Karl Drews

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 192 lb

BornFebruary 22, 1920 · Staten Island, NY, USA

MLB debutSeptember 8, 1946

Final gameSeptember 20, 1954

Seasons8 (1946–1954)

New York Yankees 1946–1948; St. Louis Browns 1948–1949; Philadelphia Phillies 1951–1953; Cincinnati Redlegs 1954; Philadelphia Phillies 1954

Percentile snapshot

1953 season — qualified pitchers

96.6

58.6

56.9

8.6

SHO

218

24.1

32.8

84.5

32.8

8.6

185.3

44.8

ERA

4.52

29.3

WHIP

1.446

K/9

3.50

32.8

FIP

4.63

5.2

FIP-

110.6

5.2

ERA+

92.8

20.7

sWAR

1.0

20.7

of 59 qualified 1953 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

0.2

53.2

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1946	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-139.9	-100.0	.000	-0.3
1947	30	31	27	1	1	0	0	3	6	0	.037	.133	.037	.170	-59.7	-50.6	.107	-0.8
1948	39	21	15	2	0	0	0	4	7	0	.000	.211	.000	.211	-27.3	-42.0	.162	-0.7
1949	31	54	46	0	0	0	0	7	22	0	.000	.132	.000	.132	-73.7	-64.7	.102	-2.5
1951	5	9	8	0	2	0	0	1	5	0	.250	.333	.250	.583	65.2	61.8	.286	-0.4
1952	33	89	82	2	9	1	2	5	29	1	.110	.161	.122	.283	-31.4	-19.6	.142	4.6
1953	47	64	59	3	7	0	1	4	20	0	.119	.175	.119	.293	-27.8	-20.8	.147	1.0
1954	30	22	16	2	2	1	2	4	6	0	.125	.286	.188	.473	29.1	28.6	.245	-0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1946	3	1	0	1	0	0	0	6	6	6	4	0	6.3	8.53	1.895	5.68	4.50	128.8	41.0	-0.3
1947	30	10	6	6	1	0	0	92	50	55	45	6	91.7	4.91	1.604	4.42	4.26	117.8	73.6	-0.8
1948	39	4	5	5	3	0	0	78	50	69	22	6	76.0	5.92	1.934	2.61	5.92	136.5	73.2	-0.7
1949	31	23	4	12	0	3	1	180	103	66	35	11	139.7	6.64	1.761	2.26	4.63	103.6	67.3	-2.5
1951	5	3	1	0	0	1	0	29	16	7	13	2	23.0	6.26	1.565	5.09	3.82	99.4	61.3	-0.4
1952	33	30	14	15	0	15	5	213	69	52	96	13	228.7	2.72	1.159	3.78	3.05	83.7	134.2	4.6
1953	47	27	9	10	3	6	0	218	93	50	72	26	185.3	4.52	1.446	3.50	4.63	110.6	92.8	1.0
1954	30	9	5	4	0	1	1	97	50	27	35	8	76.0	5.92	1.632	4.14	4.01	96.7	70.2	-0.7

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

218

291

254

RBI

.0827

OBP

.1731

SLG

.0906

OPS

.2637

Pitching

G (P)

218

107

SHO

827

SO (P)

322

BB allowed

332

ERA

4.758

WHIP

1.5060

K/9

3.51

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	RBI	BB	TB
1952-09-02	LAD @ PHI Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	0	2
1953-08-22	SF @ PHI Gameday	2	1	2	0	1	1	2
1953-08-30	CIN @ PHI Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	0	2
1952-07-19	PHI @ CIN Gameday	1	1	1	1	0	0	2
1954-08-31	PHI @ CIN Gameday	1	1	1	1	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1947-08-10	NYY @ BOS Gameday	8.2	5	1	1	4	9
1952-08-13	ATL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	0	8
1952-04-20	ATL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	3	7
1953-04-22	LAD @ PHI Gameday	9.0	7	4	3	2	7
1951-09-22	PHI @ LAD Gameday	9.0	8	3	3	2	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.