Early Wynn

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 190 lb

BornJanuary 6, 1920 · Hartford, AL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 13, 1939

Final gameSeptember 13, 1963

Seasons23 (1939–1963)

Washington Senators 1939; Washington Senators 1941–1944; Washington Senators 1946–1948; Cleveland Indians 1949–1957; Chicago White Sox 1958–1962; Cleveland Indians 1963

Percentile snapshot

1962 season — qualified pitchers

19.4

13.4

58.2

SHO

76.1

171

83.6

62.7

85.1

11.9

85.1

167.7

1.5

ERA

4.46

13.4

WHIP

1.354

35.8

K/9

4.88

34.3

FIP

3.65

56.7

FIP-

93.5

52.2

ERA+

87.6

10.4

sWAR

0.6

of 68 qualified 1962 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

106.6

63.3

sWAR

63.5

99.5

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
1939	3	8	6	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	.167	.286	.167	.452	27.9	18.8	.240	0.0
1941	5	16	15	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	5	0	.133	.133	.200	.333	-30.2	-12.8	.149	1.5
1942	30	74	69	4	15	2	0	0	7	3	13	0	.217	.250	.246	.496	31.8	39.5	.239	-1.2
1943	38	100	98	6	29	3	1	1	11	1	11	0	.296	.303	.378	.681	93.2	100.5	.318	4.3
1944	43	95	92	4	19	2	0	1	6	3	21	0	.207	.232	.261	.492	34.2	43.6	.234	2.0
1946	25	52	47	4	15	2	0	1	9	5	7	0	.319	.385	.426	.810	134.2	131.7	.379	2.0
1947	54	121	120	6	33	6	0	2	13	1	19	0	.275	.281	.375	.656	72.7	82.4	.301	3.3
1948	73	120	106	9	23	3	1	0	16	14	22	0	.217	.308	.264	.572	55.1	54.0	.286	-1.7
1949	35	76	70	3	10	1	0	1	7	4	10	0	.143	.189	.200	.389	-6.2	5.3	.191	1.2
1950	39	91	77	12	18	5	1	2	10	10	12	0	.234	.322	.403	.724	87.0	89.6	.336	5.3
1951	41	118	108	8	20	8	1	1	13	7	9	0	.185	.235	.306	.540	43.5	50.3	.252	5.4
1952	44	112	99	5	22	2	0	0	10	9	15	0	.222	.287	.242	.529	51.8	53.8	.260	5.0
1953	37	104	91	11	25	2	0	3	10	7	17	0	.275	.327	.396	.722	96.1	98.8	.333	2.9
1954	40	105	93	10	17	3	0	0	4	7	13	0	.183	.240	.215	.455	18.4	26.6	.223	5.8
1955	34	92	84	8	15	3	0	1	7	6	17	0	.179	.233	.250	.483	24.7	30.4	.233	5.5
1956	38	113	101	5	23	5	0	1	15	7	22	1	.228	.278	.307	.585	51.0	54.3	.275	7.6
1957	40	101	86	4	10	0	0	0	4	11	23	0	.116	.214	.116	.331	-7.7	-6.2	.179	0.6
1958	40	88	75	7	15	1	0	0	11	10	25	0	.200	.291	.213	.504	47.7	44.1	.251	1.3
1959	37	103	90	11	22	7	0	2	8	9	18	0	.244	.317	.389	.706	96.5	95.8	.323	5.2
1960	36	97	75	8	15	2	1	1	7	14	17	0	.200	.330	.293	.623	79.4	72.1	.304	3.9
1961	17	41	37	4	6	0	0	0	2	3	11	0	.162	.225	.162	.387	4.9	7.1	.193	1.6
1962	27	63	54	5	7	1	0	0	2	7	17	0	.130	.230	.148	.378	7.3	5.5	.196	0.6
1963	20	13	11	1	3	0	0	0	0	2	5	0	.273	.385	.273	.657	101.2	89.2	.323	1.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1939	3	3	0	2	0	1	0	26	13	10	1	0	20.3	5.75	1.770	0.44	4.51	98.4	79.7	0.0
1941	5	5	3	1	0	4	0	35	7	10	15	1	40.0	1.58	1.125	3.38	3.09	74.5	263.1	1.5
1942	30	28	10	16	0	10	1	246	108	73	58	6	190.0	5.12	1.679	2.75	3.55	96.6	71.8	-1.2
1943	37	33	18	12	0	12	3	232	83	83	89	15	256.7	2.91	1.227	3.12	3.40	105.0	111.1	4.3
1944	33	25	8	17	2	19	2	221	78	67	65	3	207.7	3.38	1.387	2.82	3.11	94.5	97.3	2.0
1946	17	12	8	5	0	9	0	112	37	33	36	8	107.0	3.11	1.355	3.03	3.76	112.6	107.2	2.0
1947	33	31	17	15	0	22	2	251	100	90	73	13	247.0	3.64	1.381	2.66	3.67	100.2	100.6	3.3
1948	33	31	8	19	0	15	1	236	128	94	49	18	198.0	5.82	1.667	2.23	4.87	114.9	72.9	-1.7
1949	26	23	11	7	0	6	0	186	76	57	62	8	164.7	4.15	1.476	3.39	3.43	85.3	96.7	1.2
1950	32	28	18	8	0	14	2	166	76	101	143	20	213.7	3.20	1.250	6.02	4.07	93.8	135.4	5.3
1951	37	34	20	13	1	21	3	227	92	107	133	18	274.3	3.02	1.217	4.36	3.66	95.2	127.6	5.4
1952	42	33	23	12	3	19	4	239	92	132	153	23	285.7	2.90	1.299	4.82	3.74	109.4	117.8	5.0
1953	36	34	17	12	0	16	1	234	110	107	138	19	251.7	3.93	1.355	4.94	3.77	99.0	96.9	2.9
1954	40	36	23	11	2	20	3	225	82	83	155	21	270.7	2.73	1.138	5.15	3.16	86.0	134.9	5.8
1955	32	31	17	11	0	16	6	207	72	80	122	19	230.0	2.82	1.248	4.77	3.52	88.8	140.9	5.5
1956	38	35	20	9	2	18	4	233	84	91	158	19	277.7	2.72	1.167	5.12	3.29	78.7	153.8	7.6
1957	40	37	14	17	1	13	1	270	126	104	184	32	263.0	4.31	1.422	6.30	3.83	102.2	86.8	0.6
1958	40	34	14	16	2	11	4	214	110	104	179	27	239.7	4.13	1.327	6.72	3.79	104.1	88.2	1.3
1959	37	37	22	10	0	14	5	202	90	119	179	20	255.7	3.17	1.256	6.30	3.58	95.1	118.9	5.2
1960	36	35	13	12	1	13	4	220	92	112	158	20	237.3	3.49	1.399	5.99	3.63	95.5	109.1	3.9
1961	17	16	8	2	0	5	0	88	43	47	64	11	110.3	3.51	1.224	5.22	3.94	100.3	112.2	1.6
1962	27	26	7	15	0	11	3	171	83	56	91	15	167.7	4.46	1.354	4.88	3.65	93.5	87.6	0.6
1963	20	5	1	2	1	1	0	50	14	15	29	2	55.3	2.28	1.175	4.72	2.70	74.5	158.8	1.6

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

796

1,903

1,704

136

365

RBI

173

141

330

.2142

OBP

.2744

SLG

.2846

OPS

.5590

Pitching

G (P)

691

136th-most career G (P)

612

19th-most career GS

300

23rd-most career W

244

14th-most career L

290

48th-most career CG

SHO

21st-most career SHO

4,564

22nd-most career IP

SO (P)

2,334

55th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,775

4th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.542

479th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3291

K/9

4.60

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
1947-08-17	ATH @ MIN Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	1	7
1959-06-14	CWS @ BAL Gameday	5	3	4	2	0	1	6
1959-05-01	BOS @ CWS Gameday	3	1	2	1	1	1	6
1944-06-03	MIN @ CWS Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	2	5
1949-07-17	BOS @ CLE Gameday	3	2	2	0	1	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1959-05-01	BOS @ CWS Gameday	9.0	1	0	0	7	14	0
1952-07-29	BOS @ CLE Gameday	9.0	8	1	1	3	12	0
1954-09-12	NYY @ CLE Gameday	9.0	3	2	2	2	12	1
1950-07-06	CWS @ CLE Gameday	9.0	4	2	2	7	11	0
1958-07-18	CWS @ MIN Gameday	9.0	4	2	0	3	11	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

Hall of Fame, 1972 (BBWAA)

1× Cy Young Award7× 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.