MLB / Players

Tom Downey

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 178 lb

BornJanuary 1, 1884 · Lewiston, ME, USA

MLB debutMay 7, 1909

Final gameSeptember 30, 1915

Seasons6 (1909–1915)

Cincinnati Reds 1909–1911; Chicago Cubs 1912; Philadelphia Phillies 1912; Buffalo Buffeds 1914; Buffalo Blues 1915

Percentile snapshot

1914 season — qualified batters

151

80.4

605

71.2

541

75.5

65.6

118

34.4

52.8

18.4

40.5

RBI

41.7

47.2

23.3

85.9

.218

1.8

OBP

.273

1.8

SLG

.277

3.1

OPS

.550

1.8

wRC+

54.5

1.8

OPS+

56.6

1.8

wOBA

.267

1.8

sWAR

-1.0

1.2

of 164 qualified 1914 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

3.6

75.7

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
1909	119	468	416	39	96	9	6	1	32	32	34	16	.231	.287	.288	.576	77.0	78.7	.286	1.0
1910	111	432	378	43	102	9	3	2	32	34	28	12	.270	.335	.325	.660	96.1	95.9	.326	1.7
1911	111	416	360	50	94	16	7	0	36	44	38	10	.261	.345	.344	.689	98.9	97.3	.337	1.8
1912	67	231	193	31	54	6	5	1	27	22	25	3	.280	.353	.378	.732	96.5	96.0	.351	0.8
1914	151	605	541	69	118	20	3	2	42	40	55	35	.218	.273	.277	.550	54.5	56.6	.267	-1.0
1915	92	316	282	24	56	9	1	1	19	26	26	11	.199	.269	.248	.517	51.1	52.2	.258	-0.6

Career totals

651

2,468

2,170

256

520

RBI

188

198

206

.2396

OBP

.3056

SLG

.3041

OPS

.6097

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
1910-06-08	CIN @ LAD Gameday	4	2	4	0	1	0	3	0	6
1911-08-07	ATL @ CIN Gameday	4	1	4	0	1	0	0	0	6
1910-08-11	CIN @ SF Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	5
1911-05-05	CIN @ CHC Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	0	3	1	4
1909-09-21	PHI @ CIN Gameday	3	0	3	1	0	0	1	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1909-04-14	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1909-04-15	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1909-04-16	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1909-04-17	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1909-04-18	STL @ CIN 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.