Lou Kretlow
Detroit Tigers 1946; Detroit Tigers 1948–1949; Chicago White Sox 1950; St. Louis Browns 1950; Chicago White Sox 1951–1953; St. Louis Browns 1953; Baltimore Orioles 1954–1955; Kansas City Athletics 1956
Percentile snapshot
1954 season — qualified pitchers
of 57 qualified 1954 pitchers (min 154 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .750 | 1.250 | 256.7 | 238.8 | .564 | 0.3 |
| 1948 | 5 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .500 | 1.000 | 170.8 | 164.7 | .471 | 0.3 |
| 1949 | 25 | 28 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .037 | .000 | .037 | -113.4 | -89.7 | .029 | -1.3 |
| 1950 | 21 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -128.0 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.7 |
| 1951 | 26 | 51 | 48 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 24 | 0 | 0 | .083 | .120 | .083 | .203 | -56.0 | -43.4 | .105 | 0.5 |
| 1952 | 19 | 25 | 20 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .050 | .174 | .100 | .274 | -26.2 | -21.9 | .156 | 1.3 |
| 1953 | 31 | 32 | 29 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .172 | .200 | .172 | .372 | -12.5 | -0.6 | .179 | 0.0 |
| 1954 | 32 | 60 | 51 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 19 | 0 | 0 | .157 | .232 | .157 | .389 | 3.2 | 9.4 | .201 | 0.2 |
| 1955 | 15 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .091 | .091 | .091 | .182 | -67.4 | -49.4 | .085 | -1.7 |
| 1956 | 25 | 41 | 33 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 19 | 0 | 0 | .061 | .162 | .061 | .223 | -44.4 | -39.5 | .132 | -0.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 9.0 | 3.00 | 1.000 | 4.00 | 5.12 | 140.2 | 121.6 | 0.3 |
| 1948 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 21 | 12 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 23.3 | 4.63 | 1.371 | 3.47 | 3.95 | 90.8 | 93.9 | 0.3 |
| 1949 | 25 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 85 | 52 | 69 | 40 | 5 | 76.0 | 6.16 | 2.026 | 4.74 | 5.06 | 121.9 | 67.4 | -1.3 |
| 1950 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 28 | 45 | 24 | 3 | 35.7 | 7.07 | 2.439 | 6.06 | 6.41 | 138.6 | 65.3 | -0.7 |
| 1951 | 26 | 18 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 129 | 64 | 74 | 89 | 7 | 137.0 | 4.20 | 1.482 | 5.85 | 3.63 | 90.9 | 94.9 | 0.5 |
| 1952 | 19 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 52 | 26 | 56 | 63 | 5 | 79.0 | 2.96 | 1.367 | 7.18 | 3.76 | 103.7 | 122.3 | 1.3 |
| 1953 | 31 | 14 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 105 | 54 | 82 | 52 | 7 | 101.7 | 4.78 | 1.839 | 4.60 | 4.89 | 121.5 | 84.2 | 0.0 |
| 1954 | 32 | 20 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 169 | 81 | 82 | 82 | 12 | 166.7 | 4.37 | 1.506 | 4.43 | 3.82 | 104.4 | 83.8 | 0.2 |
| 1955 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 35 | 27 | 26 | 3 | 38.3 | 8.22 | 2.009 | 6.10 | 4.28 | 114.3 | 45.6 | -1.7 |
| 1956 | 25 | 20 | 4 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 121 | 70 | 74 | 61 | 17 | 118.7 | 5.31 | 1.643 | 4.63 | 5.21 | 122.0 | 80.5 | -0.5 |
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
Pitching
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 | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946-09-26 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1948-09-15 | MIN @ DET Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1953-08-27 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1954-09-15 | BOS @ BAL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1952-09-24 | CWS @ CLE Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952-09-15 | BOS @ CWS Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 2 |
| 1952-07-24 | BOS @ CWS Gameday | 9.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 0 |
| 1951-07-20 | MIN @ CWS Gameday | 10.0 | 12 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 0 |
| 1951-09-29 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| 1951-09-14 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 8.0 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 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.