Don Thompson
Boston Braves 1949; Brooklyn Dodgers 1951; Brooklyn Dodgers 1953–1954
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .182 | .182 | .182 | .364 | -11.6 | 0.8 | .167 | -0.1 |
| 1951 | 80 | 132 | 118 | 25 | 27 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 12 | 2 | 8 | .229 | .305 | .254 | .560 | 51.3 | 51.6 | .271 | -0.6 |
| 1953 | 96 | 169 | 153 | 25 | 37 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 14 | 13 | 2 | 3 | .242 | .310 | .294 | .604 | 57.0 | 57.6 | .282 | -0.7 |
| 1954 | 34 | 31 | 25 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .040 | .226 | .040 | .266 | -20.4 | -25.9 | .173 | -0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953-09-15 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1951-07-15 | CIN @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1953-04-30 | CIN @ LAD Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 1953-09-19 | PHI @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1953-04-17 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949-04-18 | PHI @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949-04-19 | PHI @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949-04-19 | PHI @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949-04-20 | PHI @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949-04-22 | ATL @ SF 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.