MLB / Players

Tony Lazzeri

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb

BornDecember 6, 1903 · San Francisco, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 13, 1926

Final gameJune 7, 1939

Seasons14 (1926–1939)

New York Yankees 1926–1937; Chicago Cubs 1938; Brooklyn Dodgers 1939; New York Giants 1939

Percentile snapshot

1937 season — qualified batters

126

27.3

518

25.3

446

18.2

20.2

109

17.2

30.3

13.1

72.7

RBI

51.5

73.7

6.1

58.6

40.4

.244

6.1

OBP

.348

29.3

SLG

.399

31.3

OPS

.747

27.3

wRC+

89.0

21.2

OPS+

88.0

23.2

wOBA

.347

25.3

sWAR

1.1

30.3

of 100 qualified 1937 batters (min 486 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

121.5

80.8

OPS+

122.3

82.6

sWAR

46.6

98.6

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
1926	155	665	589	79	162	28	14	18	114	54	96	16	7	.275	.338	.462	.800	106.2	110.2	.367	2.9
1927	153	660	570	92	176	29	8	18	102	69	82	22	14	.309	.383	.482	.866	126.4	128.2	.398	4.7
1928	116	463	404	62	134	30	11	10	82	43	50	15	5	.332	.397	.535	.932	145.5	147.7	.420	4.3
1929	147	635	545	101	193	37	11	18	106	68	45	9	10	.354	.429	.561	.991	158.3	160.5	.445	6.9
1930	143	650	571	109	173	34	15	9	121	60	62	4	4	.303	.372	.462	.835	113.7	114.4	.376	3.5
1931	135	568	484	67	129	27	7	8	83	79	80	18	9	.267	.371	.401	.771	110.7	108.2	.363	2.8
1932	142	601	510	79	153	28	16	15	113	82	64	11	11	.300	.399	.506	.905	132.6	133.4	.409	4.6
1933	139	602	523	94	154	22	12	18	104	73	62	15	7	.294	.383	.486	.869	134.0	136.4	.397	4.7
1934	123	514	438	59	117	24	6	14	67	71	64	11	1	.267	.369	.445	.815	116.6	117.3	.378	2.9
1935	130	544	477	72	130	18	6	13	83	63	75	11	5	.273	.361	.417	.778	108.2	108.0	.362	2.5
1936	150	638	537	82	154	29	6	14	109	97	65	8	5	.287	.397	.441	.838	114.1	112.4	.390	3.4
1937	126	518	446	56	109	21	3	14	70	71	76	7	1	.244	.348	.399	.747	89.0	88.0	.347	1.1
1938	54	143	120	21	32	5	0	5	23	22	30	0	0	.267	.380	.433	.814	125.9	121.8	.379	1.1
1939	27	102	83	13	24	2	0	4	14	17	13	1	0	.289	.422	.458	.879	141.4	136.1	.410	0.9

Career totals

1,740

471st-most career G

7,303

401st-most career PA

6,297

442nd-most career AB

986

372nd-most career R

1,840

379th-most career H

334

364th-most career 2B

115

111th-most career 3B

178

478th-most career HR

RBI

1,191

165th-most career RBI

869

203rd-most career BB

864

148

.2922

358th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3799

185th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4666

316th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8465

213th-highest career OPS

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
1936-05-24	NYY @ ATH Gameday	5	4	4	0	1	3	11	1	15
1927-06-08	CWS @ NYY Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	3	5	1	12
1932-06-03	NYY @ ATH Gameday	6	3	5	1	1	1	6	0	11
1927-07-04	MIN @ NYY Gameday	6	3	4	2	0	1	5	0	9
1930-05-22	NYY @ ATH Gameday	4	5	4	2	0	1	4	1	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1926-04-13	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-14	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-16	NYY @ BOS Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-17	NYY @ MIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1926-04-18	NYY @ MIN 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

Hall of Fame, 1991 (Veterans)

1× 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.