MLB / Players

Denny Sothern

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb

BornJanuary 20, 1904 · Washington, DC, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1926

Final gameSeptember 21, 1931

Seasons5 (1926–1931)

Philadelphia Phillies 1926; Philadelphia Phillies 1928–1930; Pittsburgh Pirates 1930; Brooklyn Robins 1931

Percentile snapshot

1928 season — qualified batters

141

78.9

618

82.4

579

91.5

81.4

165

83.4

74.9

56.3

66.3

RBI

44.7

64.3

5.5

91.5

32.2

.285

38.2

OBP

.327

27.1

SLG

.375

33.7

OPS

.702

32.7

wRC+

73.5

21.6

OPS+

76.8

23.1

wOBA

.325

28.6

sWAR

0.1

19.6

of 200 qualified 1928 batters (min 471 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

-0.4

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

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1926	14	59	53	5	13	1	0	3	10	4	10	0	.245	.310	.434	.744	87.6	91.2	.340	0.1
1928	141	618	579	82	165	27	5	5	38	34	53	17	.285	.327	.375	.702	73.5	76.8	.325	0.1
1929	76	318	294	52	90	21	3	5	27	16	24	13	.306	.346	.449	.795	83.2	86.3	.357	0.4
1930	107	435	398	70	106	30	1	6	40	25	41	8	.266	.313	.392	.705	59.0	61.9	.314	-0.8
1931	19	37	31	10	5	1	0	0	0	4	8	0	.161	.257	.194	.451	24.8	23.6	.228	-0.2

Career totals

357

1,467

1,355

219

379

RBI

115

136

.2797

OBP

.3246

SLG

.3941

OPS

.7187

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
1930-07-27	PHI @ LAD Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	2	4	10
1930-06-06	CIN @ PHI Gameday	5	5	5	4	0	0	0	9
1928-08-16	PHI @ CIN Gameday	6	3	4	0	1	1	3	9
1929-06-26	PHI @ ATL Gameday	5	1	4	0	0	1	4	7
1929-07-29	PHI @ CHC Gameday	6	2	3	1	1	0	1	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1926-04-13	ATL @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-14	ATL @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-15	ATL @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-16	ATL @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-17	LAD @ PHI 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.