MLB / Players

Tom Umphlett

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 180 lb

BornMay 12, 1931 · Scotland Neck, NC, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1953

Final gameSeptember 24, 1955

Seasons3 (1953–1955)

Boston Red Sox 1953; Washington Senators 1954–1955

Percentile snapshot

1953 season — qualified batters

137

23.8

538

15.5

495

27.4

4.8

140

26.2

61.9

39.3

9.5

RBI

28.6

10.7

85.7

58.3

60.7

.283

45.2

OBP

.331

21.4

SLG

.376

OPS

.707

15.5

wRC+

83.9

13.1

OPS+

86.5

14.3

wOBA

.328

17.9

sWAR

0.9

15.5

of 85 qualified 1953 batters (min 474 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

-2.5

0.8

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
1953	137	538	495	53	140	27	5	3	59	34	30	4	2	.283	.331	.376	.707	83.9	86.5	.328	0.9
1954	114	363	342	21	75	8	3	1	33	17	42	1	2	.219	.255	.269	.524	38.5	47.2	.247	-2.0
1955	110	351	323	34	70	10	0	2	19	24	35	2	1	.217	.271	.266	.537	43.0	45.8	.259	-1.4

Career totals

361

1,252

1,160

108

285

RBI

111

107

.2457

OBP

.2922

SLG

.3138

OPS

.6060

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
1955-05-08	BAL @ MIN Gameday	5	4	4	0	0	1	1	1	7
1953-05-27	BOS @ ATH Gameday	4	1	4	0	1	0	0	0	6
1953-07-24	BOS @ BAL Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	1	3	0	6
1953-05-03	BOS @ BAL Gameday	6	3	4	1	0	0	2	0	5
1955-07-21	MIN @ CLE Gameday	5	0	3	2	0	0	0	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1955-08-23	MIN @ ATH 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.