MLB / Players

Larry Doyle

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 165 lb

BornJuly 31, 1886 · Caseyville, IL, USA

MLB debutJuly 22, 1907

Final gameOctober 2, 1920

Seasons14 (1907–1920)

New York Giants 1907–1915; Chicago Cubs 1916; New York Giants 1916; Chicago Cubs 1917; New York Giants 1918–1920

Percentile snapshot

1920 season — qualified batters

137

55.6

530

44.4

471

45.1

33.1

134

47.9

54.2

18.3

64.8

RBI

51.4

75.4

39.4

58.5

44.4

.285

45.8

OBP

.352

51.4

SLG

.363

37.3

OPS

.715

wRC+

110.4

55.6

OPS+

107.9

50.7

wOBA

.342

42.3

sWAR

2.7

68.3

of 143 qualified 1920 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

127.8

88.8

OPS+

127.6

88.2

sWAR

52.9

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
1907	69	251	227	16	59	3	0	0	16	20	41	3	0	.260	.320	.273	.593	85.3	84.4	.300	0.6
1908	104	429	377	65	116	16	9	0	33	22	21	17	0	.308	.354	.398	.752	137.2	136.6	.363	3.5
1909	147	634	570	86	172	27	11	6	49	45	42	31	0	.302	.360	.419	.779	139.9	141.7	.378	5.5
1910	151	670	575	97	164	21	14	8	69	71	26	39	0	.285	.369	.412	.781	128.6	129.1	.379	4.9
1911	143	622	526	102	163	25	25	13	77	71	39	38	0	.310	.397	.527	.924	154.4	159.9	.430	6.5
1912	143	629	558	98	184	33	8	10	90	56	20	36	0	.330	.393	.471	.864	134.2	136.1	.406	5.1
1913	132	558	482	67	135	25	6	5	73	59	29	38	0	.280	.364	.388	.752	118.3	116.2	.360	3.3
1914	145	623	539	87	140	19	8	5	63	58	25	17	0	.260	.343	.353	.695	112.2	110.6	.339	3.3
1915	150	641	591	86	189	40	10	4	70	32	28	22	18	.320	.358	.442	.799	145.3	147.2	.376	6.0
1916	122	527	479	61	133	29	11	3	54	28	24	19	0	.278	.323	.403	.726	125.2	125.9	.341	3.6
1917	135	550	476	48	121	19	5	6	61	48	28	5	0	.254	.323	.353	.675	102.4	101.2	.325	2.2
1918	75	298	257	38	67	7	4	3	36	37	10	10	0	.261	.354	.354	.708	124.0	119.5	.348	2.0
1919	113	420	381	61	110	14	10	7	52	31	17	12	0	.289	.350	.433	.783	138.2	137.2	.369	3.6
1920	137	530	471	48	134	21	2	4	50	47	28	11	9	.285	.352	.363	.715	110.4	107.9	.342	2.7

Career totals

1,766

442nd-most career G

7,382

384th-most career PA

6,509

392nd-most career AB

960

407th-most career R

1,887

355th-most career H

299

497th-most career 2B

123

95th-most career 3B

RBI

793

625

492nd-most career BB

378

298

174th-most career SB

.2899

410th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3569

SLG

.4077

OPS

.7646

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	TB
1915-06-09	SF @ STL Gameday	5	3	3	1	1	1	0	9
1912-06-05	CIN @ SF Gameday	6	4	5	1	1	0	3	8
1912-05-01	PHI @ SF Gameday	4	1	4	1	0	1	5	8
1915-07-10	CIN @ SF Gameday	5	2	4	0	2	0	4	8
1911-05-16	STL @ SF Gameday	5	1	4	0	2	0	3	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1907-04-11	PHI @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-15	PHI @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-16	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-17	SF @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1907-04-18	SF @ LAD 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

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.