Goose Goslin

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 185 lb

BornOctober 16, 1900 · Salem, NJ, USA

MLB debutSeptember 16, 1921

Final gameSeptember 25, 1938

Seasons18 (1921–1938)

Washington Senators 1921–1929; St. Louis Browns 1930; Washington Senators 1930; St. Louis Browns 1931–1932; Washington Senators 1933; Detroit Tigers 1934–1937; Washington Senators 1938

Percentile snapshot

1936 season — qualified batters

147

66.7

660

72.5

572

66.7

122

91.7

180

71.7

72.5

69.2

91.7

RBI

125

91.7

85.8

24.2

86.7

.315

63.3

OBP

.403

75.8

SLG

.526

84.2

OPS

.930

81.7

wRC+

126.2

76.7

OPS+

128.4

75.8

wOBA

.419

80.8

sWAR

3.7

79.2

of 121 qualified 1936 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

127.1

88.3

OPS+

128.8

89.6

sWAR

55.8

99.2

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
1921	14	58	50	8	13	1	1	1	6	6	5	0	0	.260	.351	.380	.731	91.9	90.2	.345	0.1
1922	101	394	358	44	116	19	7	3	53	25	26	4	4	.324	.373	.441	.814	115.7	116.5	.376	1.6
1923	150	656	600	86	180	29	18	9	99	40	53	7	2	.300	.347	.453	.800	111.2	115.2	.370	2.4
1924	154	673	579	100	199	30	17	12	129	68	29	15	14	.344	.421	.516	.937	143.9	145.0	.435	5.1
1925	150	670	601	116	201	34	20	18	113	53	50	27	8	.334	.394	.547	.941	136.5	140.7	.426	4.7
1926	147	656	568	105	201	26	15	17	108	63	38	8	8	.354	.425	.542	.967	154.0	154.7	.443	6.2
1927	148	659	581	96	194	37	15	13	120	50	28	21	6	.334	.392	.516	.908	133.3	135.6	.414	4.2
1928	135	527	456	80	173	36	10	17	102	48	19	16	3	.379	.442	.614	1.056	174.6	176.2	.472	6.0
1929	145	639	553	82	159	28	7	18	91	66	33	10	3	.288	.366	.461	.827	111.4	112.0	.376	2.3
1930	148	668	584	115	180	36	12	37	138	67	54	17	11	.308	.382	.601	.983	137.7	142.6	.427	4.7
1931	151	675	591	114	194	42	10	24	105	80	41	9	6	.328	.412	.555	.967	145.3	147.1	.435	5.4
1932	150	667	572	88	171	28	9	17	104	92	35	12	9	.299	.398	.469	.866	119.3	117.9	.397	3.1
1933	132	599	549	97	163	35	10	10	64	42	32	5	2	.297	.348	.452	.800	110.0	112.8	.365	2.1
1934	151	686	614	106	187	38	7	13	100	65	38	5	4	.305	.373	.453	.826	112.9	114.0	.381	2.7
1935	147	651	590	88	172	34	6	9	109	56	31	5	4	.292	.355	.415	.770	102.1	102.9	.357	1.6
1936	147	660	572	122	180	33	8	24	125	85	50	14	4	.315	.403	.526	.930	126.2	128.4	.419	3.7
1937	79	219	181	30	43	11	1	4	35	35	18	0	1	.238	.367	.376	.743	91.2	86.9	.352	0.3
1938	38	65	57	6	9	3	0	2	8	8	5	0	0	.158	.262	.316	.577	48.2	48.0	.272	-0.3

Career totals

2,287

120th-most career G

9,822

97th-most career PA

8,656

99th-most career AB

1,483

77th-most career R

2,735

59th-most career H

500

64th-most career 2B

173

22nd-most career 3B

248

261st-most career HR

RBI

1,609

36th-most career RBI

949

149th-most career BB

585

175

455th-most career SB

.3160

83rd-highest career batting average

OBP

.3871

133rd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4997

124th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8868

90th-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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1930-08-19	BAL @ ATH Gameday	5	3	4	0	3	5	0	13
1932-06-23	NYY @ BAL Gameday	5	3	3	0	3	7	0	12
1925-06-19	MIN @ CLE Gameday	5	3	3	0	3	4	1	12
1930-08-11	BAL @ NYY Gameday	5	2	4	1	2	5	0	11
1924-09-20	MIN @ BAL Gameday	6	3	4	1	2	3	0	11

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1921-04-13	BOS @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1921-04-14	BOS @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1921-04-15	BOS @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1921-04-16	BOS @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1921-04-17	ATH @ MIN 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

Hall of Fame, 1968 (Veterans)

1× 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.