MLB / Players

Ed Killian

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb

BornNovember 12, 1876 · Racine, WI, USA

MLB debutAugust 25, 1903

Final gameJuly 15, 1910

Seasons8 (1903–1910)

Cleveland Naps 1903; Detroit Tigers 1904–1910

Percentile snapshot

1909 season — qualified pitchers

28.6

41.7

57.1

54.8

40.5

SHO

48.8

150

70.2

76.2

61.9

26.2

173.3

34.5

ERA

1.71

86.9

WHIP

1.148

46.4

K/9

2.80

FIP

2.69

35.7

FIP-

105.2

33.3

ERA+

149.2

86.9

sWAR

3.5

71.4

of 85 qualified 1909 pitchers (min 158 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

109.8

72.2

sWAR

21.2

94.1

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1903	10	28	28	3	5	1	0	4	0	2	0	.179	.179	.214	.393	15.6	18.7	.180	0.8
1904	40	133	126	8	18	4	2	6	5	28	1	.143	.176	.206	.382	16.6	21.7	.184	3.3
1905	39	127	118	12	32	3	4	19	2	16	2	.271	.283	.364	.648	97.9	103.7	.306	5.5
1906	21	58	53	7	9	2	0	5	2	13	0	.170	.200	.208	.408	19.3	25.3	.200	0.1
1907	46	130	122	16	39	5	3	11	4	15	3	.320	.346	.410	.756	134.5	137.5	.364	7.7
1908	28	73	73	5	10	3	0	6	0	10	0	.137	.137	.178	.315	-11.7	0.8	.149	0.1
1909	25	67	62	4	10	0	0	0	2	14	0	.161	.188	.161	.349	-0.8	8.3	.175	3.5
1910	11	29	27	1	4	0	0	1	1	3	0	.148	.179	.148	.327	-9.6	-0.4	.165	0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1903	9	8	3	4	0	7	3	61	17	13	18	1	61.7	2.48	1.200	2.63	3.23	111.6	116.7	0.8
1904	40	34	15	20	0	32	4	293	90	93	124	0	331.7	2.44	1.164	3.36	2.75	108.4	103.9	3.3
1905	39	37	23	14	0	33	8	263	79	102	110	0	313.3	2.27	1.165	3.16	2.86	106.7	118.0	5.5
1906	21	16	10	6	2	14	0	165	57	54	47	0	149.7	3.43	1.463	2.83	3.03	108.8	81.3	0.1
1907	42	34	25	13	0	29	3	286	62	91	96	2	314.0	1.78	1.201	2.75	2.79	106.7	147.1	7.7
1908	27	23	12	9	1	15	0	170	60	53	47	3	180.7	2.99	1.234	2.34	2.96	120.5	82.2	0.1
1909	25	19	11	9	1	14	3	150	33	49	54	1	173.3	1.71	1.148	2.80	2.69	105.2	149.2	3.5
1910	11	9	4	3	0	5	1	75	25	27	20	2	74.0	3.04	1.378	2.43	3.40	127.6	87.6	0.2

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

220

645

609

127

RBI

101

.2085

OBP

.2300

SLG

.2677

OPS

.4977

Pitching

G (P)

214

180

103

149

230th-most career CG

SHO

218th-most career SHO

1,598

SO (P)

516

BB allowed

482

ERA

2.382

26th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2169

217th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

2.91

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	RBI	BB	TB
1905-09-23	DET @ MIN Gameday	4	0	3	1	1	0	0	6
1907-08-25	BOS @ DET Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	0	0	6
1907-08-21	BOS @ DET Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	1	1	5
1907-09-02	DET @ CWS Gameday	3	0	3	0	1	1	0	5
1905-06-29	DET @ CLE Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	0	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1904-08-12	MIN @ DET Gameday	9.0	6	2	1	3	10
1905-10-05	DET @ CLE Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	2	9
1904-07-22	DET @ MIN Gameday	13.0	8	0	0	0	7
1904-05-24	DET @ ATH Gameday	9.0	6	4	2	4	7
1904-07-14	DET @ BOS Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	1	7

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.