Cliff Curtis

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 180 lb

BornJuly 3, 1881 · Delaware, OH, USA

MLB debutAugust 23, 1909

Final gameAugust 16, 1913

Seasons5 (1909–1913)

Boston Doves 1909–1910; Boston Rustlers 1911; Chicago Cubs 1911; Philadelphia Phillies 1911; Brooklyn Dodgers 1912; Philadelphia Phillies 1912; Brooklyn Superbas 1913

Percentile snapshot

1910 season — qualified pitchers

87.6

95.5

28.1

1.1

78.7

33.7

SHO

50.6

251

10.1

2.2

124

2.2

46.1

1.1

251.0

74.2

ERA

3.55

13.5

WHIP

1.494

5.6

K/9

2.69

6.7

FIP

3.87

4.5

FIP-

119.3

ERA+

91.5

sWAR

1.1

30.3

of 90 qualified 1910 pitchers (min 157 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

6.0

81.3

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1909	10	31	29	2	1	0	0	1	6	0	.034	.097	.034	.131	-70.1	-60.3	.081	1.9
1910	43	86	82	3	12	1	2	2	16	0	.146	.167	.159	.325	-22.8	-8.4	.161	1.1
1911	24	47	45	3	12	0	2	0	11	0	.267	.267	.267	.533	36.6	45.3	.254	1.1
1912	29	45	41	2	8	0	3	2	9	1	.195	.233	.195	.428	14.4	17.6	.212	0.9
1913	30	55	49	1	6	0	4	1	16	0	.122	.140	.122	.262	-35.5	-24.8	.128	1.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1909	10	9	4	5	0	8	2	53	13	30	22	1	83.0	1.41	1.000	2.39	2.93	106.7	194.9	1.9
1910	43	37	6	24	2	12	2	251	99	124	75	9	251.0	3.55	1.494	2.69	3.87	119.3	91.5	1.1
1911	24	15	4	11	1	8	1	131	54	54	40	4	129.0	3.77	1.434	2.79	3.80	105.3	95.6	1.1
1912	29	17	6	12	1	5	0	127	53	54	42	7	130.0	3.67	1.392	2.91	4.28	124.8	93.7	0.9
1913	30	16	8	9	2	6	0	145	55	55	57	1	151.7	3.26	1.319	3.38	3.18	99.4	98.1	1.0

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

136

264

246

RBI

.1585

OBP

.1818

SLG

.1626

OPS

.3444

Pitching

G (P)

136

SHO

745

SO (P)

236

BB allowed

317

ERA

3.312

WHIP

1.3751

K/9

2.85

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	TB
1911-05-13	PIT @ ATL Gameday	4	0	3	3
1913-08-16	STL @ LAD Gameday	4	0	3	3
1910-05-30	ATL @ LAD Gameday	2	1	2	2
1911-05-26	LAD @ ATL Gameday	3	1	2	2
1912-09-13	CIN @ LAD Gameday	2	1	2	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1910-08-29	ATL @ CIN Gameday	8.0	11	3	0	2	7
1912-09-28	PHI @ LAD Gameday	7.0	7	5	3	4	6
1913-06-23	LAD @ SF Gameday	7.0	5	2	2	2	6
1910-05-06	ATL @ LAD Gameday	4.1	2	4	0	6	6
1913-06-26	LAD @ PHI Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	1	5

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.