Ed Walsh
Chicago White Sox 1928–1930; Chicago White Sox 1932
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1928 | 14 | 28 | 27 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .111 | .185 | .296 | -37.3 | -22.9 | .131 | -0.2 |
| 1929 | 25 | 48 | 43 | 5 | 10 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .233 | .298 | .326 | .623 | 60.1 | 60.9 | .292 | -0.5 |
| 1930 | 39 | 38 | 34 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .265 | .324 | .265 | .589 | 57.3 | 52.7 | .283 | 0.2 |
| 1932 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .286 | .286 | .571 | 48.7 | 51.9 | .263 | -0.6 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1928 | 14 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 86 | 43 | 42 | 32 | 2 | 78.0 | 4.96 | 1.641 | 3.69 | 4.35 | 109.3 | 80.3 | -0.2 |
| 1929 | 24 | 20 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 156 | 81 | 64 | 31 | 9 | 129.0 | 5.65 | 1.705 | 2.16 | 5.02 | 119.2 | 74.6 | -0.5 |
| 1930 | 37 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 131 | 62 | 30 | 37 | 8 | 103.7 | 5.38 | 1.553 | 3.21 | 4.72 | 103.5 | 84.8 | 0.2 |
| 1932 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 26 | 19 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 20.3 | 8.41 | 1.918 | 3.10 | 6.27 | 146.7 | 50.9 | -0.6 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1929-09-25 | CWS @ CLE Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1928-08-01 | BOS @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1929-06-20 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1929-09-09 | CWS @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1930-08-28 | CWS @ CLE Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1928-08-05 | NYY @ CWS Gameday | 9.0 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 0 |
| 1928-09-29 | ATH @ CWS Gameday | 7.0 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 1929-05-27 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 8.0 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 |
| 1928-07-14 | CWS @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 1929-06-15 | CWS @ MIN Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 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.