MLB / Players

Roy Thomas

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 150 lb

BornMarch 24, 1874 · Norristown, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1899

Final gameSeptember 4, 1911

Seasons13 (1899–1911)

Philadelphia Phillies 1899–1908; Pittsburgh Pirates 1908; Boston Doves 1909; Philadelphia Phillies 1910–1911

Percentile snapshot

1907 season — qualified batters

121

521

419

102

RBI

.243

OBP

.374

SLG

.301

OPS

.674

wRC+

124.5

OPS+

113.8

wOBA

.349

sWAR

3.6

of 101 qualified 1907 batters (min 461 PA) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

131.3

91.6

OPS+

122.7

83.1

sWAR

49.4

98.8

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1899	150	702	547	137	178	12	4	0	47	115	45	42	.325	.457	.362	.819	132.3	125.4	.413	5.3
1900	140	675	531	132	168	4	3	0	33	115	52	37	.316	.451	.335	.786	127.9	118.4	.399	4.8
1901	129	603	479	102	148	5	2	1	28	100	56	27	.309	.437	.334	.771	132.3	122.5	.388	4.6
1902	138	626	500	89	143	4	7	0	24	107	53	17	.286	.414	.322	.736	138.0	127.7	.379	5.2
1903	130	607	477	88	156	11	2	1	27	107	46	17	.327	.453	.365	.818	141.9	135.4	.411	5.4
1904	139	610	496	92	144	6	6	3	29	102	61	28	.290	.416	.345	.761	144.8	137.5	.383	5.8
1905	147	675	562	118	178	11	6	0	31	93	52	23	.317	.417	.358	.775	139.6	133.9	.385	5.9
1906	142	620	493	81	125	10	7	0	16	107	44	22	.254	.393	.302	.695	129.8	117.5	.362	4.7
1907	121	521	419	70	102	15	3	1	23	83	31	11	.243	.374	.301	.674	124.5	113.8	.349	3.6
1908	108	474	410	54	103	11	10	1	24	51	38	11	.251	.341	.334	.675	120.4	116.4	.336	3.1
1909	82	339	281	36	74	9	1	0	11	47	32	5	.263	.369	.302	.671	109.9	102.3	.343	1.2
1910	23	81	71	7	13	0	2	0	4	7	5	4	.183	.266	.239	.505	46.1	46.2	.258	-0.2
1911	21	42	30	5	5	2	0	0	2	8	6	0	.167	.342	.233	.575	76.4	61.8	.308	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1900	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	0	0	0	2.7	3.38	1.500	0.00	2.83	76.5	109.5	4.8

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

1,470

6,575

5,296

1,011

339th-most career R

1,537

100

RBI

299

1,042

110th-most career BB

521

244

255th-most career SB

.2902

402nd-highest career batting average

OBP

.4135

34th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3331

OPS

.7466

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

3.375

WHIP

1.5000

K/9

0.00

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
1904-04-21	PHI @ SF Gameday	6	4	4	0	0	1	1	7
1908-07-11	SF @ PIT Gameday	4	1	3	0	2	0	2	7
1904-07-26	PHI @ ATL Gameday	5	2	5	1	0	0	0	6
1905-06-09	PHI @ STL Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	0	0	6
1904-10-01	PIT @ PHI Gameday	5	1	3	1	1	0	1	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-18	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-19	PHI @ LAD Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-22	LAD @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-23	ATL @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-26	ATL @ PHI 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.