MLB / Players

Doc Cramer

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 185 lb

BornJuly 22, 1905 · Beach Haven, NJ, USA

MLB debutSeptember 18, 1929

Final gameMay 12, 1948

Seasons20 (1929–1948)

Philadelphia Athletics 1929–1935; Boston Red Sox 1936–1940; Washington Senators 1941; Detroit Tigers 1942–1948

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified batters

141

595

67.6

541

73.9

52.3

149

72.1

52.3

83.8

62.2

RBI

64.9

41.4

62.2

20.7

4.5

.275

43.2

OBP

.324

25.2

SLG

.379

44.1

OPS

.703

33.3

wRC+

96.9

33.3

OPS+

99.8

36.9

wOBA

.335

32.4

sWAR

2.0

57.7

of 112 qualified 1945 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

85.6

16.9

OPS+

87.4

19.1

sWAR

17.4

92.3

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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
1929	2	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-119.3	-100.0	.000	-0.2
1930	30	85	82	12	19	1	1	0	6	2	8	0	0	.232	.250	.268	.518	28.4	31.0	.238	-0.6
1931	65	242	223	37	58	8	2	2	20	11	15	2	1	.260	.301	.341	.642	63.8	66.1	.298	-0.3
1932	92	407	384	73	129	27	6	3	46	17	27	3	1	.336	.367	.461	.828	109.9	111.8	.375	1.7
1933	152	718	661	109	195	27	8	8	75	36	24	5	4	.295	.331	.396	.728	88.8	91.2	.335	1.5
1934	153	703	649	99	202	29	9	6	46	40	35	1	5	.311	.353	.411	.765	96.9	98.6	.354	2.2
1935	149	701	644	96	214	37	4	3	70	37	34	6	7	.332	.373	.416	.789	102.4	102.8	.366	2.7
1936	154	713	643	99	188	31	7	0	41	49	20	4	6	.292	.347	.362	.710	72.6	72.4	.332	0.0
1937	133	616	560	90	171	22	11	0	51	35	14	8	6	.305	.351	.384	.735	82.3	83.3	.339	0.8
1938	148	717	658	116	198	36	8	0	71	51	19	4	9	.301	.354	.380	.734	80.6	81.1	.341	0.8
1939	137	642	589	110	183	30	6	0	56	36	17	3	3	.311	.352	.382	.734	84.8	85.5	.340	1.0
1940	150	712	661	94	200	27	12	1	51	36	29	3	5	.303	.340	.384	.724	83.0	84.7	.330	0.7
1941	154	707	660	93	180	25	6	2	66	37	15	4	1	.273	.317	.338	.655	70.8	73.4	.306	0.0
1942	151	682	630	71	166	26	4	0	43	43	18	4	4	.263	.314	.317	.631	69.4	72.7	.303	0.0
1943	140	651	606	79	182	18	4	1	43	31	13	4	3	.300	.335	.348	.684	92.6	95.2	.327	1.8
1944	143	626	578	69	169	20	9	2	42	37	21	6	5	.292	.337	.369	.706	96.8	98.2	.335	2.1
1945	141	595	541	62	149	22	8	6	58	36	21	2	9	.275	.324	.379	.703	96.9	99.8	.335	2.0
1946	68	224	204	26	60	8	2	1	26	15	8	3	0	.294	.342	.368	.710	93.1	94.3	.334	0.6
1947	73	179	157	21	42	2	2	2	30	20	5	0	4	.268	.350	.344	.694	93.6	92.0	.335	0.5
1948	4	7	4	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	.000	.429	.000	.429	80.1	18.9	.329	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1938	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	3	1	0	4.0	4.50	1.500	2.25	4.87	98.5	109.8	0.8

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

2,239

136th-most career G

9,933

90th-most career PA

9,140

67th-most career AB

1,357

107th-most career R

2,705

69th-most career H

396

207th-most career 2B

109

130th-most career 3B

RBI

842

469th-most career RBI

572

345

.2960

293rd-highest career batting average

OBP

.3402

SLG

.3753

OPS

.7155

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

4.500

WHIP

1.5000

K/9

2.25

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
1934-06-10	ATH @ NYY Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	1	1	10
1944-09-15	DET @ CLE Gameday	6	1	5	2	1	0	2	9
1932-06-27	BOS @ ATH Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	1	2	9
1934-08-01	MIN @ ATH Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	2	9
1937-08-12	NYY @ BOS Gameday	6	2	4	0	2	0	4	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1938-08-30	BAL @ BOS Gameday	4.0	3	2	2	3	1
1929-04-17	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-18	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-19	ATH @ NYY Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1929-04-21	ATH @ NYY Gameday	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

5× 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.