Sam Crawford

1899–1917 · 19 seasons · Bats left, throws left · Born 1880

Hall of Fame 1957

More than one Major Leaguer has this name. This page is the Sam Crawford who played 1899–1917. The other one:

Sam Crawford, 1911–1931 18 seasons

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Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1899	Cincinnati Reds	NL	31	133	127	25	39	3	7	1	20	2	10	6	.307	.318	.465	.782	0.7
1900	Cincinnati Reds	NL	101	424	389	68	101	15	15	7	59	28	35	14	.260	.314	.429	.744	1.8
1901	Cincinnati Reds	NL	131	559	515	91	170	20	16	16	104	37	45	13	.330	.378	.524	.903	4.9
1902	Cincinnati Reds	NL	140	609	555	92	185	18	22	3	78	47	40	16	.333	.386	.461	.848	4.4
1903	Detroit Tigers	AL	137	602	550	88	184	23	25	4	89	25	46	18	.335	.366	.489	.855	5.5
1904	Detroit Tigers	AL	150	617	562	49	143	22	16	2	73	44	58	20	.254	.309	.361	.670	2.5
1905	Detroit Tigers	AL	154	631	575	73	171	38	10	6	75	50	31	22	.297	.357	.430	.786	5.3
1906	Detroit Tigers	AL	145	610	563	65	166	25	16	2	66	38	20	24	.295	.341	.407	.747	4.1
1907	Detroit Tigers	AL	144	632	582	102	188	34	17	4	81	37	29	18	.323	.366	.460	.826	8.8
1908	Detroit Tigers	AL	152	654	591	102	184	33	16	7	80	37	28	15	.311	.355	.457	.812	7.7
1909	Detroit Tigers	AL	156	662	589	83	185	35	14	6	97	47	32	30	.314	.366	.452	.817	8.3
1910	Detroit Tigers	AL	154	650	588	83	170	26	19	5	120	37	34	20	.289	.332	.423	.756	2.8
1911	Detroit Tigers	AL	146	648	574	109	217	36	14	7	115	61	36	37	.378	.438	.526	.964	6.4
1912	Detroit Tigers	AL	149	644	581	81	189	30	21	4	109	42	32	41	.325	.373	.470	.843	2.6
1913	Detroit Tigers	AL	153	671	609	78	193	32	23	9	83	52	28	13	.317	.371	.489	.860	5.1
1914	Detroit Tigers	AL	157	674	582	74	183	22	26	8	104	69	31	25	.314	.388	.483	.871	4.8
1915	Detroit Tigers	AL	156	694	612	81	183	31	19	4	112	66	29	24	.299	.367	.431	.799	3.7
1916	Detroit Tigers	AL	100	368	322	41	92	11	13	0	42	37	10	10	.286	.359	.401	.760	1.4
1917	Detroit Tigers	AL	61	112	104	6	18	4	0	2	12	4	6	0	.173	.204	.269	.473	-0.8
Career	19 seasons		2517	10594	9570	1391	2961	458	309	97	1519	760	580	366	.309	.362	.452	.814	80.1

Gold shading marks a top-five finish in that league that season. Filled for first, shaded for second and third, faint for fourth and fifth, with the exact place in the corner of the cell. These rankings are ours, not part of the source data: we work them out from the season lines on this site and count each league on its own, so a first in the American League is not a first across baseball. Rate statistics use the same qualifying line as the season tool, which is why a relief pitcher can have the lowest ERA in his league and still have no shading on it — he did not pitch enough innings to qualify. A ranking is only drawn when its column is on screen; press Show all columns for the rest.

The dark chips beside a season are awards. Those are records rather than our arithmetic: MVP (Most Valuable Player), CY (Cy Young Award), ROY (Rookie of the Year), GG (Gold Glove), SS (Silver Slugger). Two of them are lettered in the metal they are named after — Gold Glove in gold, Silver Slugger in silver — but the letters say which is which, so nothing here depends on telling the two apart by colour.

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Not every award existed yet. This database has Most Valuable Player from 1911, Rookie of the Year from 1947, Cy Young Award from 1956, Gold Glove from 1957, Silver Slugger from 1980. A season before that is a season the award did not exist, not a season this player missed out on.

The WAR columns are worked out on this site — they are not part of the source data, and they will not match Baseball-Reference exactly.

Everything else on this page comes straight from the Lahman database. WAR is our own calculation from those same season lines: fielding is estimated from putouts and assists rather than measured, fielding innings are missing before 1954, and the fielding component is capped. Treat it as a reasonable estimate of value, not as a record. The season tool explains the method in full.

— means the value is not in the source for that season, which is not the same as zero. In the Career and Subtotal rows it marks a statistic that cannot be added up across seasons — wOBA and FIP both need league constants that change every year, so we leave them blank rather than invent one. Leagues on this page: NL (National League), AL (American League).

Data for 1871 to 2025: Lahman Baseball Database 2025, compiled by SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) and licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported. Negro Leagues data licensed from Seamheads.com and included under SABR major-league recommendations (2021-02-11, 2024-06-03). The season lines on this page are our own derivative of that database — the WAR columns are computed here — and they are published under the same CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence, as ShareAlike requires. That database is published once a season is complete, so the 2026 figures on this site come from a different place: the MLB Stats API, whose notice reads “Copyright 2026 MLB Advanced Media, L.P. Use of any content on this page acknowledges agreement to the terms posted here http://gdx.mlb.com/components/copyright.txt”. Those numbers are MLB Advanced Media, L.P.’s, not SABR (Society for American Baseball Research)’s, and they carry that notice rather than the CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported licence above. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Major League Baseball or any of its clubs.