Harry Simpson

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 180 lb

BornDecember 3, 1925 · Atlanta, GA, USA

MLB debutApril 21, 1951

Final gameSeptember 27, 1959

Seasons11 (1946–1959)

Philadelphia Stars 1946–1948; Cleveland Indians 1951–1953; Cleveland Indians 1955; Kansas City Athletics 1955–1957; New York Yankees 1957; Kansas City Athletics 1958; New York Yankees 1958; Chicago White Sox 1959; Kansas City Athletics 1959; Pittsburgh Pirates 1959

Percentile snapshot

1956 season — qualified batters

141

36.6

597

48.8

543

62.2

43.9

159

68.3

41.5

91.5

58.5

RBI

105

93.9

32.9

18.3

24.4

46.3

.293

64.6

OBP

.347

42.7

SLG

.490

68.3

OPS

.837

63.4

wRC+

112.1

47.6

OPS+

116.6

56.1

wOBA

.372

63.4

sWAR

2.2

45.1

of 83 qualified 1956 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

100.0

41.5

OPS+

101.4

44.5

sWAR

7.8

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
1946	44	150	127	29	33	5	2	1	16	21	1	2	0	.260	.369	.354	.723	104.5	102.3	.354	0.5
1947	35	120	114	13	34	4	1	0	13	5	0	2	0	.298	.328	.351	.679	84.7	85.7	.322	0.0
1948	45	186	171	29	51	9	1	2	24	15	0	2	0	.298	.355	.398	.752	115.6	117.4	.358	1.1
1951	122	381	332	51	76	7	0	7	24	45	48	6	4	.229	.325	.313	.638	81.1	79.0	.310	-0.3
1952	146	607	545	66	145	21	10	10	65	56	82	5	3	.266	.337	.396	.733	109.4	111.0	.343	1.8
1953	82	264	242	25	55	3	1	7	22	18	27	0	0	.227	.284	.335	.618	65.9	70.3	.288	-0.6
1955	115	439	397	43	119	16	7	5	52	36	61	3	5	.300	.358	.413	.772	103.4	103.7	.356	1.7
1956	141	597	543	76	159	22	11	21	105	47	82	2	3	.293	.347	.490	.837	112.1	116.6	.372	2.2
1957	125	440	403	51	109	16	9	13	63	31	64	1	1	.270	.321	.452	.773	109.0	109.6	.347	1.2
1958	102	297	263	22	67	9	2	7	33	32	45	0	2	.255	.338	.384	.722	98.4	97.2	.330	0.4
1959	55	112	104	9	22	7	1	3	17	6	20	0	0	.212	.259	.385	.644	71.7	75.9	.288	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1947	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	0.3	27.00	6.000	0.00	3.57	86.2	15.3	0.0

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

1,012

3,593

3,241

414

870

119

RBI

434

312

430

.2684

OBP

.3337

SLG

.4033

OPS

.7370

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

27.000

WHIP

6.0000

K/9

0.00

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1956-04-27	ATH @ CWS Gameday	5	3	4	0	2	3	0	10
1956-06-12	ATH @ MIN Gameday	7	3	4	1	1	4	1	9
1955-06-16	ATH @ BOS Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	3	0	8
1956-08-24	ATH @ MIN Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	2	0	8
1956-05-21	NYY @ ATH Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	2	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER
1947-06-01	PHS @ HOM Gameday	0.1	2	1	1
1946-04-21	PHS @ NYC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0
1946-05-05	PHS @ NE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0
1946-05-06	PHS @ NE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0
1946-05-11	NYC @ PHS Gameday	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.