MLB / Players

Tommy Holmes

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 180 lb

BornMarch 29, 1917 · Brooklyn, NY, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1942

Final gameSeptember 28, 1952

Seasons11 (1942–1952)

Boston Braves 1942–1951; Brooklyn Dodgers 1952

Percentile snapshot

1948 season — qualified batters

139

50.5

639

74.2

585

88.2

67.7

190

94.6

89.2

73.1

RBI

50.5

37.6

76.3

1.1

41.9

.325

88.2

OBP

.375

59.1

SLG

.439

62.4

OPS

.814

61.3

wRC+

122.7

68.8

OPS+

122.5

69.9

wOBA

.374

51.6

sWAR

3.2

65.6

of 94 qualified 1948 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

122.6

82.8

OPS+

122.1

82.4

sWAR

30.1

96.5

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1942	141	633	558	56	155	24	4	4	41	64	10	2	.278	.353	.357	.710	110.5	108.1	.342	3.1
1943	152	697	629	75	170	33	10	5	41	58	20	7	.270	.334	.378	.712	106.1	106.7	.340	3.1
1944	155	705	631	93	195	42	6	13	73	61	11	4	.309	.372	.456	.828	129.2	127.9	.384	5.0
1945	154	713	636	125	224	47	6	28	117	70	9	15	.352	.420	.577	.997	173.2	174.6	.456	8.0
1946	149	642	568	80	176	35	6	6	79	58	14	7	.310	.377	.424	.801	128.9	126.3	.379	3.5
1947	150	676	618	90	191	33	3	9	53	44	16	3	.309	.360	.416	.776	108.2	108.9	.357	2.2
1948	139	639	585	85	190	35	7	6	61	46	20	1	.325	.375	.439	.814	122.7	122.5	.374	3.2
1949	117	425	380	47	101	20	4	8	59	39	6	1	.266	.337	.403	.740	102.8	103.6	.340	1.0
1950	105	363	322	44	96	20	1	9	51	33	8	0	.298	.370	.450	.821	121.3	121.1	.370	1.7
1951	27	32	29	1	5	2	0	0	5	3	4	0	.172	.250	.241	.491	34.8	37.1	.236	-0.2
1952	31	40	36	2	4	1	0	0	1	4	4	0	.111	.200	.139	.339	-10.1	-4.4	.176	-0.4

Career totals

1,320

5,565

4,992

698

1,507

292

RBI

581

480

122

.3019

200th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3659

359th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4321

OPS

.7980

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	BB	TB
1947-07-01	ATL @ SF Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	2	3	0	11
1946-04-20	ATL @ PHI Gameday	5	3	4	2	0	1	3	0	9
1947-07-10	CIN @ ATL Gameday	4	4	3	0	0	2	2	1	9
1945-05-15	STL @ ATL Gameday	5	2	5	3	0	0	3	0	8
1945-06-30	STL @ ATL Gameday	3	2	3	0	1	1	4	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1942-04-14	ATL @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-15	ATL @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-16	ATL @ PHI Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-17	SF @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1942-04-18	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.

Honors

2× 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.