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Tony LaRussa

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 0 in · 175 lb
BornOctober 4, 1944 · Tampa, FL, USA
MLB debutMay 10, 1963
Final gameApril 6, 1973
Seasons6 (1963–1973)

Kansas City Athletics 1963; Oakland Athletics 1968–1970; Atlanta Braves 1971; Oakland Athletics 1971; Chicago Cubs 1973

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
-0.2
23.9

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
1963345344411110171200.250.346.318.66487.682.5.3130.2
19685330100000000.333.333.333.667105.4105.9.3110.0
19698880000000100.000.000.000.000-125.9-100.0.000-0.2
1970521231066214106151900.198.301.255.55660.958.3.270-0.1
19713216154200001500.133.188.133.321-18.1-7.6.164-0.1
197310010000000000.0

Career totals

G
132
PA
203
AB
176
R
15
H
35
2B
5
3B
2
HR
0
RBI
7
BB
23
SO
37
SB
0
BA
.1989
OBP
.2921
SLG
.2500
OPS
.5421

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1970-08-10ATH @ MIN Gameday403100004
1970-09-27ATH @ LAA Gameday402010004
1963-09-28CLE @ ATH Gameday303000003
1970-05-28ATH @ LAA Gameday402100203
1963-08-17BAL @ ATH Gameday101010003

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

Hall of Fame, 2014 (Veterans - Expansion Era)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.