MLB / Players

Duster Mails

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left
Listed at6 ft 0 in · 195 lb
BornOctober 1, 1894 · San Quentin, CA, USA
MLB debutSeptember 28, 1915
Final gameApril 29, 1926
Seasons7 (1915–1926)

Brooklyn Robins 1915–1916; Cleveland Indians 1920–1922; St. Louis Cardinals 1925–1926

Percentile snapshot

1921 season — qualified pitchers

G
34
49.5
GS
24
54.1
W
14
63.1
L
8
67.6
SV
2
72.1
CG
10
28.8
SHO
2
62.2
H
210
50.5
ER
85
49.5
BB
89
7.2
SO
87
73.9
HR
4
67.6
IP
194.3
50.5
ERA
3.94
46.8
WHIP
1.539
10.8
K/9
4.03
73
FIP
3.99
47.7
FIP-
92.7
72.1
ERA+
109.4
59.5
sWAR
2.3
50.5

of 112 qualified 1921 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
4.6
78.4

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
19152110000000000.000.000.000.000-126.7-100.0.0000.0
191611441100000200.250.250.250.50042.053.0.236-0.1
1920925203410002600.200.273.250.52338.638.6.2582.0
192134816456200493800.094.205.125.330-11.8-14.3.1812.3
192226343125110121400.161.212.258.47014.021.6.221-0.4
192521504536200331301.133.188.178.365-13.0-7.1.1770.8
192610000000000000.1

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19152001000625325.03.602.2005.409.36337.777.00.0
191611001000157913117.33.631.3856.753.11118.172.5-0.1
1920987006254131825163.31.851.1373.553.1782.9206.72.0
1921342414821022108589874194.33.941.5394.033.9992.7109.42.3
19222613470411226140548104.05.281.5584.674.18102.976.9-0.4
192521147709014567584911131.04.601.5503.374.94113.594.50.8
19261001000201101.00.003.0009.003.9199.70.1

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

G
104
PA
195
AB
165
R
14
H
22
2B
6
3B
1
HR
0
RBI
8
BB
16
SO
73
SB
0
BA
.1333
OBP
.2099
SLG
.1818
OPS
.3917

Pitching

G (P)
104
GS
59
W
32
L
25
SV
2
CG
29
SHO
5
IP
516
SO (P)
232
BB allowed
220
ERA
4.099
WHIP
1.5000
K/9
4.05

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
1925-07-08STL @ ATL Gameday412100203
1925-08-02SF @ STL Gameday402100003
1922-06-27BAL @ CLE Gameday101010103
1922-07-02CLE @ BAL Gameday302000002
1921-06-19DET @ CLE Gameday101100102

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1922-06-19NYY @ CLE Gameday8.06223101
1922-05-04CLE @ CWS Gameday9.01033370
1920-09-24CWS @ CLE Gameday9.0300560
1925-08-02SF @ STL Gameday9.0711160
1921-05-31CLE @ DET Gameday12.0844550

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.