MLB / Players

Tommy Griffith

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 175 lb

BornOctober 26, 1889 · Prospect, OH, USA

MLB debutAugust 19, 1913

Final gameSeptember 22, 1925

Seasons13 (1913–1925)

Boston Braves 1913–1914; Cincinnati Reds 1915–1918; Brooklyn Robins 1919–1925; Chicago Cubs 1925

Percentile snapshot

1924 season — qualified batters

140

72.4

531

63.2

482

64.4

35.6

121

55.2

53.4

48.3

45.4

RBI

72.4

64.9

33.3

.251

12.1

OBP

.300

SLG

.330

15.5

OPS

.630

12.1

wRC+

69.9

9.2

OPS+

71.4

13.2

wOBA

.294

9.8

sWAR

-0.9

3.4

of 175 qualified 1924 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

101.0

43.3

OPS+

102.1

sWAR

11.7

88.6

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1913	37	139	127	16	32	4	1	1	12	9	8	1	0	.252	.301	.323	.624	73.9	75.9	.298	-0.2
1914	16	50	48	3	5	0	0	0	1	2	6	0	0	.104	.140	.104	.244	-34.9	-26.6	.126	-0.7
1915	160	649	583	59	179	31	16	4	85	41	34	6	24	.307	.355	.436	.790	135.6	135.6	.373	4.0
1916	155	641	595	50	158	28	7	2	61	36	37	16	0	.266	.310	.346	.656	99.7	101.1	.312	1.3
1917	115	393	363	45	98	18	7	1	45	19	23	5	0	.270	.308	.366	.674	106.3	108.6	.320	1.0
1918	118	478	427	47	113	10	4	2	48	39	30	10	0	.265	.326	.321	.647	100.7	99.4	.317	1.0
1919	125	519	484	65	136	18	4	6	57	23	32	8	0	.281	.315	.372	.687	102.9	104.9	.324	1.2
1920	93	363	334	41	87	9	4	2	30	15	18	3	3	.260	.292	.329	.622	72.4	76.6	.293	-0.5
1921	129	509	455	66	142	21	6	12	71	36	13	3	3	.312	.364	.464	.828	116.3	116.2	.376	2.1
1922	99	364	329	44	104	17	8	4	49	23	10	7	1	.316	.361	.453	.814	108.7	110.1	.371	1.2
1923	131	546	481	70	141	21	9	8	66	50	19	8	2	.293	.361	.424	.785	109.7	109.5	.363	1.8
1924	140	531	482	43	121	19	5	3	67	34	19	0	5	.251	.300	.330	.630	69.9	71.4	.294	-0.9
1925	83	269	239	40	67	12	1	7	27	24	13	3	4	.280	.348	.427	.775	96.5	95.7	.353	0.5

Career totals

1,401

5,451

4,947

589

1,383

208

362nd-most career 3B

RBI

619

351

262

.2796

OBP

.3284

SLG

.3823

OPS

.7107

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
1919-06-24	SF @ LAD Gameday	5	3	5	1	1	4	9
1923-07-30	LAD @ STL Gameday	5	1	4	2	1	4	9
1921-08-27	CHC @ LAD Gameday	6	3	5	3	0	2	8
1922-09-23	PIT @ LAD Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	4	7
1925-08-24	CHC @ LAD Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	4	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1913-04-10	ATL @ SF Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-17	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-18	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-19	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-19	SF @ ATL 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.