MLB / Players

Thurman Tucker

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 165 lb

BornSeptember 26, 1917 · Gordon, TX, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1942

Final gameApril 29, 1951

Seasons9 (1942–1951)

Chicago White Sox 1942–1944; Chicago White Sox 1946–1947; Cleveland Indians 1948–1951

Percentile snapshot

1946 season — qualified batters

121

35.1

497

39.2

438

37.1

57.7

126

49.5

46.4

23.7

13.4

RBI

29.9

58.8

76.3

.288

59.8

OBP

.367

61.9

SLG

.354

29.9

OPS

.721

40.2

wRC+

108.5

45.4

OPS+

105.1

41.2

wOBA

.346

42.3

sWAR

2.4

57.7

of 98 qualified 1946 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

6.7

82.5

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
1942	7	24	24	2	3	0	1	0	1	0	4	0	0	.125	.125	.208	.333	-24.0	-5.7	.151	-0.3
1943	139	616	528	81	124	15	6	3	39	79	72	29	17	.235	.336	.303	.639	91.4	87.7	.318	1.6
1944	124	504	446	59	128	15	6	2	46	57	40	13	12	.287	.368	.361	.729	113.3	109.5	.353	2.7
1946	121	497	438	62	126	20	3	1	36	54	45	9	10	.288	.367	.354	.721	108.5	105.1	.346	2.4
1947	89	293	254	28	60	9	4	1	17	38	25	10	4	.236	.336	.315	.651	86.5	84.0	.319	0.6
1948	83	274	242	52	63	13	2	1	19	31	17	11	2	.260	.347	.343	.690	89.4	88.2	.334	0.6
1949	80	217	197	28	48	5	2	0	14	18	19	4	2	.244	.307	.289	.596	59.1	61.8	.292	-0.3
1950	57	116	101	13	18	2	0	1	7	14	14	1	0	.178	.284	.228	.512	39.3	36.1	.259	-0.6
1951	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.1	-100.0	.000	0.0

Career totals

701

2,542

2,231

325

570

RBI

179

291

237

.2555

OBP

.3424

SLG

.3245

OPS

.6669

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1946-09-21	CWS @ BAL Gameday	6	2	4	2	0	5	0	6
1944-05-16	CWS @ NYY Gameday	5	2	4	2	0	3	0	6
1943-08-12	BOS @ CWS Gameday	6	1	4	2	0	0	1	6
1944-09-17	CWS @ BAL Gameday	4	2	2	1	1	1	1	6
1943-05-27	CWS @ ATH Gameday	4	1	4	1	0	1	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1942-04-14	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-15	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-16	BAL @ CWS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-17	CWS @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-18	CWS @ CLE 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

1× 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.