MLB / Players

Elden Auker

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 194 lb

BornSeptember 21, 1910 · Norcatur, KS, USA

MLB debutAugust 10, 1933

Final gameSeptember 20, 1942

Seasons10 (1933–1942)

Detroit Tigers 1933–1938; Boston Red Sox 1939; St. Louis Browns 1940–1942

Percentile snapshot

1942 season — qualified pitchers

77.8

95.4

79.6

19.4

81.5

SHO

67.6

273

1.9

113

3.7

57.4

4.6

249.0

91.7

ERA

4.08

23.1

WHIP

1.442

21.3

K/9

2.24

7.4

FIP

3.96

23.1

FIP-

106.4

28.7

ERA+

91.1

31.5

sWAR

1.3

of 109 qualified 1942 pitchers (min 151 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

101.4

43.7

sWAR

21.0

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1933	15	18	17	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	5	0	.118	.118	.118	.235	-48.7	-37.7	.109	-0.1
1934	43	85	74	3	11	2	0	0	8	4	28	0	.149	.192	.176	.368	-7.6	-3.7	.180	3.9
1935	36	80	74	8	16	3	2	0	8	2	17	0	.216	.237	.311	.548	36.3	43.7	.250	2.9
1936	35	93	78	7	24	1	2	0	15	7	24	0	.308	.372	.372	.744	86.9	84.7	.350	3.0
1937	43	105	91	14	18	4	2	3	16	8	36	0	.198	.263	.385	.647	54.5	60.5	.291	4.9
1938	27	65	57	6	5	0	0	0	2	4	24	1	.088	.161	.088	.249	-42.9	-37.5	.136	0.9
1939	31	57	53	6	12	1	0	2	3	1	14	0	.226	.241	.358	.599	41.2	49.5	.267	0.7
1940	38	99	89	11	19	2	1	1	10	9	29	0	.213	.286	.292	.578	46.1	47.8	.272	4.5
1941	37	86	80	8	10	1	1	0	5	3	27	1	.125	.157	.163	.319	-31.5	-17.0	.153	-1.0
1942	51	96	87	9	14	1	1	0	4	3	28	0	.161	.189	.195	.384	-5.6	7.2	.185	1.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1933	15	6	3	3	0	2	1	63	32	25	17	3	55.0	5.24	1.600	2.78	4.59	106.9	82.1	-0.1
1934	43	18	15	7	1	10	2	234	78	56	86	9	205.0	3.42	1.415	3.78	3.75	84.9	129.0	3.9
1935	36	25	18	7	0	13	2	213	83	61	63	13	195.0	3.83	1.405	2.91	4.39	102.9	111.3	2.9
1936	35	31	13	16	0	14	2	263	117	83	66	11	215.3	4.89	1.607	2.76	4.74	94.6	102.4	3.0
1937	39	32	17	9	1	19	1	250	109	97	73	13	252.7	3.88	1.373	2.60	4.44	95.5	119.8	4.9
1938	27	24	11	10	0	12	1	184	94	56	46	14	160.7	5.27	1.494	2.58	4.81	95.6	95.6	0.9
1939	31	25	9	10	0	6	1	183	90	61	43	13	151.0	5.36	1.616	2.56	4.92	104.0	88.2	0.7
1940	38	35	16	11	0	20	2	299	116	96	78	17	263.7	3.96	1.498	2.66	4.30	95.0	114.2	4.5
1941	34	31	14	15	0	13	0	268	132	85	60	20	216.0	5.50	1.634	2.50	4.63	107.6	78.2	-1.0
1942	35	34	14	13	0	17	2	273	113	86	62	16	249.0	4.08	1.442	2.24	3.96	106.4	91.1	1.3

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

356

784

700

131

RBI

232

.1871

OBP

.2342

SLG

.2600

OPS

.4942

Pitching

G (P)

333

261

493rd-most career GS

130

376th-most career W

101

126

308th-most career CG

SHO

436th-most career SHO

1,963

469th-most career IP

SO (P)

594

BB allowed

706

381st-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.419

WHIP

1.4954

K/9

2.72

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	TB
1937-08-14	BAL @ DET Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	5	8
1937-07-16	NYY @ DET Gameday	2	1	2	1	0	1	3	6
1936-08-18	DET @ BAL Gameday	6	1	3	0	1	0	3	5
1936-07-18	DET @ BOS Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	0	1	4
1936-09-22	BAL @ DET Gameday	5	1	2	0	1	0	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1940-09-11	ATH @ BAL Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	3	8	0
1934-08-11	CLE @ DET Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	1	7	0
1941-08-24	MIN @ BAL Gameday	10.0	6	3	3	3	6	1
1940-05-24	CLE @ BAL Gameday	9.0	9	3	3	2	6	1
1934-06-09	CWS @ DET Gameday	7.0	3	0	0	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.