Lou Finney

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornAugust 13, 1910 · Buffalo, AL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 12, 1931

Final gameMay 8, 1947

Seasons15 (1931–1947)

Philadelphia Athletics 1931; Philadelphia Athletics 1933–1938; Boston Red Sox 1939; Philadelphia Athletics 1939; Boston Red Sox 1940–1942; Boston Red Sox 1944–1945; St. Louis Browns 1945–1946; Philadelphia Phillies 1947

Percentile snapshot

1941 season — qualified batters

127

43.9

545

48.9

497

55.4

73.4

143

64.7

51.1

90.6

42.4

RBI

51.8

45.3

62.6

21.6

5.8

.288

63.3

OBP

.340

39.6

SLG

.400

48.9

OPS

.740

46.8

wRC+

93.3

33.8

OPS+

95.2

37.4

wOBA

.342

44.6

sWAR

0.6

27.3

of 140 qualified 1941 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

85.4

16.6

OPS+

87.7

19.5

sWAR

1.4

66.5

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
1931	9	32	24	7	9	0	1	0	3	6	1	0	0	.375	.516	.458	.974	163.9	154.4	.464	0.3
1933	74	257	240	26	64	12	2	3	32	13	17	1	3	.267	.307	.371	.678	75.2	78.1	.313	-0.3
1934	92	293	272	32	76	11	4	1	28	14	17	4	3	.279	.315	.360	.675	72.8	75.5	.313	-0.4
1935	109	434	410	45	112	11	6	0	31	18	18	7	2	.273	.307	.329	.636	60.1	63.7	.297	-1.3
1936	151	703	653	100	197	26	10	1	41	47	22	7	9	.302	.351	.377	.728	79.7	79.6	.339	-0.4
1937	92	404	379	53	95	14	9	1	20	20	16	2	5	.251	.288	.343	.631	53.4	58.0	.289	-1.4
1938	122	502	454	61	125	21	12	10	48	39	25	5	8	.275	.333	.441	.773	88.9	92.1	.350	0.3
1939	104	302	271	44	84	18	3	1	47	26	11	2	5	.310	.370	.410	.780	97.4	97.0	.361	0.6
1940	130	574	534	73	171	31	15	5	73	33	13	5	2	.320	.360	.463	.822	107.2	108.6	.368	1.6
1941	127	545	497	83	143	24	10	4	53	38	17	2	5	.288	.340	.400	.740	93.3	95.2	.342	0.6
1942	113	431	397	58	113	16	7	3	61	29	11	3	3	.285	.335	.383	.718	97.0	99.1	.339	0.7
1944	68	277	251	37	72	11	2	0	32	23	7	1	0	.287	.347	.347	.693	99.9	99.0	.334	0.4
1945	59	242	215	24	59	8	4	2	22	21	7	0	0	.274	.342	.377	.719	105.1	105.1	.346	0.5
1946	16	33	30	0	9	0	0	0	3	2	4	0	0	.300	.344	.300	.644	75.2	76.9	.310	0.0
1947	4	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.4	-100.0	.000	-0.1

Career totals

1,270

5,033

4,631

643

1,329

203

249th-most career 3B

RBI

494

329

186

.2870

482nd-highest career batting average

OBP

.3356

SLG

.3876

OPS

.7232

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
1937-07-09	BOS @ ATH Gameday	7	2	5	2	1	0	1	9
1938-08-03	ATH @ CWS Gameday	6	3	4	0	1	1	4	9
1938-09-25	MIN @ ATH Gameday	5	1	4	1	2	0	2	9
1942-09-19	BOS @ NYY Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	1	3	8
1936-07-27	ATH @ CWS Gameday	6	4	5	0	1	0	1	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1931-04-14	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-15	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-16	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-18	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1931-04-19	ATH @ NYY 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.