MLB / Players

Freddy Leach

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 183 lb

BornNovember 23, 1897 · Springfield, MO, USA

MLB debutMay 24, 1923

Final gameSeptember 20, 1932

Seasons10 (1923–1932)

Philadelphia Phillies 1923–1928; New York Giants 1929–1931; Boston Braves 1932

Percentile snapshot

1931 season — qualified batters

129

40.5

552

46.6

515

56.9

53.4

159

62.1

57.8

60.3

RBI

52.6

37.1

67.2

37.1

38.8

.309

61.2

OBP

.348

34.5

SLG

.421

53.4

OPS

.769

42.2

wRC+

107.9

46.6

OPS+

108.9

48.3

wOBA

.352

38.8

sWAR

1.7

44.8

of 117 qualified 1931 batters (min 474 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

97.5

36.8

OPS+

100.1

41.8

sWAR

9.4

86.2

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
1923	52	108	104	5	27	4	0	1	16	3	14	1	2	.260	.280	.327	.607	41.7	49.8	.280	-0.5
1924	8	31	28	6	13	2	1	2	7	2	1	0	0	.464	.500	.821	1.321	236.4	226.5	.577	0.6
1925	65	300	292	47	91	15	4	5	28	5	21	1	2	.312	.323	.442	.765	78.5	83.5	.341	0.3
1926	129	522	492	73	162	29	7	11	71	16	33	6	0	.329	.352	.484	.835	112.2	114.7	.379	2.4
1927	140	580	536	69	164	30	4	12	83	21	32	2	0	.306	.342	.444	.786	101.3	103.7	.359	2.1
1928	145	637	588	83	179	36	11	13	96	30	30	4	0	.304	.342	.469	.812	100.3	103.2	.367	1.4
1929	113	442	411	74	119	22	6	8	47	17	14	10	0	.290	.324	.431	.755	83.8	86.9	.338	0.1
1930	126	580	544	90	178	19	13	13	71	22	25	3	0	.327	.361	.482	.843	103.1	104.6	.370	1.6
1931	129	552	515	75	159	30	5	6	61	29	9	4	0	.309	.348	.421	.769	107.9	108.9	.352	1.7
1932	84	244	223	21	55	9	2	1	29	18	10	1	0	.247	.306	.318	.624	72.4	72.0	.289	-0.2

Career totals

991

3,996

3,733

543

1,147

196

RBI

509

163

189

.3073

141st-highest career batting average

OBP

.3408

SLG

.4460

OPS

.7868

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	TB
1931-07-11	SF @ PHI Gameday	7	4	5	2	1	3	10
1929-06-22	SF @ PHI Gameday	5	3	3	1	2	3	10
1927-07-14	STL @ PHI Gameday	4	2	4	2	1	4	9
1925-08-14	ATL @ PHI Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	4	9
1928-06-19	LAD @ PHI Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	4	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1923-04-17	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-04-18	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-04-19	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-04-20	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1923-04-21	PHI @ ATL 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.