Burleigh Grimes

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 175 lb

BornAugust 18, 1893 · Emerald, WI, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1916

Final gameSeptember 20, 1934

Seasons19 (1916–1934)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1916–1917; Brooklyn Robins 1918–1926; New York Giants 1927; Pittsburgh Pirates 1928–1929; Boston Braves 1930; St. Louis Cardinals 1930–1931; Chicago Cubs 1932–1933; St. Louis Cardinals 1933; New York Yankees 1934; Pittsburgh Pirates 1934; St. Louis Cardinals 1934

Percentile snapshot

1931 season — qualified pitchers

SHO

240

212.3

ERA

3.65

WHIP

1.408

K/9

2.84

FIP

3.99

FIP-

101.0

ERA+

108.3

sWAR

2.7

of 101 qualified 1931 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

107.0

64.6

sWAR

57.7

99.3

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1916	6	18	17	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	.176	.176	.176	.353	-10.8	7.3	.166	0.6
1917	42	75	69	7	16	3	0	0	4	2	18	2	0	.232	.254	.275	.529	52.0	59.7	.252	0.2
1918	41	99	90	5	18	2	1	0	4	3	14	2	0	.200	.226	.244	.470	35.1	43.6	.227	4.8
1919	26	71	69	8	17	4	0	0	12	0	10	1	0	.246	.246	.304	.551	54.2	64.1	.256	0.7
1920	43	126	111	9	34	8	3	0	16	8	21	2	2	.306	.358	.432	.791	125.5	124.2	.370	7.8
1921	37	121	114	10	27	6	0	1	11	2	16	1	1	.237	.256	.316	.572	43.0	49.7	.261	6.6
1922	36	106	93	15	22	3	1	0	11	9	15	2	0	.237	.304	.290	.594	56.7	55.1	.285	1.0
1923	40	141	126	15	30	3	1	0	15	7	15	0	0	.238	.284	.278	.561	50.2	50.8	.267	4.6
1924	40	133	124	11	37	3	0	0	7	5	13	1	1	.298	.331	.323	.653	77.8	78.5	.306	3.4
1925	34	106	96	12	24	4	1	1	14	8	25	0	0	.250	.308	.344	.651	67.4	68.0	.301	0.7
1926	31	88	81	4	18	4	0	0	9	4	8	2	0	.222	.259	.272	.530	39.8	43.8	.251	2.5
1927	39	106	96	10	18	4	0	0	6	5	16	0	0	.188	.228	.229	.457	18.7	23.1	.218	3.6
1928	48	140	131	17	42	8	1	0	16	4	15	1	0	.321	.341	.397	.738	86.7	89.7	.338	8.3
1929	33	97	91	11	26	3	3	0	12	4	10	0	0	.286	.316	.385	.700	68.1	71.3	.317	6.7
1930	34	84	73	12	18	5	0	0	13	6	14	0	0	.247	.304	.315	.619	50.3	49.5	.285	4.0
1931	29	86	76	4	14	0	0	0	8	1	10	0	0	.184	.195	.184	.379	-12.2	1.3	.177	2.7
1932	30	50	44	4	11	1	0	0	5	0	9	1	0	.250	.267	.273	.539	41.9	46.9	.246	0.0
1933	21	28	25	2	4	1	0	0	5	1	5	0	0	.160	.192	.200	.392	2.1	11.9	.187	0.3
1934	22	10	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.111	.111	.111	.222	-55.3	-40.7	.102	-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
1916	6	5	2	3	0	4	0	40	12	10	20	1	45.7	2.36	1.095	3.94	2.37	88.8	112.9	0.6
1917	37	17	3	16	0	8	1	186	76	70	72	5	194.0	3.53	1.320	3.34	3.15	113.2	78.9	0.2
1918	40	30	19	9	1	19	7	210	64	76	113	3	270.0	2.13	1.059	3.77	2.50	90.7	129.0	4.8
1919	25	21	10	11	0	13	1	179	70	60	82	2	181.3	3.47	1.318	4.07	2.72	92.6	84.7	0.7
1920	40	33	23	11	2	25	5	271	75	67	131	5	303.7	2.22	1.113	3.88	2.65	83.2	143.6	7.8
1921	37	35	22	13	0	30	2	313	95	76	136	6	302.3	2.83	1.287	4.05	3.15	82.4	135.3	6.6
1922	36	34	17	14	1	18	1	324	137	84	99	17	259.0	4.76	1.575	3.44	4.22	104.4	84.8	1.0
1923	39	38	21	18	0	33	2	356	130	100	119	9	327.0	3.58	1.394	3.28	3.61	93.0	108.4	4.6
1924	38	36	22	13	1	30	1	351	132	91	135	15	310.7	3.82	1.423	3.91	3.65	97.3	98.1	3.4
1925	33	31	12	19	0	19	0	305	138	102	73	15	246.7	5.04	1.650	2.66	4.63	111.0	82.9	0.7
1926	30	29	12	13	0	18	1	238	93	88	64	4	225.3	3.71	1.447	2.56	3.81	100.9	101.6	2.5
1927	39	34	19	8	2	15	2	274	102	87	102	12	259.7	3.54	1.390	3.54	3.86	99.3	109.8	3.6
1928	48	37	25	14	3	28	4	311	110	77	97	11	330.7	2.99	1.173	2.64	3.40	83.2	136.4	8.3
1929	33	29	17	7	2	18	2	245	81	70	62	11	232.7	3.13	1.354	2.40	4.35	90.7	152.9	6.7
1930	33	28	16	11	0	11	1	246	91	65	73	9	201.3	4.07	1.545	3.26	4.48	90.0	122.7	4.0
1931	29	28	17	9	0	17	3	240	86	59	67	11	212.3	3.65	1.408	2.84	3.99	101.0	108.3	2.7
1932	30	18	6	11	1	5	1	174	75	50	36	8	141.3	4.78	1.585	2.29	4.22	111.0	79.6	0.0
1933	21	10	3	7	4	3	1	86	35	37	16	3	83.3	3.78	1.476	1.73	4.06	122.7	87.3	0.3
1934	22	4	4	5	1	0	0	63	36	26	15	1	53.0	6.11	1.679	2.55	4.37	105.2	67.9	-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

632

1,685

1,535

157

380

RBI

168

241

.2476

OBP

.2822

SLG

.3062

OPS

.5884

Pitching

G (P)

616

222nd-most career G (P)

497

51st-most career GS

270

33rd-most career W

212

33rd-most career L

314

33rd-most career CG

SHO

71st-most career SHO

4,180

36th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,512

231st-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,295

35th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.527

468th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3653

K/9

3.26

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	TB
1921-07-06	LAD @ SF Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	1	3	8
1929-07-03	STL @ PIT Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	0	3	5
1920-05-26	LAD @ PIT Gameday	3	0	3	0	1	0	2	5
1928-08-16	LAD @ PIT Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	0	2	5
1920-04-19	ATL @ LAD Gameday	3	0	3	2	0	0	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1922-09-09	ATL @ LAD Gameday	12.0	18	5	3	4	10	1
1924-07-26	CIN @ LAD Gameday	9.0	7	2	1	1	10	0
1920-05-14	LAD @ STL Gameday	14.0	7	1	1	1	9	0
1921-07-02	LAD @ PHI Gameday	9.0	11	3	3	0	9	2
1919-04-30	LAD @ PHI Gameday	20.0	15	9	9	7	8	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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1964 (Veterans)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.