Lon Warneke

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 185 lb

BornMarch 28, 1909 · Mount Ida, AR, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1930

Final gameSeptember 29, 1945

Seasons15 (1930–1945)

Chicago Cubs 1930–1936; St. Louis Cardinals 1937–1941; Chicago Cubs 1942; St. Louis Cardinals 1942; Chicago Cubs 1943; Chicago Cubs 1945

Percentile snapshot

1942 season — qualified pitchers

63.9

28.7

78.7

67.6

SHO

39.8

173

47.2

59.3

48.1

19.4

181.0

61.1

ERA

2.73

75.9

WHIP

1.155

88.9

K/9

2.93

26.9

FIP

2.95

89.8

FIP-

88.6

71.3

ERA+

121.4

68.5

sWAR

3.4

77.8

of 109 qualified 1942 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

119.5

sWAR

50.5

98.9

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1930	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4
1931	20	19	19	3	5	2	0	0	2	0	5	0	.263	.263	.368	.632	58.6	67.3	.283	1.2
1932	35	106	99	8	19	1	1	0	9	3	20	0	.192	.216	.222	.438	12.4	19.2	.202	7.1
1933	39	106	100	9	30	6	1	2	13	3	13	0	.300	.320	.440	.760	115.0	117.5	.345	8.5
1934	52	118	113	12	22	3	0	0	8	3	9	0	.195	.216	.221	.437	13.4	19.5	.203	5.1
1935	44	102	91	9	20	1	0	0	15	3	9	0	.220	.253	.231	.483	29.6	32.1	.228	5.3
1936	40	98	84	9	17	1	0	1	5	2	9	0	.202	.239	.250	.489	26.4	31.8	.230	3.9
1937	36	93	80	10	21	3	0	0	10	7	12	0	.263	.322	.300	.622	68.8	68.3	.297	1.4
1938	31	76	71	5	23	3	0	0	6	2	7	0	.324	.342	.366	.709	88.4	90.7	.328	2.4
1939	34	63	52	4	10	3	0	0	8	4	7	0	.192	.263	.250	.513	30.3	35.2	.248	2.3
1940	33	98	86	6	18	2	0	1	13	5	24	0	.209	.253	.267	.520	34.4	41.0	.245	4.8
1941	37	96	77	6	9	0	0	0	4	11	18	0	.117	.227	.117	.344	-2.7	-3.1	.190	4.1
1942	27	70	62	3	16	0	0	0	4	3	9	0	.258	.292	.258	.550	56.0	61.5	.267	3.4
1943	21	32	26	2	5	1	0	0	0	5	6	1	.192	.323	.231	.553	69.0	61.4	.289	1.2
1945	9	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.333	.000	.333	45.3	-1.3	.255	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
1930	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	5	5	0	0	1.3	33.75	5.250	0.00	14.80	296.9	14.8	-0.4
1931	20	7	2	4	0	3	0	67	23	37	27	1	64.3	3.22	1.617	3.78	4.20	107.6	121.3	1.2
1932	35	32	22	6	0	25	4	247	73	64	106	12	277.0	2.37	1.123	3.44	3.42	90.0	160.3	7.1
1933	36	34	18	13	1	26	4	262	64	75	133	8	287.3	2.00	1.173	4.17	2.82	86.2	163.0	8.5
1934	43	35	22	10	3	23	3	273	104	66	143	16	291.3	3.21	1.164	4.42	3.52	90.0	121.7	5.1
1935	42	30	20	13	4	20	1	257	89	50	120	19	261.7	3.06	1.173	4.13	3.66	92.7	128.8	5.3
1936	40	29	16	13	1	13	4	246	92	76	113	10	240.3	3.45	1.340	4.23	3.64	90.7	116.5	3.9
1937	36	33	18	11	0	18	2	280	120	69	87	32	238.7	4.53	1.462	3.28	4.83	121.5	87.9	1.4
1938	31	26	13	8	0	12	4	199	87	64	89	14	197.0	3.97	1.335	4.07	3.76	95.0	99.6	2.4
1939	34	21	13	7	2	6	2	160	68	49	59	14	162.0	3.78	1.290	3.28	4.15	100.9	108.8	2.3
1940	33	31	16	10	0	17	1	235	81	47	85	17	232.0	3.14	1.216	3.30	3.61	90.6	127.0	4.8
1941	37	30	17	9	0	12	4	227	86	82	83	19	246.0	3.15	1.256	3.04	3.93	104.1	120.1	4.1
1942	27	24	11	11	2	13	1	173	55	36	59	10	181.0	2.73	1.155	2.93	2.95	88.6	121.4	3.4
1943	21	10	4	5	0	4	0	82	31	18	30	3	88.3	3.16	1.132	3.06	2.85	84.9	106.1	1.2
1945	9	1	0	1	0	0	0	16	6	1	6	0	14.0	3.86	1.214	3.86	1.99	54.1	95.6	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

459

1,080

962

215

RBI

148

.2235

OBP

.2662

SLG

.2672

OPS

.5334

Pitching

G (P)

445

343

228th-most career GS

192

146th-most career W

121

329th-most career L

192

149th-most career CG

SHO

111th-most career SHO

2,782

180th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,140

445th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

739

321st-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.183

251st-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2454

318th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.69

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	HR	RBI	TB
1933-05-24	PHI @ CHC Gameday	3	1	2	1	1	2	6
1935-05-12	CHC @ ATL Gameday	4	0	4	0	0	2	4
1940-08-03	STL @ SF Gameday	5	0	4	0	0	1	4
1939-06-27	CHC @ STL Gameday	2	0	2	2	0	2	4
1940-05-29	STL @ CHC Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	3	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1934-04-17	CHC @ CIN Gameday	9.0	1	0	0	2	13	0
1935-07-23	LAD @ CHC Gameday	9.0	12	4	4	2	9	1
1935-09-06	PHI @ CHC Gameday	10.0	11	2	2	3	8	0
1934-06-21	SF @ CHC Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	1	8	0
1935-09-02	CIN @ CHC Gameday	9.0	8	1	1	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.

Honors

5× 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.