Danny Thompson
Minnesota Twins 1970–1976; Texas Rangers 1976
Percentile snapshot
1972 season — qualified batters
of 112 qualified 1972 batters (min 477 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 96 | 318 | 302 | 25 | 66 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 7 | 39 | 0 | 0 | .219 | .234 | .248 | .482 | 24.0 | 33.1 | .224 | -1.6 |
| 1971 | 48 | 68 | 57 | 10 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .263 | .338 | .298 | .637 | 85.5 | 81.2 | .309 | 0.2 |
| 1972 | 144 | 624 | 573 | 54 | 158 | 22 | 6 | 4 | 48 | 34 | 57 | 3 | 4 | .276 | .318 | .356 | .674 | 98.0 | 96.7 | .318 | 2.9 |
| 1973 | 99 | 374 | 347 | 29 | 78 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 36 | 16 | 41 | 1 | 0 | .225 | .259 | .282 | .542 | 42.4 | 50.8 | .250 | -0.7 |
| 1974 | 97 | 296 | 264 | 25 | 66 | 6 | 1 | 4 | 25 | 22 | 29 | 1 | 1 | .250 | .311 | .326 | .637 | 83.4 | 81.6 | .303 | 0.9 |
| 1975 | 112 | 384 | 355 | 25 | 96 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 37 | 18 | 30 | 0 | 3 | .270 | .302 | .355 | .657 | 80.9 | 84.5 | .302 | 1.0 |
| 1976 | 98 | 347 | 320 | 21 | 71 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 19 | 16 | 27 | 3 | 3 | .222 | .261 | .253 | .514 | 46.5 | 50.3 | .248 | -0.6 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976-06-04 | DET @ TEX Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1974-06-24 | MIN @ TEX Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1975-08-13 | MIL @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1972-06-28 | LAA @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1970-08-01 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
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.