Erv Palica
Brooklyn Dodgers 1945; Brooklyn Dodgers 1947–1951; Brooklyn Dodgers 1953–1954; Baltimore Orioles 1955–1956
Percentile snapshot
1955 season — qualified pitchers
of 53 qualified 1955 pitchers (min 156 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
| 1947 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.1 |
| 1948 | 45 | 44 | 39 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .128 | .209 | .205 | .414 | 5.0 | 11.5 | .204 | 0.7 |
| 1949 | 49 | 25 | 19 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .158 | .238 | .211 | .449 | 15.6 | 19.9 | .220 | 1.5 |
| 1950 | 48 | 71 | 68 | 4 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 0 | .221 | .221 | .324 | .544 | 27.8 | 40.5 | .239 | 3.5 |
| 1951 | 20 | 16 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .154 | .267 | .154 | .421 | 17.5 | 15.6 | .221 | 0.1 |
| 1953 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 462.2 | 420.7 | .901 | -0.4 |
| 1954 | 28 | 17 | 16 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .294 | .313 | .607 | 52.3 | 57.4 | .279 | -0.1 |
| 1955 | 33 | 61 | 55 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 18 | 0 | 0 | .236 | .288 | .255 | .543 | 51.5 | 51.7 | .264 | 1.2 |
| 1956 | 30 | 32 | 32 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .156 | .156 | .156 | .313 | -26.5 | -14.0 | .145 | 0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3.0 | 3.00 | 1.333 | 3.00 | 4.90 | 117.9 | 138.6 | 0.1 |
| 1948 | 41 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 111 | 62 | 58 | 74 | 13 | 125.3 | 4.45 | 1.348 | 5.31 | 4.19 | 104.1 | 90.5 | 0.7 |
| 1949 | 49 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 93 | 39 | 49 | 44 | 6 | 97.0 | 3.62 | 1.464 | 4.08 | 3.97 | 96.2 | 114.2 | 1.5 |
| 1950 | 43 | 19 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 176 | 80 | 98 | 131 | 13 | 201.3 | 3.58 | 1.361 | 5.86 | 3.48 | 83.4 | 116.8 | 3.5 |
| 1951 | 19 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 28 | 20 | 15 | 10 | 53.0 | 4.75 | 1.415 | 2.55 | 5.40 | 135.3 | 83.9 | 0.1 |
| 1953 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 6.0 | 12.00 | 3.000 | 4.50 | 7.78 | 179.6 | 36.1 | -0.4 |
| 1954 | 25 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 77 | 40 | 31 | 25 | 9 | 67.7 | 5.32 | 1.596 | 3.33 | 4.83 | 116.1 | 78.1 | -0.1 |
| 1955 | 33 | 25 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 165 | 78 | 83 | 68 | 10 | 169.7 | 4.14 | 1.462 | 3.61 | 3.90 | 104.1 | 90.5 | 1.2 |
| 1956 | 29 | 14 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 117 | 58 | 50 | 62 | 10 | 116.3 | 4.49 | 1.436 | 4.80 | 3.87 | 99.7 | 86.5 | 0.2 |
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950-07-09 | PHI @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1950-09-24 | LAD @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 1950-08-13 | LAD @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1955-08-16 | BAL @ MIN Gameday | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1955-07-09 | BAL @ BOS Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948-08-11 | PHI @ LAD Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 2 |
| 1950-07-28 | CHC @ LAD Gameday | 6.1 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 1 |
| 1950-08-01 | PIT @ LAD Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 1 |
| 1948-08-25 | LAD @ PIT Gameday | 6.0 | 8 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 2 |
| 1950-07-14 | LAD @ CHC Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 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.