MLB / Players

Dutch Leonard

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 175 lb

BornMarch 25, 1909 · Auburn, IL, USA

MLB debutAugust 31, 1933

Final gameSeptember 25, 1953

Seasons20 (1933–1953)

Brooklyn Dodgers 1933–1936; Washington Senators 1938–1946; Philadelphia Phillies 1947–1948; Chicago Cubs 1949–1953

Percentile snapshot

1949 season — qualified pitchers

19.7

42.6

6.6

11.5

29.5

SHO

14.8

198

63.9

67.2

96.7

47.5

100

180.0

ERA

4.15

26.2

WHIP

1.339

62.3

K/9

4.15

67.2

FIP

2.73

100

FIP-

68.8

100

ERA+

95.6

19.7

sWAR

1.4

of 62 qualified 1949 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

119.9

89.3

sWAR

52.4

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1933	10	13	11	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.7	-100.0	.000	0.4
1934	44	72	67	3	12	3	1	4	0	16	0	.179	.179	.254	.433	6.0	16.4	.192	3.1
1935	43	41	39	1	1	1	0	2	1	9	0	.026	.050	.051	.101	-84.2	-72.5	.051	1.0
1936	16	6	5	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	.400	.400	.400	.800	114.8	114.5	.370	0.5
1938	33	86	82	10	19	3	2	5	2	12	0	.232	.250	.317	.567	39.7	45.1	.258	4.9
1939	34	109	95	2	21	3	0	2	1	12	0	.221	.229	.253	.482	16.8	23.5	.221	5.5
1940	35	110	101	6	16	0	0	4	1	11	0	.158	.167	.158	.325	-21.4	-12.7	.151	4.4
1941	34	100	88	1	9	2	0	8	1	13	0	.102	.112	.125	.237	-54.5	-37.3	.111	3.9
1942	6	12	10	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	0	.100	.182	.100	.282	-24.7	-19.8	.155	0.1
1943	31	80	67	0	7	0	0	3	2	10	1	.104	.130	.104	.235	-49.8	-30.3	.118	1.5
1944	32	88	79	6	18	1	0	1	4	10	0	.228	.265	.241	.506	42.7	48.1	.246	3.1
1945	31	87	78	9	18	2	0	9	1	5	0	.231	.241	.256	.497	37.6	49.3	.237	4.9
1946	26	60	53	2	9	0	0	7	2	17	0	.170	.200	.170	.370	-7.4	6.5	.180	1.1
1947	32	89	80	4	14	1	0	12	2	16	0	.175	.205	.188	.392	-3.7	6.1	.187	5.7
1948	34	86	83	1	12	0	1	4	0	22	0	.145	.155	.169	.323	-27.4	-11.8	.150	5.5
1949	33	63	59	4	12	1	0	5	2	15	0	.203	.230	.220	.450	13.7	22.3	.211	1.4
1950	35	17	16	0	1	0	0	0	0	5	0	.063	.063	.063	.125	-91.8	-67.0	.057	0.9
1951	41	22	21	1	0	0	0	1	0	5	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-133.4	-100.0	.000	1.8
1952	45	10	10	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	-6.6	10.2	.184	2.0
1953	45	10	10	0	3	1	0	2	0	1	0	.300	.300	.400	.700	72.0	78.0	.307	0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1933	10	3	2	3	0	2	0	42	13	10	6	0	40.0	2.93	1.300	1.35	3.02	92.8	111.2	0.4
1934	44	20	14	11	5	11	2	210	67	33	58	12	183.7	3.28	1.323	2.84	3.91	99.2	119.9	3.1
1935	43	11	2	9	8	4	0	152	60	29	41	11	137.7	3.92	1.315	2.68	4.12	103.8	101.1	1.0
1936	16	0	0	0	1	0	0	34	13	5	8	2	32.0	3.66	1.219	2.25	3.82	93.9	111.4	0.5
1938	33	31	12	15	0	15	3	221	85	53	68	11	223.3	3.43	1.227	2.74	3.95	87.2	132.4	4.9
1939	34	34	20	8	0	21	2	273	106	59	88	16	269.3	3.54	1.233	2.94	3.97	86.5	129.5	5.5
1940	35	35	14	19	0	23	2	328	112	78	124	19	289.0	3.49	1.405	3.86	3.75	90.8	118.5	4.4
1941	34	33	18	13	0	19	4	271	98	54	91	6	256.0	3.45	1.270	3.20	3.02	73.0	120.3	3.9
1942	6	5	2	2	0	1	1	28	16	5	15	1	35.0	4.11	.943	3.86	2.49	67.9	89.3	0.1
1943	31	30	11	13	1	15	2	218	80	46	51	9	219.7	3.28	1.202	2.09	3.10	95.8	98.7	1.5
1944	32	31	14	14	0	17	3	222	78	37	62	8	229.3	3.06	1.129	2.43	2.98	90.8	107.4	3.1
1945	31	29	17	7	1	12	4	208	51	35	96	5	216.0	2.13	1.125	4.00	2.37	75.4	147.7	4.9
1946	26	23	10	10	0	7	2	182	64	36	62	9	161.7	3.56	1.348	3.45	3.15	94.3	93.6	1.1
1947	32	29	17	12	0	19	3	224	70	57	103	14	235.0	2.68	1.196	3.94	3.22	81.1	148.2	5.7
1948	34	30	12	17	0	16	1	226	63	54	92	9	225.7	2.51	1.241	3.67	3.04	78.1	154.9	5.5
1949	33	28	7	16	0	10	1	198	83	43	83	4	180.0	4.15	1.339	4.15	2.73	68.8	95.6	1.4
1950	35	1	5	1	6	0	0	70	31	27	28	7	74.0	3.77	1.311	3.41	4.10	99.0	109.9	0.9
1951	41	1	10	6	3	0	0	69	24	28	30	3	81.7	2.64	1.188	3.31	3.23	79.8	152.7	1.8
1952	45	0	2	2	11	0	0	56	16	24	37	3	66.7	2.16	1.200	5.00	3.11	81.8	175.9	2.0
1953	45	0	2	3	8	0	0	72	32	24	27	9	62.7	4.60	1.532	3.88	4.82	109.4	95.8	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

640

1,161

1,054

177

RBI

183

.1679

OBP

.1849

SLG

.1926

OPS

.3775

Pitching

G (P)

640

185th-most career G (P)

374

176th-most career GS

191

147th-most career W

181

71st-most career L

415th-most career SV

192

149th-most career CG

SHO

111th-most career SHO

3,218

107th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,170

416th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

737

328th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.250

289th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2556

360th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.27

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	RBI	TB
1944-07-19	MIN @ DET Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	0	4
1938-05-09	BAL @ MIN Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	3	4
1934-07-12	CIN @ LAD Gameday	2	1	2	0	1	0	4
1938-07-10	ATH @ MIN Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	0	4
1945-06-06	NYY @ MIN Gameday	3	1	3	0	0	2	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1945-09-10	CWS @ MIN Gameday	9.0	10	4	4	2	10	0
1947-08-27	PIT @ PHI Gameday	9.0	5	3	2	0	9	0
1940-05-19	MIN @ CWS Gameday	9.0	15	10	9	4	8	3
1943-05-26	BAL @ MIN Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	1	8	0
1949-05-28	CIN @ CHC Gameday	11.0	8	2	2	2	7	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

5× 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.