Gerry Staley

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 195 lb

BornAugust 21, 1920 · Brush Prairie, WA, USA

MLB debutApril 20, 1947

Final gameSeptember 25, 1961

Seasons15 (1947–1961)

St. Louis Cardinals 1947–1954; Cincinnati Redlegs 1955; New York Yankees 1955; Chicago White Sox 1956; New York Yankees 1956; Chicago White Sox 1957–1961; Detroit Tigers 1961; Kansas City Athletics 1961

Percentile snapshot

1954 season — qualified pitchers

100

8.9

7.1

30.4

69.6

SHO

16.1

198

51.8

30.4

96.4

155.7

ERA

5.26

3.6

WHIP

1.574

3.6

K/9

2.89

7.1

FIP

4.55

3.6

FIP-

110.2

8.9

ERA+

78.5

3.6

sWAR

-0.5

1.8

of 57 qualified 1954 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

108.4

67.9

sWAR

25.2

95.4

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

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1947	18	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.9	-100.0	.000	0.7
1948	31	11	9	1	2	0	1	1	1	2	0	.222	.300	.556	.856	117.4	123.5	.374	-1.0
1949	45	54	41	5	5	0	0	0	7	12	0	.122	.250	.122	.372	5.5	1.8	.205	4.3
1950	42	62	55	5	8	2	0	0	3	9	0	.145	.190	.182	.371	-15.2	-3.1	.177	0.2
1951	42	88	81	3	13	1	0	5	3	14	0	.160	.190	.173	.363	-14.4	-1.5	.172	2.5
1952	35	94	85	6	13	0	0	1	2	10	1	.153	.172	.153	.325	-24.8	-9.0	.154	3.5
1953	40	89	78	4	8	0	0	2	4	21	0	.103	.146	.103	.249	-45.3	-33.7	.124	2.6
1954	48	47	36	3	5	1	0	1	4	8	0	.139	.225	.167	.392	-3.3	3.8	.197	-0.5
1955	32	42	36	2	2	0	0	3	2	11	0	.056	.105	.056	.161	-70.8	-56.4	.087	0.0
1956	27	36	33	2	3	0	0	1	2	6	1	.091	.143	.091	.234	-46.6	-36.5	.123	1.7
1957	47	29	22	1	1	0	0	1	3	6	0	.045	.160	.045	.205	-43.8	-40.5	.127	3.0
1958	50	14	11	0	0	0	0	1	1	5	0	.000	.077	.000	.077	-87.2	-76.3	.057	1.2
1959	67	20	13	2	2	0	0	0	3	5	0	.154	.313	.154	.466	50.2	34.6	.254	3.3
1960	64	22	17	0	4	0	0	3	2	5	0	.235	.333	.235	.569	64.4	58.7	.282	3.1
1961	52	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	.000	.333	.000	.333	36.7	-3.2	.248	0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1947	18	1	1	0	0	1	0	33	9	8	14	2	29.3	2.76	1.398	4.30	3.42	82.3	150.5	0.7
1948	31	3	4	4	0	0	0	61	40	21	23	5	52.0	6.92	1.577	3.98	4.14	101.5	58.9	-1.0
1949	45	17	10	10	6	5	2	154	52	41	55	7	171.3	2.73	1.138	2.89	3.19	77.4	150.9	4.3
1950	42	22	13	13	3	7	1	201	94	61	62	14	169.7	4.99	1.544	3.29	4.00	94.0	85.3	0.2
1951	42	30	19	13	3	10	4	244	96	74	67	14	227.0	3.81	1.401	2.66	3.68	93.0	103.8	2.5
1952	35	33	17	14	0	15	0	238	87	52	93	21	239.7	3.27	1.210	3.49	3.52	94.7	113.7	3.5
1953	40	32	18	9	4	10	1	243	102	54	88	31	230.0	3.99	1.291	3.44	4.53	105.4	107.6	2.6
1954	48	20	7	13	2	3	1	198	91	47	50	21	155.7	5.26	1.574	2.89	4.55	110.2	78.5	-0.5
1955	32	18	5	8	0	2	0	151	65	29	40	23	121.7	4.81	1.479	2.96	4.90	116.6	87.6	0.0
1956	27	10	8	3	0	5	0	102	37	20	26	11	102.0	3.26	1.196	2.29	4.16	101.0	126.2	1.7
1957	47	0	5	1	7	0	0	95	24	27	44	7	105.0	2.06	1.162	3.77	3.20	85.3	182.4	3.0
1958	50	0	4	5	8	0	0	81	30	24	27	10	85.3	3.16	1.230	2.85	4.18	114.7	115.2	1.2
1959	67	0	8	5	14	0	0	111	29	25	54	5	116.3	2.24	1.169	4.18	2.74	72.7	167.8	3.3
1960	64	0	13	8	10	0	0	94	31	25	52	8	115.3	2.42	1.032	4.06	3.13	82.3	157.3	3.1
1961	52	0	2	5	4	0	0	64	27	21	32	8	61.3	3.96	1.386	4.70	4.28	105.2	102.8	0.7

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

640

617

525

RBI

116

.1257

OBP

.1855

SLG

.1390

OPS

.3245

Pitching

G (P)

640

185th-most career G (P)

186

134

343rd-most career W

111

436th-most career L

298th-most career SV

SHO

1,982

462nd-most career IP

SO (P)

727

BB allowed

529

ERA

3.697

WHIP

1.3115

K/9

3.30

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
1948-05-30	STL @ PIT Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	1	4
1950-09-05	CHC @ STL Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	0	3
1951-06-21	SF @ STL Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	0	3
1951-05-16	PHI @ STL Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	2	2
1949-06-03	STL @ LAD Gameday	2	0	2	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1951-05-16	PHI @ STL Gameday	8.0	8	3	3	3	8	0
1951-05-07	STL @ LAD Gameday	9.1	9	4	1	7	7	0
1952-06-30	CIN @ STL Gameday	9.0	9	3	3	1	7	1
1952-05-08	SF @ STL Gameday	8.0	10	3	2	3	7	0
1953-04-14	STL @ ATL Gameday	9.1	6	3	2	2	6	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.

Honors

3× 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.