Frank Thompson
Birmingham Black Barons 1945; Homestead Grays 1946–1948
Percentile snapshot
1947 season — qualified pitchers
of 77 qualified 1947 pitchers (min 70 IP)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 3 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -83.0 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1946 | 7 | 17 | 14 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .214 | .267 | .357 | .624 | 72.4 | 73.4 | .295 | 0.7 |
| 1947 | 17 | 38 | 34 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .235 | .297 | .235 | .533 | 53.6 | 46.7 | .266 | 2.4 |
| 1948 | 8 | 12 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .400 | .500 | .400 | .900 | 166.8 | 161.8 | .443 | 0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 18 | 10 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 18.3 | 4.91 | 1.200 | 5.89 | 3.54 | 83.5 | 86.4 | 0.0 |
| 1946 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 45 | 18 | 16 | 15 | 1 | 42.0 | 3.86 | 1.452 | 3.21 | 4.50 | 102.0 | 114.4 | 0.7 |
| 1947 | 17 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 83 | 30 | 22 | 54 | 1 | 96.0 | 2.81 | 1.094 | 5.06 | 3.30 | 79.7 | 147.1 | 2.4 |
| 1948 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 18 | 19 | 17 | 0 | 38.3 | 4.23 | 1.539 | 3.99 | 3.91 | 110.2 | 84.0 | 0.3 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946-06-16 | NYC @ HOM Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1948-05-11 | HOM @ BEG Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1946-07-09 | CLB @ HOM Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1947-08-03 | HOM @ KCM Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1946-08-25 | HOM @ NE Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947-08-03 | HOM @ KCM Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 1945-08-11 | KCM @ BBB Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 |
| 1947-06-23 | HOM @ NBY Gameday | 11.0 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 0 |
| 1947-08-14 | NBY @ HOM Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| 1947-07-08 | HOM @ KCM Gameday | 8.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 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.