MLB / Players

Valmy Thomas

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 9 in · 165 lb
BornOctober 21, 1925 · Santurce, P.R.
MLB debutApril 16, 1957
Final gameOctober 1, 1961
Seasons5 (1957–1961)

New York Giants 1957; San Francisco Giants 1958; Philadelphia Phillies 1959; Baltimore Orioles 1960; Cleveland Indians 1961

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
1.1
64.9

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
1957882622413060103631162900.249.296.390.68681.383.1.3051.0
195863159143143750316132410.259.321.357.67781.880.7.3100.7
195966151140528201791910.200.253.236.48923.030.4.225-0.4
1960818160100001001.063.118.063.180-59.5-48.9.098-0.2
196127928671830266700.209.261.314.57552.355.1.2640.0

Career totals

G
252
PA
682
AB
626
R
56
H
144
2B
20
3B
3
HR
12
RBI
60
BB
45
SO
79
SB
2
BA
.2300
OBP
.2832
SLG
.3291
OPS
.6123

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
1957-08-15LAD @ SF Gameday432011407
1958-08-13STL @ SF Gameday412001405
1957-07-11STL @ SF Gameday312001105
1957-09-03PIT @ SF Gameday512001105
1961-09-30CLE @ LAA Gameday512001105

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1957-05-05CHC @ SF Gameday0.0000000
1957-05-22SF @ CHC Gameday0.0000000
1957-06-01SF @ PIT Gameday0.0000000
1957-06-12CHC @ SF Gameday0.0000000
1957-06-13CHC @ SF Gameday0.0000000

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.