MLB / Players

Doc White

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 150 lb

BornApril 9, 1879 · Washington, DC, USA

MLB debutApril 22, 1901

Final gameOctober 4, 1913

Seasons13 (1901–1913)

Philadelphia Phillies 1901–1902; Chicago White Sox 1903–1913

Percentile snapshot

1912 season — qualified pitchers

42.5

29.9

28.7

51.7

19.5

SHO

33.3

172

66.7

65.5

72.4

18.4

80.5

172.0

33.3

ERA

3.24

40.2

WHIP

1.273

49.4

K/9

2.98

12.6

FIP

3.32

44.8

FIP-

103.9

26.4

ERA+

98.6

33.3

sWAR

1.5

26.4

of 88 qualified 1912 pitchers (min 158 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

112.4

77.4

sWAR

46.4

98.6

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
1901	31	108	98	15	27	3	1	1	10	2	12	1	.276	.297	.357	.654	84.0	87.0	.308	3.4
1902	61	199	179	17	47	3	1	1	15	11	23	5	.263	.305	.307	.613	88.6	89.3	.303	4.7
1903	38	120	99	10	20	3	0	0	5	19	22	1	.202	.331	.232	.563	87.9	75.0	.287	6.1
1904	33	88	76	7	12	2	0	0	2	10	19	3	.158	.256	.184	.440	51.0	43.5	.229	4.4
1905	37	98	90	7	15	4	1	0	7	4	23	3	.167	.202	.233	.435	40.5	42.2	.212	5.0
1906	29	85	65	11	12	1	1	0	3	13	10	3	.185	.321	.231	.551	89.4	76.7	.291	5.6
1907	48	114	90	12	20	1	0	0	2	12	16	2	.222	.314	.233	.547	87.6	79.6	.284	3.8
1908	51	130	109	12	25	1	0	0	10	12	7	4	.229	.306	.239	.544	85.8	80.5	.278	2.5
1909	72	238	192	24	45	1	5	0	7	33	27	7	.234	.347	.292	.638	115.4	107.7	.327	4.5
1910	56	152	126	14	25	1	2	0	8	14	22	2	.198	.279	.238	.517	69.4	66.0	.265	1.9
1911	39	89	78	12	20	1	1	0	6	7	6	1	.256	.318	.295	.613	77.2	74.8	.303	3.0
1912	32	65	56	5	7	1	1	0	0	7	7	0	.125	.222	.179	.401	26.1	17.4	.212	1.5
1913	20	30	25	1	3	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	.120	.214	.120	.334	3.2	-0.5	.186	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1901	31	27	14	13	0	22	0	241	84	56	132	2	236.7	3.19	1.255	5.02	2.82	83.0	106.3	3.4
1902	36	35	16	20	1	34	3	277	86	72	185	3	306.0	2.53	1.141	5.44	2.28	82.7	109.2	4.7
1903	37	36	17	16	0	29	3	258	71	69	114	4	300.0	2.13	1.090	3.42	3.02	106.7	132.9	6.1
1904	30	30	16	12	0	23	7	201	45	68	115	6	228.0	1.78	1.180	4.54	2.85	115.1	139.4	4.4
1905	36	33	17	13	0	25	4	204	51	58	120	2	260.3	1.76	1.006	4.15	2.41	96.7	141.3	5.0
1906	28	24	18	6	0	20	7	160	37	38	95	2	219.3	1.52	.903	3.90	2.32	89.5	170.5	5.6
1907	46	35	27	13	1	24	6	270	73	38	141	3	291.0	2.26	1.058	4.36	1.96	81.4	106.6	3.8
1908	41	37	18	13	0	24	5	262	84	69	126	3	296.0	2.55	1.118	3.83	2.32	100.8	90.2	2.5
1909	24	21	11	9	0	14	3	149	34	31	77	1	177.7	1.72	1.013	3.90	2.14	91.6	135.3	4.5
1910	33	29	15	13	1	20	2	219	70	50	111	2	236.7	2.66	1.137	4.22	2.21	92.2	89.9	1.9
1911	34	29	10	14	2	16	4	219	71	35	72	2	214.3	2.98	1.185	3.02	2.98	93.0	107.4	3.0
1912	32	19	8	10	0	9	1	172	62	47	57	1	172.0	3.24	1.273	2.98	3.32	103.9	98.6	1.5
1913	19	8	2	4	0	2	0	106	40	39	39	2	103.0	3.50	1.408	3.41	3.24	113.1	81.9	0.1

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

547

1,516

1,283

147

278

RBI

147

195

.2167

OBP

.2977

SLG

.2588

OPS

.5565

Pitching

G (P)

427

363

197th-most career GS

189

149th-most career W

156

142nd-most career L

262

67th-most career CG

SHO

29th-most career SHO

3,041

133rd-most career IP

SO (P)

1,384

288th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

670

432nd-most career BB allowed

ERA

2.391

27th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1207

38th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.10

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
1901-06-24	CIN @ PHI Gameday	6	3	4	0	0	1	2	7
1909-08-05	CWS @ ATH Gameday	3	1	3	0	1	0	0	5
1901-06-04	PHI @ PIT Gameday	4	0	3	1	0	0	2	4
1902-07-24	PHI @ ATL Gameday	4	0	3	1	0	0	1	4
1902-08-05	CHC @ PHI Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	0	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1905-06-09	CWS @ ATH Gameday	14.0	5	2	0	2	13
1902-09-01	CHC @ PHI Gameday	9.0	7	3	1	4	11
1909-07-24	ATH @ CWS Gameday	9.0	6	1	0	4	11
1907-06-07	CWS @ ATH Gameday	9.1	11	5	0	0	10
1902-09-06	CIN @ PHI Gameday	9.0	10	7	5	1	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.