Hal Carlson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornMay 17, 1892 · Rockford, IL, USA

MLB debutApril 13, 1917

Final gameMay 23, 1930

Seasons14 (1917–1930)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1917–1923; Philadelphia Phillies 1924–1926; Chicago Cubs 1927; Philadelphia Phillies 1927; Chicago Cubs 1928–1930

Percentile snapshot

1927 season — qualified pitchers

76.7

85.3

80.6

17.1

45.7

89.9

SHO

65.9

281

4.7

102

12.4

65.9

21.7

2.3

248.0

87.6

ERA

3.70

56.6

WHIP

1.315

66.7

K/9

1.45

0.8

FIP

4.08

FIP-

103.7

26.4

ERA+

105.9

48.1

sWAR

2.8

57.4

of 130 qualified 1927 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

98.4

31.2

sWAR

19.2

93.2

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1917	34	53	49	0	6	0	1	0	2	1	13	0	.122	.140	.163	.303	-25.8	-8.5	.145	1.0
1918	3	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	6.3	20.6	.191	0.0
1919	22	46	43	3	7	1	1	0	3	1	14	0	.163	.200	.233	.433	19.0	28.8	.208	2.6
1920	39	88	85	3	23	4	1	0	2	1	16	0	.271	.279	.341	.620	70.1	76.9	.288	2.1
1921	31	34	34	3	10	2	0	0	2	0	6	0	.294	.294	.353	.647	64.2	69.9	.293	0.7
1922	39	62	56	10	15	2	0	1	9	2	7	0	.268	.293	.357	.650	63.6	67.3	.298	-0.8
1923	4	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	.000	.167	.000	.167	-40.0	-52.7	.126	0.0
1924	39	80	76	6	21	1	0	2	8	2	8	0	.276	.295	.368	.663	58.2	65.6	.302	1.2
1925	38	100	93	9	17	1	0	2	8	5	14	1	.183	.224	.258	.483	6.7	16.7	.224	3.5
1926	38	107	96	13	23	5	1	0	13	7	15	0	.240	.298	.313	.611	55.6	58.4	.290	5.6
1927	39	97	92	5	17	0	0	0	13	1	9	0	.185	.194	.185	.378	-7.9	1.4	.178	2.8
1928	20	19	19	1	5	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	.263	.263	.263	.526	31.4	39.7	.244	-0.7
1929	31	44	39	4	9	2	0	0	8	2	7	0	.231	.268	.282	.550	34.1	37.1	.256	0.7
1930	8	21	20	1	5	0	0	0	3	1	5	0	.250	.286	.250	.536	30.9	30.9	.251	0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1917	34	17	7	11	1	9	1	140	52	49	68	0	161.3	2.90	1.171	3.79	2.52	90.7	96.0	1.0
1918	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	12	5	5	5	1	12.0	3.75	1.417	3.75	3.80	134.4	75.4	0.0
1919	22	14	8	10	0	7	1	114	35	39	49	0	141.0	2.23	1.085	3.13	2.62	88.6	132.3	2.6
1920	39	31	14	13	3	16	3	262	92	63	62	4	246.7	3.36	1.318	2.26	3.17	100.7	93.9	2.1
1921	31	10	4	8	4	3	0	121	52	23	37	6	109.7	4.27	1.313	3.04	3.71	97.5	89.2	0.7
1922	39	18	9	12	2	6	0	193	92	58	64	10	145.3	5.70	1.727	3.96	4.37	107.0	71.6	-0.8
1923	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	19	7	2	4	2	13.3	4.73	1.575	2.70	4.99	124.4	84.8	0.0
1924	38	24	8	17	2	12	1	267	110	55	66	9	203.7	4.86	1.581	2.92	3.73	84.8	90.6	1.2
1925	35	32	13	14	0	18	4	281	110	52	80	19	234.0	4.23	1.423	3.08	4.22	89.2	111.9	3.5
1926	35	34	17	12	0	20	3	293	96	47	55	9	267.3	3.23	1.272	1.85	3.48	84.4	127.6	5.6
1927	38	31	16	13	1	19	2	281	102	45	40	16	248.0	3.70	1.315	1.45	4.08	103.7	105.9	2.8
1928	20	5	3	2	4	2	0	74	37	15	11	4	56.3	5.91	1.580	1.76	4.10	105.7	65.7	-0.7
1929	31	14	11	5	2	6	2	131	64	31	35	8	111.7	5.16	1.451	2.82	4.47	95.6	90.7	0.7
1930	8	6	4	2	0	3	0	68	29	14	14	5	51.7	5.05	1.587	2.44	5.14	103.1	98.7	0.5

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

385

762

712

159

RBI

118

.2233

OBP

.2507

SLG

.2809

OPS

.5316

Pitching

G (P)

377

238

114

493rd-most career W

120

335th-most career L

121

326th-most career CG

SHO

317th-most career SHO

2,002

451st-most career IP

SO (P)

590

BB allowed

498

ERA

3.970

WHIP

1.3756

K/9

2.65

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	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1924-05-04	PHI @ SF Gameday	3	1	3	0	1	2	6
1920-05-29	PIT @ CIN Gameday	3	0	3	1	0	0	5
1922-06-08	PIT @ PHI Gameday	5	1	4	0	0	1	4
1922-08-10	PIT @ PHI Gameday	5	2	1	0	1	2	4
1924-04-16	ATL @ PHI Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	2	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1920-09-03	CHC @ PIT Gameday	13.0	10	4	4	2	7
1922-04-23	PIT @ CHC Gameday	9.0	9	3	3	5	7
1924-05-27	PHI @ ATL Gameday	9.2	10	5	5	3	6
1917-04-29	PIT @ CIN Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	3	6
1917-09-01	STL @ PIT Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	0	6

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.