George Zuverink

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 195 lb

BornAugust 20, 1924 · Holland, MI, USA

MLB debutApril 21, 1951

Final gameJune 15, 1959

Seasons8 (1951–1959)

Cleveland Indians 1951–1952; Cincinnati Redlegs 1954; Detroit Tigers 1954; Baltimore Orioles 1955; Detroit Tigers 1955; Baltimore Orioles 1956–1959

Percentile snapshot

1954 season — qualified pitchers

69.6

30.4

16.1

30.4

92.9

32.1

SHO

41.1

211

37.5

73.2

23.2

19.6

209.0

55.4

ERA

3.75

42.9

WHIP

1.311

55.4

K/9

3.10

12.5

FIP

4.14

21.4

FIP-

111.2

7.1

ERA+

99.4

26.8

sWAR

1.7

28.6

of 57 qualified 1954 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

7.4

83.5

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	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1951	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
1952	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
1954	37	76	66	2	9	1	0	3	1	15	1	.136	.149	.152	.301	-39.0	-17.5	.142	1.7
1955	42	29	27	1	5	1	0	0	1	7	0	.185	.214	.222	.437	13.7	21.7	.208	1.7
1956	62	22	17	0	2	0	0	2	1	7	0	.118	.167	.118	.284	-26.4	-20.7	.145	0.6
1957	56	28	23	1	3	0	0	0	3	8	0	.130	.231	.130	.361	7.4	5.0	.193	2.5
1958	45	10	9	0	2	0	1	2	1	2	0	.222	.300	.444	.744	108.6	108.8	.334	0.9
1959	6	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	—	1.000	—	—	380.4	—	.743	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1951	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	24	15	13	14	2	25.3	5.33	1.461	4.97	4.16	108.0	72.2	-0.2
1952	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	1	0	1.3	0.00	.750	6.75	0.86	25.3	—	0.1
1954	37	25	9	13	4	9	2	211	87	63	72	23	209.0	3.75	1.311	3.10	4.14	111.2	99.4	1.7
1955	42	6	4	8	4	0	0	118	43	31	44	11	114.7	3.38	1.299	3.45	3.85	101.5	111.9	1.7
1956	62	0	7	6	16	0	0	112	45	34	33	6	97.3	4.16	1.500	3.05	3.77	97.1	93.3	0.6
1957	56	0	10	6	9	0	0	105	31	39	36	9	112.7	2.48	1.278	2.88	3.94	111.0	143.5	2.5
1958	45	0	2	2	7	0	0	74	26	17	22	4	69.0	3.39	1.319	2.87	3.56	100.2	104.7	0.9
1959	6	0	0	1	0	0	0	15	6	6	1	1	13.0	4.15	1.615	0.69	4.69	125.7	89.9	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

266

167

142

RBI

.1479

OBP

.1987

SLG

.1761

OPS

.3748

Pitching

G (P)

265

437th-most career SV

SHO

642

SO (P)

223

BB allowed

203

ERA

3.545

WHIP

1.3435

K/9

3.12

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	H	2B	3B	RBI	TB
1955-09-21	BAL @ BOS Gameday	3	2	1	0	0	3
1958-06-08	ATH @ BAL Gameday	1	1	0	1	2	3
1954-07-05	CLE @ DET Gameday	4	1	1	0	0	2
1954-05-31	DET @ BAL Gameday	3	1	0	0	1	1
1954-09-16	NYY @ DET Gameday	3	1	0	0	1	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1955-09-11	ATH @ BAL Gameday	7.2	7	3	3	0	6	0
1954-08-27	DET @ NYY Gameday	6.1	9	4	4	2	6	1
1954-07-05	CLE @ DET Gameday	11.0	3	0	0	4	5	0
1954-09-06	DET @ CWS Gameday	9.0	11	2	1	1	5	1
1954-07-29	ATH @ DET Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	2	4	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.