Walter Thomas
Chicago American Giants 1935–1937; Detroit Stars 1937; Kansas City Monarchs 1944–1945; Chicago American Giants 1946
Percentile snapshot
1945 season — qualified batters
of 112 qualified 1945 batters (min 198 PA)
1936 season — qualified pitchers
of 91 qualified 1936 pitchers (min 23 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | 16 | 28 | 26 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .269 | .269 | .385 | .654 | 62.1 | 63.0 | .290 | -1.0 |
| 1936 | 7 | 12 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .417 | .750 | 101.8 | 106.5 | .343 | 0.7 |
| 1937 | 10 | 19 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .063 | .167 | .063 | .229 | -3.6 | -33.0 | .135 | -0.9 |
| 1944 | 19 | 69 | 62 | 10 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .226 | .284 | .323 | .606 | 87.6 | 87.8 | .296 | 0.1 |
| 1945 | 50 | 205 | 186 | 30 | 58 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 23 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 1 | .312 | .363 | .398 | .761 | 119.8 | 122.6 | .361 | 0.5 |
| 1946 | 16 | 56 | 52 | 6 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .269 | .321 | .308 | .629 | 87.4 | 85.7 | .311 | 0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1935 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 86 | 48 | 17 | 16 | 2 | 50.3 | 8.58 | 2.046 | 2.86 | 4.95 | 97.0 | 59.4 | -1.0 |
| 1936 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 38 | 12 | 10 | 13 | 0 | 28.0 | 3.86 | 1.714 | 4.18 | 4.91 | 104.3 | 122.0 | 0.7 |
| 1937 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 22 | 8 | 17 | 2 | 20.3 | 9.74 | 2.066 | 7.52 | 5.02 | 112.1 | 46.0 | -0.9 |
| 1945 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.3 | 40.50 | 5.250 | 6.75 | 4.62 | 108.9 | 10.5 | 0.5 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945-09-02 | MEM @ KCM Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 1944-08-08 | KCM @ CLB Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1945-06-26 | KCM @ HOM Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1944-07-24 | CLB @ KCM Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1946-07-08 | CAG @ BBB Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1937-08-17 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 6.0 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 1 |
| 1937-08-24 | CAG @ KCM Gameday | 6.0 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| 1935-06-24 | CAG @ PHS Gameday | 8.0 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 1935-05-20 | CAG @ TIC Gameday | 3.2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| 1937-07-14 | CAG @ DTS Gameday | 2.1 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 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.