MLB / Players

Dizzy Trout

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 195 lb

BornJune 29, 1915 · Sandcut, IN, USA

MLB debutApril 25, 1939

Final gameSeptember 11, 1957

Seasons15 (1939–1957)

Detroit Tigers 1939–1951; Boston Red Sox 1952; Detroit Tigers 1952; Baltimore Orioles 1957

Percentile snapshot

1952 season — qualified pitchers

3.3

21.7

26.7

1.7

SHO

163

81.7

66.7

23.3

93.3

160.7

ERA

3.92

28.3

WHIP

1.556

K/9

4.31

53.3

FIP

3.65

36.7

FIP-

94.4

46.7

ERA+

98.8

36.7

sWAR

1.4

28.3

of 61 qualified 1952 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

122.4

91.7

sWAR

53.7

99.1

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
1939	35	60	57	7	12	2	1	0	2	1	9	0	0	.211	.224	.281	.505	16.5	25.4	.230	3.6
1940	33	33	31	4	4	0	0	0	4	2	9	0	0	.129	.182	.129	.311	-30.4	-20.5	.156	1.1
1941	40	54	50	5	9	1	1	0	5	4	10	0	0	.180	.241	.240	.481	14.9	22.9	.231	2.8
1942	36	83	75	9	16	3	0	1	7	4	16	1	0	.213	.253	.293	.546	40.1	49.1	.260	3.7
1943	45	97	91	9	20	5	0	1	6	2	8	2	0	.220	.237	.308	.544	41.2	54.8	.255	5.7
1944	51	144	133	18	36	4	1	5	24	9	28	2	0	.271	.317	.429	.745	104.9	108.4	.347	10.9
1945	42	104	102	11	25	3	2	2	11	2	23	1	1	.245	.260	.373	.632	67.8	79.1	.294	4.0
1946	40	111	103	7	20	3	0	3	10	4	34	1	1	.194	.224	.311	.535	30.9	45.3	.247	7.5
1947	34	77	68	5	11	2	1	3	15	8	19	0	0	.162	.250	.353	.603	57.7	65.3	.283	2.8
1948	32	76	69	6	15	3	0	1	2	5	14	0	0	.217	.270	.304	.575	44.9	51.7	.274	3.8
1949	33	14	14	2	2	0	0	1	4	0	2	0	0	.143	.143	.357	.500	8.1	30.9	.218	0.4
1950	34	72	63	6	12	1	1	1	10	6	20	0	0	.190	.261	.286	.547	33.4	38.8	.261	3.7
1951	42	67	52	6	14	1	0	1	7	11	13	0	0	.269	.406	.346	.752	113.9	104.5	.370	2.6
1952	36	55	53	4	9	0	0	1	3	1	21	0	0	.170	.185	.226	.412	-8.8	11.2	.191	1.4
1957	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1939	33	22	9	10	2	6	0	168	65	74	72	5	162.0	3.61	1.494	4.00	4.09	84.7	133.8	3.6
1940	33	10	3	7	2	1	0	125	50	54	64	4	100.7	4.47	1.778	5.72	3.87	82.8	104.5	1.1
1941	37	18	9	9	2	6	1	144	63	84	88	7	151.7	3.74	1.503	5.22	3.90	87.4	119.5	2.8
1942	35	29	12	18	0	13	1	214	85	89	91	15	223.0	3.43	1.359	3.67	3.86	99.6	112.9	3.7
1943	44	30	20	12	6	18	5	204	68	101	111	6	246.7	2.48	1.236	4.05	2.99	86.4	139.6	5.7
1944	49	40	27	14	0	33	7	314	83	83	144	9	352.3	2.12	1.127	3.68	2.80	79.0	167.4	10.9
1945	41	31	18	15	2	18	4	252	86	79	97	8	246.3	3.14	1.344	3.54	3.04	86.8	111.3	4.0
1946	38	32	17	13	3	23	5	244	72	97	151	11	276.3	2.34	1.234	4.92	2.96	81.1	155.6	7.5
1947	32	26	10	11	2	9	2	186	72	65	74	6	186.3	3.48	1.347	3.57	3.14	83.6	108.1	2.8
1948	32	23	10	14	2	11	2	193	70	73	91	6	183.7	3.43	1.448	4.46	3.41	78.4	126.7	3.8
1949	33	0	3	6	3	0	0	68	29	21	19	2	59.3	4.40	1.500	2.88	3.35	80.7	94.4	0.4
1950	34	20	13	5	4	11	1	190	77	64	88	13	184.7	3.75	1.375	4.29	3.80	81.7	123.7	3.7
1951	42	22	9	14	5	7	0	172	86	75	89	13	191.7	4.04	1.289	4.18	3.72	90.0	102.4	2.6
1952	36	19	10	13	2	2	0	163	70	87	77	7	160.7	3.92	1.556	4.31	3.65	94.4	98.8	1.4
1957	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	3	0	0	0	0.3	81.00	12.000	0.00	2.40	67.5	4.4	-0.3

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

535

1,047

961

205

RBI

110

226

.2133

OBP

.2595

SLG

.3195

OPS

.5790

Pitching

G (P)

521

394th-most career G (P)

322

288th-most career GS

170

192nd-most career W

161

118th-most career L

480th-most career SV

158

204th-most career CG

SHO

135th-most career SHO

2,726

193rd-most career IP

SO (P)

1,256

357th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,046

99th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.233

276th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3527

K/9

4.15

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	HR	RBI	TB
1944-08-29	CWS @ DET Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	5	7
1944-08-06	DET @ CWS Gameday	4	1	2	1	1	2	6
1943-05-09	DET @ CWS Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	1	5
1942-08-02	BOS @ DET Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	3	5
1946-06-20	ATH @ DET Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	3	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1943-09-02	BAL @ DET Gameday	9.0	10	4	3	4	9	0
1944-05-30	NYY @ DET Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	0	9	1
1946-04-27	CLE @ DET Gameday	9.0	8	4	4	3	9	1
1946-08-07	DET @ BAL Gameday	8.0	6	3	2	4	9	0
1945-04-29	DET @ CLE Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	3	8	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.