Al Gettel

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 200 lb

BornSeptember 17, 1917 · Norfolk, VA, USA

MLB debutApril 20, 1945

Final gameSeptember 12, 1955

Seasons7 (1945–1955)

New York Yankees 1945–1946; Cleveland Indians 1947; Chicago White Sox 1948; Cleveland Indians 1948; Chicago White Sox 1949; Washington Senators 1949; New York Giants 1951; St. Louis Cardinals 1955

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified pitchers

41.7

35.7

46.4

54.8

89.3

38.1

SHO

141

67.9

46.4

51.2

52.4

14.3

154.7

33.3

ERA

3.90

17.9

WHIP

1.254

60.7

K/9

3.90

53.6

FIP

3.66

40.5

FIP-

105.6

21.4

ERA+

89.0

16.7

sWAR

0.9

of 85 qualified 1945 pitchers (min 152 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

3.4

75.2

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1945	27	60	57	8	16	2	0	3	1	3	.281	.293	.316	.609	65.4	74.0	.289	0.9
1946	26	35	32	0	4	0	0	1	0	5	.125	.125	.125	.250	-57.1	-30.0	.117	1.5
1947	34	54	51	7	15	2	1	4	0	4	.294	.308	.373	.680	87.4	94.4	.316	2.4
1948	29	60	57	5	13	2	0	3	0	6	.228	.228	.263	.491	19.2	31.9	.228	0.7
1949	35	29	26	2	3	0	0	1	3	4	.115	.207	.115	.322	-17.1	-12.9	.178	-1.2
1951	30	12	12	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	.083	.083	.083	.167	-79.3	-54.9	.076	-0.1
1955	8	6	6	1	3	1	0	2	0	1	.500	.500	.667	1.167	218.6	205.4	.516	-0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1945	27	17	9	8	3	9	0	141	67	53	67	11	154.7	3.90	1.254	3.90	3.66	105.6	89.0	0.9
1946	26	11	6	7	0	5	2	89	34	40	54	6	103.0	2.97	1.252	4.72	3.38	96.7	117.7	1.5
1947	31	21	11	10	0	9	2	122	53	62	64	12	149.0	3.20	1.235	3.87	3.92	112.5	108.9	2.4
1948	27	21	8	11	1	7	0	169	81	70	53	9	155.7	4.68	1.535	3.06	4.26	101.8	89.6	0.7
1949	35	8	2	7	2	1	1	112	66	50	29	16	97.7	6.08	1.659	2.67	5.62	136.1	68.0	-1.2
1951	30	1	1	2	0	0	0	52	31	25	36	12	57.3	4.87	1.343	5.65	5.15	130.9	80.9	-0.1
1955	8	0	1	0	0	0	0	26	17	10	7	6	17.0	9.00	2.118	3.71	7.84	191.8	45.4	-0.7

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

189

256

241

RBI

.2282

OBP

.2439

SLG

.2656

OPS

.5095

Pitching

G (P)

184

SHO

734

SO (P)

310

BB allowed

310

ERA

4.277

WHIP

1.3904

K/9

3.80

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	RBI	TB
1945-08-10	NYY @ CLE Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	3
1947-08-08	BAL @ CLE Gameday	4	0	3	0	1	3
1955-09-01	STL @ PIT Gameday	2	0	2	1	2	3
1945-05-25	CWS @ NYY Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	3
1948-08-29	CWS @ ATH Gameday	5	0	2	1	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1951-06-12	SF @ CIN Gameday	5.0	2	0	0	1	7	0
1946-04-23	ATH @ NYY Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	2	6	0
1947-06-10	BOS @ CLE Gameday	9.0	8	3	3	3	6	1
1947-08-24	BOS @ CLE Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	1	6	1
1948-08-07	BOS @ CWS Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	6	6	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.