MLB / Players

Pie Traynor

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb

BornNovember 11, 1898 · Framingham, MA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 15, 1920

Final gameAugust 14, 1937

Seasons17 (1920–1937)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1920–1935; Pittsburgh Pirates 1937

Percentile snapshot

1934 season — qualified batters

119

40.3

468

34.3

444

44.8

46.3

137

45.5

88.1

19.4

RBI

55.2

29.1

34.3

32.8

.309

61.2

OBP

.341

28.4

SLG

.410

45.5

OPS

.751

36.6

wRC+

97.8

32.8

OPS+

98.9

36.6

wOBA

.341

29.1

sWAR

1.6

45.5

of 135 qualified 1934 batters (min 468 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

107.7

57.1

OPS+

107.9

58.3

sWAR

38.0

97.7

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
1920	17	56	52	6	11	3	1	0	2	3	6	1	3	.212	.268	.308	.576	60.7	64.5	.274	0.0
1921	7	20	19	0	5	0	0	0	2	1	2	0	0	.263	.300	.263	.563	47.9	49.8	.268	-0.1
1922	142	615	571	89	161	17	12	4	81	27	28	17	3	.282	.319	.375	.694	76.7	78.7	.320	0.5
1923	153	661	616	108	208	19	19	12	101	34	19	28	13	.338	.377	.489	.866	125.1	126.5	.393	4.6
1924	142	596	545	86	160	26	13	5	82	37	26	24	18	.294	.340	.417	.756	101.4	102.4	.346	2.3
1925	150	658	591	114	189	39	14	6	106	52	19	15	9	.320	.377	.464	.840	109.5	109.1	.380	3.2
1926	152	639	574	83	182	25	17	3	92	38	14	8	0	.317	.361	.436	.796	109.4	110.1	.367	3.1
1927	149	633	573	93	196	32	9	5	106	22	11	11	0	.342	.370	.455	.825	113.5	114.5	.378	3.4
1928	144	640	569	91	192	38	12	3	124	28	10	12	0	.337	.370	.462	.832	112.4	113.4	.379	3.2
1929	130	597	540	94	192	27	12	4	108	30	7	13	0	.356	.393	.472	.865	111.7	111.7	.391	2.9
1930	130	569	497	90	182	22	11	9	119	48	19	7	0	.366	.423	.509	.932	125.2	124.0	.414	3.8
1931	155	677	615	81	183	37	15	2	103	54	28	6	0	.298	.354	.416	.771	107.7	107.3	.354	3.1
1932	135	556	513	74	169	27	10	2	68	32	20	6	0	.329	.373	.433	.806	119.2	117.9	.363	3.3
1933	154	676	624	85	190	27	6	1	82	35	24	5	0	.304	.342	.372	.714	104.3	104.1	.333	2.9
1934	119	468	444	62	137	22	10	1	61	21	27	3	0	.309	.341	.410	.751	97.8	98.9	.341	1.6
1935	57	220	204	24	57	10	3	1	36	10	17	2	0	.279	.323	.373	.695	83.6	84.6	.318	0.3
1937	5	12	12	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	-21.3	-8.7	.154	-0.1

Career totals

1,941

302nd-most career G

8,293

235th-most career PA

7,559

213th-most career AB

1,183

205th-most career R

2,416

123rd-most career H

371

265th-most career 2B

164

30th-most career 3B

RBI

1,273

130th-most career RBI

472

278

158

.3196

64th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3621

429th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4351

OPS

.7972

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
1923-07-07	PIT @ PHI Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	1	6	1	10
1930-07-23	PIT @ PHI Gameday	7	4	5	1	0	1	4	1	9
1922-09-02	PIT @ STL Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	1	3	0	9
1923-05-23	PIT @ PHI Gameday	4	3	4	0	1	1	1	1	9
1925-08-29	PIT @ PHI Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	2	4	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1920-04-14	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-04-15	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-04-16	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-04-17	PIT @ STL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1920-04-18	PIT @ CIN 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, 1948 (BBWAA)

2× 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.