Ira Thomas
New York Highlanders 1906–1907; Detroit Tigers 1908; Philadelphia Athletics 1909–1915
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906 | 44 | 126 | 115 | 12 | 23 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 | .200 | .258 | .243 | .502 | 56.2 | 56.1 | .250 | 0.2 |
| 1907 | 80 | 224 | 208 | 20 | 40 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 24 | 10 | 24 | 5 | 0 | .192 | .240 | .269 | .509 | 51.2 | 55.6 | .251 | 0.0 |
| 1908 | 40 | 108 | 101 | 6 | 31 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .307 | .346 | .317 | .663 | 113.0 | 112.5 | .325 | 0.8 |
| 1909 | 84 | 286 | 256 | 22 | 57 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 31 | 18 | 34 | 4 | 0 | .223 | .292 | .281 | .573 | 80.5 | 79.8 | .287 | 1.2 |
| 1910 | 60 | 189 | 180 | 14 | 50 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 19 | 6 | 17 | 2 | 0 | .278 | .301 | .361 | .662 | 105.9 | 111.7 | .319 | 1.4 |
| 1911 | 103 | 337 | 297 | 33 | 81 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 39 | 23 | 30 | 4 | 0 | .273 | .341 | .340 | .682 | 95.3 | 93.8 | .334 | 1.8 |
| 1912 | 48 | 154 | 139 | 14 | 30 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | .216 | .268 | .295 | .563 | 64.0 | 64.3 | .275 | 0.2 |
| 1913 | 22 | 58 | 53 | 3 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .283 | .333 | .396 | .730 | 112.3 | 115.8 | .351 | 0.5 |
| 1914 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -128.1 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1915 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1909-06-29 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 1912-05-02 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1910-08-12 | ATH @ DET Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| 1912-05-30 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1909-05-21 | ATH @ DET Gameday | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906-04-14 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1906-04-16 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1906-04-17 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1906-04-18 | NYY @ BOS Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1906-04-19 | NYY @ 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.