MLB / Players

Duane Pillette

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 3 in · 195 lb
BornJuly 24, 1922 · Detroit, MI, USA
MLB debutJuly 19, 1949
Final gameSeptember 16, 1956
Seasons8 (1949–1956)

New York Yankees 1949–1950; St. Louis Browns 1950–1953; Baltimore Orioles 1954–1955; Philadelphia Phillies 1956

Percentile snapshot

1954 season — qualified pitchers

G
25
0
GS
25
30.4
W
10
25
L
14
26.8
SV
0
0
CG
11
46.4
SHO
1
16.1
H
158
87.5
ER
62
94.6
BB
67
64.3
SO
66
12.5
HR
9
85.7
IP
179.0
28.6
ERA
3.12
71.4
WHIP
1.257
76.8
K/9
3.32
23.2
FIP
3.43
69.6
FIP-
93.7
51.8
ERA+
117.5
66.1
sWAR
2.8
53.6

of 57 qualified 1954 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
4.7
78.6

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19491215110000002200.000.154.000.154-54.8-57.2.1190.2
19503125222310002500.136.208.182.390-11.8-2.4.196-0.8
195141715938000161200.136.215.136.351-11.8-5.9.1850.1
1952357766712200741500.182.239.212.45213.723.6.2222.6
195331605347101451600.132.207.208.4143.211.6.2030.7
195425655357100351800.132.203.151.354-10.4-0.6.1812.8
19557760100001200.167.286.167.45236.928.2.242-0.4
195620110000000000.000.000.000.000-126.7-100.0.000-0.6

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
1949123240204318199637.34.341.6612.175.63136.495.00.2
195028735210113594722680.76.581.9832.454.96102.573.2-0.8
195135246140612051061156514191.04.991.6753.064.73109.586.50.1
19523030101309122282556214205.33.591.3492.723.5592.6106.72.6
1953312571305118183625816166.74.481.4583.134.27105.990.00.7
19542525101401111586267669179.03.121.2573.323.4393.7117.52.8
1955750300031151413020.76.532.1775.663.2085.557.3-0.4
19562000000032171210223.36.561.8863.864.03108.656.6-0.6

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

G
202
PA
321
AB
271
R
21
H
38
2B
5
3B
0
HR
1
RBI
15
BB
25
SO
70
SB
0
BA
.1402
OBP
.2148
SLG
.1697
OPS
.3845

Pitching

G (P)
188
GS
119
W
38
L
66
SV
2
CG
34
SHO
4
IP
904
SO (P)
305
BB allowed
391
ERA
4.400
WHIP
1.5221
K/9
3.04

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1953-06-27BAL @ ATH Gameday412001205
1952-05-01BAL @ BOS Gameday402100303
1952-09-28BAL @ CWS Gameday202100003
1952-05-25CLE @ BAL Gameday402000002
1954-09-06CLE @ BAL Gameday212000002

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1953-09-27CWS @ BAL Gameday11.0922081
1954-04-30BAL @ ATH Gameday8.0754580
1952-08-13BAL @ CLE Gameday9.0522071
1954-04-22CLE @ BAL Gameday9.0511460
1953-08-04BAL @ BOS Gameday7.2766360

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.