Cotton Tierney

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 175 lb

BornFebruary 10, 1894 · Kansas City, KS, USA

MLB debutSeptember 22, 1920

Final gameOctober 3, 1925

Seasons6 (1920–1925)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1920–1922; Philadelphia Phillies 1923; Pittsburgh Pirates 1923; Boston Braves 1924; Brooklyn Robins 1925

Percentile snapshot

1924 season — qualified batters

136

67.2

539

64.4

505

70.7

28.7

131

59.8

49.4

4.6

72.4

RBI

64.4

35.6

15.5

65.5

22.4

.259

17.8

OBP

.296

6.3

SLG

.331

16.1

OPS

.626

10.9

wRC+

67.5

7.5

OPS+

70.2

12.6

wOBA

.290

6.9

sWAR

-0.2

9.2

of 175 qualified 1924 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

6.2

81.7

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
1920	12	52	46	4	11	5	0	0	8	3	4	1	1	.239	.286	.348	.634	77.2	80.7	.298	0.1
1921	117	486	442	49	132	22	8	3	52	24	31	4	6	.299	.338	.405	.743	93.9	95.0	.340	1.4
1922	122	488	441	58	152	26	14	7	86	22	40	7	8	.345	.378	.515	.893	126.5	128.8	.402	3.3
1923	150	640	600	90	187	36	3	13	88	26	52	5	5	.312	.343	.447	.790	93.4	96.4	.359	1.8
1924	136	539	505	38	131	16	1	6	58	22	37	11	8	.259	.296	.331	.626	67.5	70.2	.290	-0.2
1925	93	284	265	27	68	14	4	2	39	12	23	0	3	.257	.294	.362	.656	65.5	68.4	.298	-0.2

Career totals

630

2,489

2,299

266

681

119

RBI

331

109

187

.2962

OBP

.3317

SLG

.4145

OPS

.7462

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
1922-08-08	PIT @ PHI Gameday	6	5	4	0	0	2	5	10
1922-08-15	SF @ PIT Gameday	4	1	4	0	1	1	3	9
1922-04-23	PIT @ CHC Gameday	6	1	5	3	0	0	4	8
1923-06-25	PHI @ SF Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	5	8
1923-05-07	STL @ PIT Gameday	5	3	4	3	0	0	3	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1920-04-14	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-04-15	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-04-16	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-04-17	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-04-18	PIT @ CIN 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.