Pinch Thomas
Boston Red Sox 1912–1917; Cleveland Indians 1918–1921
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912 | 13 | 33 | 30 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | .200 | .250 | .200 | .450 | 30.6 | 28.4 | .228 | -0.1 |
| 1913 | 38 | 96 | 91 | 6 | 26 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 0 | .286 | .309 | .374 | .682 | 92.7 | 98.7 | .326 | 0.5 |
| 1914 | 66 | 150 | 130 | 9 | 25 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 18 | 17 | 1 | 0 | .192 | .291 | .200 | .491 | 53.1 | 48.8 | .260 | 0.3 |
| 1915 | 86 | 224 | 203 | 21 | 48 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 21 | 13 | 20 | 3 | 2 | .236 | .286 | .296 | .581 | 75.3 | 78.4 | .288 | 0.8 |
| 1916 | 99 | 265 | 216 | 21 | 57 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 33 | 13 | 4 | 0 | .264 | .364 | .333 | .697 | 117.7 | 112.8 | .352 | 2.3 |
| 1917 | 83 | 238 | 202 | 24 | 48 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 24 | 27 | 9 | 2 | 0 | .238 | .333 | .272 | .606 | 92.9 | 87.6 | .312 | 1.4 |
| 1918 | 32 | 82 | 73 | 2 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .247 | .304 | .274 | .578 | 65.2 | 68.6 | .292 | 0.2 |
| 1919 | 34 | 52 | 46 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .109 | .180 | .109 | .289 | -27.9 | -19.5 | .156 | -0.4 |
| 1920 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .500 | .444 | .944 | 161.8 | 150.6 | .458 | 0.2 |
| 1921 | 21 | 46 | 35 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .257 | .422 | .343 | .765 | 108.6 | 96.5 | .381 | 0.3 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1916-05-29 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 1913-08-08 | DET @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1917-08-15 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1915-05-10 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1913-09-29 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912-04-11 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1912-04-12 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1912-04-13 | BOS @ NYY Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1912-04-15 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1912-04-16 | BOS @ ATH 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.