Frank Thomas

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 200 lb

BornJune 11, 1929 · Pittsburgh, PA, USA

MLB debutAugust 17, 1951

Final gameMay 30, 1966

Seasons16 (1951–1966)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1951–1958; Cincinnati Redlegs 1959; Chicago Cubs 1960–1961; Milwaukee Braves 1961; New York Mets 1962–1964; Philadelphia Phillies 1964; Houston Astros 1965; Milwaukee Braves 1965; Philadelphia Phillies 1965; Chicago Cubs 1966

Percentile snapshot

1962 season — qualified batters

156

61.2

633

49.5

571

54.4

28.2

152

45.6

39.8

23.3

91.3

RBI

77.7

48.5

14.6

17.5

70.9

.266

31.1

OBP

.329

29.1

SLG

.496

81.6

OPS

.824

68.9

wRC+

112.3

54.4

OPS+

114.0

56.3

wOBA

.362

sWAR

2.4

46.6

of 104 qualified 1962 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

103.8

49.3

OPS+

105.9

54.2

sWAR

20.9

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
1951	39	157	148	21	39	9	2	2	16	9	15	0	2	.264	.306	.392	.698	76.7	81.3	.315	0.1
1952	6	22	21	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	.095	.136	.095	.232	-56.5	-36.5	.117	-0.3
1953	128	510	455	68	116	22	1	30	102	50	93	1	2	.255	.331	.505	.837	109.7	111.7	.364	2.3
1954	153	653	577	81	172	32	7	23	94	51	74	3	2	.298	.359	.497	.856	119.4	120.2	.375	3.7
1955	142	581	510	72	125	16	2	25	72	60	76	2	0	.245	.324	.431	.755	95.8	98.8	.330	1.3
1956	157	637	588	69	166	24	3	25	80	36	61	0	5	.282	.326	.461	.787	110.4	110.9	.344	2.9
1957	151	658	594	72	172	30	1	23	89	44	66	3	1	.290	.335	.460	.795	111.8	115.1	.344	2.2
1958	149	620	562	89	158	26	4	35	109	42	79	0	1	.281	.334	.528	.863	127.5	127.9	.373	4.4
1959	108	412	374	41	84	18	2	12	47	27	56	0	2	.225	.278	.380	.658	64.4	71.3	.287	-0.6
1960	135	509	479	54	114	12	1	21	64	28	74	1	0	.238	.280	.399	.678	80.2	83.5	.301	-0.2
1961	139	516	473	65	133	15	3	27	73	31	78	2	4	.281	.331	.497	.828	118.7	122.2	.358	2.2
1962	156	633	571	69	152	23	3	34	94	48	95	2	1	.266	.329	.496	.824	112.3	114.0	.362	2.4
1963	126	458	420	34	109	9	1	15	60	33	48	0	0	.260	.317	.393	.709	100.6	101.2	.320	0.9
1964	99	364	340	39	92	17	1	10	45	15	41	1	2	.271	.302	.415	.717	97.8	100.3	.318	0.5
1965	73	181	168	17	37	9	0	4	17	9	36	0	0	.220	.254	.345	.599	65.7	69.5	.270	-0.5
1966	5	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.6	-100.0	.000	-0.1

Career totals

1,766

442nd-most career G

6,916

482nd-most career PA

6,285

449th-most career AB

792

1,671

262

286

190th-most career HR

RBI

962

347th-most career RBI

484

894

.2659

OBP

.3202

SLG

.4539

447th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.7741

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1958-08-16	PIT @ CIN Gameday	3	4	3	0	3	6	1	12
1954-05-02	PIT @ CHC Gameday	5	4	4	3	1	3	0	10
1958-05-01	PIT @ LAD Gameday	5	2	4	0	2	3	0	10
1958-07-10	PIT @ CHC Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	2	1	10
1962-08-03	CIN @ NYM Gameday	5	2	3	1	2	2	0	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1951-04-24	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1951-04-25	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1951-05-11	CHC @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1951-05-13	CHC @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1951-05-15	SF @ PIT 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

3× 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.