Frank Thomas

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 240 lb

BornMay 27, 1968 · Columbus, GA, USA

MLB debutAugust 2, 1990

Final gameAugust 29, 2008

Seasons19 (1990–2008)

Chicago White Sox 1990–2005; Oakland Athletics 2006; Toronto Blue Jays 2007; Oakland Athletics 2008; Toronto Blue Jays 2008

Percentile snapshot

2007 season — qualified batters

155

74.5

624

52.8

531

44.1

15.5

147

43.5

41.6

75.8

RBI

75.2

86.3

51.6

88.2

.277

42.2

OBP

.377

73.9

SLG

.480

66.5

OPS

.857

74.5

wRC+

127.1

OPS+

125.1

77.6

wOBA

.380

77.6

sWAR

2.6

46.6

of 162 qualified 2007 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

155.2

98.7

OPS+

156.9

98.7

sWAR

79.1

99.8

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
1990	60	240	191	39	63	11	3	7	31	44	54	0	1	.330	.454	.529	.983	184.4	177.3	.447	2.8
1991	158	700	559	104	178	31	2	32	109	138	112	1	2	.318	.453	.553	1.006	181.9	179.5	.448	7.5
1992	160	711	573	108	185	46	2	24	115	122	88	6	3	.323	.439	.536	.975	178.5	175.3	.440	7.7
1993	153	676	549	106	174	36	0	41	128	112	54	4	2	.317	.426	.607	1.033	171.3	179.1	.442	6.7
1994	113	517	399	106	141	34	1	38	101	109	61	2	3	.353	.487	.729	1.217	203.3	212.9	.507	7.3
1995	145	647	493	102	152	27	0	40	111	136	74	3	2	.308	.454	.606	1.061	169.8	180.1	.447	6.1
1996	141	649	527	110	184	26	0	40	134	109	70	1	1	.349	.459	.626	1.085	169.6	177.5	.456	6.4
1997	146	649	530	110	184	35	0	35	125	109	69	1	1	.347	.456	.611	1.067	180.6	181.0	.459	7.2
1998	160	712	585	109	155	35	2	29	109	110	93	7	0	.265	.381	.480	.861	127.0	125.3	.379	3.1
1999	135	590	486	74	148	36	0	15	77	87	66	3	3	.305	.414	.471	.885	125.6	125.9	.388	2.5
2000	159	707	582	115	191	44	0	43	143	112	94	1	3	.328	.436	.625	1.061	159.0	163.2	.446	5.8
2001	20	79	68	8	15	3	0	4	10	10	12	0	0	.221	.316	.441	.758	88.4	94.4	.321	-0.1
2002	148	628	523	77	132	29	1	28	92	88	115	3	0	.252	.361	.472	.834	120.0	118.3	.364	2.1
2003	153	662	546	87	146	35	0	42	105	100	115	0	0	.267	.390	.562	.952	151.9	151.7	.408	4.8
2004	74	311	240	53	65	16	0	18	49	64	57	0	2	.271	.434	.563	.997	158.0	155.3	.431	2.5
2005	34	124	105	19	23	3	0	12	26	16	31	0	0	.219	.315	.590	.905	126.5	130.3	.375	0.5
2006	137	559	466	77	126	11	0	39	114	81	81	0	0	.270	.381	.545	.926	139.7	139.5	.397	3.2
2007	155	624	531	63	147	30	0	26	95	81	94	0	0	.277	.377	.480	.857	127.1	125.1	.380	2.6
2008	71	289	246	27	59	7	1	8	30	39	57	0	0	.240	.349	.374	.723	101.9	96.2	.334	0.3

Career totals

2,322

109th-most career G

10,074

83rd-most career PA

8,199

130th-most career AB

1,494

76th-most career R

2,468

108th-most career H

495

71st-most career 2B

521

20th-most career HR

RBI

1,704

26th-most career RBI

1,667

10th-most career BB

1,397

120th-most career SO

.3010

209th-highest career batting average

OBP

.4191

24th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5549

25th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.9740

19th-highest career OPS

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
2007-09-17	BOS @ TOR Gameday	4	3	3	0	3	5	0	12
1996-09-15	CWS @ BOS Gameday	4	4	3	0	3	3	1	12
1991-08-21	DET @ CWS Gameday	5	3	3	1	2	3	0	11
1993-07-27	CLE @ CWS Gameday	4	2	4	0	2	5	0	10
1994-05-25	MIN @ CWS Gameday	5	3	4	0	2	5	0	10

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

Hall of Fame, 2014 (BBWAA)

4× Silver Slugger2× Most Valuable Player5× 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.