MLB / Players

Gavvy Cravath

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 186 lb

BornMarch 23, 1881 · Poway, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1908

Final gameOctober 2, 1920

Seasons11 (1908–1920)

Boston Red Sox 1908; Chicago White Sox 1909; Washington Senators 1909; Philadelphia Phillies 1912–1920

Percentile snapshot

1918 season — qualified batters

121

66.4

489

62.1

426

55.2

48.3

43.1

97.4

54.3

99.1

RBI

77.6

89.7

4.3

31.9

.232

14.7

OBP

.320

28.4

SLG

.376

64.7

OPS

.696

54.3

wRC+

105.4

49.1

OPS+

104.2

47.4

wOBA

.337

47.4

sWAR

1.3

48.3

of 117 qualified 1918 batters (min 387 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

152.4

98.4

OPS+

150.6

98.1

sWAR

39.4

97.8

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
1908	94	327	277	43	71	10	11	1	34	38	52	6	0	.256	.354	.383	.737	139.6	136.6	.362	2.2
1909	23	77	56	7	9	0	0	1	9	20	12	3	0	.161	.382	.214	.596	120.1	95.4	.334	0.5
1912	130	502	436	63	124	30	9	11	70	47	77	15	0	.284	.358	.470	.828	117.2	120.2	.386	2.2
1913	147	594	525	78	179	34	14	19	128	55	63	10	0	.341	.407	.568	.974	170.1	171.4	.447	6.4
1914	149	604	499	76	149	27	8	19	100	83	72	14	0	.299	.402	.499	.901	162.0	160.6	.426	5.8
1915	150	621	522	89	149	31	7	24	115	86	77	11	9	.285	.393	.510	.902	173.2	171.5	.422	6.8
1916	137	532	448	70	127	21	8	11	70	64	89	9	0	.283	.379	.440	.819	154.4	148.3	.389	4.4
1917	140	590	503	70	141	29	16	12	83	70	57	6	0	.280	.369	.473	.842	157.7	154.4	.396	5.2
1918	121	489	426	43	99	27	5	8	54	54	46	7	0	.232	.320	.376	.696	105.4	104.2	.337	1.3
1919	83	255	214	34	73	18	5	12	45	35	21	8	0	.341	.438	.640	1.078	215.1	208.3	.491	4.1
1920	46	54	45	2	13	5	0	1	11	9	12	0	0	.289	.407	.467	.874	149.0	141.6	.412	0.5

Career totals

1,220

4,645

3,951

575

1,134

232

261st-most career 3B

119

RBI

719

561

578

.2870

482nd-highest career batting average

OBP

.3795

193rd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4781

235th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8576

162nd-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	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1912-07-06	PHI @ ATL Gameday	7	2	3	1	0	2	6	0	10
1914-09-23	CHC @ PHI Gameday	3	3	3	0	0	2	5	1	9
1912-06-20	PHI @ LAD Gameday	3	2	3	0	0	2	4	0	9
1913-08-14	CIN @ PHI Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	4	0	9
1913-08-02	PHI @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	1	3	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1908-04-14	MIN @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-04-16	MIN @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-04-17	MIN @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-04-18	ATH @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-04-20	ATH @ BOS 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.