Tommy Byrne

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 182 lb

BornDecember 31, 1919 · Baltimore, MD, USA

MLB debutApril 27, 1943

Final gameSeptember 21, 1957

Seasons13 (1943–1957)

New York Yankees 1943; New York Yankees 1946–1951; St. Louis Browns 1951–1952; Chicago White Sox 1953; Washington Senators 1953; New York Yankees 1954–1957

Percentile snapshot

1955 season — qualified pitchers

3.8

9.6

78.8

98.1

76.9

40.4

SHO

67.3

137

100

98.1

19.2

17.3

90.4

160.0

13.5

ERA

3.15

82.7

WHIP

1.400

30.8

K/9

4.28

53.8

FIP

4.22

FIP-

110.1

7.7

ERA+

121.6

78.8

sWAR

3.2

65.4

of 53 qualified 1955 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

97.6

28.5

sWAR

15.3

91.2

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	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1943	13	14	11	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	3	0	.091	.231	.091	.322	1.3	-3.8	.190	-1.0
1946	14	10	9	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.222	.300	.222	.522	46.3	47.6	.262	-0.2
1947	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	—	1.000	—	—	391.3	—	.761	0.1
1948	31	52	46	8	15	3	1	1	7	1	7	0	.326	.354	.500	.854	123.4	128.8	.391	3.1
1949	35	86	83	8	16	4	2	0	13	2	20	0	.193	.212	.289	.501	18.3	33.1	.233	2.9
1950	34	87	81	14	22	3	1	2	16	4	15	1	.272	.322	.407	.729	85.4	89.8	.335	1.9
1951	43	72	66	9	18	3	0	2	15	4	10	0	.273	.314	.409	.723	86.0	90.9	.333	1.8
1952	40	89	84	9	21	5	1	1	12	5	18	0	.250	.292	.369	.661	72.6	79.3	.307	0.6
1953	32	40	35	2	4	0	0	1	5	5	13	0	.114	.225	.200	.425	13.7	15.0	.215	-1.1
1954	7	19	19	2	7	4	1	0	6	0	3	0	.368	.368	.684	1.053	192.5	192.4	.465	1.2
1955	45	89	78	6	16	1	1	1	6	8	15	0	.205	.273	.282	.555	50.2	52.5	.266	3.2
1956	44	56	52	8	14	1	1	3	10	2	11	0	.269	.296	.500	.796	102.7	112.7	.346	2.3
1957	35	40	37	5	7	2	0	3	8	3	11	0	.189	.250	.486	.736	95.8	100.4	.325	0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1943	11	2	2	1	0	0	0	28	23	35	22	1	31.7	6.54	1.989	6.25	4.97	152.8	49.7	-1.0
1946	4	1	0	1	0	0	0	7	6	8	5	1	9.3	5.79	1.607	4.82	5.66	162.0	60.4	-0.2
1947	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	2	6	2	0	4.3	4.15	2.538	4.15	5.65	156.5	87.0	0.1
1948	31	11	8	5	2	5	1	79	49	101	93	8	133.7	3.30	1.347	6.26	4.60	110.2	126.6	3.1
1949	32	30	15	7	0	12	3	125	81	179	129	11	196.0	3.72	1.551	5.92	4.84	117.5	110.9	2.9
1950	31	31	15	9	0	10	2	188	107	160	118	23	203.3	4.74	1.711	5.22	5.63	128.6	92.5	1.9
1951	28	20	6	11	0	7	2	120	68	150	71	5	143.7	4.26	1.879	4.45	5.49	129.3	100.1	1.8
1952	29	24	7	14	0	14	0	182	102	112	91	16	196.0	4.68	1.500	4.18	4.36	113.8	81.9	0.6
1953	12	11	2	5	0	2	0	53	34	48	26	3	49.7	6.16	2.034	4.71	5.26	133.8	63.7	-1.1
1954	5	5	3	2	0	4	1	36	12	19	24	1	40.0	2.70	1.375	5.40	2.93	83.1	130.6	1.2
1955	27	22	16	5	2	9	3	137	56	87	76	12	160.0	3.15	1.400	4.28	4.22	110.1	121.6	3.2
1956	37	8	7	3	6	1	0	108	41	72	52	9	109.7	3.36	1.641	4.27	4.65	117.5	117.6	2.3
1957	30	4	4	6	2	1	0	70	41	60	57	8	84.7	4.36	1.535	6.06	4.66	127.0	84.1	0.5

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

377

655

601

143

RBI

126

.2379

OBP

.2857

SLG

.3777

OPS

.6634

Pitching

G (P)

281

170

SHO

1,362

SO (P)

766

BB allowed

1,037

102nd-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.110

WHIP

1.5969

K/9

5.06

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	HR	RBI	TB
1952-07-17	BAL @ ATH Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	4	8
1955-07-02	MIN @ NYY Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	1	6
1950-06-18	NYY @ BAL Gameday	4	1	2	1	1	4	6
1954-09-17	NYY @ ATH Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	3	5
1951-09-18	BAL @ MIN Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	4	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1949-05-25	DET @ NYY Gameday	9.0	5	2	1	4	12
1948-09-22	NYY @ CWS Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	4	11
1949-08-12	NYY @ ATH Gameday	9.0	6	3	3	8	10
1950-08-06	NYY @ CLE Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	6	10
1953-07-06	BOS @ MIN Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	4	10

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

1× 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.