Larry Benton

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 165 lb

BornNovember 20, 1897 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1923

Final gameAugust 16, 1935

Seasons13 (1923–1935)

Boston Braves 1923–1927; New York Giants 1927–1929; Cincinnati Reds 1930; New York Giants 1930; Cincinnati Reds 1931–1934; Boston Braves 1935

Percentile snapshot

1932 season — qualified pitchers

68.6

56.9

13.9

79.6

33.6

SHO

201

32.1

63.5

31.4

179.7

61.3

ERA

4.31

29.9

WHIP

1.269

70.1

K/9

1.75

2.9

FIP

3.69

67.2

FIP-

97.5

48.2

ERA+

88.0

18.2

sWAR

0.8

25.5

of 138 qualified 1932 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

98.0

30.2

sWAR

19.0

93.2

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1923	35	39	31	4	5	0	0	0	0	4	13	0	.161	.257	.161	.418	19.9	13.8	.219	-0.3
1924	30	37	33	4	3	1	0	0	0	2	10	0	.091	.143	.121	.264	-34.4	-27.5	.133	0.4
1925	32	69	58	6	14	2	0	0	1	3	20	1	.241	.279	.276	.555	46.0	47.0	.259	3.7
1926	45	87	78	3	12	1	0	0	4	2	25	0	.154	.185	.167	.352	-5.9	-1.4	.171	1.2
1927	42	82	68	5	12	1	0	0	7	1	19	0	.176	.211	.191	.402	4.7	9.8	.195	1.5
1928	42	123	112	12	16	2	1	0	8	5	17	0	.143	.179	.179	.358	-16.2	-5.8	.172	6.9
1929	41	88	86	2	9	1	0	1	8	1	15	0	.105	.115	.151	.266	-45.2	-34.1	.120	3.0
1930	43	79	72	3	14	0	1	1	8	4	17	0	.194	.237	.264	.501	22.8	23.9	.229	0.6
1931	38	71	66	2	11	2	0	0	1	3	13	0	.167	.203	.197	.400	3.6	10.7	.191	2.7
1932	35	62	54	8	11	1	0	0	1	3	11	0	.204	.246	.222	.468	25.1	28.4	.220	0.8
1933	34	57	53	4	9	0	0	0	2	1	14	0	.170	.200	.170	.370	-3.9	6.7	.179	0.7
1934	16	7	7	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	.286	.286	.286	.571	49.2	54.7	.262	-0.5
1935	29	23	20	1	4	1	0	0	1	1	4	0	.200	.238	.250	.488	33.8	35.6	.228	-1.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1923	35	9	5	9	0	1	0	141	71	57	42	4	128.0	4.99	1.547	2.95	4.14	106.0	78.2	-0.3
1924	30	13	5	7	1	4	0	129	59	64	41	4	128.0	4.15	1.508	2.88	4.29	114.4	90.4	0.4
1925	31	21	14	7	1	16	2	170	63	70	49	6	183.3	3.09	1.309	2.41	4.18	104.7	129.0	3.7
1926	43	27	14	14	1	12	1	244	99	81	103	10	231.7	3.85	1.403	4.00	3.72	104.1	92.9	1.2
1927	40	33	17	7	2	11	1	255	106	81	90	12	233.3	4.09	1.440	3.47	3.98	103.7	94.0	1.5
1928	42	35	25	9	4	28	2	299	94	71	90	14	310.3	2.73	1.192	2.61	3.46	87.6	145.0	6.9
1929	39	30	11	17	3	14	3	276	109	61	63	16	237.0	4.14	1.422	2.39	4.43	95.6	111.9	3.0
1930	43	26	8	15	2	10	0	288	127	59	63	15	207.7	5.50	1.671	2.73	4.74	99.3	86.6	0.6
1931	38	23	10	15	2	12	2	240	76	53	35	6	204.3	3.35	1.434	1.54	3.80	103.5	109.8	2.7
1932	35	21	6	13	2	7	0	201	86	27	35	10	179.7	4.31	1.269	1.75	3.69	97.5	88.0	0.8
1933	34	19	10	11	2	7	2	160	63	36	33	5	152.7	3.71	1.284	1.95	3.33	100.2	89.4	0.7
1934	16	1	0	1	2	0	0	53	21	7	5	1	29.0	6.52	2.069	1.55	3.91	97.7	61.5	-0.5
1935	29	0	2	3	0	0	0	103	55	24	21	6	72.0	6.88	1.764	2.63	4.56	121.1	54.8	-1.7

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

462

824

738

122

RBI

181

.1653

OBP

.2021

SLG

.1951

OPS

.3972

Pitching

G (P)

455

258

127

394th-most career W

128

286th-most career L

122

323rd-most career CG

SHO

478th-most career SHO

2,297

313th-most career IP

SO (P)

670

BB allowed

691

401st-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.032

WHIP

1.4149

K/9

2.63

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1930-05-12	SF @ CHC Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	3	1	6
1929-04-18	SF @ PHI Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	2	0	4
1925-07-01	ATL @ LAD Gameday	4	0	3	0	0	0	0	3
1929-07-29	SF @ STL Gameday	5	0	2	1	0	3	0	3
1931-07-26	LAD @ CIN Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	1	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1926-06-05	CIN @ ATL Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	1	9	0
1926-07-31	CIN @ ATL Gameday	9.0	8	1	0	3	8	0
1927-06-19	SF @ STL Gameday	5.0	2	1	1	2	8	0
1925-06-26	PHI @ ATL Gameday	9.0	11	6	5	4	7	0
1928-09-05	SF @ PHI Gameday	9.0	7	3	3	2	7	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.