Flint Rhem

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 180 lb

BornJanuary 24, 1901 · Rhems, SC, USA

MLB debutSeptember 6, 1924

Final gameAugust 26, 1936

Seasons12 (1924–1936)

St. Louis Cardinals 1924–1928; St. Louis Cardinals 1930–1931; Philadelphia Phillies 1932; St. Louis Cardinals 1932; Philadelphia Phillies 1933; Boston Braves 1934; St. Louis Cardinals 1934; Boston Braves 1935; St. Louis Cardinals 1936

Percentile snapshot

1934 season — qualified pitchers

40.2

44.1

42.2

54.9

46.1

20.6

SHO

37.3

190

56.9

59.8

57.8

46.1

63.7

168.3

43.1

ERA

3.69

59.8

WHIP

1.396

52.9

K/9

3.31

36.3

FIP

3.54

87.3

FIP-

92.1

70.6

ERA+

104.1

sWAR

1.4

38.2

of 103 qualified 1934 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

97.4

27.8

sWAR

11.8

88.6

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1924	6	13	12	0	2	0	0	1	1	5	.167	.231	.167	.397	7.8	9.2	.200	0.0
1925	30	66	59	8	14	2	1	8	1	22	.237	.262	.322	.584	41.2	46.9	.265	0.8
1926	34	105	96	11	18	1	1	12	4	36	.188	.220	.229	.449	12.1	19.5	.213	4.4
1927	27	64	59	3	4	1	0	2	2	31	.068	.098	.085	.183	-63.2	-50.9	.092	0.3
1928	28	70	67	4	11	0	1	6	2	23	.164	.188	.209	.397	-8.1	3.6	.186	1.3
1930	26	56	52	7	12	2	0	6	0	7	.231	.231	.269	.500	13.3	19.5	.222	2.1
1931	33	74	69	4	9	1	0	6	0	21	.130	.130	.145	.275	-46.3	-26.9	.126	2.6
1932	32	86	78	4	10	2	0	1	1	23	.128	.139	.154	.293	-45.1	-24.7	.134	3.4
1933	28	48	46	1	4	0	0	3	1	11	.087	.106	.087	.193	-76.6	-47.6	.095	-3.6
1934	30	56	54	0	3	1	0	0	1	21	.056	.073	.074	.147	-70.0	-59.2	.070	1.4
1935	10	11	10	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-111.9	-100.0	.000	-0.4
1936	10	8	8	1	1	1	0	2	0	2	.125	.125	.250	.375	-15.9	-0.9	.164	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1924	6	3	2	2	1	3	0	31	16	17	20	1	32.3	4.45	1.485	5.57	3.70	97.4	85.2	0.0
1925	30	23	8	13	1	8	1	204	93	58	66	16	170.0	4.92	1.541	3.49	4.65	106.9	88.4	0.8
1926	34	34	20	7	0	20	1	241	92	75	72	12	258.0	3.21	1.225	2.51	3.84	97.9	122.1	4.4
1927	27	26	10	12	0	9	2	189	83	54	51	6	169.3	4.41	1.435	2.71	3.88	97.7	89.9	0.3
1928	28	22	11	8	3	9	0	199	78	71	47	13	169.7	4.14	1.591	2.49	4.52	113.3	96.4	1.3
1930	26	19	12	8	0	9	0	173	69	37	47	11	139.7	4.45	1.504	3.03	4.76	94.4	113.4	2.1
1931	33	26	11	10	1	10	2	214	82	60	72	17	207.3	3.56	1.322	3.13	4.26	107.8	110.9	2.6
1932	32	26	15	9	1	15	1	225	87	59	53	16	218.7	3.58	1.299	2.18	4.19	97.7	119.4	3.4
1933	28	19	5	14	2	3	0	182	92	33	27	10	125.0	6.62	1.720	1.94	4.02	106.3	57.0	-3.6
1934	30	21	9	8	1	5	1	190	69	45	62	5	168.3	3.69	1.396	3.31	3.54	92.1	104.1	1.4
1935	10	6	0	5	0	0	0	61	24	11	10	4	40.3	5.36	1.785	2.23	4.63	122.9	70.4	-0.4
1936	10	4	2	1	0	0	0	49	20	9	7	2	26.7	6.75	2.175	2.36	4.51	113.0	59.1	-0.6

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

294

657

610

RBI

204

.1443

OBP

.1635

SLG

.1770

OPS

.3405

Pitching

G (P)

294

229

105

470th-most career CG

SHO

1,725

SO (P)

534

BB allowed

529

ERA

4.199

WHIP

1.4415

K/9

2.79

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	HR	RBI	TB
1926-05-16	ATL @ STL Gameday	5	1	2	1	3	5
1925-06-10	LAD @ STL Gameday	5	1	2	1	2	5
1928-06-07	STL @ SF Gameday	4	1	1	1	2	4
1930-09-01	STL @ PIT Gameday	5	1	3	0	2	3
1926-04-24	STL @ PIT Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1925-05-09	STL @ SF Gameday	9.0	8	0	0	4	10	0
1932-06-18	STL @ PHI Gameday	12.0	11	4	4	1	7	1
1924-09-24	STL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	9	4	4	2	7	0
1927-05-08	STL @ LAD Gameday	9.0	2	1	1	4	7	0
1928-04-28	STL @ CHC Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	3	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.