MLB / Players

Ed Head

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 175 lb

BornJanuary 25, 1918 · Selma, LA, USA

MLB debutJuly 27, 1940

Final gameAugust 25, 1946

Seasons5 (1940–1946)

Brooklyn Dodgers 1940; Brooklyn Dodgers 1942–1944; Brooklyn Dodgers 1946

Percentile snapshot

1943 season — qualified pitchers

100

38.2

39.2

40.2

97.1

27.5

SHO

71.6

166

29.4

36.3

71.6

23.5

169.7

ERA

3.66

32.4

WHIP

1.367

30.4

K/9

4.40

66.7

FIP

3.27

52.9

FIP-

96.0

52.9

ERA+

93.2

21.6

sWAR

0.9

26.5

of 103 qualified 1943 pitchers (min 153 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.9

79.1

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1940	14	11	11	2	2	0	2	0	2	0	.182	.182	.182	.364	-17.3	-1.1	.168	0.3
1942	36	46	39	4	13	1	6	3	9	1	.333	.381	.359	.740	119.5	116.7	.356	1.4
1943	47	56	46	4	7	0	3	1	7	0	.152	.170	.152	.322	-26.4	-7.2	.157	0.9
1944	9	25	19	3	5	0	1	2	5	0	.263	.333	.263	.596	71.6	69.1	.294	1.4
1946	13	17	16	2	5	1	1	1	2	0	.313	.353	.375	.728	105.6	106.4	.346	0.9

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1940	13	5	1	2	0	2	0	40	18	18	13	0	39.3	4.12	1.475	2.97	3.46	86.9	96.7	0.3
1942	36	15	10	6	4	5	1	118	54	47	78	11	136.7	3.56	1.207	5.14	3.29	98.9	93.5	1.4
1943	47	18	9	10	6	7	3	166	69	66	83	8	169.7	3.66	1.367	4.40	3.27	96.0	93.2	0.9
1944	9	8	4	3	0	5	1	54	19	19	17	2	63.3	2.70	1.153	2.42	3.30	91.2	134.2	1.4
1946	13	7	3	2	1	3	1	56	20	24	17	3	56.0	3.21	1.429	2.73	3.70	108.1	106.3	0.9

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

119

155

131

RBI

.2443

OBP

.2826

SLG

.2595

OPS

.5421

Pitching

G (P)

118

SHO

465

SO (P)

208

BB allowed

174

ERA

3.484

WHIP

1.3075

K/9

4.03

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	RBI	TB
1942-04-21	ATL @ LAD Gameday	5	1	2	1	2	3
1946-05-13	PHI @ LAD Gameday	4	2	2	1	0	3
1942-08-23	SF @ LAD Gameday	2	0	2	0	2	2
1943-08-29	LAD @ PHI Gameday	3	1	2	0	2	2
1946-06-01	LAD @ CIN Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1943-08-22	PIT @ LAD Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	2	10	0
1943-10-01	LAD @ CIN Gameday	11.0	9	1	1	1	8	0
1942-04-26	LAD @ PHI Gameday	9.0	10	2	2	2	8	1
1942-06-29	LAD @ PHI Gameday	6.2	6	3	3	5	8	0
1942-05-16	PIT @ LAD Gameday	9.0	2	1	1	4	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.