MLB / Players

Tom Sunkel

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left
Listed at6 ft 1 in · 190 lb
BornAugust 9, 1912 · Paris, IL, USA
MLB debutAugust 26, 1937
Final gameSeptember 29, 1944
Seasons6 (1937–1944)

St. Louis Cardinals 1937; St. Louis Cardinals 1939; New York Giants 1941–1943; Brooklyn Dodgers 1944

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
0.1
49.6

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19379991100000300.111.111.111.222-57.6-40.0.1030.6
19392030285920011700.321.345.393.73890.793.1.3391.0
19412661200000300.333.333.333.66781.686.4.3120.3
19421919191200000700.105.105.105.211-63.4-38.3.099-0.7
19431000000000000-0.2
194412540000000200.000.000.000.000-128.7-100.0.000-0.9

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19379100100249119029.32.761.1932.763.4687.0144.10.6
193920114402179405654485.34.221.5825.704.16101.197.41.0
19412211011751214015.32.931.2398.223.2888.7126.10.3
194219113603065344129563.74.811.6654.104.33130.768.9-0.7
19431101000433012.710.132.6250.0010.72311.334.0-0.2
1944123131003920106124.07.502.0422.253.82105.548.3-0.9

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

G
63
PA
69
AB
66
R
8
H
14
2B
2
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
1
BB
1
SO
22
SB
0
BA
.2121
OBP
.2239
SLG
.2424
OPS
.4663

Pitching

G (P)
63
GS
29
W
9
L
15
SV
2
CG
6
SHO
2
IP
220
SO (P)
112
BB allowed
133
ERA
4.534
WHIP
1.5930
K/9
4.57

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1939-07-26SF @ STL Gameday312100113
1939-07-19STL @ PHI Gameday202000002
1939-09-06STL @ CHC Gameday211100002
1937-09-30STL @ PIT Gameday201000001
1939-07-02PIT @ STL Gameday211000001

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1941-09-24SF @ PHI Gameday9.02006120
1939-07-26SF @ STL Gameday9.0200290
1942-09-06LAD @ SF Gameday9.0522281
1942-05-29SF @ LAD Gameday10.0711560
1939-09-30STL @ CHC Gameday4.1555560

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.