MLB / Players

Sam Crawford

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 190 lb

BornApril 18, 1880 · Wahoo, NE, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1899

Final gameSeptember 16, 1917

Seasons19 (1899–1917)

Cincinnati Reds 1899–1902; Detroit Tigers 1903–1917

Percentile snapshot

1915 season — qualified batters

156

92.7

694

98.2

612

98.2

84.8

183

98.2

89.1

98.8

74.5

RBI

112

98.8

84.8

63.6

69.7

28.5

.299

77.6

OBP

.367

77.6

SLG

.431

81.8

OPS

.799

83.6

wRC+

131.2

OPS+

133.8

81.2

wOBA

.388

84.8

sWAR

4.1

86.7

of 166 qualified 1915 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

139.9

96.1

OPS+

143.1

96.6

sWAR

77.5

99.8

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1899	31	133	127	25	39	3	7	1	20	2	10	6	0	.307	.318	.465	.782	105.2	113.2	.362	0.5
1900	101	424	389	68	101	15	15	7	59	28	35	14	0	.260	.314	.429	.744	99.8	104.1	.348	1.0
1901	131	559	515	91	170	20	16	16	104	37	45	13	0	.330	.378	.524	.903	150.4	157.2	.418	4.8
1902	140	609	555	92	185	18	22	3	78	47	40	16	0	.333	.386	.461	.848	152.7	155.7	.410	5.2
1903	137	602	550	88	184	23	25	4	89	25	46	18	0	.335	.366	.489	.855	152.9	157.2	.390	5.2
1904	150	617	562	49	143	22	16	2	73	44	58	20	0	.254	.309	.361	.670	113.1	113.5	.318	2.2
1905	154	631	575	73	171	38	10	6	75	50	31	22	0	.297	.357	.430	.786	145.3	147.5	.375	4.7
1906	145	610	563	65	166	25	16	2	66	38	20	24	0	.295	.341	.407	.747	127.9	129.3	.358	3.2
1907	144	632	582	102	188	34	17	4	81	37	29	18	0	.323	.366	.460	.826	156.5	159.3	.396	6.7
1908	152	654	591	102	184	33	16	7	80	37	28	15	0	.311	.355	.457	.812	157.3	159.7	.388	6.7
1909	156	662	589	83	185	35	14	6	97	47	32	30	0	.314	.366	.452	.817	152.5	153.3	.393	6.6
1910	154	650	588	83	170	26	19	5	120	37	34	20	0	.289	.332	.423	.756	126.2	129.8	.363	3.5
1911	146	648	574	109	217	36	14	7	115	61	36	37	0	.378	.438	.526	.964	161.8	165.1	.455	6.5
1912	149	644	581	81	189	30	21	4	109	42	32	41	13	.325	.373	.470	.843	132.6	137.7	.399	4.1
1913	153	671	609	78	193	32	23	9	83	52	28	13	0	.317	.371	.489	.860	147.1	150.9	.408	5.4
1914	157	674	582	74	183	22	26	8	104	69	31	25	16	.314	.388	.483	.871	157.8	157.2	.418	6.0
1915	156	694	612	81	183	31	19	4	112	66	29	24	14	.299	.367	.431	.799	131.2	133.8	.388	4.1
1916	100	368	322	41	92	11	13	0	42	37	10	10	0	.286	.359	.401	.760	125.6	125.0	.371	1.9
1917	61	112	104	6	18	4	0	2	12	4	6	0	0	.173	.204	.269	.473	31.4	43.1	.229	-0.7

Career totals

2,517

56th-most career G

10,594

52nd-most career PA

9,570

45th-most career AB

1,391

98th-most career R

2,961

35th-most career H

458

103rd-most career 2B

309

Most career 3B of all time

RBI

1,519

53rd-most career RBI

760

311th-most career BB

580

366

99th-most career SB

.3094

125th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3616

439th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4522

461st-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8138

403rd-highest career OPS

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
1901-06-27	CIN @ SF Gameday	5	3	5	0	1	1	2	0	10
1903-08-16	NYY @ DET Gameday	5	3	5	2	1	0	1	0	9
1901-04-27	CIN @ CHC Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	1	6	0	9
1909-09-22	DET @ MIN Gameday	5	2	4	1	2	0	2	0	9
1910-08-22	DET @ NYY Gameday	4	3	4	1	2	0	1	1	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-04-20	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-24	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-26	CIN @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	CIN @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-28	CIN @ CHC 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, 1957 (Veterans)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.