MLB / Players

George Earnshaw

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 4 in · 210 lb
BornFebruary 15, 1900 · New York, NY, USA
MLB debutJune 3, 1928
Final gameSeptember 26, 1936
Seasons9 (1928–1936)

Philadelphia Athletics 1928–1933; Chicago White Sox 1934; Brooklyn Dodgers 1935; Chicago White Sox 1935; Brooklyn Dodgers 1936; St. Louis Cardinals 1936

Percentile snapshot

1935 season — qualified pitchers

G
28
33.7
GS
25
62.1
W
9
46.3
L
14
11.6
SV
0
0
CG
6
29.5
SHO
2
63.2
H
201
47.4
ER
94
31.6
BB
64
35.8
SO
80
70.5
HR
16
12.6
IP
184.0
53.7
ERA
4.60
33.7
WHIP
1.440
40
K/9
3.91
54.7
FIP
4.33
49.5
FIP-
107.5
20
ERA+
87.5
22.1
sWAR
0.8
27.4

of 96 qualified 1935 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+
100.0
38.6
sWAR
19.7
93.4

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
192826635731420061710.246.259.281.53935.241.6.2502.0
192944100876152011022100.172.200.230.4302.610.2.2004.9
19304912611411268101052100.228.261.316.57642.644.8.2623.7
19314312211412307121352300.263.294.395.68972.777.2.3135.8
193236102911026410901200.286.286.352.63757.763.2.2882.2
19332149445810023500.182.234.205.43915.016.5.214-0.9
1934338679516300631600.203.241.241.48117.222.5.2302.6
1935287067515010811200.224.235.254.48925.331.4.2240.8
193639525141220060800.235.235.275.51027.236.4.233-1.3

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
1928262277173143671001177158.33.811.5356.654.04100.1106.02.0
192944332481133233931251498254.73.291.4065.273.7889.0129.44.9
193049392213220329914613919320296.04.441.4805.874.4495.0105.43.7
1931433021762332551157515216281.73.671.1724.863.7483.2122.55.8
19323633191302112621309410928245.34.771.4514.004.92108.595.12.2
193321185100401537858378117.75.971.7932.834.79111.072.3-0.9
19343330141101622421141049728227.04.521.5243.855.33114.8102.72.6
1935282591406220194648016184.04.601.4403.914.33107.587.50.8
1936391961025119396506811150.75.731.6134.064.20104.170.5-1.3

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

G
319
PA
770
AB
704
R
61
H
162
2B
29
3B
4
HR
3
RBI
70
BB
20
SO
125
SB
1
BA
.2301
OBP
.2534
SLG
.2955
OPS
.5489

Pitching

G (P)
319
GS
249
W
127
394th-most career W
L
93
SV
12
CG
115
344th-most career CG
SHO
18
292nd-most career SHO
IP
1,915
500th-most career IP
SO (P)
1,002
BB allowed
809
247th-most career BB allowed
ERA
4.384
WHIP
1.4567
K/9
4.71

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1931-06-09DET @ ATH Gameday524101208
1931-06-13BAL @ ATH Gameday534001307
1929-06-01DET @ ATH Gameday322001305
1932-05-30MIN @ ATH Gameday403100104
1930-08-18BAL @ ATH Gameday402200104

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1932-04-17ATH @ MIN Gameday9.011332120
1928-07-20BAL @ ATH Gameday9.03003100
1929-07-02MIN @ ATH Gameday9.06114100
1929-10-11CHC @ ATH Gameday9.06312100
1930-05-03DET @ ATH Gameday9.08552101

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.