Gene Packard

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 155 lb

BornJuly 13, 1887 · Colorado Springs, CO, USA

MLB debutSeptember 27, 1912

Final gameAugust 14, 1919

Seasons8 (1912–1919)

Cincinnati Reds 1912–1913; Kansas City Packers 1914–1915; Chicago Cubs 1916–1917; St. Louis Cardinals 1917–1918; Philadelphia Phillies 1919

Percentile snapshot

1918 season — qualified pitchers

58.1

62.4

68.8

76.3

35.5

SHO

33.3

184

33.3

15.1

66.7

46.2

3.2

182.3

ERA

3.50

21.5

WHIP

1.190

K/9

2.27

20.4

FIP

2.85

46.2

FIP-

105.0

ERA+

77.4

15.1

sWAR

-0.2

11.8

of 94 qualified 1918 pitchers (min 131 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

99.0

33.8

sWAR

13.7

90.2

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
1912	1	4	4	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	.250	.250	.750	1.000	154.6	173.2	.433	0.2
1913	43	68	61	8	11	2	0	0	1	3	19	1	.180	.219	.213	.432	18.4	23.5	.210	2.3
1914	45	123	116	13	28	2	2	1	12	2	22	1	.241	.254	.319	.573	54.7	62.4	.268	4.5
1915	44	105	95	6	22	0	2	1	5	2	18	1	.232	.247	.305	.553	53.2	62.0	.261	4.3
1916	44	60	54	9	7	3	0	0	1	4	13	0	.130	.190	.185	.375	6.0	14.7	.187	1.1
1917	38	54	52	4	15	2	0	0	1	2	11	0	.288	.315	.327	.642	95.2	97.6	.306	2.1
1918	36	75	69	3	12	2	1	0	6	2	9	0	.174	.197	.232	.429	21.6	31.8	.206	-0.2
1919	27	54	51	8	7	1	1	0	8	3	11	0	.137	.185	.196	.381	-3.4	9.7	.187	-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
1912	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	7	3	4	2	0	9.0	3.00	1.222	2.00	3.64	111.2	109.0	0.2
1913	39	21	7	11	0	9	2	208	63	64	73	2	190.7	2.97	1.427	3.45	3.13	97.8	107.5	2.3
1914	42	34	20	14	5	24	4	282	97	88	154	5	302.0	2.89	1.225	4.59	2.81	87.7	110.9	4.5
1915	42	31	20	12	2	21	5	250	84	74	108	3	281.7	2.68	1.150	3.45	2.75	90.7	112.9	4.3
1916	37	16	10	6	5	5	2	154	48	38	36	4	155.3	2.78	1.236	2.09	2.97	112.6	94.8	1.1
1917	36	11	9	6	2	6	0	141	44	25	45	5	155.0	2.55	1.071	2.61	2.76	102.8	105.0	2.1
1918	30	23	12	12	2	10	1	184	71	33	46	6	182.3	3.50	1.190	2.27	2.85	105.0	77.4	-0.2
1919	21	16	6	8	1	10	1	167	62	30	24	3	134.3	4.15	1.467	1.61	3.13	98.7	76.4	-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

278

543

502

103

RBI

104

.2052

OBP

.2327

SLG

.2689

OPS

.5016

Pitching

G (P)

248

153

SHO

396th-most career SHO

1,410

SO (P)

488

BB allowed

356

ERA

3.012

179th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2401

293rd-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.11

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	RBI	TB
1916-05-17	LAD @ CHC Gameday	3	2	3	2	0	0	5
1918-08-07	STL @ ATL Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	1	4
1917-09-30	PHI @ STL Gameday	2	2	2	2	0	0	4
1918-08-03	STL @ PHI Gameday	5	0	2	1	0	3	3
1918-07-07	LAD @ STL Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1913-06-13	ATL @ CIN Gameday	8.1	7	2	2	3	7	0
1913-09-19	LAD @ CIN Gameday	10.0	8	0	0	3	5	0
1913-05-24	STL @ CIN Gameday	9.0	8	3	3	3	5	0
1913-08-20	CIN @ ATL Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	3	5	0
1913-09-05	CIN @ CHC Gameday	9.0	8	4	4	2	5	1

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.