MLB / Players

Eric Erickson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 2 in · 190 lb
BornMarch 13, 1892 · Vårgårda, Västra Götaland, Sweden
MLB debutOctober 6, 1914
Final gameSeptember 29, 1922
Seasons7 (1914–1922)

New York Giants 1914; Detroit Tigers 1916; Detroit Tigers 1918–1919; Washington Senators 1919–1922

Percentile snapshot

1921 season — qualified pitchers

G
32
45
GS
22
43.2
W
8
30.6
L
10
50.5
SV
0
0
CG
9
22.5
SHO
3
83.8
H
181
63.1
ER
72
64.9
BB
65
34.2
SO
71
59.5
HR
7
47.7
IP
179.0
43.2
ERA
3.62
59.5
WHIP
1.374
42.3
K/9
3.57
63.1
FIP
4.17
31.5
FIP-
101.4
37.8
ERA+
113.6
67.6
sWAR
2.4
52.3

of 112 qualified 1921 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
4.8
78.9

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19141110000000100.000.000.000.000-117.9-100.0.0000.2
19168440000000200.000.000.000.000-134.9-100.0.0000.1
19181234331400000900.121.121.121.242-48.3-26.0.1180.9
191923605348200532400.151.196.189.3850.59.2.191-0.6
19203994837234011332200.277.302.361.66473.277.3.3092.4
192132676039100141600.150.203.167.370-5.0-2.8.1842.4
192230494516100231800.133.188.156.343-11.8-7.7.172-0.5

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19141101000803305.00.002.2005.402.86106.50.2
1916800000013587016.02.811.3133.943.14107.8103.50.1
19181294518081262948294.32.481.1664.582.4490.3108.70.9
191923176130711476973907146.74.231.5005.523.58113.374.6-0.6
19203927121611202311021288713239.33.841.5003.274.62124.896.52.4
192132228100931817265717179.03.621.3743.574.17101.4113.62.4
192230174122621447873618141.74.961.5323.884.43115.177.6-0.5

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

G
145
PA
309
AB
279
R
16
H
50
2B
8
3B
0
HR
1
RBI
21
BB
13
SO
92
SB
0
BA
.1792
OBP
.2158
SLG
.2186
OPS
.4344

Pitching

G (P)
145
GS
93
W
34
L
57
SV
4
CG
42
SHO
6
IP
822
SO (P)
367
BB allowed
379
ERA
3.854
WHIP
1.4404
K/9
4.02

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1920-09-21MIN @ DET Gameday322001305
1920-09-04MIN @ ATH Gameday502100113
1919-07-16MIN @ CWS Gameday522100003
1920-06-19MIN @ CLE Gameday312100003
1920-05-02ATH @ MIN Gameday312000002

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1918-05-24DET @ MIN Gameday16.08210120
1919-06-28MIN @ ATH Gameday9.09333121
1919-09-12DET @ MIN Gameday9.0400590
1920-09-04MIN @ ATH Gameday12.2650571
1918-05-28DET @ MIN Gameday9.0822270

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.