MLB / Players

Marv Throneberry

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left
Listed at6 ft 1 in · 190 lb
BornSeptember 2, 1933 · Collierville, TN, USA
MLB debutSeptember 25, 1955
Final gameMay 5, 1963
Seasons7 (1955–1963)

New York Yankees 1955; New York Yankees 1958–1959; Kansas City Athletics 1960; Baltimore Orioles 1961; Kansas City Athletics 1961; Baltimore Orioles 1962; New York Mets 1962–1963

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
0.5
58.1

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
195513212100300101.000.6671.5002.167373.3480.7.7530.1
195860172150303452719194011.227.316.427.742108.9107.8.3360.4
195980214192274650822185100.240.302.391.69391.293.2.313-0.1
19601042602362959921141236000.250.315.445.760100.0101.3.3410.3
1961962582262651511135315000.226.319.403.72292.892.2.3280.2
196212540936630871131649388913.238.306.415.72285.687.8.321-0.2
19631415140210011500.143.200.214.41411.518.3.198-0.1

Career totals

G
480
PA
1,331
AB
1,186
R
143
H
281
2B
37
3B
8
HR
53
RBI
170
BB
130
SO
295
SB
3
BA
.2369
OBP
.3107
SLG
.4157
OPS
.7264

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1960-05-24BOS @ ATH Gameday433111309
1961-06-27BAL @ ATH Gameday423002309
1962-08-02PHI @ NYM Gameday422002208
1962-07-07STL @ NYM Gameday412011107
1961-04-29CWS @ ATH Gameday433001516

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.