MLB / Players

Tommy Bridges

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 155 lb

BornDecember 28, 1906 · Gordonsville, TN, USA

MLB debutAugust 13, 1930

Final gameJuly 20, 1946

Seasons16 (1930–1946)

Detroit Tigers 1930–1943; Detroit Tigers 1945–1946

Percentile snapshot

1943 season — qualified pitchers

35.3

47.1

67.6

56.9

57.8

SHO

71.6

159

52.9

58.8

45.1

124

94.1

19.6

191.7

58.8

ERA

2.39

94.1

WHIP

1.148

85.3

K/9

5.82

88.2

FIP

2.62

97.1

FIP-

75.6

97.1

ERA+

144.6

91.2

sWAR

4.6

89.2

of 103 qualified 1943 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

124.9

93.8

sWAR

54.0

99.1

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1930	8	13	10	1	3	1	0	0	1	3	.300	.364	.400	.764	92.3	91.0	.350	0.7
1931	35	64	54	4	8	0	0	1	5	23	.148	.220	.148	.368	-1.8	-2.9	.190	0.6
1932	34	79	67	5	11	1	1	4	7	24	.164	.243	.209	.452	20.7	18.5	.223	4.2
1933	33	92	78	5	16	2	2	5	7	17	.205	.271	.282	.553	45.6	46.2	.264	5.5
1934	36	113	98	7	12	2	0	10	7	25	.122	.181	.143	.324	-17.0	-14.8	.164	4.5
1935	36	119	109	9	26	5	1	10	6	24	.239	.278	.303	.581	50.1	53.4	.272	5.1
1936	39	127	118	10	25	4	1	15	3	26	.212	.231	.263	.494	17.2	22.1	.228	6.9
1937	34	104	96	9	23	2	1	8	5	26	.240	.277	.281	.558	36.4	40.6	.262	4.1
1938	25	64	54	5	7	1	1	3	6	17	.130	.217	.185	.402	-3.7	-0.9	.202	2.1
1939	29	87	71	11	14	2	0	6	8	24	.197	.278	.225	.504	28.4	27.4	.250	4.7
1940	29	75	68	5	12	2	0	4	3	23	.176	.211	.206	.417	-4.9	5.2	.196	4.6
1941	25	55	47	2	4	1	0	1	4	11	.085	.157	.106	.263	-44.0	-31.8	.139	2.9
1942	23	69	63	5	6	1	1	2	5	12	.095	.162	.143	.305	-29.0	-16.4	.157	3.8
1943	25	73	64	4	14	3	0	3	5	14	.219	.275	.266	.541	48.4	54.7	.265	4.6
1945	4	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-141.4	-100.0	.000	0.1
1946	9	5	3	1	0	0	0	0	2	2	.000	.400	.000	.400	70.4	16.0	.302	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1930	8	5	3	2	0	2	0	28	17	23	17	4	37.7	4.06	1.354	4.06	5.76	120.9	117.3	0.7
1931	35	23	8	16	0	8	2	182	96	108	105	13	173.0	4.99	1.676	5.46	4.89	108.5	90.2	0.6
1932	34	26	14	12	1	10	4	174	75	119	108	14	201.0	3.36	1.458	4.84	4.75	106.6	132.7	4.2
1933	33	28	14	12	2	17	2	192	80	110	120	8	233.0	3.09	1.296	4.64	3.94	91.7	139.1	5.5
1934	36	35	22	11	1	23	3	249	112	104	151	16	275.0	3.67	1.284	4.94	3.98	90.1	120.5	4.5
1935	36	34	21	10	1	23	4	277	107	113	163	22	274.3	3.51	1.422	5.35	4.21	98.8	121.5	5.1
1936	39	38	23	11	0	26	5	289	118	115	175	21	294.7	3.60	1.371	5.35	4.45	88.9	138.9	6.9
1937	34	31	15	12	0	18	3	267	111	91	138	15	245.3	4.07	1.459	5.06	3.95	84.9	114.2	4.1
1938	25	20	13	9	1	13	0	171	77	58	101	14	151.0	4.59	1.517	6.02	4.18	82.9	109.7	2.1
1939	29	26	17	7	2	16	2	186	77	61	129	11	198.0	3.50	1.247	5.86	3.57	73.9	138.0	4.7
1940	29	28	12	9	0	12	2	171	74	88	133	11	197.7	3.37	1.310	6.06	3.64	77.9	138.6	4.6
1941	25	22	9	12	0	10	1	128	56	70	90	10	147.7	3.41	1.341	5.49	3.87	86.5	130.9	2.9
1942	23	22	9	7	1	11	2	164	53	61	97	6	174.0	2.74	1.293	5.02	3.00	77.6	141.3	3.8
1943	25	22	12	7	0	11	3	159	51	61	124	9	191.7	2.39	1.148	5.82	2.62	75.6	144.6	4.6
1945	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	14	4	2	6	2	11.0	3.27	1.455	4.91	4.26	121.7	106.9	0.1
1946	9	1	1	1	1	0	0	24	14	8	17	5	21.3	5.91	1.500	7.17	5.17	141.6	61.8	-0.3

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

424

1,142

1,003

181

RBI

271

.1805

OBP

.2368

SLG

.2233

OPS

.4601

Pitching

G (P)

424

362

199th-most career GS

194

135th-most career W

138

228th-most career L

200

135th-most career CG

SHO

88th-most career SHO

2,826

171st-most career IP

SO (P)

1,674

171st-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,192

54th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.573

WHIP

1.3682

K/9

5.33

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	RBI	TB
1933-08-23	MIN @ DET Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	1	5
1936-07-05	DET @ BAL Gameday	3	1	3	1	0	3	4
1937-05-14	DET @ BAL Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	2	4
1932-06-19	MIN @ DET Gameday	2	2	2	0	1	0	4
1936-09-07	DET @ CWS Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1941-06-10	ATH @ DET Gameday	7.2	9	2	2	4	14	0
1936-06-20	NYY @ DET Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	1	11	0
1940-07-31	NYY @ DET Gameday	9.0	8	6	4	3	11	2
1940-08-31	DET @ BAL Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	2	11	0
1943-07-02	BOS @ DET Gameday	9.0	8	2	0	1	11	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

6× 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.