Frank Killen

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 200 lb

BornNovember 30, 1870 · Pittsburgh, PA, USA

MLB debutAugust 27, 1891

Final gameJune 27, 1900

Seasons10 (1891–1900)

Milwaukee Brewers 1891; Washington Senators 1892; Pittsburgh Pirates 1893–1898; Washington Senators 1898; Boston Beaneaters 1899; Washington Senators 1899; Chicago Orphans 1900

Percentile snapshot

1898 season — qualified pitchers

68.8

81.3

45.8

14.6

60.4

SHO

350

16.7

125

22.9

64.6

72.9

22.9

306.0

60.4

ERA

3.68

29.2

WHIP

1.373

43.8

K/9

2.68

72.9

FIP

3.28

72.9

FIP-

91.1

72.9

ERA+

98.0

29.8

sWAR

3.4

56.3

of 49 qualified 1898 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

109.7

71.9

sWAR

36.5

97.5

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1891	11	43	35	8	8	3	0	0	5	8	7	0	.229	.372	.314	.686	103.4	96.3	.353	3.0
1892	65	216	186	27	37	4	4	4	23	26	61	2	.199	.310	.328	.638	95.8	92.7	.317	5.4
1893	55	193	171	35	47	6	6	4	30	22	28	1	.275	.358	.450	.808	108.4	113.9	.382	8.7
1894	28	88	80	13	21	3	1	0	13	6	23	0	.263	.322	.325	.647	64.5	56.1	.309	3.3
1895	14	45	38	7	13	0	1	0	5	6	7	2	.342	.444	.395	.839	119.7	117.3	.410	0.6
1896	55	204	173	29	40	4	5	2	25	26	31	1	.231	.338	.347	.685	86.3	80.7	.335	8.7
1897	42	147	129	16	32	4	0	1	7	17	29	2	.248	.340	.302	.642	78.4	70.2	.320	3.2
1898	45	142	120	13	32	3	0	0	11	18	17	1	.267	.362	.292	.654	95.0	87.8	.334	3.4
1899	14	47	46	3	8	1	0	0	6	1	10	0	.174	.191	.196	.387	11.4	6.1	.188	0.2
1900	6	23	20	0	3	0	0	0	2	1	3	0	.150	.227	.150	.377	18.8	5.1	.200	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1891	11	11	7	4	11	2	73	18	51	38	1	96.7	1.68	1.283	3.54	3.68	99.3	221.2	3.0
1892	60	52	29	26	46	2	448	169	182	147	15	459.7	3.31	1.371	2.88	3.54	107.7	99.3	5.4
1893	55	48	36	14	38	2	401	168	140	99	12	415.0	3.64	1.304	2.15	4.26	91.5	127.9	8.7
1894	28	28	14	11	20	1	261	102	86	62	3	204.0	4.50	1.701	2.74	4.74	88.9	118.4	3.3
1895	13	11	5	5	6	0	113	58	57	25	2	95.0	5.49	1.789	2.37	5.16	108.1	86.9	0.6
1896	52	50	30	18	44	5	476	164	119	134	7	432.3	3.41	1.376	2.79	3.81	87.3	127.7	8.7
1897	42	41	17	23	38	1	417	167	76	99	4	337.3	4.46	1.461	2.64	3.63	84.5	96.5	3.2
1898	40	39	16	20	32	0	350	125	70	91	7	306.0	3.68	1.373	2.68	3.28	91.1	98.0	3.4
1899	14	14	7	7	12	0	126	55	30	26	3	111.3	4.45	1.401	2.10	3.74	97.1	86.5	0.2
1900	6	6	3	3	6	0	65	28	11	4	1	54.0	4.67	1.407	0.67	3.64	98.6	79.2	-0.1

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

335

1,148

998

151

241

RBI

127

131

216

.2415

OBP

.3354

SLG

.3367

OPS

.6721

Pitching

G (P)

321

300

354th-most career GS

164

215th-most career W

131

269th-most career L

253

76th-most career CG

SHO

478th-most career SHO

2,511

252nd-most career IP

SO (P)

725

BB allowed

822

234th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.777

WHIP

1.4144

K/9

2.60

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.