Elmer Knetzer

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 180 lb

BornJuly 22, 1885 · Carrick, PA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 11, 1909

Final gameJune 18, 1917

Seasons8 (1909–1917)

Brooklyn Superbas 1909–1910; Brooklyn Dodgers 1911–1912; Pittsburgh Rebels 1914–1915; Boston Braves 1916; Cincinnati Reds 1916–1917

Percentile snapshot

1916 season — qualified pitchers

54.4

18.9

12.2

21.1

33.3

51.1

SHO

172

56.7

52.2

63.3

35.6

8.9

176.3

37.8

ERA

3.01

24.4

WHIP

1.259

34.4

K/9

3.67

35.6

FIP

2.83

38.9

FIP-

108.5

ERA+

86.7

15.6

sWAR

0.6

15.6

of 91 qualified 1916 pitchers (min 158 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

96.8

25.3

sWAR

8.5

85.1

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
1909	5	12	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-117.1	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1910	20	47	38	5	2	0	0	0	4	16	1	.053	.182	.053	.234	-20.3	-30.1	.150	0.6
1911	35	70	62	2	6	0	1	1	2	34	0	.097	.138	.129	.267	-26.4	-23.6	.136	1.1
1912	33	46	37	2	5	0	0	2	4	14	0	.135	.238	.135	.373	12.0	4.0	.204	-0.6
1914	37	101	91	6	9	1	0	3	1	35	0	.099	.109	.110	.219	-51.7	-37.8	.105	2.9
1915	41	101	91	8	12	1	0	2	1	27	0	.132	.151	.143	.293	-26.9	-13.6	.144	3.7
1916	39	57	52	0	8	0	1	2	0	18	0	.154	.170	.192	.362	-4.2	5.9	.172	0.6
1917	11	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.6	-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
1909	5	4	1	3	0	3	0	33	12	22	7	2	35.7	3.03	1.542	1.77	4.33	171.8	83.3	-0.1
1910	20	15	7	5	0	10	3	122	47	60	56	1	132.7	3.19	1.372	3.80	3.01	102.2	92.5	0.6
1911	35	20	11	12	0	11	3	202	79	93	66	1	204.0	3.49	1.446	2.91	3.42	104.6	93.9	1.1
1912	33	16	7	9	0	4	1	135	71	70	61	6	140.3	4.55	1.461	3.91	4.02	119.6	73.7	-0.6
1914	37	30	20	12	1	20	3	257	87	88	146	9	272.0	2.88	1.268	4.83	3.06	95.5	111.3	2.9
1915	41	33	18	14	3	22	3	256	80	89	120	5	279.0	2.58	1.237	3.87	2.83	93.5	117.5	3.7
1916	38	16	5	14	1	12	0	172	59	50	72	6	176.3	3.01	1.259	3.67	2.83	108.5	86.7	0.6
1917	11	0	0	0	1	0	0	29	9	12	7	0	27.3	2.96	1.500	2.30	3.41	128.8	89.3	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

221

437

386

RBI

151

.1088

OBP

.1485

SLG

.1244

OPS

.2729

Pitching

G (P)

220

134

SHO

478th-most career SHO

1,267

SO (P)

535

BB allowed

484

ERA

3.153

238th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3335

K/9

3.80

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	H	3B	RBI	TB
1916-05-05	CIN @ STL Gameday	2	2	1	2	4
1911-06-04	LAD @ STL Gameday	1	1	1	0	3
1916-09-18	CIN @ LAD Gameday	3	2	0	0	2
1911-08-26	CHC @ LAD Gameday	2	1	0	1	1
1912-06-27	LAD @ ATL Gameday	3	1	0	1	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1912-09-23	STL @ LAD Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	2	8
1910-09-07	LAD @ PHI Gameday	8.0	4	4	0	6	6
1912-06-27	LAD @ ATL Gameday	7.1	12	5	5	7	6
1910-08-17	CHC @ LAD Gameday	9.0	8	5	0	7	5
1910-09-02	LAD @ ATL Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	4	5

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.