Curt Davis

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 185 lb

BornSeptember 7, 1903 · Greenfield, MO, USA

MLB debutApril 21, 1934

Final gameApril 28, 1946

Seasons13 (1934–1946)

Philadelphia Phillies 1934–1935; Chicago Cubs 1936; Philadelphia Phillies 1936; Chicago Cubs 1937; St. Louis Cardinals 1938–1939; Brooklyn Dodgers 1940; St. Louis Cardinals 1940; Brooklyn Dodgers 1941–1946

Percentile snapshot

1944 season — qualified pitchers

45.3

44.2

42.1

35.8

96.8

57.9

SHO

29.5

207

38.9

43.2

68.4

32.6

14.7

194.0

52.6

ERA

3.34

44.2

WHIP

1.268

K/9

2.27

10.5

FIP

3.51

44.2

FIP-

96.9

46.3

ERA+

108.5

49.5

sWAR

2.4

53.7

of 96 qualified 1944 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

116.1

85.1

sWAR

38.4

97.7

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1934	51	103	95	9	20	2	1	7	1	17	0	.211	.219	.263	.482	5.8	20.4	.218	7.7
1935	46	86	75	4	13	0	1	6	7	8	0	.173	.244	.213	.457	13.0	17.6	.222	4.3
1936	35	87	79	10	12	2	0	5	2	18	0	.152	.173	.177	.350	-19.2	-7.2	.165	3.4
1937	28	47	40	6	12	2	1	9	2	3	0	.300	.333	.425	.758	100.5	102.8	.345	1.5
1938	40	61	57	8	13	0	3	9	0	16	0	.228	.228	.386	.614	50.9	62.6	.272	2.6
1939	63	115	105	10	40	5	1	17	3	22	0	.381	.398	.457	.855	125.5	123.8	.392	5.1
1940	36	73	66	3	6	1	1	4	2	13	0	.091	.118	.152	.269	-45.4	-27.1	.126	1.1
1941	31	65	59	5	11	2	2	9	1	10	0	.186	.200	.322	.522	31.2	44.3	.237	3.0
1942	32	77	68	4	12	2	0	5	1	24	0	.176	.188	.206	.394	-1.3	15.2	.187	4.4
1943	31	64	55	5	9	0	0	3	5	14	0	.164	.233	.164	.397	8.0	14.8	.206	0.8
1944	31	71	63	3	10	1	0	4	2	19	0	.159	.185	.175	.359	-10.9	1.3	.173	2.4
1945	24	55	51	3	7	0	1	3	2	12	1	.137	.170	.196	.366	-9.3	1.4	.176	2.3
1946	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1934	51	31	19	17	5	18	3	283	90	60	99	14	274.3	2.95	1.250	3.25	3.76	81.2	156.8	7.7
1935	44	27	16	14	2	19	3	264	94	47	74	14	231.0	3.66	1.346	2.88	3.87	86.6	122.0	4.3
1936	34	28	13	13	1	13	0	217	82	50	70	17	213.3	3.46	1.252	2.95	4.15	100.0	119.8	3.4
1937	28	14	10	5	1	8	0	138	56	30	32	7	123.7	4.08	1.358	2.33	4.02	101.0	97.7	1.5
1938	40	21	12	8	3	8	2	187	70	27	36	9	173.3	3.63	1.235	1.87	3.48	87.9	108.9	2.6
1939	49	31	22	16	7	13	3	279	100	48	70	18	248.0	3.63	1.319	2.54	3.81	92.6	113.3	5.1
1940	36	25	8	11	3	9	0	208	89	38	58	17	191.0	4.19	1.288	2.73	3.93	98.5	95.0	1.1
1941	28	16	13	7	2	10	5	141	51	27	50	6	154.3	2.97	1.089	2.92	2.99	80.9	124.1	3.0
1942	32	26	15	6	2	13	5	179	54	51	60	10	206.0	2.36	1.117	2.62	3.18	95.6	141.0	4.4
1943	31	21	10	13	3	8	2	182	69	39	47	8	164.3	3.78	1.345	2.57	3.28	96.2	90.3	0.8
1944	31	23	10	11	4	12	1	207	72	39	49	12	194.0	3.34	1.268	2.27	3.51	96.9	108.5	2.4
1945	24	18	10	10	0	10	0	171	54	21	39	9	149.7	3.25	1.283	2.35	3.38	88.7	117.2	2.3
1946	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	2	0	1	2.0	13.50	2.500	0.00	13.32	389.8	25.3	-0.2

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

449

904

813

165

RBI

176

.2030

OBP

.2295

SLG

.2645

OPS

.4940

Pitching

G (P)

429

281

414th-most career GS

158

234th-most career W

131

269th-most career L

141

252nd-most career CG

SHO

189th-most career SHO

2,325

304th-most career IP

SO (P)

684

BB allowed

479

ERA

3.422

382nd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2637

402nd-lowest career WHIP

K/9

2.65

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	HR	RBI	TB
1939-06-21	PHI @ STL Gameday	5	1	3	1	2	6
1937-07-04	PIT @ CHC Gameday	2	1	2	1	4	5
1941-07-11	CIN @ LAD Gameday	4	1	2	1	4	5
1938-08-16	STL @ CHC Gameday	3	1	2	1	2	5
1945-04-17	PHI @ LAD Gameday	4	1	2	1	2	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1935-06-20	STL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	15	3	3	0	7	1
1944-05-16	LAD @ CHC Gameday	8.2	11	7	7	3	7	1
1940-06-23	PIT @ LAD Gameday	13.0	10	4	4	3	6	1
1939-06-06	STL @ ATL Gameday	10.0	9	3	3	2	6	0
1934-05-24	CIN @ PHI Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	0	6	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

2× All-Star

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