MLB / Players

Lefty Gomez

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 173 lb

BornNovember 26, 1908 · Rodeo, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 29, 1930

Final gameMay 30, 1943

Seasons14 (1930–1943)

New York Yankees 1930–1942; Washington Senators 1943

Percentile snapshot

1941 season — qualified pitchers

38.1

52.6

85.6

74.2

35.1

SHO

54.6

151

60.8

52.6

103

9.3

69.1

37.1

156.3

36.1

ERA

3.74

48.5

WHIP

1.625

11.3

K/9

4.38

FIP

4.62

13.4

FIP-

115.5

8.2

ERA+

106.9

51.5

sWAR

1.9

49.5

of 98 qualified 1941 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

128.9

95.9

sWAR

46.4

98.6

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1930	15	23	20	1	3	0	1	0	9	0	0	.150	.150	.150	.300	-25.6	-22.2	.137	-0.2
1931	40	94	83	8	11	0	3	7	28	0	0	.133	.200	.133	.333	-4.3	-8.6	.172	5.8
1932	37	115	104	9	18	2	15	6	36	0	0	.173	.218	.192	.410	5.9	7.5	.198	3.1
1933	35	93	80	3	9	0	3	7	23	0	0	.113	.193	.113	.306	-8.7	-14.6	.164	4.0
1934	38	119	99	8	13	1	4	6	30	0	0	.131	.189	.141	.330	-9.4	-10.5	.168	7.8
1935	34	93	83	4	10	0	4	3	15	0	1	.120	.151	.120	.272	-32.3	-26.4	.134	4.3
1936	31	80	69	1	10	1	5	3	23	0	0	.145	.181	.159	.340	-14.0	-13.1	.165	2.3
1937	34	115	105	8	21	2	4	5	22	1	0	.200	.236	.219	.455	10.0	15.6	.217	9.1
1938	32	99	86	5	13	2	7	4	18	0	0	.151	.189	.174	.363	-10.8	-6.8	.175	5.2
1939	26	82	73	3	11	2	4	5	22	0	0	.151	.205	.178	.383	1.0	1.2	.188	3.8
1940	9	9	9	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.9	-100.0	.000	-0.5
1941	23	66	59	5	9	1	4	3	12	0	0	.153	.194	.169	.363	-8.5	-1.5	.177	1.9
1942	13	35	33	4	5	0	4	1	12	0	0	.152	.176	.152	.328	-16.1	-5.4	.161	0.0
1943	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-134.4	-100.0	.000	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1930	15	6	2	5	1	2	0	66	37	28	22	12	60.0	5.55	1.567	3.30	6.77	151.4	80.5	-0.2
1931	40	26	21	9	3	17	1	206	72	85	150	7	243.0	2.67	1.198	5.56	3.49	84.1	155.6	5.8
1932	37	31	24	7	1	21	1	266	124	105	176	23	265.3	4.21	1.398	5.97	4.14	92.8	106.0	3.1
1933	35	30	16	10	2	14	4	218	83	106	163	16	234.7	3.18	1.381	6.25	3.88	96.9	125.9	4.0
1934	38	33	26	5	1	25	6	223	73	96	158	12	281.7	2.33	1.133	5.05	3.61	86.5	178.9	7.8
1935	34	30	12	15	1	15	2	223	87	86	138	18	246.0	3.18	1.256	5.05	3.99	96.4	130.2	4.3
1936	31	30	13	7	0	10	0	184	92	122	105	6	188.7	4.39	1.622	5.01	4.75	99.5	108.6	2.3
1937	34	34	21	11	0	25	6	233	72	93	194	10	278.3	2.33	1.171	6.27	3.21	69.7	197.9	9.1
1938	32	32	18	12	0	20	4	239	89	99	129	7	239.0	3.35	1.414	4.86	3.67	79.5	137.9	5.2
1939	26	26	12	8	0	14	2	173	75	84	102	11	198.0	3.41	1.298	4.64	4.15	94.2	129.1	3.8
1940	9	5	3	3	0	0	0	37	20	18	14	2	27.3	6.59	2.012	4.61	4.94	113.8	65.9	-0.5
1941	23	23	15	5	0	8	2	151	65	103	76	10	156.3	3.74	1.625	4.38	4.62	115.5	106.9	1.9
1942	13	13	6	4	0	2	0	67	38	65	41	4	80.0	4.28	1.650	4.61	4.69	133.6	82.1	0.0
1943	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	4	3	5	0	0	4.7	5.79	1.929	0.00	5.56	172.0	55.9	-0.1

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

368

1,024

904

133

RBI

252

.1471

OBP

.1935

SLG

.1593

OPS

.3528

Pitching

G (P)

368

320

296th-most career GS

189

149th-most career W

102

173

184th-most career CG

SHO

135th-most career SHO

2,503

254th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,468

254th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,095

79th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.344

340th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3524

K/9

5.28

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	RBI	TB
1942-05-29	MIN @ NYY Gameday	5	3	4	0	2	4
1937-08-26	NYY @ BAL Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	4
1938-08-29	BAL @ NYY Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	3
1932-07-15	CLE @ NYY Gameday	3	1	2	0	3	2
1939-06-01	NYY @ CLE Gameday	4	1	2	0	2	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1932-05-24	ATH @ NYY Gameday	9.0	3	1	0	1	13	0
1932-06-08	NYY @ DET Gameday	9.0	5	4	4	9	13	1
1933-09-17	CLE @ NYY Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	2	13	0
1933-06-02	ATH @ NYY Gameday	8.0	8	4	2	5	13	2
1933-07-04	MIN @ NYY Gameday	9.1	10	6	4	1	11	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, 1972 (Veterans)

2× Pitching Triple Crown7× 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.