MLB / Players

Eddie Cicotte

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 175 lb

BornJune 19, 1884 · Springwells, MI, USA

MLB debutSeptember 3, 1905

Final gameSeptember 26, 1920

Seasons14 (1905–1920)

Detroit Tigers 1905; Boston Red Sox 1908–1912; Chicago White Sox 1912–1920

Percentile snapshot

1920 season — qualified pitchers

56.9

87.2

89.9

52.3

70.6

96.3

SHO

85.3

316

2.8

110

6.4

26.6

71.6

29.4

303.3

93.6

ERA

3.26

40.4

WHIP

1.286

43.1

K/9

2.58

18.3

FIP

3.33

FIP-

88.7

ERA+

115.2

57.8

sWAR

4.4

87.2

of 110 qualified 1920 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

122.6

92.1

sWAR

53.8

99.1

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
1905	3	7	7	1	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	.429	.429	.429	.857	167.9	170.4	.408	0.1
1908	40	75	72	10	17	2	1	6	3	13	1	.236	.267	.292	.558	75.4	79.3	.271	2.4
1909	27	61	51	4	12	0	0	1	7	14	2	.235	.328	.235	.563	83.8	76.5	.293	3.2
1910	36	98	85	9	12	3	0	4	8	22	0	.141	.223	.176	.400	26.1	24.6	.211	1.7
1911	35	84	71	7	10	1	0	3	8	20	0	.141	.228	.155	.383	14.3	7.6	.204	3.2
1912	29	75	66	11	15	2	0	4	6	14	0	.227	.292	.258	.549	63.2	58.4	.275	1.5
1913	41	99	91	7	13	2	0	2	4	16	0	.143	.179	.165	.344	-5.5	1.9	.173	6.6
1914	45	95	86	5	14	2	0	4	3	18	0	.163	.191	.186	.377	3.8	15.1	.188	4.6
1915	40	84	67	10	14	1	0	4	7	16	0	.209	.284	.224	.508	53.4	51.5	.263	2.1
1916	44	70	57	6	12	2	0	4	4	16	0	.211	.274	.246	.520	54.7	57.6	.264	4.4
1917	49	133	112	6	20	2	0	8	12	23	1	.179	.264	.196	.460	41.4	40.2	.242	8.6
1918	38	99	86	6	14	5	1	4	12	12	0	.163	.265	.244	.509	53.6	54.0	.265	2.8
1919	40	119	99	5	20	0	1	8	9	18	0	.202	.269	.222	.491	37.0	38.9	.247	8.2
1920	37	121	112	10	22	2	0	6	5	10	2	.196	.231	.214	.445	14.4	18.9	.216	4.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1905	3	1	1	1	0	1	0	25	7	5	6	0	18.0	3.50	1.667	3.00	2.63	98.1	76.5	0.1
1908	39	24	11	12	2	17	2	198	56	59	95	0	207.3	2.43	1.240	4.12	2.35	96.1	100.5	2.4
1909	27	17	14	5	1	10	1	117	35	56	82	3	162.3	1.94	1.066	4.55	2.57	102.3	129.5	3.2
1910	36	30	15	11	0	20	3	213	76	86	104	4	250.0	2.74	1.196	3.74	2.81	110.3	93.2	1.7
1911	35	25	11	15	0	16	1	236	69	73	106	2	220.0	2.82	1.405	4.34	3.12	93.6	118.0	3.2
1912	29	24	10	10	0	15	1	217	77	52	90	3	198.0	3.50	1.359	4.09	3.04	93.9	92.5	1.5
1913	41	30	18	12	1	18	3	224	47	73	121	2	268.0	1.58	1.108	4.06	2.52	88.1	181.3	6.6
1914	45	30	11	16	3	15	4	220	61	72	122	0	269.3	2.04	1.084	4.08	2.27	85.6	130.1	4.6
1915	39	26	13	12	3	15	1	216	75	48	106	2	223.3	3.02	1.182	4.27	2.27	77.0	97.5	2.1
1916	44	19	15	7	5	11	2	138	37	70	91	1	187.0	1.78	1.112	4.38	2.56	92.2	156.0	4.4
1917	49	35	28	12	4	29	7	246	59	70	150	2	346.7	1.53	.912	3.89	1.98	74.1	174.7	8.6
1918	38	30	12	19	2	24	1	275	82	40	104	2	266.0	2.77	1.184	3.52	1.95	70.9	99.1	2.8
1919	40	35	29	7	1	30	5	256	62	49	110	5	306.7	1.82	.995	3.23	2.52	79.1	175.4	8.2
1920	37	35	21	10	2	28	4	316	110	74	87	6	303.3	3.26	1.286	2.58	3.33	88.7	115.2	4.4

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

504

1,220

1,062

198

RBI

212

.1864

OBP

.2507

SLG

.2147

OPS

.4654

Pitching

G (P)

502

438th-most career G (P)

361

200th-most career GS

209

103rd-most career W

149

175th-most career L

249

81st-most career CG

SHO

71st-most career SHO

3,226

104th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,374

294th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

827

230th-most career BB allowed

ERA

2.380

24th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1544

85th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.83

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	BB	TB
1914-09-14	CWS @ BAL Gameday	5	1	3	1	0	0	4
1915-06-09	CWS @ NYY Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	0	4
1908-08-02	BOS @ DET Gameday	4	2	2	2	1	1	4
1912-08-27	CWS @ BOS Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	0	3
1915-07-11	MIN @ CWS Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1915-07-23	NYY @ CWS Gameday	9.0	5	2	2	1	11
1908-06-23	MIN @ BOS Gameday	11.0	7	2	0	2	9
1912-09-07	CLE @ CWS Gameday	9.0	6	3	0	0	9
1917-05-13	NYY @ CWS Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	1	9
1908-10-07	ATH @ BOS Gameday	9.0	7	1	0	2	8

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.