MLB / Players

Ike Pearson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 1 in · 180 lb
BornMarch 1, 1917 · Grenada, MS, USA
MLB debutJune 6, 1939
Final gameSeptember 19, 1948
Seasons6 (1939–1948)

Philadelphia Phillies 1939–1942; Philadelphia Phillies 1946; Chicago White Sox 1948

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
-2.3
0.9

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
193927433712000121200.054.103.054.157-72.9-56.9.086-1.7
19402950444920052700.205.239.250.48928.735.6.230-1.2
19414640400500010700.125.125.125.250-47.5-29.2.1171.1
19423524231100001500.043.083.043.127-81.7-62.0.071-0.8
19465552100110000.200.200.8001.000165.3177.9.4280.2
19482312100200000300.200.200.200.400-6.57.7.1880.1

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
1939261321304014480562915125.05.761.6002.095.37136.768.2-1.7
1940292031415116088574313145.35.451.4932.664.56119.470.1-1.2
194146104146001395470388136.03.571.5372.514.49124.6100.81.1
19423571600087435021485.34.541.6052.214.30132.471.6-0.8
1946521001116686114.33.771.6743.774.27126.190.00.2
19482322310062292712853.04.921.6792.045.90140.585.30.1

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

G
165
PA
174
AB
159
R
8
H
20
2B
2
3B
0
HR
1
RBI
8
BB
5
SO
34
SB
0
BA
.1258
OBP
.1524
SLG
.1572
OPS
.3096

Pitching

G (P)
164
GS
54
W
13
L
50
SV
8
CG
10
SHO
2
IP
559
SO (P)
149
BB allowed
268
ERA
4.830
WHIP
1.5671
K/9
2.40

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1946-05-23PIT @ PHI Gameday111001104
1940-07-20PHI @ CHC Gameday422000202
1940-09-22PHI @ LAD Gameday201100202
1940-05-13PHI @ LAD Gameday311100002
1940-09-28LAD @ PHI Gameday301000101

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1940-09-07ATL @ PHI Gameday8.0633351
1939-07-25PHI @ PIT Gameday9.11055240
1946-05-01PHI @ PIT Gameday9.0500340
1940-09-22PHI @ LAD Gameday5.2300340
1939-08-10LAD @ PHI Gameday9.0533630

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.