MLB / Players

Sam Gray

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 175 lb

BornOctober 15, 1897 · Van Alstyne, TX, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1924

Final gameSeptember 18, 1933

Seasons10 (1924–1933)

Philadelphia Athletics 1924–1927; St. Louis Browns 1928–1933

Percentile snapshot

1932 season — qualified pitchers

99.3

53.3

40.9

21.2

94.2

33.6

SHO

85.4

250

15.3

104

16.8

38.7

39.4

206.7

70.8

ERA

4.53

21.9

WHIP

1.466

K/9

3.44

45.3

FIP

3.71

65.7

FIP-

78.7

95.6

ERA+

104.1

44.5

sWAR

2.4

64.2

of 138 qualified 1932 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

105.9

60.9

sWAR

23.9

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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
1924	34	58	57	1	10	1	1	0	4	1	11	0	.175	.190	.228	.418	-5.3	6.7	.196	1.8
1925	32	76	67	4	12	1	0	0	5	6	17	0	.179	.257	.194	.451	13.6	13.6	.230	4.5
1926	38	61	51	6	11	3	0	0	2	5	10	0	.216	.286	.275	.560	42.7	45.1	.273	2.4
1927	37	48	42	6	8	0	0	0	2	3	11	0	.190	.244	.190	.435	11.0	13.0	.217	0.7
1928	35	109	101	6	19	3	0	1	9	4	24	0	.188	.219	.248	.467	12.3	20.4	.218	5.3
1929	43	118	103	8	19	4	1	0	13	6	18	0	.184	.229	.243	.472	14.0	19.8	.223	5.0
1930	27	57	54	3	11	3	0	0	5	2	17	0	.204	.232	.259	.491	19.0	22.4	.226	-0.9
1931	43	92	79	9	14	0	0	1	6	8	16	0	.177	.253	.215	.468	22.4	21.6	.232	1.1
1932	52	66	62	2	13	3	0	0	3	3	17	0	.210	.246	.258	.504	22.7	27.4	.236	2.4
1933	38	36	32	4	7	2	1	0	0	3	5	1	.219	.286	.344	.629	58.7	61.5	.294	1.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1924	34	19	8	7	2	8	2	169	67	89	54	5	151.7	3.98	1.701	3.20	4.72	110.1	107.8	1.8
1925	32	28	16	8	3	14	4	199	74	63	80	11	203.7	3.27	1.286	3.54	3.99	88.0	138.8	4.5
1926	38	18	11	12	0	5	0	164	61	50	82	9	150.7	3.64	1.420	4.90	3.68	89.8	112.6	2.4
1927	37	13	9	6	3	3	1	153	68	51	49	4	133.3	4.59	1.530	3.31	3.95	94.0	91.6	0.7
1928	35	31	20	12	3	21	2	256	93	86	102	11	262.7	3.19	1.302	3.49	3.79	91.0	130.8	5.3
1929	43	37	18	15	1	23	4	336	126	96	109	18	305.0	3.72	1.416	3.22	4.02	92.0	117.6	5.0
1930	27	24	4	15	0	7	0	215	117	52	51	17	167.7	6.28	1.592	2.74	5.16	107.5	76.4	-0.9
1931	43	37	11	24	2	13	0	323	146	54	88	20	258.0	5.09	1.461	3.07	4.25	93.3	89.5	1.1
1932	52	18	7	12	4	7	3	250	104	53	79	9	206.7	4.53	1.466	3.44	3.71	78.7	104.1	2.4
1933	38	6	7	4	4	0	0	131	51	45	36	7	112.0	4.10	1.571	2.89	4.43	98.0	110.4	1.8

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

379

721

648

124

RBI

146

.1914

OBP

.2406

SLG

.2407

OPS

.4813

Pitching

G (P)

379

231

111

115

392nd-most career L

101

409th-most career CG

SHO

354th-most career SHO

1,951

481st-most career IP

SO (P)

730

BB allowed

639

481st-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.183

WHIP

1.4529

K/9

3.37

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
1928-09-08	BAL @ DET Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	1	1	0	6
1929-05-28	BAL @ DET Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	0	2	0	5
1930-07-18	NYY @ BAL Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	0	1	1	4
1924-07-30	ATH @ CLE Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	4
1931-07-12	BAL @ DET Gameday	2	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1932-09-18	NYY @ BAL Gameday	10.0	8	1	1	4	10	0
1926-05-25	MIN @ ATH Gameday	7.2	6	1	0	0	7	0
1924-04-27	ATH @ NYY Gameday	6.2	7	2	2	3	7	0
1928-06-10	BOS @ BAL Gameday	12.0	7	1	1	4	6	1
1924-09-04	ATH @ NYY Gameday	9.0	7	3	3	2	6	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.