Cy Falkenberg

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 180 lb

BornDecember 17, 1879 · Chicago, IL, USA

MLB debutApril 21, 1903

Final gameJuly 4, 1917

Seasons12 (1903–1917)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1903; Washington Senators 1905–1907; Cleveland Naps 1908; Washington Senators 1908; Cleveland Naps 1909–1911; Cleveland Naps 1913; Indianapolis Hoosiers 1914; Brooklyn Tip-Tops 1915; Newark Pepper 1915; Philadelphia Athletics 1917

Percentile snapshot

1915 season — qualified pitchers

27.2

53.6

42.4

27.2

71.2

SHO

206

46.4

41.6

62.4

55.2

10.4

220.0

47.2

ERA

2.86

43.2

WHIP

1.205

52.8

K/9

3.93

FIP

2.98

32.8

FIP-

98.2

47.2

ERA+

105.9

sWAR

1.8

40.8

of 126 qualified 1915 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

104.9

sWAR

23.6

94.9

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1903	10	24	21	3	4	0	0	0	0	1	7	0	.190	.261	.190	.451	37.5	28.9	.233	0.2
1905	12	32	32	4	4	1	0	0	3	0	16	0	.125	.125	.156	.281	-18.7	-10.7	.132	-0.6
1906	40	116	106	11	18	3	2	1	12	6	29	1	.170	.214	.264	.478	46.1	49.9	.232	2.3
1907	33	89	86	7	12	0	1	0	3	3	33	1	.140	.169	.163	.331	5.8	8.2	.166	2.1
1908	25	45	44	6	8	0	0	0	0	0	17	0	.182	.182	.182	.364	12.4	20.6	.175	0.5
1909	24	55	52	2	9	0	0	0	2	0	20	0	.173	.173	.173	.346	-4.8	8.2	.167	1.7
1910	37	92	82	6	15	1	0	0	4	6	25	1	.183	.247	.195	.442	37.7	37.6	.228	1.2
1911	16	46	40	1	7	1	0	0	4	1	19	2	.175	.195	.200	.395	5.3	9.6	.192	1.0
1913	39	101	84	0	10	1	0	0	5	9	41	2	.119	.221	.131	.352	4.3	2.1	.195	5.2
1914	49	148	125	5	21	2	0	0	11	11	38	0	.168	.235	.184	.419	19.3	20.0	.214	8.0
1915	32	80	72	3	4	0	0	0	2	2	18	0	.056	.081	.056	.137	-75.7	-59.5	.072	1.8
1917	15	29	27	1	5	2	1	0	1	0	10	0	.185	.185	.333	.519	39.4	56.2	.242	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
1903	10	6	1	5	0	3	0	65	24	32	24	0	56.0	3.86	1.732	3.86	3.69	112.5	85.1	0.2
1905	12	10	7	2	0	6	2	71	32	31	35	1	75.3	3.82	1.354	4.18	3.14	119.4	68.7	-0.6
1906	40	36	14	20	1	30	2	277	95	108	178	1	298.7	2.86	1.289	5.36	2.54	95.2	93.4	2.3
1907	32	24	6	17	1	17	1	195	61	77	108	0	233.7	2.35	1.164	4.16	2.51	103.5	103.2	2.1
1908	25	15	8	6	0	7	1	122	38	31	51	3	129.0	2.65	1.186	3.56	2.58	111.8	86.9	0.5
1909	24	18	10	9	0	13	2	135	44	50	82	0	165.0	2.40	1.121	4.47	2.29	91.0	105.0	1.7
1910	37	29	14	13	1	18	3	246	84	75	107	3	256.7	2.95	1.251	3.75	2.54	99.1	86.9	1.2
1911	15	13	8	5	1	7	0	117	39	24	46	0	106.7	3.29	1.322	3.88	2.81	83.2	102.7	1.0
1913	39	36	23	10	0	23	6	238	68	88	166	2	276.0	2.22	1.181	5.41	2.40	79.8	135.7	5.2
1914	49	43	25	16	3	33	9	332	93	89	236	5	377.3	2.22	1.116	5.63	2.38	74.3	144.5	8.0
1915	32	28	12	14	1	19	1	206	70	59	96	7	220.0	2.86	1.205	3.93	2.98	98.2	105.9	1.8
1917	15	8	2	6	0	4	0	86	30	26	35	1	80.7	3.35	1.388	3.90	2.40	88.2	81.3	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

332

857

771

117

RBI

273

.1518

OBP

.1966

SLG

.1803

OPS

.3769

Pitching

G (P)

330

266

474th-most career GS

130

376th-most career W

123

320th-most career L

180

172nd-most career CG

SHO

148th-most career SHO

2,275

317th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,164

418th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

690

402nd-most career BB allowed

ERA

2.682

78th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2220

229th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.60

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
1917-06-17	ATH @ CLE Gameday	4	1	2	1	1	0	0	5
1907-07-03	MIN @ BOS Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	0	2	4
1906-08-14	MIN @ CLE Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	0	0	4
1906-07-18	CWS @ MIN Gameday	2	1	1	0	0	1	4	4
1910-07-26	CLE @ ATH Gameday	4	0	3	0	0	0	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1907-08-08	CLE @ MIN Gameday	9.0	3	4	0	3	11
1913-08-19	MIN @ CLE Gameday	10.0	13	5	4	1	10
1906-09-06	ATH @ MIN Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	3	10
1909-08-31	NYY @ CLE Gameday	9.0	5	1	0	3	10
1913-08-29	CLE @ BAL Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	4	10

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.