Carl Erskine
Brooklyn Dodgers 1948–1957; Los Angeles Dodgers 1958–1959
Percentile snapshot
1956 season — qualified pitchers
of 54 qualified 1956 pitchers (min 154 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 17 | 21 | 21 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .095 | .095 | .095 | .190 | -72.2 | -48.8 | .088 | 1.1 |
| 1949 | 22 | 28 | 26 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .115 | .115 | .115 | .231 | -60.1 | -38.6 | .106 | 0.2 |
| 1950 | 22 | 40 | 37 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .243 | .282 | .270 | .552 | 40.1 | 45.4 | .257 | 0.5 |
| 1951 | 46 | 66 | 61 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .131 | .159 | .148 | .306 | -33.5 | -17.4 | .146 | 0.6 |
| 1952 | 34 | 77 | 66 | 7 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 0 | 0 | .152 | .200 | .167 | .367 | -7.8 | 2.7 | .179 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 43 | 101 | 93 | 12 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 0 | .215 | .223 | .237 | .460 | 8.5 | 19.4 | .207 | 4.6 |
| 1954 | 39 | 98 | 88 | 4 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 23 | 0 | 0 | .159 | .194 | .182 | .375 | -17.8 | -2.0 | .176 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 42 | 76 | 74 | 12 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .203 | .197 | .284 | .481 | 13.3 | 25.2 | .209 | 2.6 |
| 1956 | 32 | 71 | 66 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .121 | .121 | .136 | .258 | -53.2 | -32.2 | .116 | 0.8 |
| 1957 | 21 | 22 | 22 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .091 | .091 | .182 | -77.3 | -52.1 | .082 | 0.9 |
| 1958 | 32 | 29 | 27 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .037 | .071 | .037 | .108 | -96.9 | -70.9 | .059 | -0.4 |
| 1959 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -131.9 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.8 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 17 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 51 | 23 | 35 | 29 | 5 | 64.0 | 3.23 | 1.344 | 4.08 | 4.36 | 108.3 | 124.6 | 1.1 |
| 1949 | 22 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 68 | 41 | 51 | 49 | 6 | 79.7 | 4.63 | 1.494 | 5.54 | 4.27 | 103.5 | 89.2 | 0.2 |
| 1950 | 22 | 13 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 109 | 54 | 35 | 50 | 15 | 103.0 | 4.72 | 1.398 | 4.37 | 4.43 | 106.0 | 88.5 | 0.5 |
| 1951 | 46 | 19 | 16 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 206 | 94 | 78 | 95 | 23 | 189.7 | 4.46 | 1.497 | 4.51 | 4.22 | 105.8 | 89.4 | 0.6 |
| 1952 | 33 | 26 | 14 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 167 | 62 | 71 | 131 | 17 | 206.7 | 2.70 | 1.152 | 5.70 | 3.28 | 88.0 | 138.0 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 39 | 33 | 20 | 6 | 3 | 16 | 4 | 213 | 97 | 95 | 187 | 21 | 246.7 | 3.54 | 1.249 | 6.82 | 3.40 | 78.4 | 122.4 | 4.6 |
| 1954 | 38 | 37 | 18 | 15 | 1 | 12 | 2 | 239 | 120 | 92 | 166 | 31 | 260.3 | 4.15 | 1.271 | 5.74 | 3.80 | 91.4 | 100.2 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 31 | 29 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 185 | 82 | 64 | 84 | 29 | 194.7 | 3.79 | 1.279 | 3.88 | 4.37 | 106.4 | 108.3 | 2.6 |
| 1956 | 31 | 28 | 13 | 11 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 189 | 88 | 57 | 95 | 25 | 186.3 | 4.25 | 1.320 | 4.59 | 3.89 | 98.6 | 92.9 | 0.8 |
| 1957 | 15 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 62 | 26 | 20 | 26 | 8 | 66.0 | 3.55 | 1.242 | 3.55 | 4.21 | 102.6 | 115.7 | 0.9 |
| 1958 | 31 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 115 | 56 | 35 | 54 | 14 | 98.3 | 5.13 | 1.525 | 4.94 | 4.33 | 103.7 | 81.4 | -0.4 |
| 1959 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 20 | 13 | 15 | 5 | 23.3 | 7.71 | 1.971 | 5.79 | 5.79 | 139.3 | 53.9 | -0.8 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1955-06-10 | CHC @ LAD Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1950-08-31 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1951-05-31 | PHI @ LAD Gameday | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1953-05-17 | LAD @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1955-05-22 | PHI @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953-10-02 | NYY @ LAD Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 0 |
| 1953-07-31 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 0 |
| 1953-07-22 | CHC @ LAD Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| 1953-07-26 | ATL @ LAD Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 1 |
| 1954-07-21 | LAD @ CIN Gameday | 9.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.