Bert Cole
Detroit Tigers 1921–1924; Cleveland Indians 1925; Detroit Tigers 1925; Chicago White Sox 1927
Percentile snapshot
1923 season — qualified pitchers
of 133 qualified 1923 pitchers (min 155 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1921 | 30 | 50 | 46 | 12 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .283 | .298 | .457 | .754 | 82.9 | 89.8 | .337 | 1.4 |
| 1922 | 27 | 27 | 25 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .160 | .222 | .160 | .382 | -0.5 | 1.9 | .194 | -0.1 |
| 1923 | 58 | 57 | 55 | 7 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 0 | .255 | .268 | .364 | .631 | 58.0 | 66.2 | .290 | 1.4 |
| 1924 | 33 | 44 | 37 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 1 | .270 | .357 | .270 | .627 | 69.4 | 63.5 | .316 | 0.7 |
| 1925 | 27 | 28 | 24 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .208 | .321 | .208 | .530 | 45.3 | 35.8 | .277 | -0.5 |
| 1927 | 27 | 20 | 18 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .333 | -21.3 | -12.0 | .156 | 0.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1921 | 20 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 134 | 52 | 36 | 22 | 3 | 109.7 | 4.27 | 1.550 | 1.81 | 4.26 | 99.3 | 100.6 | 1.4 |
| 1922 | 23 | 5 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 105 | 43 | 39 | 21 | 4 | 79.3 | 4.88 | 1.815 | 2.38 | 4.58 | 115.9 | 81.1 | -0.1 |
| 1923 | 52 | 13 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 183 | 75 | 61 | 32 | 9 | 163.0 | 4.14 | 1.497 | 1.77 | 4.45 | 113.1 | 94.9 | 1.4 |
| 1924 | 28 | 11 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 135 | 57 | 35 | 16 | 4 | 109.3 | 4.69 | 1.555 | 1.32 | 4.38 | 103.8 | 89.9 | 0.7 |
| 1925 | 27 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 99 | 52 | 40 | 16 | 3 | 77.7 | 6.03 | 1.790 | 1.85 | 4.82 | 110.1 | 72.7 | -0.5 |
| 1927 | 27 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 79 | 35 | 19 | 12 | 3 | 66.7 | 4.73 | 1.470 | 1.62 | 4.28 | 106.6 | 84.8 | 0.0 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1921-05-16 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1923-10-05 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1923-06-29 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1923-10-01 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 1921-09-25 | DET @ MIN Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1921-08-24 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 1922-04-18 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 8.0 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 |
| 1922-07-01 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 5.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| 1921-09-10 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 10.0 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 |
| 1921-08-28 | NYY @ DET Gameday | 9.0 | 13 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
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.