MLB / Players

Tiny Bonham

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 215 lb

BornAugust 16, 1913 · Ione, CA, USA

MLB debutAugust 5, 1940

Final gameAugust 27, 1949

Seasons10 (1940–1949)

New York Yankees 1940–1946; Pittsburgh Pirates 1947–1949

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified pitchers

33.3

48.8

33.3

28.6

53.6

SHO

186

46.4

47.6

23.8

14.3

180.7

47.6

ERA

3.29

47.6

WHIP

1.151

84.5

K/9

2.09

FIP

3.15

78.6

FIP-

90.8

63.1

ERA+

105.5

39.3

sWAR

2.5

57.1

of 85 qualified 1945 pitchers (min 152 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

121.1

90.8

sWAR

26.2

95.7

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1940	12	39	37	3	7	1	2	2	6	0	.189	.231	.216	.447	12.3	17.2	.212	3.5
1941	23	53	50	1	8	0	2	2	12	0	.160	.192	.160	.352	-12.1	-4.2	.172	2.5
1942	28	88	74	4	9	0	2	3	17	0	.122	.167	.122	.288	-25.0	-16.5	.148	5.3
1943	28	85	76	5	15	1	2	4	15	0	.197	.238	.211	.448	23.1	32.4	.221	5.0
1944	26	85	75	5	10	1	3	5	12	1	.133	.188	.147	.334	-15.8	-4.8	.171	3.1
1945	23	71	63	6	15	5	4	5	9	0	.238	.294	.317	.612	70.0	74.7	.296	2.5
1946	18	36	31	4	4	0	1	4	5	0	.129	.229	.129	.358	-2.9	1.8	.193	0.7
1947	33	55	45	4	7	1	4	3	5	0	.156	.224	.178	.402	-0.6	6.2	.201	2.1
1948	22	50	49	2	8	0	3	0	7	0	.163	.163	.163	.327	-31.3	-12.6	.151	0.8
1949	18	30	22	0	1	0	3	3	1	0	.045	.160	.045	.205	-47.2	-43.1	.126	0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1940	12	12	9	3	0	10	3	83	21	13	37	4	99.3	1.90	.966	3.35	3.09	71.3	228.0	3.5
1941	23	14	9	6	2	7	1	118	42	31	43	12	126.7	2.98	1.176	3.06	4.07	101.8	134.0	2.5
1942	28	27	21	5	0	22	6	199	57	24	71	11	226.0	2.27	.987	2.83	2.89	82.3	154.6	5.3
1943	28	26	15	8	1	17	4	197	57	52	71	13	225.7	2.27	1.103	2.83	3.17	97.6	143.0	5.0
1944	26	25	12	9	0	17	1	228	71	41	54	14	213.7	2.99	1.259	2.27	3.47	99.2	117.0	3.1
1945	23	23	8	11	0	12	0	186	66	22	42	11	180.7	3.29	1.151	2.09	3.15	90.8	105.5	2.5
1946	18	14	5	8	3	6	2	97	43	23	30	6	104.7	3.70	1.146	2.58	3.28	93.8	94.5	0.7
1947	33	18	11	8	3	7	3	167	64	35	63	17	149.7	3.85	1.350	3.79	3.95	93.7	109.4	2.1
1948	22	20	6	10	0	7	0	145	65	23	42	18	135.7	4.31	1.238	2.79	4.25	104.5	94.3	0.8
1949	18	14	7	4	0	5	1	81	42	23	25	11	89.0	4.25	1.169	2.53	4.35	104.6	97.9	0.6

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

231

592

522

RBI

.1609

OBP

.2108

SLG

.1782

OPS

.3890

Pitching

G (P)

231

193

103

110

363rd-most career CG

SHO

232nd-most career SHO

1,551

SO (P)

478

BB allowed

287

ERA

3.064

193rd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1528

82nd-lowest career WHIP

K/9

2.77

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	TB
1943-07-10	NYY @ CWS Gameday	5	1	3	0	3
1943-06-23	MIN @ NYY Gameday	3	0	2	1	3
1945-07-21	CWS @ NYY Gameday	4	2	2	1	3
1945-07-29	ATH @ NYY Gameday	4	0	2	1	3
1945-08-31	NYY @ MIN Gameday	4	0	2	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1943-10-06	STL @ NYY Gameday	8.0	6	4	4	3	9	2
1942-04-17	BOS @ NYY Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	1	7	0
1947-07-11	PIT @ PHI Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	1	7	2
1943-08-19	NYY @ CLE Gameday	12.0	8	1	1	1	6	0
1940-09-26	NYY @ ATH Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	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.

Honors

2× 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.