Ty Cobb

1905–1928 · 24 seasons · Bats left, throws right · Born 1886

Hall of Fame 1936
Most Valuable Player

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Hitting: 17 of 26 columns. Folded away: CS, TB, HBP, wOBA, wRAA, WAR: Bat, WAR: Field, WAR: Run, WAR: Pos. Pitching: 14 of 18 columns. Folded away: HR, BFP, CG, SHO.

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Hitting

Season	Team	Lg	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	AVG	OBP	SLG	OPS	WAR
1905	Detroit Tigers	AL	41	165	151	19	36	6	0	1	15	10	23	2	.238	.286	.298	.584	0.5
1906	Detroit Tigers	AL	98	394	358	45	113	15	5	1	41	19	40	23	.316	.355	.394	.749	4.6
1907	Detroit Tigers	AL	150	642	605	99	212	28	14	5	119	24	55	53	.350	.380	.468	.848	8.6
1908	Detroit Tigers	AL	150	635	580	88	188	36	20	4	108	34	42	39	.324	.368	.476	.844	7.6
1909	Detroit Tigers	AL	156	651	573	115	216	33	10	9	107	48	45	76	.377	.431	.517	.947	11.1
1910	Detroit Tigers	AL	140	592	508	106	194	35	13	8	91	64	46	65	.382	.455	.549	1.004	12.4
1911MVP	Detroit Tigers	AL	146	654	591	147	248	47	24	8	127	44	42	83	.420	.467	.621	1.088	14.3
1912	Detroit Tigers	AL	140	609	553	120	226	30	23	7	83	43	30	61	.409	.456	.584	1.040	10.0
1913	Detroit Tigers	AL	122	501	428	70	167	18	16	4	67	58	31	51	.390	.467	.535	1.002	9.9
1914	Detroit Tigers	AL	98	414	345	69	127	22	11	2	57	57	22	35	.368	.466	.513	.979	6.3
1915	Detroit Tigers	AL	156	700	563	144	208	31	13	3	99	118	43	96	.369	.486	.487	.973	12.6
1916	Detroit Tigers	AL	145	636	542	113	201	31	10	5	68	78	39	68	.371	.452	.493	.944	11.7
1917	Detroit Tigers	AL	152	669	588	107	225	44	24	6	102	61	34	55	.383	.444	.570	1.014	15.7
1918	Detroit Tigers	AL	111	473	421	83	161	19	14	3	64	41	21	34	.382	.440	.515	.955	9.0
1919	Detroit Tigers	AL	124	545	497	92	191	36	13	1	70	38	22	28	.384	.429	.515	.944	8.7
1920	Detroit Tigers	AL	112	495	428	86	143	28	8	2	63	58	28	15	.334	.416	.451	.867	4.9
1921	Detroit Tigers	AL	128	581	507	124	197	37	16	12	101	56	19	22	.389	.452	.596	1.048	8.7
1922	Detroit Tigers	AL	137	612	526	99	211	42	16	4	99	55	24	9	.401	.462	.565	1.026	8.1
1923	Detroit Tigers	AL	145	647	556	103	189	40	7	6	88	66	14	9	.340	.413	.469	.882	6.1
1924	Detroit Tigers	AL	155	726	625	115	211	38	10	4	78	85	18	23	.338	.418	.450	.867	7.0
1925	Detroit Tigers	AL	121	490	415	97	157	31	12	12	102	65	12	13	.378	.468	.598	1.066	7.7
1926	Detroit Tigers	AL	79	273	233	48	79	18	5	4	62	26	2	9	.339	.408	.511	.918	2.2
1927	Philadelphia Athletics	AL	134	574	490	104	175	32	7	5	93	67	12	22	.357	.440	.482	.921	4.3
1928	Philadelphia Athletics	AL	95	393	353	54	114	27	4	1	40	34	16	5	.323	.389	.431	.819	1.3
Career	24 seasons		3035	13071	11436	2247	4189	724	295	117	1944	1249	680	896	.366	.433	.512	.945	193.3

Pitching

Season	Team	Lg	G	IP	SV	BB	H	ER	ERA	WHIP	FIP
1918	Detroit Tigers	AL	2	4.0	0	2	6	2	4.50	2.00	3.79
1925	Detroit Tigers	AL	1	1.0	1	0	0	0	0.00	0.00	3.60
Career	2 seasons		3	5.0	1	2	6	2	3.60	1.60	—

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. On a season where this player both batted and pitched, the WAR column is left unshaded either way: the data keeps one WAR ranking for the year and does not say which of the two it belongs to, and a guess here would put a league lead on the wrong line.

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: AL (American League).

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