MLB / Players

Frank Owen

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 160 lb

BornDecember 23, 1879 · Ypsilanti, MI, USA

MLB debutApril 26, 1901

Final gameMay 12, 1909

Seasons8 (1901–1909)

Detroit Tigers 1901; Chicago White Sox 1903–1909

Percentile snapshot

1906 season — qualified pitchers

90.9

86.4

90.9

SHO

89.8

289

22.7

60.2

30.7

13.6

293.0

84.1

ERA

2.33

63.6

WHIP

1.171

K/9

2.03

3.4

FIP

2.80

37.5

FIP-

108.1

26.1

ERA+

110.9

60.2

sWAR

3.6

65.9

of 89 qualified 1906 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

100.9

41.8

sWAR

13.6

90.1

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	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1901	9	23	20	1	1	1	0	1	1	7	0	.050	.095	.100	.195	-30.5	-46.1	.100	0.0
1903	26	66	57	3	7	0	0	3	7	21	0	.123	.219	.123	.342	19.5	6.9	.183	0.2
1904	37	121	107	10	23	2	2	7	10	25	2	.215	.288	.290	.578	89.4	87.1	.282	5.8
1905	42	137	124	8	18	2	0	4	5	26	2	.145	.178	.161	.340	11.5	11.2	.169	4.5
1906	42	117	103	7	14	4	0	7	8	27	0	.136	.205	.175	.380	24.2	21.6	.196	3.6
1907	11	16	16	0	4	0	0	0	0	2	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	58.3	63.8	.241	0.4
1908	25	54	50	3	9	3	0	4	3	15	1	.180	.226	.240	.466	52.5	54.3	.231	-0.6
1909	3	6	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	-1.5	8.3	.161	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1901	8	5	1	3	0	3	0	70	27	30	17	1	56.0	4.34	1.786	2.73	4.36	118.0	85.2	0.0
1903	26	20	8	12	1	15	1	167	65	44	66	1	167.3	3.50	1.261	3.55	2.98	105.2	81.0	0.2
1904	37	36	21	15	1	34	4	243	68	61	103	2	315.0	1.94	.965	2.94	2.62	105.8	127.5	5.8
1905	42	38	21	13	0	32	3	276	78	56	125	6	334.0	2.10	.994	3.37	2.53	101.5	118.5	4.5
1906	42	36	22	13	0	27	7	289	76	54	66	4	293.0	2.33	1.171	2.03	2.80	108.1	110.9	3.6
1907	11	4	2	3	0	2	0	43	13	13	15	1	47.0	2.49	1.191	2.87	2.81	116.7	96.7	0.4
1908	25	14	6	7	0	5	1	142	53	37	48	2	140.0	3.41	1.279	3.09	2.61	113.2	67.6	-0.6
1909	3	2	1	1	0	1	0	19	8	3	3	0	16.0	4.50	1.375	1.69	2.66	114.3	51.8	-0.3

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

195

540

483

RBI

123

.1594

OBP

.2177

SLG

.1967

OPS

.4144

Pitching

G (P)

194

155

119

331st-most career CG

SHO

354th-most career SHO

1,368

SO (P)

443

BB allowed

298

ERA

2.552

50th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1306

46th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

2.91

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1904-05-21	CWS @ NYY Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	2	0	5
1904-07-29	CWS @ BOS Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	1	0	5
1906-09-18	ATH @ CWS Gameday	3	1	2	2	0	2	0	4
1905-07-01	CWS @ BAL Gameday	3	1	3	0	0	0	1	3
1906-08-22	CWS @ NYY Gameday	4	2	2	1	0	2	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1905-08-30	MIN @ CWS Gameday	15.0	7	1	0	2	7
1905-04-15	BAL @ CWS Gameday	11.0	8	2	0	0	7
1904-09-08	CWS @ CLE Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	3	7
1905-05-20	MIN @ CWS Gameday	9.0	5	1	0	2	7
1905-07-16	MIN @ CWS Gameday	9.0	8	4	0	1	7

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.