MLB / Players

Gus Suhr

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornJanuary 3, 1906 · San Francisco, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 15, 1930

Final gameMay 12, 1940

Seasons11 (1930–1940)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1930–1938; Philadelphia Phillies 1939; Pittsburgh Pirates 1939; Philadelphia Phillies 1940

Percentile snapshot

1938 season — qualified batters

145

69.4

625

71.9

530

66.1

63.6

156

65.3

96.7

20.7

RBI

51.2

43.8

46.3

.294

50.4

OBP

.394

78.5

SLG

.430

OPS

.824

66.1

wRC+

131.0

78.5

OPS+

126.4

wOBA

.385

71.1

sWAR

3.1

77.7

of 122 qualified 1938 batters (min 471 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

115.0

71.4

OPS+

112.9

68.5

sWAR

19.0

93.1

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1930	151	637	542	93	155	26	14	17	107	80	56	11	.286	.380	.480	.860	106.6	106.0	.382	1.5
1931	87	312	270	26	57	13	4	4	32	38	25	4	.211	.308	.333	.642	74.4	73.3	.304	-0.6
1932	154	654	581	78	153	31	16	5	81	63	39	7	.263	.337	.398	.735	99.7	98.5	.334	0.8
1933	154	655	566	72	151	31	11	10	75	72	52	2	.267	.350	.413	.763	120.1	117.4	.355	2.3
1934	151	650	573	67	162	36	13	13	103	66	52	4	.283	.360	.459	.819	117.1	116.3	.371	2.2
1935	153	604	529	68	144	33	12	10	81	70	54	6	.272	.357	.437	.794	111.6	110.3	.362	1.6
1936	156	685	583	111	182	33	12	11	118	95	34	8	.312	.410	.467	.877	138.4	134.9	.406	4.2
1937	151	667	575	69	160	28	14	5	97	83	42	2	.278	.369	.402	.771	113.4	110.4	.361	2.0
1938	145	625	530	82	156	35	14	3	64	87	37	4	.294	.394	.430	.824	131.0	126.4	.385	3.1
1939	123	470	402	44	122	22	4	4	55	59	37	5	.303	.394	.408	.802	120.7	116.3	.377	1.8
1940	10	30	25	4	4	0	0	2	5	5	5	0	.160	.300	.400	.700	92.8	92.3	.325	0.0

Career totals

1,435

5,989

5,176

714

1,446

288

114

114th-most career 3B

RBI

818

499th-most career RBI

718

355th-most career BB

433

.2794

OBP

.3682

321st-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4277

OPS

.7959

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
1934-05-27	PIT @ SF Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	4	0	9
1930-08-28	CIN @ PIT Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	1	4	1	8
1934-04-29	CIN @ PIT Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	4	0	8
1936-08-18	CHC @ PIT Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	1	3	0	8
1935-06-15	PIT @ PHI Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	1	2	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1930-04-15	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-16	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-17	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-18	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1930-04-19	PIT @ STL 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

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.