Lee Thomas

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 195 lb

BornFebruary 5, 1936 · Peoria, IL, USA

MLB debutApril 22, 1961

Final gameSeptember 27, 1968

Seasons8 (1961–1968)

Los Angeles Angels 1961; New York Yankees 1961; Los Angeles Angels 1962–1963; Boston Red Sox 1964; Los Angeles Angels 1964; Boston Red Sox 1965; Atlanta Braves 1966; Chicago Cubs 1966–1967; Houston Astros 1968

Percentile snapshot

1965 season — qualified batters

151

51.6

603

47.4

521

32.6

52.6

141

42.1

76.8

48.4

70.5

RBI

63.2

82.1

92.6

49.5

62.1

.271

54.7

OBP

.361

76.8

SLG

.464

68.4

OPS

.826

72.6

wRC+

128.6

68.4

OPS+

125.5

65.3

wOBA

.371

74.7

sWAR

2.8

49.5

of 96 qualified 1965 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

98.8

39.1

OPS+

98.2

37.8

sWAR

5.2

79.8

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
1961	132	506	452	77	129	11	5	24	70	47	74	0	5	.285	.353	.491	.844	118.4	118.3	.374	2.1
1962	160	652	583	88	169	21	2	26	104	55	74	6	1	.290	.355	.467	.821	119.0	117.9	.366	2.6
1963	149	594	528	52	116	12	6	9	55	53	82	6	0	.220	.301	.316	.617	78.2	78.5	.284	-0.8
1964	154	636	573	58	150	27	3	15	66	52	51	3	1	.262	.325	.398	.723	98.4	98.7	.325	1.2
1965	151	603	521	74	141	27	4	22	75	72	42	6	2	.271	.361	.464	.826	128.6	125.5	.371	2.8
1966	114	306	275	26	61	5	1	7	24	24	30	1	1	.222	.293	.324	.616	70.1	70.0	.284	-0.7
1967	77	212	191	16	42	4	1	2	23	15	22	1	0	.220	.284	.283	.567	52.8	59.8	.261	-0.8
1968	90	221	201	14	39	4	0	1	11	14	22	2	1	.194	.249	.229	.478	35.3	45.2	.225	-1.2

Career totals

1,027

3,730

3,324

405

847

111

106

RBI

428

332

397

.2548

OBP

.3267

SLG

.3971

OPS

.7238

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
1961-09-05	LAA @ ATH Gameday	6	3	4	0	0	3	8	0	13
1964-09-02	BOS @ ATH Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	3	0	9
1961-08-14	LAA @ TEX Gameday	4	4	3	1	1	1	1	0	9
1962-05-26	LAA @ ATH Gameday	5	2	2	0	0	2	4	0	8
1962-06-12	MIN @ LAA Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	3	1	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1962-05-26	LAA @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-05-27	LAA @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-06-19	LAA @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-06-20	LAA @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1962-06-21	LAA @ ATH 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× 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.