MLB / Players

Tony Boeckel

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 175 lb

BornAugust 25, 1892 · Los Angeles, CA, USA

MLB debutJuly 23, 1917

Final gameOctober 6, 1923

Seasons6 (1917–1923)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1917; Boston Braves 1919; Pittsburgh Pirates 1919; Boston Braves 1920–1923

Percentile snapshot

1923 season — qualified batters

148

84.4

633

568

84.4

65.9

169

78.2

84.9

37.4

71.5

RBI

78.8

77.7

24.6

71.5

21.2

.298

OBP

.357

50.8

SLG

.405

49.7

OPS

.762

49.2

wRC+

103.5

45.3

OPS+

103.1

44.7

wOBA

.354

46.4

sWAR

2.6

74.3

of 180 qualified 1923 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

101.6

44.5

OPS+

100.9

43.5

sWAR

12.5

89.3

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
1917	64	238	219	16	58	11	1	0	23	8	31	6	0	.265	.297	.324	.621	84.2	87.6	.296	0.5
1919	140	583	517	60	129	20	7	1	42	53	33	21	0	.250	.322	.321	.643	96.6	94.5	.312	2.1
1920	153	630	582	70	156	28	5	3	62	38	50	18	15	.268	.314	.349	.663	91.8	93.2	.314	1.8
1921	153	663	592	93	185	20	13	10	84	52	41	20	15	.313	.370	.441	.811	118.9	118.2	.371	4.0
1922	119	450	402	61	116	19	6	6	47	35	32	14	8	.289	.349	.410	.759	98.0	98.3	.350	1.5
1923	148	633	568	72	169	32	4	7	79	51	31	11	8	.298	.357	.405	.762	103.5	103.1	.354	2.6

Career totals

777

3,197

2,880

372

813

130

RBI

337

237

218

.2823

OBP

.3392

SLG

.3806

OPS

.7198

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
1922-05-03	ATL @ SF Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	1	2	0	8
1922-05-13	ATL @ PIT Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	0	3	0	8
1921-06-12	ATL @ CHC Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	1	2	1	8
1922-05-22	ATL @ STL Gameday	7	2	4	0	0	1	4	0	7
1921-09-19	ATL @ CIN Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	0	3	0	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1917-04-11	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1917-04-12	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1917-04-13	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1917-04-14	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1917-04-15	PIT @ CIN 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.