1
19412620190210000400.105.105.158.263-58.0-33.7.1170.8

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19322000000102103.00.001.0003.004.46103.10.2
193320000001172114.015.753.2502.258.03191.926.6-0.5
1937352681506120894525415169.74.991.5322.864.5898.793.01.0
19384229914071259116624823212.34.921.5122.034.98103.897.51.6
19393327110064352314960.35.221.4422.095.76120.391.60.2
19403001000843014.09.002.7500.008.42180.451.9-0.1
19412611320074342217472.74.211.3212.113.9287.7106.10.8

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

G
143
PA
175
AB
150
R
7
H
18
2B
3
3B
0
HR
1
RBI
10
BB
9
SO
67
SB
0
BA
.1200
OBP
.1698
SLG
.1600
OPS
.3298

Pitching

G (P)
143
GS
58
W
25
L
34
SV
3
CG
13
SHO
2
IP
526
SO (P)
135
BB allowed
166
ERA
4.962
WHIP
1.5038
K/9
2.31

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1937-08-14NYY @ ATH Gameday311001304
1938-09-25MIN @ ATH Gameday202000102
1937-08-31ATH @ BAL Gameday202000002
1937-08-11ATH @ MIN Gameday201100102
1938-05-01ATH @ BOS Gameday311100012

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1937-08-14NYY @ ATH Gameday9.0864261
1937-10-03MIN @ ATH Gameday9.0943340
1937-07-09BOS @ ATH Gameday3.2641040
1937-08-08BAL @ ATH Gameday3.0211340
1938-05-16ATH @ CLE Gameday9.11243130

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.