MLB / Players

Mike Tresh

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb

BornFebruary 23, 1914 · Hazleton, PA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 4, 1938

Final gameSeptember 25, 1949

Seasons12 (1938–1949)

Chicago White Sox 1938–1948; Cleveland Indians 1949

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified batters

150

83.8

532

44.1

458

44.1

34.2

114

30.6

RBI

44.1

76.6

32.4

56.8

21.6

.249

15.3

OBP

.342

44.1

SLG

.275

2.7

OPS

.617

10.8

wRC+

86.5

22.5

OPS+

81.9

wOBA

.312

sWAR

2.3

64.9

of 112 qualified 1945 batters (min 465 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

75.2

6.2

OPS+

71.8

3.4

sWAR

9.6

86.5

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
1938	10	38	29	3	7	2	0	0	2	8	4	0	0	.241	.405	.310	.716	93.5	81.2	.359	0.2
1939	119	430	352	49	91	5	2	0	38	64	30	3	2	.259	.377	.284	.661	81.4	72.0	.329	1.3
1940	135	538	480	62	135	15	5	1	64	49	40	3	10	.281	.349	.340	.689	82.1	80.2	.322	1.6
1941	115	433	390	38	98	10	1	0	33	38	27	1	0	.251	.319	.282	.601	63.2	62.2	.291	0.4
1942	72	266	233	21	54	8	1	0	15	28	24	2	0	.232	.314	.275	.589	70.8	68.9	.292	0.6
1943	86	321	279	20	60	3	0	0	20	37	20	2	1	.215	.307	.226	.533	59.5	57.1	.273	0.3
1944	93	352	312	22	81	8	1	0	25	37	15	0	3	.260	.342	.292	.634	86.3	82.7	.314	1.4
1945	150	532	458	50	114	12	0	0	47	65	37	6	3	.249	.342	.275	.617	86.5	81.9	.312	2.3
1946	80	261	217	28	47	5	2	0	21	36	24	0	2	.217	.336	.258	.594	76.1	70.1	.300	0.8
1947	90	303	274	19	66	6	2	0	20	26	26	2	0	.241	.311	.277	.589	65.7	66.7	.289	0.5
1948	39	120	108	10	27	1	0	1	11	9	9	0	0	.250	.308	.287	.595	58.3	60.5	.290	0.1
1949	38	43	37	4	8	0	0	0	1	5	7	0	0	.216	.310	.216	.526	46.3	43.5	.272	0.2

Career totals

1,027

3,637

3,169

326

788

RBI

297

402

263

.2487

OBP

.3355

SLG

.2831

OPS

.6186

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
1940-05-19	MIN @ CWS Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	4	7
1939-06-27	BAL @ CWS Gameday	4	3	4	0	1	0	1	6
1939-07-03	CWS @ BAL Gameday	5	1	4	0	1	0	1	6
1941-08-03	CWS @ MIN Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	0	1	5
1940-09-22	CWS @ BAL Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	0	0	5

Pitching

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