MLB / Players

Woody English

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 155 lb

BornMarch 2, 1906 · Fredonia, OH, USA

MLB debutApril 26, 1927

Final gameJuly 1, 1938

Seasons12 (1927–1938)

Chicago Cubs 1927–1936; Brooklyn Dodgers 1937–1938

Percentile snapshot

1934 season — qualified batters

109

34.3

475

36.6

421

37.3

49.3

117

37.3

53.7

49.3

41.8

RBI

27.6

58.2

7.5

61.9

32.8

.278

29.9

OBP

.353

39.6

SLG

.385

29.1

OPS

.738

32.8

wRC+

103.5

45.5

OPS+

101.5

41.8

wOBA

.342

30.6

sWAR

2.1

54.5

of 135 qualified 1934 batters (min 471 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

99.5

40.7

OPS+

96.2

33.9

sWAR

21.9

94.3

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1927	87	374	334	46	97	14	4	1	28	16	26	1	.290	.325	.365	.690	84.2	86.0	.321	0.9
1928	116	522	475	68	142	22	4	2	34	30	28	4	.299	.343	.375	.718	88.9	89.9	.334	1.5
1929	144	700	608	131	168	29	3	1	52	68	50	13	.276	.352	.339	.691	75.7	72.8	.326	0.7
1930	156	755	638	152	214	36	17	14	59	100	72	3	.335	.430	.511	.941	128.0	126.1	.419	5.7
1931	156	727	634	117	202	38	8	2	53	68	80	12	.319	.391	.413	.804	119.0	115.2	.374	4.8
1932	127	591	522	70	142	23	7	3	47	55	73	5	.272	.344	.360	.704	93.8	91.5	.325	1.8
1933	105	457	398	54	104	19	2	3	41	53	44	5	.261	.348	.342	.690	103.9	99.6	.330	1.9
1934	109	475	421	65	117	26	5	3	31	48	65	6	.278	.353	.385	.738	103.5	101.5	.342	2.1
1935	34	109	84	11	17	2	0	2	8	20	4	1	.202	.368	.298	.666	94.7	82.9	.330	0.4
1936	64	232	182	33	45	9	0	0	20	40	28	1	.247	.394	.297	.691	100.8	88.4	.346	1.0
1937	129	446	378	45	90	16	2	1	42	65	55	4	.238	.350	.299	.649	82.3	75.9	.318	1.1
1938	34	81	72	9	18	2	0	0	7	8	11	2	.250	.333	.278	.611	71.0	67.9	.298	0.0

Career totals

1,261

5,469

4,746

801

1,356

236

RBI

422

571

536

.2857

OBP

.3659

359th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3776

OPS

.7435

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
1930-09-25	CIN @ CHC Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	1	1	0	8
1930-06-07	CHC @ LAD Gameday	4	3	2	0	0	2	3	1	8
1931-08-27	CHC @ PIT Gameday	4	2	4	1	1	0	0	1	7
1931-09-19	LAD @ CHC Gameday	4	4	4	1	1	0	0	1	7
1931-05-16	CHC @ PHI Gameday	6	3	5	1	0	0	2	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1927-04-12	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-13	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-15	STL @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-16	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1927-04-17	PIT @ CHC 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

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.