MLB / Players

Larry French

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 195 lb

BornNovember 1, 1907 · Visalia, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1929

Final gameSeptember 26, 1942

Seasons14 (1929–1942)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1929–1934; Chicago Cubs 1935–1940; Brooklyn Dodgers 1941; Chicago Cubs 1941; Brooklyn Dodgers 1942

Percentile snapshot

1940 season — qualified pitchers

93.6

87.2

73.4

13.8

73.4

81.9

SHO

78.7

240

25.5

37.2

107

86.2

40.4

246.0

87.2

ERA

3.29

70.2

WHIP

1.236

78.7

K/9

3.91

53.2

FIP

3.34

92.6

FIP-

88.6

75.5

ERA+

114.6

55.3

sWAR

3.9

74.5

of 95 qualified 1940 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

114.5

81.5

sWAR

49.0

98.8

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
1929	30	45	42	4	8	1	0	0	8	2	12	1	.190	.227	.214	.442	4.3	9.3	.209	1.0
1930	42	105	91	11	22	3	1	0	13	3	17	0	.242	.266	.297	.563	33.1	35.8	.254	4.5
1931	39	107	95	8	17	1	0	0	2	5	15	1	.179	.228	.189	.417	8.0	13.8	.204	4.5
1932	47	97	92	7	19	3	1	0	4	1	16	1	.207	.215	.261	.476	19.8	28.3	.213	5.2
1933	47	109	101	7	15	0	2	0	8	5	17	0	.149	.189	.188	.377	-2.3	8.0	.181	4.9
1934	49	98	84	8	16	3	0	0	6	4	16	0	.190	.227	.226	.453	15.1	21.1	.213	4.1
1935	42	96	85	4	12	1	0	0	5	1	14	0	.141	.161	.153	.314	-21.8	-14.4	.148	4.8
1936	43	99	85	5	18	2	0	0	5	4	12	0	.212	.247	.235	.482	25.9	30.6	.230	4.3
1937	42	75	71	1	9	1	0	0	0	0	12	0	.127	.127	.141	.268	-44.7	-28.0	.123	1.6
1938	43	73	62	7	13	3	1	0	7	5	9	0	.210	.269	.290	.559	48.8	52.7	.264	2.3
1939	36	82	73	6	14	2	0	1	7	4	26	0	.192	.244	.260	.504	28.3	35.1	.239	3.5
1940	40	97	85	5	14	3	0	0	9	7	20	0	.165	.237	.200	.437	20.4	22.7	.215	3.9
1941	32	58	51	5	10	1	0	0	4	4	16	0	.196	.255	.216	.470	32.1	34.3	.232	-0.1
1942	38	52	40	5	12	3	0	0	6	3	8	0	.300	.349	.375	.724	111.4	111.5	.344	4.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1929	30	13	7	5	1	6	0	130	67	62	49	10	123.0	4.90	1.561	3.59	5.15	107.6	97.7	1.0
1930	42	35	17	18	1	21	3	325	133	89	90	20	274.7	4.36	1.507	2.95	4.88	98.1	114.1	4.5
1931	39	33	15	13	1	20	1	301	100	70	73	9	275.7	3.26	1.346	2.38	3.64	95.0	117.4	4.5
1932	47	33	18	16	4	19	3	301	92	62	72	17	274.3	3.02	1.323	2.36	3.88	101.7	126.4	5.2
1933	47	35	18	13	1	21	5	290	88	55	88	9	291.3	2.72	1.184	2.72	2.98	89.6	122.4	4.9
1934	49	35	12	18	1	16	3	299	105	59	103	8	263.7	3.58	1.358	3.52	3.40	82.7	114.9	4.1
1935	42	30	17	10	2	16	4	279	81	44	90	10	246.3	2.96	1.311	3.29	3.38	85.7	133.2	4.8
1936	43	28	18	9	3	16	4	262	95	54	104	16	252.3	3.39	1.252	3.71	3.76	93.6	118.5	4.3
1937	42	28	16	10	0	11	4	229	92	65	100	17	208.0	3.98	1.413	4.33	4.00	100.6	100.0	1.6
1938	43	27	10	19	0	10	3	210	85	62	83	17	201.3	3.80	1.351	3.71	3.95	102.8	101.1	2.3
1939	36	21	15	8	1	10	2	205	71	50	98	7	194.0	3.29	1.314	4.55	3.06	77.7	119.5	3.5
1940	40	33	14	14	2	18	3	240	90	64	107	12	246.0	3.29	1.236	3.91	3.34	88.6	114.6	3.9
1941	32	19	5	14	0	6	1	177	77	47	68	11	153.7	4.51	1.458	3.98	3.59	101.1	78.7	-0.1
1942	38	14	15	4	0	8	4	127	30	36	62	1	147.7	1.83	1.104	3.78	2.37	71.2	181.9	4.6

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

570

1,193

1,057

199

RBI

210

.1883

OBP

.2263

SLG

.2261

OPS

.4524

Pitching

G (P)

570

288th-most career G (P)

384

161st-most career GS

197

125th-most career W

171

92nd-most career L

198

141st-most career CG

SHO

44th-most career SHO

3,152

118th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,187

399th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

819

236th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.444

401st-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3306

K/9

3.39

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
1929-05-13	PIT @ LAD Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	0	2	4
1930-08-11	SF @ PIT Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	0	2	4
1932-09-05	STL @ PIT Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	0	0	4
1933-04-22	CIN @ PIT Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	0	0	4
1939-09-06	STL @ CHC Gameday	4	1	1	0	0	1	2	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1937-09-08	STL @ CHC Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	4	10	0
1938-06-08	SF @ CHC Gameday	10.0	11	4	4	2	8	1
1933-06-28	PIT @ SF Gameday	9.1	9	6	5	4	8	2
1935-09-04	PHI @ CHC Gameday	9.0	8	2	1	4	8	0
1936-04-16	CHC @ STL Gameday	9.0	10	3	3	0	8	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× 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.