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Art Fromme

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 178 lb

BornSeptember 3, 1883 · Quincy, IL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 14, 1906

Final gameMay 7, 1915

Seasons10 (1906–1915)

St. Louis Cardinals 1906–1908; Cincinnati Reds 1909–1913; New York Giants 1913–1915

Percentile snapshot

1913 season — qualified pitchers

21.5

41.8

5.1

SHO

167

70.9

64.6

39.2

25.3

168.3

22.8

ERA

4.06

7.6

WHIP

1.289

34.2

K/9

3.96

50.6

FIP

3.19

31.6

FIP-

100.6

41.8

ERA+

78.0

8.9

sWAR

-0.2

8.9

of 80 qualified 1913 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

99.2

34.2

sWAR

12.7

89.4

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1906	3	9	9	1	2	0	0	1	0	4	0	.222	.222	.222	.444	30.1	39.9	.216	0.6
1907	23	59	55	5	10	1	1	1	1	11	0	.182	.211	.236	.447	30.0	39.9	.220	0.6
1908	20	39	36	2	5	0	0	2	1	7	0	.139	.162	.139	.301	-14.5	-3.3	.151	0.4
1909	37	103	94	8	18	2	3	3	3	23	0	.191	.216	.277	.493	44.1	52.9	.238	5.4
1910	11	16	15	1	2	1	0	0	0	5	0	.133	.133	.200	.333	-15.5	-1.5	.156	0.4
1911	38	79	74	6	14	1	0	5	1	8	1	.189	.200	.203	.403	9.7	15.2	.193	1.4
1912	43	109	103	3	9	1	1	4	1	22	0	.087	.096	.117	.213	-48.8	-40.9	.101	3.8
1913	35	61	56	3	9	4	0	3	2	13	0	.161	.190	.232	.422	12.7	20.5	.200	-0.2
1914	38	36	31	2	7	1	0	2	2	10	0	.226	.273	.258	.531	59.0	61.0	.261	0.6
1915	4	4	3	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	.333	.500	.333	.833	181.2	160.5	.427	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1906	3	3	1	2	0	3	1	19	4	10	11	0	25.0	1.44	1.160	3.96	2.70	104.8	178.9	0.6
1907	23	16	5	13	0	13	2	138	47	67	67	3	145.7	2.90	1.407	4.14	2.83	114.5	84.9	0.6
1908	20	14	5	13	0	9	2	102	35	50	62	1	116.0	2.72	1.310	4.81	2.34	100.7	85.6	0.4
1909	37	34	19	13	2	22	4	195	59	101	126	2	279.3	1.90	1.060	4.06	2.46	94.9	136.1	5.4
1910	11	5	3	4	0	1	0	44	16	39	10	2	49.3	2.92	1.682	1.82	4.93	168.6	100.3	0.4
1911	38	26	10	11	0	11	1	190	80	79	107	8	208.0	3.46	1.293	4.63	3.47	106.5	94.0	1.4
1912	43	37	16	18	0	23	3	285	90	88	120	7	296.0	2.74	1.260	3.65	3.25	99.3	119.5	3.8
1913	35	19	12	10	0	5	0	167	76	50	74	6	168.3	4.06	1.289	3.96	3.19	100.6	78.0	-0.2
1914	38	12	9	5	2	3	1	142	49	44	57	7	138.0	3.20	1.348	3.72	3.20	119.2	84.0	0.6
1915	4	1	0	1	0	0	0	15	8	2	4	1	12.3	5.84	1.378	2.92	3.25	124.3	44.8	-0.3

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

252

515

476

RBI

104

.1618

OBP

.1840

SLG

.2059

OPS

.3899

Pitching

G (P)

252

167

478th-most career CG

SHO

436th-most career SHO

1,438

SO (P)

638

BB allowed

530

ERA

2.904

146th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2705

433rd-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.99

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	TB
1909-08-15	ATL @ CIN Gameday	4	1	2	1	1	5
1907-09-06	CIN @ STL Gameday	3	2	2	0	1	4
1909-08-20	CIN @ SF Gameday	5	2	2	0	1	4
1909-06-27	CIN @ CHC Gameday	5	1	2	1	0	3
1912-08-03	CIN @ SF Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	BB	SO
1908-07-02	CIN @ STL Gameday	9.0	4	2	4	10
1909-06-03	LAD @ CIN Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	10
1908-06-27	PIT @ STL Gameday	9.0	8	4	2	9
1908-04-18	CHC @ STL Gameday	9.0	3	2	2	7
1909-08-25	CIN @ LAD Gameday	9.0	3	0	1	7

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.