Tommy Thomas

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 175 lb

BornDecember 23, 1899 · Baltimore, MD, USA

MLB debutApril 17, 1926

Final gameSeptember 27, 1937

Seasons12 (1926–1937)

Chicago White Sox 1926–1932; Washington Senators 1932–1934; Philadelphia Phillies 1935; Washington Senators 1935; St. Louis Browns 1936; Boston Red Sox 1937; St. Louis Browns 1937

Percentile snapshot

1936 season — qualified pitchers

56.7

35.6

51.1

57.8

36.7

SHO

42.2

219

48.9

105

37.8

21.1

1.1

179.7

41.1

ERA

5.26

15.6

WHIP

1.620

18.9

K/9

2.00

1.1

FIP

6.12

FIP-

115.6

2.2

ERA+

100.7

27.8

sWAR

1.6

33.3

of 91 qualified 1936 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

103.4

51.6

sWAR

24.7

95.2

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1926	44	94	86	5	16	0	0	0	7	5	21	0	.186	.231	.186	.417	7.6	11.9	.207	2.5
1927	40	118	95	5	14	3	1	1	8	4	23	0	.147	.182	.232	.413	1.6	8.3	.193	6.1
1928	36	111	96	9	21	3	0	2	12	8	28	1	.219	.279	.313	.591	54.2	56.1	.278	5.9
1929	37	104	98	9	25	4	0	0	10	5	14	0	.255	.291	.296	.587	49.6	52.0	.275	5.6
1930	34	65	56	3	7	1	0	0	3	5	6	0	.125	.197	.143	.340	-7.2	-11.5	.172	0.2
1931	43	95	87	9	21	2	0	0	10	3	15	0	.241	.267	.264	.531	41.0	42.6	.250	1.2
1932	30	59	55	6	11	3	0	0	10	2	14	0	.200	.228	.255	.483	24.2	27.4	.224	1.7
1933	35	52	42	5	10	0	0	0	2	4	4	0	.238	.304	.238	.542	50.5	46.9	.267	0.6
1934	33	47	38	2	7	0	0	0	2	2	8	0	.184	.225	.184	.409	6.6	8.4	.201	-0.3
1935	5	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.3	-100.0	.000	-0.2
1936	36	67	58	4	8	2	0	0	7	2	16	0	.138	.167	.172	.339	-27.0	-18.3	.161	1.6
1937	26	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.125	.125	.125	.250	-54.6	-37.4	.115	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1926	44	32	15	12	2	13	2	225	105	110	127	7	249.0	3.80	1.345	4.59	3.60	93.5	101.6	2.5
1927	40	36	19	16	1	24	3	271	102	94	107	16	307.7	2.98	1.186	3.13	3.97	99.0	134.3	6.1
1928	36	32	17	16	2	24	3	277	97	76	129	14	283.0	3.08	1.247	4.10	3.61	90.7	129.1	5.9
1929	36	31	14	18	1	24	2	270	92	60	62	17	259.7	3.19	1.271	2.15	4.08	96.9	132.1	5.6
1930	34	27	5	13	0	7	0	229	98	44	58	13	169.0	5.22	1.615	3.09	4.56	99.9	87.5	0.2
1931	43	36	10	14	2	11	2	298	129	69	72	17	245.3	4.73	1.496	2.64	4.47	106.0	89.2	1.2
1932	30	17	11	10	0	8	1	169	76	61	47	11	160.7	4.26	1.432	2.63	4.59	106.5	101.3	1.7
1933	35	14	7	7	3	2	0	149	72	49	35	9	135.0	4.80	1.467	2.33	4.51	107.8	87.2	0.6
1934	33	18	8	9	1	7	1	154	81	58	42	9	133.3	5.47	1.590	2.84	4.77	109.9	79.5	-0.3
1935	5	1	0	1	0	0	0	18	9	5	3	2	12.3	6.57	1.865	2.19	5.86	131.3	68.0	-0.2
1936	36	21	11	9	0	8	1	219	105	72	40	25	179.7	5.26	1.620	2.00	6.12	115.6	100.7	1.6
1937	26	2	0	3	0	0	0	62	29	14	14	4	41.7	6.26	1.824	3.02	4.85	102.3	75.9	-0.3

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

399

823

722

141

RBI

152

.1953

OBP

.2375

SLG

.2355

OPS

.4730

Pitching

G (P)

398

267

472nd-most career GS

117

466th-most career W

128

286th-most career L

128

299th-most career CG

SHO

396th-most career SHO

2,176

358th-most career IP

SO (P)

736

BB allowed

712

369th-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.115

WHIP

1.4028

K/9

3.04

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
1929-07-02	CWS @ CLE Gameday	4	0	3	1	0	0	4
1932-08-31	BAL @ MIN Gameday	3	1	2	2	0	3	4
1927-06-03	CWS @ BOS Gameday	4	2	1	0	1	2	4
1928-04-16	BAL @ CWS Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	2	4
1928-06-30	CLE @ CWS Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	2	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1928-09-16	BOS @ CWS Gameday	9.0	4	1	0	2	10	0
1926-06-02	CWS @ BAL Gameday	7.1	9	5	5	2	9	1
1926-09-09	BAL @ CWS Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	2	8	0
1927-05-30	BAL @ CWS Gameday	9.0	7	0	0	0	8	0
1928-08-11	BAL @ CWS Gameday	9.0	11	4	3	3	8	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.