MLB / Players

Sam West

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 165 lb

BornOctober 5, 1904 · Longview, TX, USA

MLB debutApril 17, 1927

Final gameSeptember 24, 1942

Seasons16 (1927–1942)

Washington Senators 1927–1932; St. Louis Browns 1933–1938; Washington Senators 1938–1941; Chicago White Sox 1942

Percentile snapshot

1938 season — qualified batters

136

51.2

567

54.5

509

58.7

155

63.6

41.3

RBI

63.6

49.6

60.3

20.7

32.2

.305

65.3

OBP

.363

53.7

SLG

.420

50.4

OPS

.784

53.7

wRC+

97.9

38.8

OPS+

98.7

42.1

wOBA

.361

52.1

sWAR

1.8

48.8

of 122 qualified 1938 batters (min 483 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

103.5

48.5

OPS+

102.8

47.4

sWAR

26.8

95.8

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
1927	38	75	67	9	16	4	1	0	6	8	8	1	0	.239	.320	.328	.648	71.0	69.7	.311	-0.1
1928	125	405	378	59	114	30	7	3	40	20	23	5	6	.302	.338	.442	.780	101.7	104.6	.355	1.3
1929	142	577	510	60	136	16	8	3	75	45	41	9	8	.267	.326	.347	.673	73.8	73.9	.315	0.2
1930	120	458	411	75	135	22	10	6	67	37	34	5	5	.328	.385	.474	.860	117.3	118.0	.387	2.7
1931	132	559	526	77	175	43	13	3	91	30	37	6	8	.333	.369	.481	.850	121.1	123.9	.385	3.5
1932	146	612	554	88	159	27	12	6	83	48	57	4	5	.287	.345	.412	.756	97.7	98.5	.346	2.0
1933	133	582	517	93	155	25	12	11	48	59	49	10	8	.300	.373	.458	.831	112.5	113.1	.382	3.0
1934	122	554	482	90	157	22	10	9	55	62	55	3	5	.326	.403	.469	.871	116.7	115.8	.403	3.1
1935	138	615	527	93	158	37	4	10	70	75	46	1	6	.300	.388	.442	.830	110.2	108.5	.386	2.9
1936	152	637	533	78	148	26	4	7	70	94	70	2	0	.278	.386	.381	.767	89.3	85.2	.365	1.4
1937	122	506	457	68	150	37	4	7	58	46	28	1	1	.328	.390	.473	.862	112.9	112.7	.392	2.6
1938	136	567	509	68	155	27	7	6	74	47	30	2	1	.305	.363	.420	.784	97.9	98.7	.361	1.8
1939	115	471	390	52	110	20	8	3	52	67	29	1	1	.282	.387	.397	.785	105.5	101.7	.369	1.6
1940	57	117	99	7	25	6	1	1	18	16	13	0	2	.253	.357	.364	.720	96.3	92.7	.338	0.2
1941	26	49	37	3	10	0	0	0	6	11	2	1	0	.270	.438	.270	.708	109.0	90.9	.366	0.2
1942	49	188	151	14	35	5	0	0	25	31	18	2	0	.232	.363	.265	.628	91.0	80.7	.322	0.4

Career totals

1,753

459th-most career G

6,972

471st-most career PA

6,148

475th-most career AB

934

440th-most career R

1,838

381st-most career H

347

327th-most career 2B

101

160th-most career 3B

RBI

838

475th-most career RBI

696

387th-most career BB

540

.2990

236th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3707

274th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4249

OPS

.7956

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
1933-08-05	CWS @ BAL Gameday	5	3	4	1	2	1	2	12
1935-05-08	MIN @ BAL Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	2	3	10
1930-05-17	ATH @ MIN Gameday	6	3	4	1	0	1	6	8
1931-07-09	BOS @ MIN Gameday	5	1	4	0	2	0	2	8
1933-04-29	DET @ BAL Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	3	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1927-04-12	BOS @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-14	BOS @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-15	BOS @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-16	ATH @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-17	ATH @ MIN 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

4× 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.