MLB / Players

Ed Walsh

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 193 lb

BornMay 19, 1881 · Plains, PA, USA

MLB debutMay 7, 1904

Final gameSeptember 11, 1917

Seasons14 (1904–1917)

Chicago White Sox 1904–1916; Boston Braves 1917

Percentile snapshot

1912 season — qualified pitchers

100

97.7

12.6

100

97.7

SHO

96.6

332

14.9

13.8

254

97.7

20.7

393.0

100

ERA

2.15

90.8

WHIP

1.084

89.7

K/9

5.82

FIP

2.59

95.4

FIP-

81.0

94.3

ERA+

148.5

87.4

sWAR

9.1

97.7

of 88 qualified 1912 pitchers (min 158 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

145.1

sWAR

60.7

99.4

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
1904	18	45	41	5	9	1	1	1	4	3	10	1	0	.220	.273	.366	.639	103.1	105.5	.301	1.2
1905	29	64	58	5	9	2	0	0	2	4	20	0	0	.155	.222	.190	.412	39.4	35.0	.210	1.9
1906	42	106	99	12	14	3	2	0	4	3	28	0	0	.141	.175	.212	.387	19.0	23.2	.188	5.1
1907	57	156	154	7	25	8	2	1	10	0	44	2	0	.162	.168	.260	.427	31.7	39.6	.202	8.3
1908	66	174	157	10	27	7	1	1	10	7	38	2	0	.172	.217	.248	.465	51.2	53.8	.229	10.4
1909	32	91	84	5	18	5	0	0	11	6	26	4	0	.214	.267	.274	.540	74.0	75.6	.268	5.6
1910	52	148	138	12	30	3	3	0	4	5	32	5	0	.217	.245	.283	.527	63.6	69.2	.256	9.3
1911	63	163	158	23	34	3	0	0	9	1	29	0	0	.215	.225	.234	.459	27.6	30.8	.220	7.5
1912	62	154	136	12	33	4	1	0	12	14	41	0	1	.243	.313	.287	.600	78.9	75.5	.299	9.1
1913	17	34	32	1	5	1	0	0	2	1	7	0	0	.156	.182	.188	.369	0.3	9.4	.182	1.2
1914	10	18	16	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	4	0	0	.063	.118	.125	.243	-38.3	-25.9	.127	0.2
1915	5	12	11	0	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.364	.364	.364	.727	112.0	117.0	.353	0.9
1916	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1917	4	6	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	.250	.500	.250	.750	175.5	139.7	.410	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1904	18	8	6	3	1	6	1	90	32	32	57	1	110.7	2.60	1.102	4.64	2.54	102.6	95.2	1.2
1905	22	13	8	3	0	9	1	121	33	29	71	0	136.7	2.17	1.098	4.68	2.12	85.2	114.6	1.9
1906	41	31	17	13	2	24	10	215	58	58	171	1	278.3	1.88	.981	5.53	2.00	77.1	138.0	5.1
1907	56	46	24	18	4	37	5	341	75	87	206	3	422.3	1.60	1.013	4.39	2.13	88.6	150.6	8.3
1908	66	49	40	15	6	42	11	343	73	56	269	2	464.0	1.42	.860	5.22	1.57	68.0	162.7	10.4
1909	31	28	15	11	2	20	8	166	36	50	127	0	230.3	1.41	.938	4.96	1.89	81.0	165.6	5.6
1910	45	36	18	20	5	33	7	242	52	61	258	5	369.7	1.27	.820	6.28	1.56	65.0	189.1	9.3
1911	56	37	27	18	4	33	5	327	91	72	255	4	368.7	2.22	1.082	6.23	2.31	72.2	144.2	7.5
1912	62	41	27	17	10	32	6	332	94	94	254	6	393.0	2.15	1.084	5.82	2.59	81.0	148.5	9.1
1913	16	14	8	3	1	7	1	91	28	39	34	1	97.7	2.58	1.331	3.13	3.25	113.4	110.9	1.2
1914	8	5	2	3	0	3	1	33	14	20	15	0	44.7	2.82	1.187	3.02	3.08	116.2	94.0	0.2
1915	3	3	3	0	0	3	1	19	4	7	12	0	27.0	1.33	.963	4.00	2.26	76.8	221.0	0.9
1916	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	4	1	3	3	0	3.3	2.70	2.100	8.10	3.23	116.1	102.9	0.0
1917	4	3	0	1	0	1	0	22	7	9	4	0	18.0	3.50	1.722	2.00	3.60	141.0	73.0	0.0

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

459

1,171

1,088

210

RBI

282

.1930

OBP

.2305

SLG

.2546

OPS

.4851

Pitching

G (P)

430

315

311th-most career GS

195

133rd-most career W

126

298th-most career L

480th-most career SV

250

79th-most career CG

SHO

11th-most career SHO

2,964

145th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,736

141st-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

617

ERA

1.816

Lowest career ERA of all time

WHIP

.9996

3rd-lowest career WHIP

K/9

5.27

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
1907-04-13	CWS @ BAL Gameday	4	2	2	1	0	1	0	0	6
1907-09-24	CWS @ ATH Gameday	4	1	2	1	1	0	1	0	5
1906-08-18	CWS @ NYY Gameday	5	1	3	1	0	0	1	0	4
1911-08-20	MIN @ CWS Gameday	5	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	4
1912-05-17	CWS @ BOS Gameday	3	1	3	1	0	0	0	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	BB	SO
1910-08-11	BOS @ CWS Gameday	9.0	3	0	2	15
1908-10-02	CWS @ CLE Gameday	8.0	4	1	1	15
1910-05-01	DET @ CWS Gameday	15.0	8	3	1	13
1910-09-13	BAL @ CWS Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	13
1906-09-17	ATH @ CWS Gameday	11.0	11	4	2	12

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, 1946 (Old Timers)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.