MLB / Players

Ed Holley

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 195 lb

BornJuly 23, 1899 · Benton, KY, USA

MLB debutMay 24, 1928

Final gameAugust 8, 1934

Seasons4 (1928–1934)

Chicago Cubs 1928; Philadelphia Phillies 1932–1934; Pittsburgh Pirates 1934

Percentile snapshot

1933 season — qualified pitchers

46.5

61.6

66.7

11.1

57.6

SHO

80.8

219

37.4

39.4

47.5

206.7

58.6

ERA

3.53

50.5

WHIP

1.360

36.4

K/9

2.44

18.2

FIP

4.25

27.3

FIP-

112.4

12.1

ERA+

107.1

48.5

sWAR

2.5

58.6

of 100 qualified 1933 pitchers (min 152 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

3.3

74.7

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1928	13	6	5	0	0	0	1	1	0	.000	.167	.000	.167	-43.6	-52.5	.126	0.3
1932	34	95	91	6	12	0	5	1	24	.132	.151	.132	.282	-47.8	-27.7	.133	2.8
1933	30	78	74	3	12	3	5	2	14	.162	.184	.203	.387	-15.5	3.7	.182	2.5
1934	21	26	26	1	7	2	2	0	5	.269	.269	.346	.615	43.9	56.7	.276	-2.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1928	13	1	0	0	0	0	31	13	16	10	1	31.0	3.77	1.516	2.90	4.29	110.5	102.8	0.3
1932	34	30	11	14	16	2	247	100	55	87	15	228.0	3.95	1.325	3.43	3.80	87.0	110.8	2.8
1933	30	28	13	15	12	3	219	81	62	56	18	206.7	3.53	1.360	2.44	4.25	112.4	107.1	2.5
1934	20	17	1	11	2	0	105	74	37	16	11	82.0	8.12	1.732	1.76	6.01	131.9	56.3	-2.3

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

205

196

RBI

.1582

OBP

.1791

SLG

.1837

OPS

.3628

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

548

SO (P)

169

BB allowed

170

ERA

4.404

WHIP

1.4096

K/9

2.78

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
1933-05-19	PHI @ CIN Gameday	3	0	3	1	1	4
1933-05-13	CHC @ PHI Gameday	3	1	2	0	2	2
1932-07-29	CIN @ PHI Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	2
1932-06-20	CHC @ PHI Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	2
1934-04-20	PHI @ LAD Gameday	2	0	2	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1932-04-17	PHI @ LAD Gameday	11.0	5	0	0	3	10	0
1932-09-09	STL @ PHI Gameday	12.0	11	2	2	2	6	1
1932-08-19	PHI @ STL Gameday	10.0	13	5	5	2	6	1
1932-05-02	ATL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	1	5	1
1932-05-17	PHI @ CHC Gameday	6.1	12	7	4	2	5	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.