Jimmie Foxx

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 195 lb

BornOctober 22, 1907 · Sudlersville, MD, USA

MLB debutMay 1, 1925

Final gameSeptember 23, 1945

Seasons20 (1925–1945)

Philadelphia Athletics 1925–1935; Boston Red Sox 1936–1942; Chicago Cubs 1942; Chicago Cubs 1944; Philadelphia Phillies 1945

Percentile snapshot

1941 season — qualified batters

135

54.7

582

62.6

487

51.1

77.7

146

66.9

63.3

75.5

88.5

RBI

105

94.2

92.1

103

0.7

21.6

5.8

.300

74.1

OBP

.412

92.8

SLG

.505

86.3

OPS

.917

87.8

wRC+

143.2

84.9

OPS+

141.6

84.9

wOBA

.419

88.5

sWAR

4.0

85.6

of 140 qualified 1941 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

161.0

99.4

OPS+

163.9

99.3

sWAR

92.2

99.9

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
1925	10	9	9	2	6	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.667	.667	.778	1.444	271.2	259.2	.666	0.2
1926	26	35	32	8	10	2	1	0	5	1	6	1	0	.313	.333	.438	.771	92.9	97.8	.354	0.2
1927	61	146	130	23	42	6	5	3	20	14	11	2	1	.323	.393	.515	.908	130.5	132.1	.415	0.9
1928	118	473	400	85	131	29	10	13	79	60	43	3	8	.328	.416	.548	.964	150.8	151.3	.435	4.6
1929	149	638	517	123	183	23	9	33	118	103	70	9	7	.354	.463	.625	1.088	175.4	177.0	.482	7.0
1930	153	673	562	127	188	33	13	37	156	93	66	7	7	.335	.429	.637	1.066	159.9	165.4	.463	6.2
1931	139	593	515	93	150	32	10	30	120	73	84	4	3	.291	.380	.567	.947	138.5	142.7	.422	3.9
1932	154	701	585	151	213	33	9	58	169	116	96	3	7	.364	.469	.749	1.218	199.6	208.6	.524	10.1
1933	149	670	573	125	204	37	9	48	163	96	93	2	2	.356	.449	.703	1.153	192.4	200.0	.505	8.9
1934	150	652	539	120	180	28	6	44	130	111	75	11	2	.334	.449	.653	1.102	177.3	184.0	.487	7.5
1935	147	649	535	118	185	33	7	36	115	114	99	6	4	.346	.461	.636	1.096	177.6	179.5	.487	7.7
1936	155	693	585	130	198	32	8	41	143	105	119	13	4	.338	.440	.631	1.071	152.5	157.0	.472	5.8
1937	150	673	569	111	162	24	6	36	127	99	96	10	8	.285	.392	.538	.929	128.3	129.7	.415	3.4
1938	149	685	565	139	197	33	9	50	175	119	76	5	4	.349	.462	.704	1.166	177.9	183.9	.506	7.9
1939	124	563	467	130	168	31	10	35	105	89	72	4	3	.360	.464	.694	1.158	183.3	188.8	.505	6.9
1940	144	618	515	106	153	30	4	36	119	101	87	4	7	.297	.412	.581	.993	150.3	150.9	.437	5.5
1941	135	582	487	87	146	27	8	19	105	93	103	2	5	.300	.412	.505	.917	143.2	141.6	.419	4.0
1942	100	347	305	43	69	12	0	8	33	40	70	1	0	.226	.320	.344	.664	93.5	92.3	.321	0.1
1944	15	22	20	0	1	1	0	0	2	2	5	0	0	.050	.136	.100	.236	-39.1	-32.3	.129	-0.3
1945	89	248	224	30	60	11	1	7	38	23	39	0	0	.268	.336	.420	.756	108.0	109.9	.354	1.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1939	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1.0	0.00	.000	9.00	1.14	24.0	—	6.9
1945	9	2	1	0	0	0	0	13	4	14	10	0	22.7	1.59	1.191	3.97	3.74	99.0	237.8	1.5

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

2,317

110th-most career G

9,670

110th-most career PA

8,134

141st-most career AB

1,751

23rd-most career R

2,646

79th-most career H

458

103rd-most career 2B

125

90th-most career 3B

534

19th-most career HR

RBI

1,922

10th-most career RBI

1,452

23rd-most career BB

1,311

162nd-most career SO

.3253

52nd-highest career batting average

OBP

.4283

14th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.6093

8th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

1.0376

6th-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

1.521

WHIP

1.1408

K/9

4.18

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
1932-07-10	ATH @ CLE Gameday	9	4	6	1	0	3	8	1	16
1933-07-02	ATH @ BAL Gameday	4	3	4	1	1	2	2	0	13
1933-06-08	NYY @ ATH Gameday	4	4	3	0	0	3	5	1	12
1933-04-24	ATH @ BOS Gameday	5	3	5	3	0	1	7	1	11
1929-05-01	ATH @ BOS Gameday	7	4	5	0	0	2	5	0	11

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1945-08-19	CIN @ PHI Gameday	6.2	4	2	2	4	5
1945-07-22	PHI @ CHC Gameday	2.0	2	0	0	1	2
1945-09-02	PHI @ ATL Gameday	2.0	3	1	1	1	1
1945-09-14	PHI @ CHC Gameday	1.1	0	0	0	0	1
1939-08-06	DET @ BOS Gameday	1.0	0	0	0	0	1

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, 1951 (BBWAA)

3× Most Valuable Player1× Triple Crown9× 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.