MLB / Players

Firpo Marberry

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 190 lb

BornNovember 30, 1898 · Streetman, TX, USA

MLB debutAugust 11, 1923

Final gameJune 10, 1936

Seasons14 (1923–1936)

Washington Senators 1923–1932; Detroit Tigers 1933–1935; New York Giants 1936; Washington Senators 1936

Percentile snapshot

1934 season — qualified pitchers

63.7

41.2

75.5

67.6

78.4

28.4

SHO

37.3

174

60.8

54.9

47.1

32.4

155.7

38.2

ERA

4.57

29.4

WHIP

1.426

45.1

K/9

3.70

FIP

4.26

FIP-

96.4

56.9

ERA+

96.7

34.3

sWAR

1.5

40.2

of 103 qualified 1934 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

116.4

85.4

sWAR

32.5

96.9

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1923	11	16	14	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.143	.200	.143	.343	-8.1	-6.3	.177	0.8
1924	50	69	59	6	8	0	1	0	1	0	12	0	0	.136	.164	.169	.333	-21.1	-12.4	.161	3.6
1925	55	23	19	3	5	0	0	0	4	2	1	1	0	.263	.333	.263	.596	59.6	55.3	.296	1.7
1926	64	37	34	3	6	1	0	0	3	1	9	0	0	.176	.200	.206	.406	-1.9	7.6	.194	2.7
1927	56	43	41	2	5	0	0	0	0	1	7	0	0	.122	.143	.122	.265	-38.8	-30.3	.129	0.3
1928	48	50	46	1	5	1	0	0	5	0	4	0	0	.109	.128	.130	.258	-42.7	-31.7	.123	1.5
1929	49	92	81	9	19	3	1	0	11	5	14	0	1	.235	.287	.296	.584	49.5	50.9	.275	5.7
1930	33	81	73	9	24	4	0	0	14	4	7	0	0	.329	.364	.384	.747	91.5	90.8	.343	3.2
1931	45	86	82	7	19	3	0	1	8	1	16	1	0	.232	.241	.305	.546	38.5	44.0	.249	4.2
1932	54	68	66	5	11	1	1	0	7	2	12	0	0	.167	.191	.212	.403	2.2	6.2	.187	2.4
1933	37	94	90	6	11	4	0	0	3	1	20	0	0	.122	.132	.167	.299	-31.6	-21.5	.137	4.4
1934	38	61	55	7	12	4	0	0	9	4	4	0	0	.218	.283	.291	.574	49.3	49.7	.275	1.5
1935	5	6	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.200	.333	.200	.533	55.6	43.8	.281	0.2
1936	6	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-112.3	-100.0	.000	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
1923	11	4	4	0	0	2	0	42	14	17	18	1	44.7	2.82	1.321	3.63	3.73	99.0	133.7	0.8
1924	50	15	11	12	15	6	0	190	67	70	68	3	195.3	3.09	1.331	3.13	3.84	94.1	132.3	3.6
1925	55	0	9	5	15	0	0	84	36	45	53	4	93.3	3.47	1.382	5.11	4.10	96.6	122.3	1.7
1926	64	5	12	7	22	3	0	120	46	66	43	4	138.0	3.00	1.348	2.80	4.17	107.0	130.1	2.7
1927	56	10	10	7	9	2	0	177	80	68	74	4	155.3	4.64	1.577	4.29	3.81	93.6	87.9	0.3
1928	48	11	13	13	3	7	1	160	69	42	76	4	161.3	3.85	1.252	4.24	3.25	81.3	103.7	1.5
1929	49	26	19	12	11	16	0	233	85	69	121	6	250.3	3.06	1.206	4.35	3.26	77.3	137.9	5.7
1930	33	22	15	5	1	9	2	190	84	53	56	15	185.0	4.09	1.314	2.72	4.76	103.6	112.3	3.2
1931	45	25	16	4	7	11	1	211	84	63	88	13	219.0	3.45	1.251	3.62	4.13	96.0	124.5	4.2
1932	54	15	8	4	13	8	1	202	88	72	66	13	197.7	4.01	1.386	3.01	4.44	102.6	108.0	2.4
1933	37	32	16	11	2	15	1	232	87	61	84	13	238.3	3.29	1.229	3.17	3.81	88.8	130.8	4.4
1934	38	19	15	5	3	6	1	174	79	48	64	12	155.7	4.57	1.426	3.70	4.26	96.4	96.7	1.5
1935	5	2	0	1	0	1	0	22	9	9	7	2	19.0	4.26	1.632	3.32	5.14	120.6	100.0	0.2
1936	6	1	0	2	0	0	0	12	6	3	4	2	14.3	3.77	1.047	2.51	5.57	115.9	127.4	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

551

730

668

128

RBI

111

.1916

OBP

.2241

SLG

.2365

OPS

.4606

Pitching

G (P)

551

336th-most career G (P)

187

148

268th-most career W

101

168th-most career SV

SHO

2,067

417th-most career IP

SO (P)

822

BB allowed

686

414th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.631

WHIP

1.3230

K/9

3.58

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
1934-06-08	CWS @ DET Gameday	4	0	3	1	0	0	1	4
1929-06-05	DET @ MIN Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	0	1	4
1932-09-18	MIN @ CLE Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	0	1	4
1931-08-16	MIN @ BAL Gameday	4	1	1	0	0	1	1	4
1929-07-11	MIN @ CLE Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	0	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1933-06-14	CLE @ DET Gameday	9.0	8	2	2	2	9	1
1928-04-11	MIN @ BOS Gameday	9.0	8	4	4	0	8	1
1929-07-20	MIN @ BAL Gameday	12.0	10	2	2	8	7	0
1927-05-03	NYY @ MIN Gameday	7.2	12	6	6	4	7	0
1930-09-07	ATH @ MIN Gameday	7.1	2	1	1	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.