Jeff Pfeffer

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 210 lb

BornMarch 4, 1888 · Seymour, IL, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1911

Final gameSeptember 26, 1924

Seasons13 (1911–1924)

St. Louis Browns 1911; Brooklyn Superbas 1913; Brooklyn Robins 1914–1921; St. Louis Cardinals 1921–1923; Pittsburgh Pirates 1924; St. Louis Cardinals 1924

Percentile snapshot

1922 season — qualified pitchers

90.4

80.9

88.7

34.8

74.8

81.7

SHO

38.3

286

14.8

104

19.1

42.6

79.1

261.3

85.2

ERA

3.58

65.2

WHIP

1.316

65.2

K/9

2.86

36.5

FIP

3.83

FIP-

97.2

55.7

ERA+

109.9

56.5

sWAR

3.9

76.5

of 116 qualified 1922 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

113.0

78.8

sWAR

35.2

97.3

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
1911	2	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-107.9	-100.0	.000	-0.4
1913	5	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-119.7	-100.0	.000	0.1
1914	44	119	116	8	23	2	0	6	2	31	0	0	.198	.212	.216	.427	15.9	25.9	.206	6.4
1915	40	111	106	8	27	3	1	8	4	26	0	2	.255	.282	.302	.584	70.8	75.8	.279	6.0
1916	43	129	122	5	34	2	2	12	4	32	2	0	.279	.302	.328	.629	88.4	92.3	.298	7.3
1917	31	107	100	7	13	0	1	6	2	28	0	0	.130	.147	.150	.297	-25.7	-9.6	.144	3.8
1918	1	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	43.1	52.8	.239	0.4
1919	30	107	97	6	20	0	1	6	7	20	1	0	.206	.260	.227	.486	42.7	46.0	.240	3.7
1920	30	82	74	5	18	0	1	8	2	12	0	0	.243	.263	.270	.533	44.5	51.9	.253	2.6
1921	24	47	40	2	4	1	0	1	2	7	0	0	.100	.163	.125	.288	-28.4	-21.5	.147	0.2
1922	45	104	98	3	24	6	0	12	4	17	0	0	.245	.275	.306	.581	50.0	52.6	.270	3.9
1923	26	56	55	3	7	2	0	2	0	10	0	0	.127	.127	.164	.291	-34.7	-23.2	.132	1.0
1924	31	53	51	2	9	0	0	1	0	15	0	0	.176	.176	.176	.353	-16.6	-4.6	.163	0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1911	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	8	4	4	0	10.0	7.20	1.500	3.60	3.31	100.0	46.0	-0.4
1913	5	2	0	1	0	1	0	28	9	13	13	0	24.3	3.33	1.685	4.81	3.65	113.9	96.2	0.1
1914	43	34	23	12	4	27	3	264	69	91	135	9	315.0	1.97	1.127	3.86	2.71	95.3	144.0	6.4
1915	40	34	19	14	3	26	6	243	68	76	84	8	291.7	2.10	1.094	2.59	3.09	111.6	132.0	6.0
1916	41	37	25	11	1	30	6	274	70	63	128	5	328.7	1.92	1.025	3.51	2.45	93.1	137.5	7.3
1917	30	30	11	15	0	24	3	225	66	66	115	4	266.0	2.23	1.094	3.89	2.64	96.0	123.0	3.8
1918	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	2	0	3	1	0	9.0	0.00	.556	1.00	3.08	111.8	—	0.4
1919	30	30	17	13	0	26	4	270	79	49	92	7	267.0	2.66	1.195	3.10	2.78	94.5	110.5	3.7
1920	30	28	16	9	0	20	2	225	72	45	80	5	215.0	3.01	1.256	3.35	2.86	89.5	105.9	2.6
1921	24	18	10	8	0	9	1	151	63	37	30	3	130.3	4.35	1.442	2.07	3.82	101.7	86.4	0.2
1922	44	32	19	12	2	19	1	286	104	58	83	12	261.3	3.58	1.316	2.86	3.83	97.2	109.9	3.9
1923	26	18	8	9	0	7	1	171	68	40	32	8	152.3	4.02	1.385	1.89	4.19	106.4	98.0	1.0
1924	31	16	9	8	0	4	0	170	66	47	39	6	136.7	4.35	1.588	2.57	4.01	105.1	87.7	0.2

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

352

931

874

180

RBI

203

.2059

OBP

.2306

SLG

.2380

OPS

.4686

Pitching

G (P)

347

280

417th-most career GS

158

234th-most career W

112

424th-most career L

194

147th-most career CG

SHO

135th-most career SHO

2,407

280th-most career IP

SO (P)

836

BB allowed

592

ERA

2.774

101st-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2096

190th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.13

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	BB	TB
1920-08-23	LAD @ PIT Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	0	5
1919-05-28	STL @ LAD Gameday	5	1	2	0	1	1	0	4
1915-09-02	LAD @ ATL Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	1	3
1915-09-12	LAD @ STL Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	0	0	3
1922-07-06	LAD @ STL Gameday	5	1	2	1	0	3	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1917-09-04	PHI @ LAD Gameday	14.0	3	0	0	1	9
1917-09-13	LAD @ PHI Gameday	10.2	7	1	1	3	9
1914-08-04	STL @ LAD Gameday	9.0	7	0	0	1	8
1916-06-13	STL @ LAD Gameday	9.0	2	1	0	1	7
1917-08-25	STL @ LAD Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	2	7

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.