Tommy Harper

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 165 lb

BornOctober 14, 1940 · Oak Grove, LA, USA

MLB debutApril 9, 1962

Final gameSeptember 29, 1976

Seasons15 (1962–1976)

Cincinnati Reds 1962–1967; Cleveland Indians 1968; Seattle Pilots 1969; Milwaukee Brewers 1970–1971; Boston Red Sox 1972–1974; California Angels 1975; Oakland Athletics 1975; Baltimore Orioles 1976

Percentile snapshot

1974 season — qualified batters

118

504

1.5

443

1.5

36.6

105

2.3

6.9

39.7

19.8

RBI

38.2

54.2

.237

9.2

OBP

.312

13.7

SLG

.318

9.9

OPS

.630

11.5

wRC+

78.7

9.2

OPS+

77.5

9.9

wOBA

.300

9.9

sWAR

-0.5

2.3

of 132 qualified 1974 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

105.0

52.1

OPS+

101.2

44.2

sWAR

22.0

94.4

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
1962	6	25	23	1	4	0	0	0	1	2	6	1	0	.174	.240	.174	.414	11.9	12.7	.206	-0.2
1963	129	465	408	67	106	12	3	10	37	44	72	12	1	.260	.335	.377	.712	108.5	104.0	.329	1.6
1964	102	365	317	42	77	5	2	4	22	39	56	24	3	.243	.326	.309	.635	82.8	78.3	.300	0.0
1965	159	745	646	126	166	28	3	18	64	78	127	35	6	.257	.340	.393	.733	106.4	101.0	.339	2.2
1966	149	621	553	85	154	22	5	5	31	57	85	29	10	.278	.348	.363	.711	95.3	91.9	.327	0.9
1967	103	414	365	55	82	17	3	7	22	43	51	23	8	.225	.306	.345	.651	80.5	77.6	.308	-0.1
1968	130	266	235	26	51	15	2	6	26	26	56	11	7	.217	.295	.374	.670	103.9	103.7	.311	0.4
1969	148	640	537	78	126	10	2	9	41	95	90	73	18	.235	.349	.311	.660	94.1	86.5	.323	1.9
1970	154	692	604	104	179	35	4	31	82	77	107	38	16	.296	.377	.522	.899	148.0	145.3	.402	6.6
1971	152	653	585	79	151	26	3	14	52	65	92	25	3	.258	.333	.385	.717	106.9	104.6	.335	2.5
1972	144	641	556	92	141	29	2	14	49	67	104	25	7	.254	.341	.388	.730	119.4	112.5	.347	4.0
1973	147	638	566	92	159	23	3	17	71	61	93	54	14	.281	.351	.422	.774	115.6	112.7	.358	2.6
1974	118	504	443	66	105	15	3	5	24	46	65	28	12	.237	.312	.318	.630	78.7	77.5	.300	-0.5
1975	123	407	354	51	90	14	1	5	38	43	60	26	8	.254	.337	.342	.679	99.0	97.9	.319	0.2
1976	46	88	77	8	18	5	0	1	7	10	16	4	3	.234	.318	.338	.656	102.6	99.2	.315	0.0

Career totals

1,810

402nd-most career G

7,164

422nd-most career PA

6,269

454th-most career AB

972

392nd-most career R

1,609

256

146

RBI

567

753

319th-most career BB

1,080

326th-most career SO

408

68th-most career SB

.2567

OBP

.3382

SLG

.3788

OPS

.7170

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
1970-07-02	LAA @ MIL Gameday	5	3	4	0	2	3	10
1970-05-19	ATH @ MIL Gameday	4	2	4	2	1	1	9
1963-07-19	SF @ CIN Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	5	9
1965-04-27	CHC @ CIN Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	1	8
1971-06-15	MIL @ BAL Gameday	5	1	3	2	1	3	8

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.