MLB / Players

Max Butcher

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 220 lb

BornSeptember 21, 1910 · Holden, WV, USA

MLB debutApril 20, 1936

Final gameSeptember 11, 1945

Seasons10 (1936–1945)

Brooklyn Dodgers 1936–1938; Philadelphia Phillies 1938–1939; Pittsburgh Pirates 1939–1945

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified pitchers

42.9

40.5

51.2

54.8

53.6

SHO

57.1

184

47.6

60.7

40.5

169.3

ERA

3.03

65.5

WHIP

1.358

40.5

K/9

1.97

3.6

FIP

3.62

41.7

FIP-

92.1

58.3

ERA+

129.9

65.5

sWAR

3.5

71.4

of 85 qualified 1945 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

101.3

43.3

sWAR

18.2

92.8

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1936	42	50	48	6	6	1	0	1	2	16	.125	.160	.146	.306	-27.5	-17.7	.149	1.4
1937	40	65	62	3	10	3	0	3	2	17	.161	.188	.210	.397	-3.7	6.6	.186	1.2
1938	37	63	60	5	13	1	1	4	1	13	.217	.230	.283	.513	27.1	38.0	.235	0.7
1939	33	76	69	5	10	1	0	3	1	10	.145	.157	.159	.317	-30.9	-14.8	.148	0.0
1940	36	53	50	6	15	3	0	10	2	7	.300	.327	.360	.687	87.0	89.4	.317	-1.7
1941	33	90	82	4	15	0	0	3	3	9	.183	.212	.183	.395	2.2	11.8	.192	3.8
1942	24	51	49	3	7	0	0	2	0	5	.143	.143	.143	.286	-40.3	-17.2	.135	2.1
1943	33	70	61	1	10	2	0	4	2	5	.164	.190	.197	.387	-7.0	10.1	.187	3.9
1944	36	70	63	4	12	2	0	5	2	8	.190	.215	.222	.438	9.7	21.3	.208	3.3
1945	28	61	54	6	12	1	0	2	1	2	.222	.236	.241	.477	20.6	30.5	.227	3.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1936	38	15	6	6	2	5	0	154	65	59	55	11	147.7	3.96	1.442	3.35	4.49	110.1	102.8	1.4
1937	39	24	11	15	0	8	1	203	91	75	57	12	191.7	4.27	1.450	2.68	4.42	110.8	93.4	1.2
1938	36	20	9	12	2	14	0	198	85	70	50	15	171.0	4.47	1.567	2.63	4.57	117.1	87.4	0.7
1939	33	28	6	17	0	8	2	235	98	74	48	12	191.0	4.62	1.618	2.26	4.30	110.0	84.6	0.0
1940	35	24	8	9	2	6	2	161	91	46	40	13	136.3	6.01	1.518	2.64	4.43	115.4	63.9	-1.7
1941	33	32	17	12	0	19	0	249	80	66	61	11	236.0	3.05	1.335	2.33	3.51	96.4	119.2	3.8
1942	24	18	5	8	1	9	0	144	49	44	49	7	150.7	2.93	1.248	2.93	3.16	93.2	115.7	2.1
1943	33	21	10	8	1	10	2	191	56	57	45	4	193.7	2.60	1.281	2.09	3.19	91.8	133.6	3.9
1944	35	27	13	11	1	13	5	216	69	46	43	8	199.0	3.12	1.317	1.94	3.33	89.2	119.6	3.3
1945	28	20	10	8	0	12	2	184	57	46	37	7	169.3	3.03	1.358	1.97	3.62	92.1	129.9	3.5

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

342

649

598

110

RBI

.1839

OBP

.2052

SLG

.2124

OPS

.4176

Pitching

G (P)

334

229

106

484th-most career L

104

393rd-most career CG

SHO

436th-most career SHO

1,786

SO (P)

485

BB allowed

583

ERA

3.733

WHIP

1.4096

K/9

2.44

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
1938-04-28	PHI @ LAD Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	2	4
1940-08-07	STL @ PIT Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	4	3
1940-04-29	PIT @ CIN Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	2	3
1940-06-20	PIT @ ATL Gameday	3	2	2	1	0	1	3
1937-08-03	LAD @ PIT Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1936-08-01	CIN @ LAD Gameday	9.0	3	4	0	2	8	0
1942-05-03	ATL @ PIT Gameday	9.0	7	2	1	3	7	0
1939-05-19	PHI @ CIN Gameday	11.1	9	4	4	5	6	1
1941-09-25	STL @ PIT Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	4	6	0
1938-09-03	PHI @ ATL Gameday	8.0	6	1	1	2	6	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.