MLB / Players

Earl Whitehill

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 174 lb

BornFebruary 7, 1899 · Cedar Rapids, IA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 15, 1923

Final gameSeptember 30, 1939

Seasons17 (1923–1939)

Detroit Tigers 1923–1932; Washington Senators 1933–1936; Cleveland Indians 1937–1938; Chicago Cubs 1939

Percentile snapshot

1938 season — qualified pitchers

37.2

48.9

54.3

6.4

SHO

187

52.1

21.3

20.2

48.9

8.5

160.3

ERA

5.56

6.4

WHIP

1.684

3.2

K/9

3.37

36.2

FIP

5.55

3.2

FIP-

119.3

1.1

ERA+

83.7

6.4

sWAR

0.0

7.4

of 95 qualified 1938 pitchers (min 153 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

100.3

39.6

sWAR

36.3

97.5

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
1923	8	13	11	2	4	0	0	0	0	1	3	1	.364	.417	.364	.780	112.2	107.7	.378	0.9
1924	37	99	89	11	19	1	1	0	7	9	18	0	.213	.286	.247	.533	38.5	38.4	.265	3.2
1925	36	98	87	7	19	1	0	0	7	8	11	1	.218	.284	.230	.514	33.4	32.0	.256	1.6
1926	36	100	91	6	23	1	3	0	10	6	24	0	.253	.299	.330	.629	58.3	62.5	.297	3.2
1927	41	90	78	4	16	2	1	0	3	5	9	0	.205	.262	.256	.518	30.8	33.4	.250	4.5
1928	31	75	67	4	13	0	0	0	3	5	11	0	.194	.250	.194	.444	13.9	16.4	.220	1.5
1929	38	100	90	10	23	2	0	3	11	6	17	0	.256	.302	.378	.680	69.3	72.6	.311	2.1
1930	34	87	83	3	16	1	0	0	7	3	14	0	.193	.221	.205	.426	4.9	7.4	.200	3.0
1931	34	104	97	7	15	0	1	0	5	3	10	0	.155	.180	.175	.355	-14.1	-7.6	.169	3.4
1932	33	99	90	9	22	4	0	0	7	4	19	0	.244	.277	.289	.565	44.9	47.0	.263	2.4
1933	40	119	108	7	24	2	1	0	11	6	14	0	.222	.263	.259	.522	38.9	40.3	.248	5.3
1934	35	102	85	12	17	2	0	1	8	11	17	0	.200	.292	.259	.550	49.1	45.4	.272	2.2
1935	34	116	104	10	19	4	0	0	3	8	11	0	.183	.241	.221	.462	19.3	21.8	.225	2.8
1936	28	90	77	8	13	2	0	0	4	8	11	0	.169	.247	.195	.442	17.2	12.9	.222	2.0
1937	33	60	49	6	11	1	0	0	6	5	7	1	.224	.296	.245	.541	38.9	38.0	.264	-1.2
1938	26	63	56	0	7	0	0	0	6	7	13	0	.125	.222	.125	.347	-4.5	-9.5	.187	0.0
1939	24	31	29	1	3	0	0	0	0	2	7	0	.103	.161	.103	.265	-38.5	-27.7	.138	-0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1923	8	3	2	0	0	1	0	22	10	15	19	2	33.0	2.73	1.121	5.18	4.18	106.3	144.1	0.9
1924	35	32	17	9	0	16	2	260	100	79	65	8	233.0	3.86	1.455	2.51	4.20	99.5	109.2	3.2
1925	35	33	11	11	2	15	1	267	124	88	83	13	239.3	4.66	1.483	3.12	4.35	99.8	93.4	1.6
1926	36	34	16	13	0	13	0	271	112	79	109	7	252.3	3.99	1.387	3.89	3.45	84.5	102.3	3.2
1927	41	31	16	14	3	17	3	238	88	105	95	4	236.0	3.36	1.453	3.62	3.92	92.9	125.9	4.5
1928	31	30	11	16	0	12	1	214	94	78	93	8	196.3	4.31	1.487	4.26	3.82	92.1	96.3	1.5
1929	38	28	14	15	1	18	1	267	126	96	103	16	245.3	4.62	1.480	3.78	4.23	98.3	93.1	2.1
1930	34	31	17	13	1	16	0	248	104	80	109	8	220.7	4.24	1.486	4.45	4.13	86.7	112.4	3.0
1931	34	34	13	16	0	22	0	287	123	118	81	22	271.3	4.08	1.493	2.69	5.07	112.5	110.4	3.4
1932	33	31	16	12	0	17	3	255	123	93	81	17	244.0	4.54	1.426	2.99	4.57	102.6	98.2	2.4
1933	39	37	22	8	1	19	2	271	100	100	96	9	270.0	3.33	1.374	3.20	3.91	93.4	125.5	5.3
1934	32	31	14	11	0	15	0	269	118	94	96	10	235.0	4.52	1.545	3.68	4.13	95.0	96.1	2.2
1935	34	34	14	13	0	19	1	318	133	104	102	16	279.3	4.29	1.511	3.29	4.30	99.1	101.2	2.8
1936	28	28	14	11	0	14	0	252	115	89	63	17	212.3	4.87	1.606	2.67	5.22	108.3	98.9	2.0
1937	33	22	8	8	2	6	1	189	106	80	53	9	147.0	6.49	1.830	3.24	4.96	107.6	71.0	-1.2
1938	26	23	9	8	0	4	0	187	99	83	60	18	160.3	5.56	1.684	3.37	5.55	119.3	83.7	0.0
1939	24	11	4	7	1	2	1	102	51	50	42	8	89.3	5.14	1.701	4.23	4.88	124.0	76.6	-0.5

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

548

1,446

1,291

107

264

RBI

216

.2045

OBP

.2606

SLG

.2424

OPS

.5030

Pitching

G (P)

541

358th-most career G (P)

473

72nd-most career GS

218

85th-most career W

185

62nd-most career L

226

107th-most career CG

SHO

354th-most career SHO

3,565

67th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,350

305th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,431

16th-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.358

WHIP

1.5003

K/9

3.41

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	BB	TB
1929-04-21	DET @ BAL Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	3	1	6
1929-05-12	NYY @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	2	0	3	0	5
1934-04-17	MIN @ BOS Gameday	2	1	2	0	1	1	0	5
1932-08-06	MIN @ DET Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	0	4
1933-07-21	DET @ MIN Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1926-08-08	NYY @ DET Gameday	9.0	7	3	2	2	12	1
1930-08-14	DET @ NYY Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	2	11	1
1927-05-18	MIN @ DET Gameday	9.0	7	3	2	5	10	0
1937-05-10	BOS @ CLE Gameday	8.1	9	5	5	4	10	0
1929-05-17	CWS @ DET Gameday	9.0	14	6	4	1	8	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.