Dave Thomas

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 168 lb

BornMarch 22, 1905 · Mobile, AL, USA

Seasons14 (1929–1946)

Birmingham Black Barons 1929–1930; Baltimore Black Sox 1930–1932; New York Black Yankees 1932–1935; New York Cubans 1935–1936; Baltimore Elite Giants 1938; Washington Black Senators 1938; New York Cubans 1942–1946

Percentile snapshot

1946 season — qualified batters

5.2

193

7.2

181

10.3

11.3

10.3

8.2

23.7

13.4

RBI

8.2

83.5

8.2

.298

69.1

OBP

.335

35.1

SLG

.381

46.4

OPS

.716

39.2

wRC+

97.3

OPS+

99.7

38.1

wOBA

.341

36.1

sWAR

0.3

12.4

of 98 qualified 1946 batters (min 155 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

-0.4

17.8

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1929	82	332	293	44	75	12	4	7	39	22	1	3	.256	.317	.396	.713	85.3	84.7	.325	-0.4
1930	63	248	220	37	67	8	4	3	31	20	1	5	.305	.368	.418	.786	98.9	101.6	.361	0.4
1931	53	203	183	21	37	4	2	2	19	16	4	0	.202	.274	.279	.552	58.7	51.7	.263	-0.9
1932	61	260	236	25	60	7	3	1	29	18	0	2	.254	.310	.322	.632	74.2	70.4	.304	-0.5
1933	15	62	57	6	15	2	0	0	7	4	0	0	.263	.323	.298	.621	72.2	66.4	.300	-0.1
1934	22	88	81	6	24	5	0	2	9	6	0	0	.296	.352	.432	.784	119.8	121.9	.355	0.3
1935	25	113	105	19	31	6	2	1	15	8	1	1	.295	.345	.419	.764	95.3	96.1	.346	0.1
1936	38	170	152	27	41	12	2	0	19	11	0	0	.270	.319	.375	.694	78.0	76.6	.321	-0.2
1938	14	59	49	8	12	5	1	0	6	10	0	0	.245	.373	.388	.761	104.6	101.8	.361	0.2
1942	26	109	99	10	23	7	3	0	9	8	0	0	.232	.290	.364	.653	84.6	85.7	.310	0.0
1943	29	136	121	26	39	11	0	1	13	11	0	1	.322	.393	.438	.831	117.8	121.7	.397	0.6
1944	24	106	101	17	28	3	1	3	10	3	0	1	.277	.311	.416	.727	90.9	93.6	.336	0.1
1945	20	81	73	10	16	4	2	0	12	6	0	1	.219	.288	.329	.616	74.4	72.4	.296	-0.1
1946	46	193	181	29	54	6	3	1	21	9	0	1	.298	.335	.381	.716	97.3	99.7	.341	0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1929	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	7	5	2	1	3.7	17.18	2.727	4.91	10.10	223.7	26.3	-0.4

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

518

2,160

1,951

285

522

RBI

239

152

.2676

OBP

.3263

SLG

.3747

OPS

.7010

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

17.182

WHIP

2.7273

K/9

4.91

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
1942-05-17	NBY @ NYC Gameday	5	1	4	1	2	0	2	9
1943-08-15	NYC @ HOM Gameday	6	4	6	2	0	0	2	8
1944-05-28	PHS @ NYC Gameday	5	2	2	0	0	2	2	8
1935-07-20	HOM @ NYC Gameday	5	1	4	2	0	0	2	6
1944-07-02	PHS @ NYC Gameday	5	1	3	0	0	1	2	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1930-04-28	CUB @ BBB Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-29	CUB @ BBB Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-30	CUB @ BBB Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-05-01	CUB @ BBB Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-05-01	CUB @ BBB 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

2× 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.