Frank Demaree

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 185 lb

BornJune 10, 1910 · Winters, CA, USA

MLB debutJuly 22, 1932

Final gameJune 13, 1944

Seasons12 (1932–1944)

Chicago Cubs 1932–1933; Chicago Cubs 1935–1938; New York Giants 1939–1940; Boston Braves 1941; New York Giants 1941; Boston Braves 1942; St. Louis Cardinals 1943; St. Louis Browns 1944

Percentile snapshot

1940 season — qualified batters

121

39.6

521

43.2

460

41.7

51.1

139

53.2

38.1

61.9

RBI

57.6

55.4

38.8

56.1

42.4

.302

66.9

OBP

.364

55.4

SLG

.413

43.9

OPS

.777

47.5

wRC+

114.5

59.7

OPS+

113.0

54.7

wOBA

.359

45.3

sWAR

2.4

62.6

of 140 qualified 1940 batters (min 471 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

112.2

66.1

OPS+

111.0

64.2

sWAR

18.6

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1932	23	61	56	4	14	3	0	0	6	2	7	0	.250	.288	.304	.592	58.7	60.9	.272	-0.1
1933	134	550	515	68	140	24	6	6	51	22	42	4	.272	.304	.377	.681	92.6	95.5	.314	1.5
1935	107	420	385	60	125	19	4	2	66	26	23	6	.325	.369	.410	.779	112.0	111.2	.357	2.0
1936	154	672	605	93	212	34	3	16	96	49	30	4	.350	.400	.496	.896	140.9	140.1	.408	4.7
1937	154	687	615	104	199	36	6	17	115	57	31	6	.324	.382	.485	.866	132.4	131.8	.394	4.2
1938	129	532	476	63	130	15	7	8	62	45	34	1	.273	.341	.384	.725	98.4	97.9	.338	1.0
1939	150	643	560	68	170	27	2	11	79	66	40	2	.304	.381	.418	.799	116.9	114.0	.372	3.4
1940	121	521	460	68	139	18	6	7	61	45	39	5	.302	.364	.413	.777	114.5	113.0	.359	2.4
1941	64	167	148	23	32	5	2	2	16	16	6	2	.216	.293	.318	.610	71.8	73.3	.293	-0.1
1942	64	208	187	18	42	5	0	3	24	17	10	2	.225	.289	.299	.589	69.6	72.5	.285	-0.3
1943	39	97	86	5	25	2	0	0	9	8	4	1	.291	.351	.314	.665	94.2	92.4	.326	0.1
1944	16	58	51	4	13	2	0	0	6	6	3	0	.255	.333	.294	.627	78.7	76.8	.309	0.0

Career totals

1,155

4,616

4,144

578

1,241

190

RBI

591

359

269

.2995

228th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3573

SLG

.4148

OPS

.7721

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
1936-07-26	CHC @ PHI Gameday	5	4	5	0	0	2	7	1	11
1936-08-28	ATL @ CHC Gameday	6	3	5	0	1	1	4	0	10
1937-07-05	STL @ CHC Gameday	7	2	6	3	0	0	2	1	9
1936-04-14	CHC @ STL Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	3	0	9
1940-06-09	SF @ STL Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	4	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1932-04-12	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-04-13	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-04-14	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-04-15	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1932-04-17	CHC @ STL 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.