MLB / Players

Jim Bottomley

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornApril 23, 1900 · Oglesby, IL, USA

MLB debutAugust 18, 1922

Final gameSeptember 16, 1937

Seasons16 (1922–1937)

St. Louis Cardinals 1922–1932; Cincinnati Reds 1933–1935; St. Louis Browns 1936–1937

Percentile snapshot

1936 season — qualified batters

140

50.8

596

48.3

544

43.3

162

57.5

85.8

81.7

75.8

RBI

49.2

18.3

39.2

.298

OBP

.354

SLG

.476

66.7

OPS

.830

59.2

wRC+

94.7

38.3

OPS+

97.9

41.7

wOBA

.374

53.3

sWAR

0.5

23.3

of 121 qualified 1936 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

123.7

84.5

OPS+

125.0

85.7

sWAR

37.0

97.6

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
1922	37	161	151	29	49	8	5	5	35	6	13	3	1	.325	.358	.543	.902	129.4	134.1	.401	0.9
1923	134	587	523	79	194	34	14	8	94	45	44	4	6	.371	.425	.535	.960	153.4	153.7	.436	4.8
1924	137	583	528	87	167	31	12	14	111	35	35	5	4	.316	.362	.500	.862	129.8	131.1	.388	2.9
1925	153	681	619	92	227	44	12	21	128	47	36	3	4	.367	.413	.578	.992	147.7	147.9	.439	5.2
1926	154	684	603	98	180	40	14	19	120	58	52	4	0	.299	.364	.506	.870	127.7	129.2	.394	3.3
1927	152	679	574	95	174	31	15	19	124	74	49	8	0	.303	.387	.509	.896	136.5	136.7	.409	4.0
1928	149	667	576	123	187	42	20	31	136	71	54	10	0	.325	.402	.628	1.030	162.7	165.1	.454	6.2
1929	146	648	560	108	176	31	12	29	137	70	54	3	0	.314	.391	.568	.959	132.2	134.9	.422	3.6
1930	131	560	487	92	148	33	7	15	97	44	36	5	0	.304	.368	.493	.860	103.1	104.1	.378	1.1
1931	108	419	382	73	133	34	5	9	75	34	24	3	0	.348	.403	.534	.937	149.3	147.2	.422	3.2
1932	91	339	311	45	92	16	3	11	48	25	32	2	0	.296	.350	.473	.823	117.0	116.9	.365	1.2
1933	145	609	549	57	137	23	9	13	83	42	28	3	0	.250	.311	.395	.706	100.1	100.9	.326	0.7
1934	142	592	556	72	158	31	11	11	78	33	40	1	0	.284	.324	.439	.763	101.6	103.8	.343	0.9
1935	107	423	399	44	103	21	1	1	49	18	24	3	0	.258	.294	.323	.617	65.4	67.2	.284	-1.3
1936	140	596	544	72	162	39	11	12	95	44	55	0	0	.298	.354	.476	.830	94.7	97.9	.374	0.5
1937	65	127	109	11	26	7	0	1	12	18	15	1	0	.239	.346	.330	.677	72.0	68.6	.324	-0.2

Career totals

1,991

263rd-most career G

8,355

223rd-most career PA

7,471

221st-most career AB

1,177

210th-most career R

2,313

154th-most career H

465

98th-most career 2B

151

49th-most career 3B

219

327th-most career HR

RBI

1,422

72nd-most career RBI

664

426th-most career BB

591

.3096

122nd-highest career batting average

OBP

.3693

297th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5002

120th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8695

128th-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
1924-09-16	STL @ LAD Gameday	6	3	6	1	0	2	12	0	13
1927-07-15	STL @ PHI Gameday	5	3	5	1	1	1	1	0	11
1929-05-16	STL @ PIT Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	2	6	0	11
1928-06-02	STL @ PHI Gameday	4	4	4	1	0	2	4	1	11
1932-08-09	STL @ PHI Gameday	5	4	4	0	0	2	6	1	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1922-04-12	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-04-13	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-04-15	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-04-16	CHC @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1922-04-17	CHC @ 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

Hall of Fame, 1974 (Veterans)

1× Most Valuable Player

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.