Tommy Helms

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 165 lb

BornMay 5, 1941 · Charlotte, NC, USA

MLB debutSeptember 23, 1964

Final gameOctober 1, 1977

Seasons14 (1964–1977)

Cincinnati Reds 1964–1971; Houston Astros 1972–1975; Pittsburgh Pirates 1976; Boston Red Sox 1977; Pittsburgh Pirates 1977

Percentile snapshot

1973 season — qualified batters

146

38.6

584

28.1

543

44.7

3.5

156

59.6

72.8

21.9

10.5

RBI

36.8

13.2

100

8.8

78.9

.287

69.3

OBP

.325

31.6

SLG

.368

26.3

OPS

.694

25.4

wRC+

88.6

17.5

OPS+

93.1

23.7

wOBA

.314

19.3

sWAR

1.4

24.6

of 115 qualified 1973 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

74.7

5.7

OPS+

79.5

sWAR

4.4

77.9

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
1964	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.5	-100.0	.000	0.0
1965	21	46	42	4	16	2	2	0	6	3	7	1	0	.381	.435	.524	.959	168.6	162.2	.427	0.6
1966	138	578	542	72	154	23	1	9	49	24	31	3	4	.284	.315	.380	.695	85.6	86.1	.313	1.2
1967	137	530	497	40	136	27	4	2	35	24	41	5	10	.274	.305	.356	.661	75.1	80.1	.300	0.6
1968	127	526	507	35	146	28	2	2	47	12	27	5	6	.288	.305	.363	.668	92.0	95.3	.307	1.6
1969	126	508	480	38	129	18	1	1	40	18	33	4	6	.269	.296	.317	.613	63.5	68.8	.283	-0.3
1970	150	605	575	42	136	21	1	1	45	21	33	2	2	.237	.262	.282	.543	41.1	46.3	.249	-2.1
1971	150	588	547	40	141	26	1	3	52	26	33	3	4	.258	.289	.325	.615	71.6	76.6	.283	0.2
1972	139	559	518	45	134	20	5	5	60	24	27	4	3	.259	.291	.346	.637	75.7	82.8	.288	0.5
1973	146	584	543	44	156	28	2	4	61	32	21	1	1	.287	.325	.368	.694	88.6	93.1	.314	1.4
1974	137	481	452	32	126	21	1	5	50	23	27	5	4	.279	.313	.363	.675	87.9	92.5	.311	1.1
1975	64	147	135	7	28	2	0	0	14	10	8	0	0	.207	.265	.222	.488	38.9	41.1	.239	-0.5
1976	62	102	87	10	24	5	1	1	13	10	5	0	0	.276	.350	.391	.741	115.4	111.8	.350	0.6
1977	36	78	71	5	16	2	0	1	5	4	7	0	0	.225	.276	.296	.572	43.4	50.6	.259	-0.4

Career totals

1,435

5,333

4,997

414

1,342

223

RBI

477

231

301

.2686

OBP

.3005

SLG

.3420

OPS

.6425

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	TB
1969-07-09	CIN @ SD Gameday	4	2	4	2	1	0	1	8
1969-04-12	CIN @ ATL Gameday	5	1	4	0	0	1	1	7
1972-06-29	HOU @ LAD Gameday	5	2	2	0	1	1	1	7
1969-04-29	CIN @ SF Gameday	6	0	5	1	0	0	1	6
1974-09-21	ATL @ HOU Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	3	6

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

2× Gold Glove1× Rookie of the Year2× 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.