Elam Vangilder
St. Louis Browns 1919–1927; Detroit Tigers 1928–1929
Percentile snapshot
1928 season — qualified pitchers
of 132 qualified 1928 pitchers (min 154 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1919 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .667 | .667 | .667 | 1.333 | 289.9 | 268.0 | .632 | 0.4 |
| 1920 | 24 | 32 | 30 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .133 | .188 | .133 | .321 | -20.8 | -15.4 | .165 | -1.0 |
| 1921 | 31 | 68 | 65 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .212 | .277 | .489 | 9.6 | 21.0 | .223 | 2.6 |
| 1922 | 45 | 110 | 93 | 16 | 32 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .344 | .396 | .559 | .955 | 142.3 | 143.5 | .430 | 5.7 |
| 1923 | 45 | 114 | 110 | 9 | 24 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 21 | 0 | 0 | .218 | .239 | .291 | .530 | 26.0 | 36.0 | .247 | 6.1 |
| 1924 | 43 | 47 | 44 | 7 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 1 | .295 | .340 | .477 | .818 | 103.5 | 108.4 | .375 | -0.3 |
| 1925 | 52 | 77 | 71 | 6 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .183 | .216 | .225 | .442 | 0.2 | 9.0 | .211 | 1.5 |
| 1926 | 42 | 67 | 58 | 5 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .190 | .254 | .276 | .530 | 27.2 | 34.1 | .255 | 0.1 |
| 1927 | 44 | 73 | 68 | 5 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .279 | .290 | .382 | .672 | 62.5 | 69.5 | .307 | 1.3 |
| 1928 | 38 | 59 | 58 | 4 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .259 | .259 | .362 | .621 | 50.6 | 59.3 | .279 | 2.1 |
| 1929 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -120.5 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1919 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 13.0 | 2.08 | 1.385 | 4.15 | 2.30 | 69.1 | 160.3 | 0.4 |
| 1920 | 24 | 13 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 131 | 64 | 40 | 25 | 7 | 104.7 | 5.50 | 1.634 | 2.15 | 4.52 | 115.5 | 71.1 | -1.0 |
| 1921 | 31 | 21 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 196 | 79 | 67 | 48 | 10 | 180.3 | 3.94 | 1.458 | 2.40 | 4.55 | 101.4 | 113.9 | 2.6 |
| 1922 | 43 | 30 | 19 | 13 | 4 | 19 | 3 | 248 | 93 | 48 | 63 | 13 | 245.0 | 3.42 | 1.208 | 2.31 | 3.78 | 91.5 | 121.0 | 5.7 |
| 1923 | 41 | 35 | 16 | 17 | 1 | 20 | 4 | 276 | 96 | 120 | 74 | 11 | 282.3 | 3.06 | 1.403 | 2.36 | 4.23 | 101.8 | 135.7 | 6.1 |
| 1924 | 43 | 18 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 183 | 91 | 55 | 49 | 10 | 145.3 | 5.64 | 1.638 | 3.03 | 4.67 | 109.4 | 75.7 | -0.3 |
| 1925 | 52 | 16 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 225 | 101 | 92 | 61 | 11 | 193.3 | 4.70 | 1.640 | 2.84 | 4.74 | 102.0 | 98.7 | 1.5 |
| 1926 | 42 | 19 | 9 | 11 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 196 | 104 | 98 | 40 | 12 | 181.0 | 5.17 | 1.624 | 1.99 | 5.00 | 117.1 | 82.5 | 0.1 |
| 1927 | 44 | 23 | 10 | 12 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 245 | 108 | 102 | 62 | 13 | 203.0 | 4.79 | 1.709 | 2.75 | 4.86 | 112.6 | 90.2 | 1.3 |
| 1928 | 38 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 163 | 68 | 67 | 43 | 4 | 156.3 | 3.91 | 1.471 | 2.48 | 4.16 | 100.2 | 105.9 | 2.1 |
| 1929 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 11.3 | 6.35 | 2.029 | 2.38 | 5.48 | 127.4 | 67.8 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1924-06-15 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1922-09-09 | DET @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1928-09-29 | NYY @ DET Gameday | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1922-04-19 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1927-06-13 | BAL @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1919-09-25 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 1923-05-12 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 1924-08-16 | BAL @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 1923-07-03 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 8.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| 1927-08-04 | BAL @ MIN Gameday | 8.0 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 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.