MLB / Players

Erskine Mayer

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 168 lb

BornJanuary 16, 1890 · Atlanta, GA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 4, 1912

Final gameSeptember 27, 1919

Seasons8 (1912–1919)

Philadelphia Phillies 1912–1918; Pittsburgh Pirates 1918; Chicago White Sox 1919; Pittsburgh Pirates 1919

Percentile snapshot

1918 season — qualified pitchers

46.2

76.3

83.9

59.1

80.6

SHO

33.3

230

11.8

20.4

38.7

15.1

227.3

76.3

ERA

2.65

59.1

WHIP

1.245

46.2

K/9

1.62

2.2

FIP

2.91

FIP-

100.7

40.9

ERA+

109.0

64.5

sWAR

3.2

79.6

of 94 qualified 1918 pitchers (min 126 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

98.3

sWAR

13.8

90.2

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1912	7	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-118.9	-100.0	.000	-0.5
1913	39	53	50	0	6	2	0	0	0	3	12	.120	.170	.160	.330	-15.0	-7.3	.165	1.8
1914	48	117	108	10	21	4	1	1	5	6	24	.194	.237	.278	.515	41.7	49.0	.248	4.8
1915	43	98	88	7	21	2	1	1	7	4	24	.239	.280	.318	.598	76.3	80.4	.286	4.6
1916	28	44	38	2	5	0	0	0	3	4	8	.132	.214	.132	.346	2.4	6.2	.184	0.4
1917	28	58	51	7	10	1	0	0	2	2	11	.196	.226	.216	.442	25.5	34.2	.215	1.6
1918	28	89	79	9	15	1	5	0	10	6	17	.190	.247	.329	.576	65.2	71.3	.277	3.2
1919	24	40	36	4	6	0	0	0	1	3	12	.167	.231	.167	.397	13.4	20.4	.204	-2.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1912	7	1	0	1	0	0	0	27	15	7	5	1	21.3	6.33	1.594	2.11	3.87	108.7	56.3	-0.5
1913	39	19	9	9	1	7	2	172	59	46	51	6	170.7	3.11	1.277	2.69	3.45	104.1	106.5	1.8
1914	48	39	21	19	2	24	4	308	92	91	116	8	321.0	2.58	1.243	3.25	2.83	96.7	113.5	4.8
1915	43	33	21	15	2	20	2	240	72	59	114	9	274.7	2.36	1.089	3.74	2.75	99.8	116.7	4.6
1916	28	16	7	7	0	7	2	148	49	33	62	7	140.0	3.15	1.293	3.99	2.86	107.3	84.7	0.4
1917	28	18	11	6	0	11	1	160	49	33	64	6	160.0	2.76	1.206	3.60	2.76	99.9	100.4	1.6
1918	28	27	16	7	0	18	1	230	67	53	41	3	227.3	2.65	1.245	1.62	2.91	100.7	109.0	3.2
1919	24	12	6	6	1	6	0	130	66	23	29	3	112.0	5.30	1.366	2.33	2.96	98.2	56.7	-2.2

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

245

502

453

RBI

109

.1854

OBP

.2344

SLG

.2517

OPS

.4861

Pitching

G (P)

245

165

456th-most career CG

SHO

1,427

SO (P)

482

BB allowed

345

ERA

2.958

164th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2334

268th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.04

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
1918-07-06	ATL @ PIT Gameday	4	3	3	1	1	0	1	1	6
1918-07-11	SF @ PIT Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	0	1	0	4
1915-10-01	PHI @ ATL Gameday	3	2	2	0	1	0	0	1	4
1918-04-16	ATL @ PHI Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	4
1914-07-01	PHI @ ATL Gameday	4	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1915-07-01	ATL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	3	9	1
1914-09-05	ATL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	9	7	7	4	8	1
1914-05-17	PHI @ CHC Gameday	13.0	13	2	2	3	7	0
1914-05-07	LAD @ PHI Gameday	9.0	13	6	4	2	7	0
1915-10-09	BOS @ PHI Gameday	9.0	10	2	1	2	7	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.