Fred Frankhouse

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb

BornApril 9, 1904 · Port Royal, PA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 7, 1927

Final gameSeptember 25, 1939

Seasons13 (1927–1939)

St. Louis Cardinals 1927–1929; Boston Braves 1930; St. Louis Cardinals 1930; Boston Braves 1931–1935; Brooklyn Dodgers 1936–1938; Boston Bees 1939

Percentile snapshot

1937 season — qualified pitchers

63.5

45.8

41.7

SHO

36.5

214

38.5

39.6

30.2

39.6

54.2

179.3

ERA

4.27

41.7

WHIP

1.628

9.4

K/9

3.21

FIP

4.19

54.2

FIP-

105.0

31.3

ERA+

93.6

31.3

sWAR

1.2

27.1

of 97 qualified 1937 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

99.4

35.6

sWAR

19.4

93.3

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
1927	8	22	20	0	5	0	0	0	3	1	1	0	.250	.286	.250	.536	41.1	43.5	.258	1.2
1928	22	32	27	3	5	2	0	0	2	3	4	0	.185	.267	.259	.526	36.0	37.8	.255	0.9
1929	34	55	52	7	15	3	0	1	8	1	6	0	.288	.302	.404	.706	68.6	73.4	.315	2.4
1930	36	49	44	5	14	1	0	0	7	4	9	0	.318	.375	.341	.716	81.1	78.2	.333	0.3
1931	26	46	40	4	6	0	0	0	1	4	2	0	.150	.244	.150	.394	12.7	10.4	.206	0.8
1932	40	35	30	3	3	0	0	0	2	2	4	0	.100	.182	.100	.282	-19.7	-19.9	.149	1.1
1933	43	90	80	9	19	4	0	0	5	3	5	0	.238	.265	.288	.553	59.8	64.6	.258	2.5
1934	37	96	85	12	17	3	1	0	9	4	9	0	.200	.236	.259	.495	33.5	36.9	.230	4.0
1935	40	86	76	10	20	4	0	0	7	9	9	0	.263	.341	.316	.657	87.6	83.5	.312	0.4
1936	42	94	91	9	13	3	0	0	7	2	6	0	.143	.161	.176	.337	-21.6	-9.9	.158	3.0
1937	39	68	58	7	11	2	0	0	5	3	4	1	.190	.230	.224	.454	16.0	22.4	.216	1.2
1938	31	30	26	2	4	0	0	0	2	1	6	0	.154	.185	.154	.339	-18.8	-6.9	.165	0.6
1939	23	8	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.125	.000	.125	-61.4	-62.7	.094	0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1927	6	6	5	1	0	5	1	41	15	16	20	2	50.0	2.70	1.140	3.60	3.73	94.0	147.0	1.2
1928	21	10	3	2	1	1	0	91	37	36	29	6	84.0	3.96	1.512	3.11	4.47	112.1	100.7	0.9
1929	30	12	7	2	1	6	0	149	61	43	37	9	133.3	4.12	1.440	2.50	4.69	99.7	114.3	2.4
1930	35	12	9	9	0	3	1	169	85	54	34	14	130.3	5.87	1.711	2.35	5.72	117.7	82.8	0.3
1931	26	15	8	8	1	6	0	125	57	43	50	4	127.3	4.03	1.319	3.53	3.68	98.9	92.3	0.8
1932	37	6	4	6	0	3	0	113	43	45	35	7	108.7	3.56	1.454	2.90	4.43	119.5	104.1	1.1
1933	43	30	16	15	2	14	2	249	86	77	83	12	244.7	3.16	1.332	3.05	3.51	114.6	96.8	2.5
1934	37	31	17	9	1	13	2	239	83	77	78	10	233.7	3.20	1.352	3.00	4.01	105.6	119.0	4.0
1935	40	29	11	15	0	10	1	278	122	81	64	12	230.7	4.76	1.556	2.50	4.27	113.4	79.2	0.4
1936	41	31	13	10	2	9	1	236	95	89	84	18	234.3	3.65	1.387	3.23	4.50	110.6	111.6	3.0
1937	33	26	10	13	0	9	1	214	85	78	64	8	179.3	4.27	1.628	3.21	4.19	105.0	93.6	1.2
1938	30	8	3	5	0	2	1	92	42	44	32	6	93.7	4.04	1.452	3.07	4.42	114.3	95.9	0.6
1939	23	0	0	2	4	0	0	37	11	18	12	3	38.0	2.61	1.447	2.84	4.70	127.7	141.4	0.8

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

421

711

636

132

RBI

.2075

OBP

.2544

SLG

.2500

OPS

.5044

Pitching

G (P)

402

216

106

SHO

1,888

SO (P)

622

BB allowed

701

391st-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.918

WHIP

1.4481

K/9

2.97

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	TB
1929-07-28	SF @ STL Gameday	2	2	2	1	1	3	6
1929-07-06	STL @ PHI Gameday	7	2	4	0	0	4	4
1937-08-03	LAD @ PIT Gameday	4	0	3	1	0	1	4
1930-07-23	CIN @ ATL Gameday	3	1	3	0	0	2	3
1933-07-28	ATL @ PHI Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1931-06-14	ATL @ CHC Gameday	7.2	6	1	1	2	8	1
1936-08-09	LAD @ ATL Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	3	7	0
1936-05-25	ATL @ LAD Gameday	6.2	11	6	5	1	7	1
1931-06-21	STL @ ATL Gameday	6.0	4	2	2	3	7	0
1934-06-17	ATL @ CHC Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	2	6	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.

Honors

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.