Earl Caldwell

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 178 lb

BornApril 9, 1905 · Sparks, TX, USA

MLB debutSeptember 8, 1928

Final gameSeptember 15, 1948

Seasons8 (1928–1948)

Philadelphia Phillies 1928; St. Louis Browns 1935–1937; Chicago White Sox 1945–1947; Boston Red Sox 1948; Chicago White Sox 1948

Percentile snapshot

1936 season — qualified pitchers

48.9

26.7

6.7

66.7

52.2

SHO

71.1

252

25.6

126

8.9

24.4

41.1

23.3

189.0

48.9

ERA

6.00

4.4

WHIP

1.772

3.3

K/9

2.81

21.1

FIP

5.45

6.7

FIP-

102.9

ERA+

88.3

13.3

sWAR

0.5

of 91 qualified 1936 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

3.3

74.8

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1928	5	10	9	1	1	1	0	2	0	1	.111	.111	.222	.333	-41.1	-17.7	.145	-0.3
1935	6	13	11	1	2	0	0	0	1	5	.182	.250	.182	.432	6.8	10.2	.218	0.7
1936	41	62	58	5	11	1	1	6	0	16	.190	.190	.259	.448	-4.3	6.9	.201	0.5
1937	9	10	9	1	2	1	0	1	0	4	.222	.222	.333	.556	23.9	35.8	.245	-0.3
1945	27	40	37	4	8	1	0	4	0	8	.216	.216	.243	.459	18.7	34.7	.217	0.6
1946	39	25	18	2	3	0	0	2	5	4	.167	.348	.167	.514	66.0	49.2	.286	2.5
1947	40	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-133.5	-100.0	.000	0.4
1948	33	10	8	0	1	0	0	1	2	4	.125	.300	.125	.425	29.9	8.9	.248	-0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1928	5	5	1	4	0	1	1	46	22	17	6	5	34.7	5.71	1.817	1.56	5.77	135.5	74.6	-0.3
1935	6	5	3	2	0	2	1	34	15	17	5	2	36.7	3.68	1.391	1.23	4.92	104.7	127.6	0.7
1936	41	25	7	16	2	10	2	252	126	83	59	15	189.0	6.00	1.772	2.81	5.45	102.9	88.3	0.5
1937	9	2	0	0	0	0	0	39	22	13	8	3	29.0	6.83	1.793	2.48	5.47	114.7	69.9	-0.3
1945	27	11	6	7	4	5	1	108	42	37	45	8	105.3	3.59	1.377	3.84	3.71	112.8	91.8	0.6
1946	39	0	13	4	8	0	0	60	21	29	42	2	90.7	2.08	.982	4.17	2.80	82.4	163.0	2.5
1947	40	0	1	4	8	0	0	53	22	30	22	4	54.3	3.64	1.528	3.64	4.28	118.9	98.9	0.4
1948	33	1	2	6	3	0	0	64	36	33	15	5	48.0	6.75	2.021	2.81	5.73	134.4	62.9	-0.8

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

200

178

157

RBI

.1783

OBP

.2182

SLG

.2229

OPS

.4411

Pitching

G (P)

200

SHO

588

SO (P)

202

BB allowed

259

ERA

4.686

WHIP

1.5570

K/9

3.09

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
1936-06-06	BAL @ ATH Gameday	4	1	2	1	1	2	6
1936-07-01	CLE @ BAL Gameday	4	0	3	0	0	2	3
1945-09-10	CWS @ MIN Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	2	3
1945-06-30	NYY @ CWS Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	2
1936-07-16	BAL @ BOS Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1945-08-08	MIN @ CWS Gameday	9.0	8	3	3	5	7	0
1936-07-01	CLE @ BAL Gameday	9.0	14	5	4	3	6	0
1945-08-03	DET @ CWS Gameday	9.0	7	0	0	2	6	0
1936-08-28	BAL @ BOS Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	2	5	0
1945-09-05	CWS @ ATH Gameday	8.2	11	4	3	2	5	1

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.