Howard Ehmke

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 190 lb

BornApril 24, 1894 · Silver Creek, NY, USA

MLB debutApril 12, 1915

Final gameMay 22, 1930

Seasons15 (1915–1930)

Buffalo Blues 1915; Detroit Tigers 1916–1917; Detroit Tigers 1919–1922; Boston Red Sox 1923–1926; Philadelphia Athletics 1926–1930

Percentile snapshot

1927 season — qualified pitchers

45.7

69.8

58.1

41.1

32.6

SHO

33.3

200

46.5

42.6

59.7

10.1

189.7

56.6

ERA

4.22

32.6

WHIP

1.371

53.5

K/9

3.23

58.1

FIP

4.40

26.4

FIP-

104.7

21.7

ERA+

99.6

38.8

sWAR

1.7

37.2

of 130 qualified 1927 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

104.0

53.9

sWAR

31.0

96.7

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1915	18	12	12	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-124.9	-100.0	.000	-1.4
1916	5	14	14	1	2	0	0	1	0	5	0	0	.143	.143	.143	.286	-37.9	-15.4	.138	0.2
1917	35	74	69	3	17	2	0	2	4	13	0	0	.246	.288	.275	.563	66.3	70.5	.280	1.5
1919	33	97	91	6	23	3	1	5	3	12	0	0	.253	.277	.308	.584	57.0	63.9	.278	2.8
1920	38	107	105	4	25	7	2	5	0	10	0	0	.238	.238	.343	.581	44.2	53.4	.264	4.3
1921	30	79	74	9	21	3	1	9	1	7	0	0	.284	.293	.351	.645	57.8	63.6	.296	1.6
1922	45	108	102	6	16	4	1	8	2	10	0	0	.157	.173	.216	.389	-9.6	1.7	.180	1.6
1923	43	120	112	4	25	3	0	7	2	11	0	0	.223	.237	.250	.487	18.3	27.3	.230	3.8
1924	46	135	126	14	28	2	0	14	5	9	4	1	.222	.252	.238	.490	20.2	26.2	.237	5.6
1925	34	98	88	6	13	2	0	5	4	11	0	0	.148	.185	.170	.355	-17.2	-10.1	.174	4.0
1926	35	93	80	6	12	3	0	8	3	11	1	0	.150	.181	.188	.368	-16.0	-4.3	.177	2.7
1927	30	71	68	5	14	5	0	3	0	4	0	0	.206	.206	.279	.485	12.9	23.9	.220	1.7
1928	23	57	46	6	11	3	1	5	1	3	0	0	.239	.255	.348	.603	49.8	57.0	.273	2.2
1929	11	19	19	0	2	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	.105	.105	.158	.263	-48.0	-33.3	.117	0.9
1930	3	4	3	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.333	.500	.333	.833	132.1	115.3	.416	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1915	18	2	0	2	0	0	0	69	33	25	18	2	53.7	5.53	1.752	3.02	3.98	131.4	54.8	-1.4
1916	5	4	3	1	0	4	0	34	13	15	15	0	37.3	3.13	1.313	3.62	2.73	93.7	92.9	0.2
1917	35	25	10	15	2	13	4	174	68	88	90	3	206.0	2.97	1.272	3.93	2.81	104.1	90.9	1.5
1919	33	31	17	10	0	20	2	255	88	107	79	5	248.7	3.18	1.456	2.86	3.52	109.6	100.8	2.8
1920	38	33	15	18	3	23	2	250	97	124	98	8	268.3	3.25	1.394	3.29	4.09	109.0	115.2	4.3
1921	30	22	13	14	0	13	1	220	99	81	68	15	196.3	4.54	1.533	3.12	4.95	115.3	94.6	1.6
1922	45	30	17	17	1	16	1	299	131	101	108	12	279.7	4.22	1.430	3.48	4.06	102.7	93.9	1.6
1923	43	39	20	17	3	28	2	318	133	119	121	12	316.7	3.78	1.380	3.44	3.95	98.0	106.7	3.8
1924	45	36	19	17	4	26	4	324	121	81	119	9	315.0	3.46	1.286	3.40	3.62	84.8	123.4	5.6
1925	34	31	9	20	1	22	0	285	108	85	95	8	260.7	3.73	1.419	3.28	3.88	87.3	119.3	4.0
1926	34	32	15	14	0	17	2	240	105	95	93	4	244.7	3.86	1.369	3.42	3.64	89.8	105.0	2.7
1927	30	27	12	10	0	10	1	200	89	60	68	13	189.7	4.22	1.371	3.23	4.40	104.7	99.6	1.7
1928	23	18	9	8	0	5	1	135	56	44	34	6	139.3	3.62	1.285	2.20	4.14	102.4	111.6	2.2
1929	11	8	7	2	0	2	0	48	20	15	20	2	54.7	3.29	1.152	3.29	3.64	85.5	129.2	0.9
1930	3	1	0	1	0	0	0	22	13	2	4	4	10.0	11.70	2.400	3.60	9.35	199.8	40.0	-0.6

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

429

1,088

1,009

210

RBI

111

.2081

OBP

.2280

SLG

.2577

OPS

.4857

Pitching

G (P)

427

339

240th-most career GS

166

206th-most career W

166

101st-most career L

199

138th-most career CG

SHO

246th-most career SHO

2,821

173rd-most career IP

SO (P)

1,030

BB allowed

1,042

100th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.746

WHIP

1.3880

K/9

3.29

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	RBI	TB
1919-08-30	DET @ BAL Gameday	4	1	4	1	0	0	5
1921-07-23	MIN @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	5
1928-06-29	NYY @ ATH Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	0	5
1919-07-12	NYY @ DET Gameday	4	0	2	1	1	2	5
1921-06-09	DET @ MIN Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1929-10-08	ATH @ CHC Gameday	9.0	8	1	0	1	13	0
1923-05-01	ATH @ BOS Gameday	9.0	10	4	4	2	10	1
1926-07-02	BOS @ ATH Gameday	12.0	7	3	2	4	9	0
1919-09-11	DET @ ATH Gameday	9.0	8	2	0	2	8	0
1920-08-08	NYY @ DET Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	1	8	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.