MLB / Players

Lou Boudreau

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 185 lb

BornJuly 17, 1917 · Harvey, IL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 9, 1938

Final gameAugust 24, 1952

Seasons15 (1938–1952)

Cleveland Indians 1938–1950; Boston Red Sox 1951–1952

Percentile snapshot

1949 season — qualified batters

134

22.7

561

29.3

475

25.3

6.7

135

17.3

22.7

RBI

57.3

100

.284

49.3

OBP

.381

57.3

SLG

.364

OPS

.745

33.3

wRC+

105.0

42.7

OPS+

102.0

wOBA

.364

sWAR

2.6

50.7

of 76 qualified 1949 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

123.3

83.9

OPS+

122.3

82.7

sWAR

51.0

98.9

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
1938	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	109.2	37.6	.380	0.0
1939	53	256	225	42	58	15	4	0	19	28	24	2	1	.258	.340	.360	.700	85.7	83.9	.329	0.6
1940	155	706	627	97	185	46	10	9	101	73	39	6	3	.295	.370	.443	.814	115.8	115.6	.369	4.4
1941	148	681	579	95	149	45	8	10	56	85	57	9	4	.257	.355	.415	.770	109.3	108.9	.358	3.7
1942	147	604	506	57	143	18	10	2	58	75	39	7	16	.283	.379	.370	.749	121.2	117.2	.363	4.2
1943	152	649	539	69	154	32	7	3	67	90	31	4	7	.286	.388	.388	.776	138.4	133.2	.377	5.9
1944	150	681	584	91	191	45	5	3	67	73	39	11	3	.327	.406	.437	.843	149.1	145.0	.401	7.0
1945	97	402	345	50	106	24	1	3	48	35	20	0	4	.307	.374	.409	.783	133.3	131.5	.375	3.3
1946	140	571	515	51	151	30	6	6	62	40	14	6	7	.293	.345	.410	.755	114.9	116.3	.351	3.6
1947	150	623	538	79	165	45	3	4	67	67	10	1	0	.307	.388	.424	.811	134.4	132.5	.384	5.4
1948	152	676	560	116	199	34	6	18	106	98	9	3	2	.355	.453	.534	.987	169.0	168.3	.459	8.6
1949	134	561	475	53	135	20	3	4	60	70	10	0	1	.284	.381	.364	.745	105.0	102.0	.364	2.6
1950	81	295	260	23	70	13	2	1	29	31	5	1	2	.269	.349	.346	.695	84.7	83.5	.332	0.6
1951	82	313	273	37	73	18	1	5	47	30	12	1	0	.267	.353	.396	.748	93.7	93.8	.352	1.1
1952	4	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-142.3	-100.0	.000	0.0

Career totals

1,646

7,023

455th-most career PA

6,029

861

1,779

420th-most career H

385

238th-most career 2B

450th-most career 3B

RBI

789

796

276th-most career BB

309

.2951

304th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3804

180th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4147

OPS

.7951

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
1946-07-14	CLE @ BOS Gameday	5	3	5	4	0	1	4	0	12
1948-04-26	CLE @ CWS Gameday	6	2	5	2	2	0	4	2	11
1948-10-04	CLE @ BOS Gameday	4	3	4	0	0	2	2	1	10
1940-08-07	CLE @ CWS Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	2	6	0	9
1944-07-08	CLE @ BOS Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	4	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1938-04-19	BAL @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-20	BAL @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-21	BAL @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-22	CLE @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1938-04-23	CLE @ DET 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

Hall of Fame, 1970 (BBWAA)

1× Most Valuable Player8× 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.