Tom Zachary

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 187 lb

BornMay 7, 1896 · Graham, NC, USA

MLB debutJuly 11, 1918

Final gameMay 28, 1936

Seasons19 (1918–1936)

Philadelphia Athletics 1918; Washington Senators 1919–1925; St. Louis Browns 1926–1927; Washington Senators 1927; New York Yankees 1928; Washington Senators 1928; New York Yankees 1929; Boston Braves 1930; New York Yankees 1930; Boston Braves 1931–1933; Brooklyn Dodgers 1934; Boston Braves 1934; Brooklyn Dodgers 1935–1936; Philadelphia Phillies 1936

Percentile snapshot

1935 season — qualified pitchers

32.6

46.3

31.6

25.3

90.5

48.4

SHO

33.7

193

54.7

69.5

71.6

12.6

45.3

158.0

30.5

ERA

3.59

67.4

WHIP

1.443

37.9

K/9

1.88

6.3

FIP

4.13

62.1

FIP-

104.1

31.6

ERA+

110.5

53.7

sWAR

2.1

52.6

of 96 qualified 1935 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

106.1

61.6

sWAR

40.8

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1918	2	4	4	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	206.0	196.5	.487	-0.1
1919	17	18	15	0	5	0	0	0	0	3	5	0	.333	.444	.333	.778	134.6	121.9	.391	1.0
1920	51	121	111	7	29	6	1	0	11	10	27	1	.261	.322	.333	.656	76.1	75.9	.313	3.0
1921	39	96	90	9	23	1	4	0	9	2	23	0	.256	.280	.356	.635	59.2	64.3	.291	3.1
1922	32	76	71	4	21	2	1	1	14	3	20	0	.296	.324	.394	.719	87.4	90.9	.331	3.8
1923	35	85	78	6	15	1	2	0	9	3	23	0	.192	.222	.256	.479	22.6	29.1	.226	0.3
1924	33	81	72	7	22	1	0	0	8	5	8	0	.306	.351	.319	.670	77.4	76.6	.325	5.2
1925	38	78	69	5	12	0	1	1	5	2	20	0	.174	.197	.246	.444	6.5	13.8	.206	2.9
1926	34	92	86	4	23	4	1	1	5	4	19	0	.267	.300	.372	.672	62.8	69.4	.312	4.7
1927	28	72	64	4	8	1	0	0	7	4	16	0	.125	.176	.141	.317	-22.6	-17.3	.160	1.5
1928	27	55	48	2	12	0	0	1	7	1	12	0	.250	.265	.313	.578	47.0	52.6	.265	-0.1
1929	26	49	42	3	10	1	0	0	5	1	8	0	.238	.273	.262	.535	40.8	42.3	.252	3.1
1930	28	67	62	9	15	3	1	2	10	1	10	0	.242	.254	.419	.673	57.1	62.7	.289	1.9
1931	33	88	84	7	14	2	0	0	3	4	10	0	.167	.205	.190	.395	1.6	8.9	.189	3.8
1932	33	82	77	5	21	3	1	0	7	5	13	0	.273	.317	.338	.655	79.9	80.3	.300	4.1
1933	27	46	42	1	5	1	0	0	1	1	15	0	.119	.140	.143	.282	-27.4	-15.7	.134	0.3
1934	29	52	46	2	7	1	0	0	8	6	12	0	.152	.250	.174	.424	22.2	18.6	.216	0.8
1935	25	59	52	3	7	0	0	0	1	5	17	0	.135	.211	.135	.345	-3.2	-4.5	.178	2.1
1936	9	11	9	0	3	1	0	0	2	2	3	0	.333	.455	.444	.899	139.3	130.0	.424	-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
1918	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	9	5	7	1	0	8.0	5.63	2.000	1.13	4.54	158.5	50.9	-0.1
1919	17	7	1	5	0	0	0	68	20	20	9	0	61.7	2.92	1.427	1.31	3.26	103.4	108.0	1.0
1920	44	31	15	16	2	19	3	289	110	78	53	7	262.7	3.77	1.397	1.82	3.78	102.1	98.2	3.0
1921	39	31	18	16	1	17	2	314	110	59	53	10	250.0	3.96	1.492	1.91	4.09	99.5	103.8	3.1
1922	32	25	15	10	1	13	1	190	64	43	37	6	184.7	3.12	1.262	1.80	3.71	96.6	123.3	3.8
1923	35	29	10	16	0	10	0	270	102	63	40	9	204.3	4.49	1.630	1.76	4.07	107.9	83.9	0.3
1924	33	27	15	9	2	13	1	198	62	53	45	5	202.7	2.75	1.238	2.00	3.83	93.8	148.3	5.2
1925	38	33	12	15	2	11	1	247	93	74	58	10	217.7	3.85	1.475	2.40	4.22	99.3	110.4	2.9
1926	34	31	14	15	0	18	3	264	99	97	53	14	247.3	3.60	1.460	1.93	4.48	104.9	118.5	4.7
1927	28	26	8	13	0	11	1	226	83	57	26	6	181.0	4.13	1.564	1.29	4.18	100.0	101.3	1.5
1928	27	20	9	12	1	8	1	184	82	55	26	6	148.3	4.98	1.611	1.58	4.34	109.6	79.5	-0.1
1929	26	11	12	0	2	7	2	131	33	30	35	5	119.7	2.48	1.345	2.63	3.77	94.3	161.2	3.1
1930	27	25	12	6	0	10	1	210	89	59	58	9	168.0	4.77	1.601	3.11	4.60	96.2	100.5	1.9
1931	33	28	11	15	2	16	3	243	79	53	64	8	229.0	3.10	1.293	2.52	3.57	96.1	119.8	3.8
1932	32	24	12	11	0	12	1	231	73	55	67	5	212.0	3.10	1.349	2.84	3.39	91.5	119.6	4.1
1933	26	20	7	9	2	6	2	134	49	35	22	1	125.0	3.53	1.352	1.58	3.16	103.2	86.8	0.3
1934	27	16	6	8	2	6	1	149	59	29	32	6	125.7	4.23	1.416	2.29	3.94	100.7	92.6	0.8
1935	25	21	7	12	4	9	1	193	63	35	33	10	158.0	3.59	1.443	1.88	4.13	104.1	110.5	2.1
1936	8	2	0	3	1	0	0	30	20	12	8	2	20.7	8.71	2.032	3.48	5.27	118.0	51.4	-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

546

1,232

1,122

254

RBI

112

261

.2264

OBP

.2681

SLG

.2888

OPS

.5569

Pitching

G (P)

533

371st-most career G (P)

409

128th-most career GS

186

157th-most career W

191

52nd-most career L

186

161st-most career CG

SHO

189th-most career SHO

3,126

122nd-most career IP

SO (P)

720

BB allowed

914

153rd-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.728

WHIP

1.4375

K/9

2.07

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
1922-06-12	MIN @ DET Gameday	4	1	4	2	0	0	2	0	6
1926-04-25	CLE @ BAL Gameday	3	1	3	0	0	1	2	1	6
1921-05-31	NYY @ MIN Gameday	4	1	4	1	0	0	3	0	5
1932-09-25	ATL @ LAD Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	0	3	0	5
1930-06-07	PIT @ ATL Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	1	2	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1921-04-24	NYY @ MIN Gameday	9.0	5	1	0	2	9
1930-09-27	ATL @ LAD Gameday	9.0	11	1	1	2	9
1935-06-02	PHI @ LAD Gameday	9.0	10	7	5	2	9
1925-08-04	DET @ MIN Gameday	9.0	4	2	0	2	7
1928-10-07	NYY @ STL Gameday	9.0	9	3	3	1	7

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.