MLB / Players

Cliff Fannin

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb

BornMay 13, 1924 · Louisa, KY, USA

MLB debutSeptember 2, 1945

Final gameSeptember 27, 1952

Seasons8 (1945–1952)

St. Louis Browns 1945–1952

Percentile snapshot

1948 season — qualified pitchers

63.9

37.5

15.3

43.1

48.6

SHO

198

41.7

13.9

104

15.3

102

79.2

29.2

213.7

66.7

ERA

4.17

22.2

WHIP

1.413

41.7

K/9

4.30

56.9

FIP

4.12

26.4

FIP-

91.7

61.1

ERA+

107.7

37.5

sWAR

2.9

51.4

of 73 qualified 1948 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

2.2

71.1

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1945	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-140.8	-100.0	.000	0.2
1946	27	32	31	4	5	0	2	1	5	.161	.188	.161	.349	-24.4	-4.1	.169	1.5
1947	26	52	46	4	9	1	4	2	5	.196	.229	.217	.447	8.9	22.3	.216	1.9
1948	48	83	65	12	11	0	2	11	4	.169	.299	.169	.468	28.8	23.5	.254	2.9
1949	37	58	55	4	9	1	4	2	15	.164	.193	.182	.375	-21.5	-3.6	.183	-1.5
1950	33	34	34	6	6	1	2	0	6	.176	.176	.206	.382	-24.3	-5.3	.175	-0.9
1951	8	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	19.7	32.3	.233	-0.2
1952	11	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	122.3	44.0	.378	-1.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1945	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	3	5	5	0	10.3	2.61	1.258	4.35	2.92	84.1	133.0	0.2
1946	27	7	5	2	2	4	1	76	29	42	52	4	86.7	3.01	1.362	5.40	3.34	91.1	121.7	1.5
1947	26	18	6	8	1	6	2	134	58	77	77	10	145.7	3.58	1.449	4.76	3.87	100.6	107.3	1.9
1948	34	29	10	14	1	10	3	198	99	104	102	14	213.7	4.17	1.413	4.30	4.12	91.7	107.7	2.9
1949	30	25	8	14	1	5	0	177	98	93	57	15	143.0	6.17	1.888	3.59	5.01	112.2	72.4	-1.5
1950	25	16	5	9	1	3	0	116	74	58	42	18	102.0	6.53	1.706	3.71	5.89	121.1	74.5	-0.9
1951	7	1	0	2	0	0	0	20	11	5	11	6	15.3	6.46	1.630	6.46	7.21	166.7	67.0	-0.2
1952	10	2	0	2	0	0	0	34	23	9	6	5	16.3	12.67	2.633	3.31	7.26	189.3	30.3	-1.5

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

195

266

237

RBI

.1730

OBP

.2314

SLG

.1857

OPS

.4171

Pitching

G (P)

164

SHO

733

SO (P)

352

BB allowed

393

ERA

4.850

WHIP

1.5771

K/9

4.32

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	RBI	TB
1947-08-24	MIN @ BAL Gameday	3	1	2	1	2	3
1947-07-13	MIN @ BAL Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	2
1948-09-22	MIN @ BAL Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	2
1949-09-11	CLE @ BAL Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	2
1950-07-29	MIN @ BAL Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1947-05-27	BAL @ CWS Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	0	8	0
1947-07-18	BOS @ BAL Gameday	6.1	10	7	7	3	8	2
1947-05-09	CLE @ BAL Gameday	10.1	9	4	3	11	7	0
1946-09-10	ATH @ BAL Gameday	9.0	8	1	1	1	7	0
1947-06-02	ATH @ BAL Gameday	9.0	8	6	5	5	7	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.