MLB / Players

Ty Cobb

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 175 lb

BornDecember 18, 1886 · Narrows, GA, USA

MLB debutAugust 30, 1905

Final gameSeptember 11, 1928

Seasons24 (1905–1928)

Detroit Tigers 1905–1926; Philadelphia Athletics 1927–1928

Percentile snapshot

1927 season — qualified batters

134

66.9

574

68.6

490

65.1

104

93.5

175

85.8

82.8

62.1

59.8

RBI

88.8

92.9

45.6

93.5

.357

89.3

OBP

.440

89.9

SLG

.482

73.4

OPS

.921

83.4

wRC+

139.6

85.2

OPS+

136.7

80.5

wOBA

.430

86.4

sWAR

4.5

89.3

of 170 qualified 1927 batters (min 480 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

167.0

99.5

OPS+

168.0

99.3

sWAR

153.6

100

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
1905	41	165	151	19	36	6	0	1	15	10	23	2	0	.238	.286	.298	.584	83.0	84.1	.284	0.3
1906	98	394	358	45	113	15	5	1	41	19	40	23	0	.316	.355	.394	.749	129.5	130.1	.360	2.6
1907	150	642	605	99	212	28	14	5	119	24	55	53	0	.350	.380	.468	.848	163.4	166.2	.406	6.2
1908	150	635	580	88	188	36	20	4	108	34	42	39	0	.324	.368	.476	.844	167.6	169.8	.402	6.4
1909	156	651	573	115	216	33	10	9	107	48	45	76	0	.377	.431	.517	.947	195.2	193.5	.453	8.7
1910	140	592	508	106	194	35	13	8	91	64	46	65	0	.382	.455	.549	1.004	206.3	205.4	.479	9.6
1911	146	654	591	147	248	47	24	8	127	44	42	83	0	.420	.467	.621	1.088	192.3	198.6	.505	10.2
1912	140	609	553	120	226	30	23	7	83	43	30	61	34	.409	.456	.584	1.040	186.3	193.4	.488	9.0
1913	122	501	428	70	167	18	16	4	67	58	31	51	0	.390	.467	.535	1.002	193.9	192.8	.478	7.7
1914	98	414	345	69	127	22	11	2	57	57	22	35	17	.368	.466	.513	.979	195.7	189.2	.472	6.4
1915	156	700	563	144	208	31	13	3	99	118	43	96	38	.369	.486	.487	.973	189.1	184.9	.477	10.4
1916	145	636	542	113	201	31	10	5	68	78	39	68	24	.371	.452	.493	.944	185.9	179.6	.457	8.9
1917	152	669	588	107	225	44	24	6	102	61	34	55	0	.383	.444	.570	1.014	207.2	206.8	.482	10.9
1918	111	473	421	83	161	19	14	3	64	41	21	34	0	.382	.440	.515	.955	194.0	191.6	.461	6.9
1919	124	545	497	92	191	36	13	1	70	38	22	28	0	.384	.429	.515	.944	166.8	164.4	.442	6.6
1920	112	495	428	86	143	28	8	2	63	58	28	15	10	.334	.416	.451	.867	133.2	130.8	.408	3.9
1921	128	581	507	124	197	37	16	12	101	56	19	22	15	.389	.452	.596	1.048	164.5	165.0	.473	6.8
1922	137	612	526	99	211	42	16	4	99	55	24	9	13	.401	.462	.565	1.026	170.4	168.7	.468	7.5
1923	145	647	556	103	189	40	7	6	88	66	14	9	10	.340	.413	.469	.882	134.3	133.2	.414	5.1
1924	155	726	625	115	211	38	10	4	78	85	18	23	14	.338	.418	.450	.867	126.2	123.9	.411	5.0
1925	121	490	415	97	157	31	12	12	102	65	12	13	9	.378	.468	.598	1.066	168.1	169.8	.484	6.1
1926	79	273	233	48	79	18	5	4	62	26	2	9	4	.339	.408	.511	.918	136.8	136.6	.423	2.1
1927	134	574	490	104	175	32	7	5	93	67	12	22	16	.357	.440	.482	.921	139.6	136.7	.430	4.5
1928	95	393	353	54	114	27	4	1	40	34	16	5	8	.323	.389	.431	.819	116.5	114.9	.380	1.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1918	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	2	2	0	0	4.0	4.50	2.000	0.00	3.66	135.7	59.9	6.9
1925	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0.00	.000	0.00	3.11	71.3	—	6.1

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

3,035

6th-most career G

13,071

5th-most career PA

11,436

5th-most career AB

2,247

2nd-most career R

4,189

2nd-most career H

724

4th-most career 2B

295

2nd-most career 3B

117

RBI

1,944

9th-most career RBI

1,249

57th-most career BB

680

896

4th-most career SB

.3663

Highest career batting average of all time

OBP

.4329

11th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5119

88th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.9448

32nd-highest career OPS

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

3.600

WHIP

1.6000

K/9

0.00

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	TB
1925-05-05	DET @ BAL Gameday	6	4	6	1	0	3	5	16
1912-07-19	DET @ ATH Gameday	5	3	5	0	0	2	5	11
1922-05-07	CWS @ DET Gameday	5	2	5	3	0	1	4	11
1921-05-08	DET @ BAL Gameday	5	4	4	2	1	1	1	11
1916-09-12	DET @ CLE Gameday	5	4	4	0	0	2	4	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB
1918-09-01	DET @ BAL Gameday	2.0	3	1	1	0
1918-09-02	CWS @ DET Gameday	2.0	3	1	1	2
1925-10-04	DET @ BAL Gameday	1.0	0	0	0	0
1905-04-15	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0
1905-04-19	CWS @ DET Gameday	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, 1936 (BBWAA)

1× Triple Crown1× Most Valuable Player

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