Ed Karger
Pittsburgh Pirates 1906; St. Louis Cardinals 1906–1908; Boston Red Sox 1909; Cincinnati Reds 1909; Boston Red Sox 1910–1911
Percentile snapshot
1910 season — qualified pitchers
of 90 qualified 1910 pitchers (min 158 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906 | 31 | 85 | 84 | 3 | 18 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .214 | .224 | .321 | .545 | 60.2 | 71.3 | .260 | 2.5 |
| 1907 | 39 | 120 | 112 | 9 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .179 | .207 | .250 | .457 | 32.6 | 43.0 | .224 | 5.1 |
| 1908 | 24 | 56 | 54 | 4 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 | .241 | .268 | .296 | .564 | 75.3 | 80.9 | .273 | 0.3 |
| 1909 | 21 | 41 | 35 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .171 | .275 | .229 | .504 | 62.4 | 59.2 | .263 | -0.3 |
| 1910 | 27 | 76 | 68 | 11 | 20 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .294 | .342 | .412 | .754 | 131.6 | 134.5 | .364 | 1.0 |
| 1911 | 25 | 54 | 47 | 4 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .234 | .308 | .362 | .669 | 85.4 | 86.6 | .323 | 1.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906 | 31 | 22 | 7 | 19 | 1 | 17 | 0 | 214 | 64 | 52 | 81 | 0 | 219.7 | 2.62 | 1.211 | 3.32 | 2.35 | 90.8 | 98.8 | 2.5 |
| 1907 | 39 | 32 | 15 | 19 | 1 | 29 | 6 | 257 | 71 | 65 | 137 | 2 | 314.0 | 2.04 | 1.025 | 3.93 | 1.94 | 78.7 | 121.2 | 5.1 |
| 1908 | 22 | 15 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 148 | 48 | 50 | 34 | 1 | 141.3 | 3.06 | 1.401 | 2.17 | 2.67 | 114.7 | 76.1 | 0.3 |
| 1909 | 21 | 11 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 97 | 41 | 52 | 25 | 0 | 102.3 | 3.61 | 1.456 | 2.20 | 3.42 | 134.5 | 70.4 | -0.3 |
| 1910 | 27 | 25 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 16 | 1 | 162 | 65 | 53 | 81 | 5 | 183.3 | 3.19 | 1.173 | 3.98 | 2.67 | 104.7 | 79.9 | 1.0 |
| 1911 | 25 | 18 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 134 | 49 | 42 | 57 | 4 | 131.0 | 3.37 | 1.344 | 3.92 | 3.49 | 104.9 | 99.0 | 1.5 |
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
Pitching
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 | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1907-06-19 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1910-07-21 | DET @ BOS Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1906-08-09 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1910-06-15 | BOS @ DET Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1911-08-01 | BAL @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1907-07-22 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 9.1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 0 |
| 1910-07-11 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
| 1906-07-24 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| 1907-04-20 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| 1907-08-08 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 9.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 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.