MLB / Players

Hal Newhouser

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 180 lb

BornMay 20, 1921 · Detroit, MI, USA

MLB debutSeptember 29, 1939

Final gameMay 3, 1955

Seasons17 (1939–1955)

Detroit Tigers 1939–1953; Cleveland Indians 1954–1955

Percentile snapshot

1950 season — qualified pitchers

31.7

63.3

38.3

68.3

SHO

18.3

232

36.7

103

31.7

43.3

213.7

48.3

ERA

4.34

23.3

WHIP

1.465

K/9

3.66

FIP

4.49

FIP-

96.7

38.3

ERA+

107.0

36.7

sWAR

2.7

of 61 qualified 1950 pitchers (min 157 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

128.9

95.8

sWAR

62.7

99.5

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1939	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.9	-100.0	.000	0.0
1940	28	47	40	3	8	0	0	0	2	3	4	0	0	.200	.256	.200	.456	11.2	16.1	.222	1.0
1941	33	68	60	3	9	0	0	0	2	3	8	1	0	.150	.190	.150	.340	-25.4	-12.3	.168	0.9
1942	39	58	52	1	8	2	0	0	1	3	8	0	0	.154	.200	.192	.392	-4.5	7.5	.193	4.9
1943	37	72	65	4	12	2	0	0	5	3	8	0	0	.185	.221	.215	.436	10.9	24.6	.213	2.9
1944	47	132	120	10	29	4	0	0	5	6	12	1	0	.242	.278	.275	.553	49.0	55.6	.266	8.5
1945	40	124	109	9	28	5	1	0	17	7	10	0	1	.257	.302	.321	.623	72.2	77.2	.300	10.2
1946	37	117	103	6	13	3	0	2	11	6	27	1	0	.126	.174	.214	.388	-12.7	5.8	.185	8.9
1947	40	114	96	5	19	0	0	0	9	15	20	0	0	.198	.306	.198	.504	44.1	40.9	.264	6.1
1948	39	108	92	6	19	0	1	0	6	10	14	0	0	.207	.284	.228	.513	34.8	36.4	.258	6.8
1949	38	117	91	8	18	3	0	0	6	12	19	0	2	.198	.291	.231	.522	39.5	39.8	.267	5.7
1950	35	84	74	6	13	2	0	0	8	5	8	0	0	.176	.228	.203	.431	2.6	10.1	.211	2.7
1951	17	38	29	4	9	0	0	0	3	5	3	0	0	.310	.412	.310	.722	106.2	97.0	.359	1.4
1952	26	57	46	5	10	1	0	0	4	10	9	0	0	.217	.357	.239	.596	75.7	65.9	.309	1.9
1953	7	9	8	1	4	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	.500	.556	.500	1.056	199.4	185.2	.495	-0.4
1954	26	14	13	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	.154	.154	.154	.308	-37.3	-14.7	.143	1.1
1955	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	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
1939	1	1	0	1	0	1	0	3	3	4	4	0	5.0	5.40	1.400	7.20	3.94	81.5	89.5	0.0
1940	28	20	9	9	0	7	0	149	72	76	89	12	133.3	4.86	1.688	6.01	4.51	96.7	96.1	1.0
1941	33	27	9	11	0	5	1	166	92	137	106	6	173.0	4.79	1.751	5.51	4.38	98.1	93.3	0.9
1942	38	23	8	14	5	11	1	137	50	114	103	4	183.7	2.45	1.367	5.05	3.61	93.1	158.1	4.9
1943	37	25	8	17	1	10	1	163	66	111	144	3	195.7	3.04	1.400	6.62	2.78	80.2	114.1	2.9
1944	47	34	29	9	2	25	6	264	77	102	187	6	312.3	2.22	1.172	5.39	2.59	73.0	160.0	8.5
1945	40	36	25	9	2	29	8	239	63	110	212	5	313.3	1.81	1.114	6.09	2.35	67.1	193.3	10.2
1946	37	34	26	9	1	29	6	215	63	98	275	10	292.7	1.94	1.069	8.46	2.03	55.6	188.3	8.9
1947	40	36	17	17	2	24	3	268	91	110	176	9	285.0	2.87	1.326	5.56	2.78	73.9	130.8	6.1
1948	39	35	21	12	1	19	2	249	91	99	143	10	272.3	3.01	1.278	4.73	3.28	75.4	144.6	6.8
1949	38	35	18	11	1	22	3	277	109	111	144	19	292.0	3.36	1.329	4.44	3.49	84.1	123.5	5.7
1950	35	30	15	13	3	15	1	232	103	81	87	23	213.7	4.34	1.465	3.66	4.49	96.7	107.0	2.7
1951	15	14	6	6	0	7	1	98	42	19	37	10	96.3	3.92	1.215	3.46	3.84	93.0	105.3	1.4
1952	25	19	9	9	0	8	0	148	64	47	57	13	154.0	3.74	1.266	3.33	3.64	96.4	100.8	1.9
1953	7	4	0	1	1	0	0	31	17	8	6	4	21.7	7.06	1.800	2.49	5.80	143.5	57.2	-0.4
1954	26	1	7	2	7	0	0	34	13	18	25	3	46.7	2.51	1.114	4.82	3.30	89.7	146.7	1.1
1955	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	1	0	2.3	0.00	2.143	3.86	6.71	169.1	—	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

492

1,160

999

201

RBI

150

.2012

OBP

.2665

SLG

.2332

OPS

.4997

Pitching

G (P)

488

475th-most career G (P)

374

176th-most career GS

207

107th-most career W

150

167th-most career L

212

119th-most career CG

SHO

88th-most career SHO

2,993

140th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,796

131st-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,249

44th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.055

189th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3107

K/9

5.40

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	HR	RBI	TB
1946-06-26	BOS @ DET Gameday	5	1	2	1	0	1	4	6
1945-09-26	CLE @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	2	0	0	0	5
1945-09-22	BAL @ DET Gameday	3	1	2	1	1	0	3	5
1946-08-25	DET @ NYY Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	3	5
1949-05-20	DET @ ATH Gameday	4	0	3	1	0	0	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1943-05-27	DET @ NYY Gameday	9.0	4	2	2	2	14	1
1946-06-02	DET @ MIN Gameday	9.0	8	2	1	3	13	0
1946-09-18	ATH @ DET Gameday	10.0	3	1	1	1	11	0
1943-08-14	MIN @ DET Gameday	9.0	9	7	3	6	11	0
1945-05-23	DET @ ATH Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	1	11	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

Hall of Fame, 1992 (Veterans)

2× Most Valuable Player1× Pitching Triple Crown7× 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.