MLB / Players

Joe Cronin

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 180 lb

BornOctober 12, 1906 · San Francisco, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 29, 1926

Final gameApril 19, 1945

Seasons20 (1926–1945)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1926–1927; Washington Senators 1928–1934; Boston Red Sox 1935–1945

Percentile snapshot

1941 season — qualified batters

143

68.3

615

72.7

518

89.9

161

83.5

94.2

75.5

RBI

87.1

86.3

21.6

8.6

12.2

.311

79.1

OBP

.406

88.5

SLG

.508

87.1

OPS

.914

87.1

wRC+

141.4

83.5

OPS+

140.5

82.7

wOBA

.417

87.1

sWAR

5.7

94.2

of 140 qualified 1941 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

121.3

80.6

OPS+

121.0

80.6

sWAR

60.2

99.4

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
1926	38	92	83	9	22	2	2	0	11	6	15	0	0	.265	.315	.337	.652	71.1	72.7	.307	0.1
1927	12	24	22	2	5	1	0	0	3	2	3	0	0	.227	.292	.273	.564	47.0	48.1	.273	-0.1
1928	63	259	227	23	55	10	4	0	25	22	27	4	0	.242	.309	.322	.631	66.9	66.8	.299	0.1
1929	145	601	494	72	139	29	8	8	61	85	37	5	9	.281	.388	.421	.809	112.0	108.8	.377	3.5
1930	154	686	587	127	203	41	9	13	126	72	36	17	10	.346	.422	.513	.934	136.6	137.0	.420	6.1
1931	156	700	611	103	187	44	13	12	126	81	52	10	9	.306	.391	.480	.870	129.1	129.8	.399	5.5
1932	143	629	557	95	177	43	18	6	116	66	45	7	5	.318	.393	.492	.885	130.5	131.8	.401	5.1
1933	152	696	602	89	186	45	11	5	118	87	49	5	4	.309	.398	.445	.843	126.7	125.5	.392	5.3
1934	127	567	504	68	143	30	9	7	101	53	28	8	0	.284	.353	.421	.774	101.3	102.3	.359	2.5
1935	144	630	556	70	164	37	14	9	95	63	40	3	3	.295	.370	.460	.830	108.3	109.0	.381	3.3
1936	81	334	295	36	83	22	4	2	43	32	21	1	3	.281	.354	.403	.757	83.2	83.3	.351	0.6
1937	148	671	570	102	175	40	4	18	110	84	73	5	3	.307	.402	.486	.887	121.7	120.5	.404	4.6
1938	143	637	530	98	172	51	5	17	94	91	60	7	5	.325	.428	.536	.964	136.5	136.4	.436	5.6
1939	143	627	520	97	160	33	3	19	107	87	48	6	6	.308	.407	.492	.899	126.8	126.2	.410	4.7
1940	149	645	548	104	156	35	6	24	111	83	65	7	5	.285	.380	.502	.882	123.5	123.4	.394	4.7
1941	143	615	518	98	161	38	8	16	95	82	55	1	4	.311	.406	.508	.914	141.4	140.5	.417	5.7
1942	45	95	79	7	24	3	0	4	24	15	21	0	1	.304	.415	.494	.909	155.1	151.8	.426	0.9
1943	59	88	77	8	24	4	0	5	29	11	4	0	0	.312	.398	.558	.956	178.6	176.9	.442	1.1
1944	76	231	191	24	46	7	0	5	28	34	19	1	4	.241	.358	.356	.714	110.4	105.0	.349	0.6
1945	3	11	8	1	3	0	0	0	1	3	2	0	0	.375	.545	.375	.920	193.8	166.3	.468	0.2

Career totals

2,124

184th-most career G

8,838

176th-most career PA

7,579

209th-most career AB

1,233

167th-most career R

2,285

162nd-most career H

515

54th-most career 2B

118

103rd-most career 3B

170

500th-most career HR

RBI

1,424

71st-most career RBI

1,059

105th-most career BB

700

.3015

205th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3895

119th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4679

305th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8574

164th-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
1929-09-02	MIN @ BOS Gameday	5	3	5	2	1	1	4	0	12
1940-09-24	BOS @ ATH Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	2	3	0	11
1933-06-19	MIN @ BAL Gameday	6	2	5	2	0	1	5	0	10
1940-08-02	BOS @ DET Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	1	4	0	10
1930-07-23	MIN @ BAL Gameday	5	3	4	0	0	2	2	1	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1926-04-13	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-14	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-15	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-16	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-17	PIT @ CIN 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, 1956 (BBWAA)

7× 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.