Monte Pearson
Cleveland Indians 1932–1935; New York Yankees 1936–1940; Cincinnati Reds 1941
Percentile snapshot
1938 season — qualified pitchers
of 95 qualified 1938 pitchers (min 157 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.4 |
| 1933 | 19 | 53 | 50 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .260 | .275 | .280 | .555 | 40.6 | 45.4 | .259 | 4.4 |
| 1934 | 39 | 103 | 92 | 7 | 25 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .272 | .309 | .359 | .668 | 69.1 | 72.1 | .310 | 3.0 |
| 1935 | 30 | 70 | 62 | 8 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | .177 | .261 | .242 | .503 | 29.3 | 30.2 | .247 | 1.0 |
| 1936 | 33 | 105 | 91 | 12 | 23 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .253 | .313 | .330 | .643 | 64.3 | 63.2 | .302 | 4.9 |
| 1937 | 22 | 58 | 51 | 6 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .216 | .259 | .255 | .514 | 26.0 | 30.2 | .243 | 3.6 |
| 1938 | 28 | 86 | 76 | 8 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | .171 | .241 | .224 | .465 | 19.4 | 19.2 | .227 | 3.4 |
| 1939 | 22 | 63 | 53 | 9 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .321 | .379 | .415 | .794 | 108.4 | 107.9 | .368 | 1.8 |
| 1940 | 16 | 43 | 33 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .121 | .194 | .152 | .346 | -11.5 | -8.5 | .174 | 1.7 |
| 1941 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -125.7 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 9 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 8.0 | 10.13 | 2.625 | 5.63 | 7.63 | 163.3 | 46.1 | -0.4 |
| 1933 | 19 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 111 | 35 | 55 | 54 | 5 | 135.3 | 2.33 | 1.227 | 3.59 | 3.93 | 89.7 | 188.4 | 4.4 |
| 1934 | 39 | 33 | 18 | 13 | 2 | 19 | 0 | 257 | 128 | 130 | 140 | 16 | 254.7 | 4.52 | 1.520 | 4.95 | 4.42 | 98.5 | 99.1 | 3.0 |
| 1935 | 30 | 24 | 8 | 13 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 199 | 99 | 103 | 90 | 9 | 181.7 | 4.90 | 1.662 | 4.46 | 4.44 | 99.0 | 91.5 | 1.0 |
| 1936 | 33 | 31 | 19 | 7 | 1 | 15 | 1 | 191 | 92 | 135 | 118 | 13 | 223.0 | 3.71 | 1.462 | 4.76 | 5.04 | 105.8 | 128.4 | 4.9 |
| 1937 | 22 | 20 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 145 | 51 | 64 | 71 | 6 | 144.7 | 3.17 | 1.445 | 4.42 | 4.03 | 87.5 | 145.2 | 3.6 |
| 1938 | 28 | 27 | 16 | 7 | 0 | 17 | 1 | 198 | 89 | 113 | 98 | 12 | 202.0 | 3.97 | 1.540 | 4.37 | 4.60 | 99.4 | 116.5 | 3.4 |
| 1939 | 22 | 20 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 151 | 73 | 70 | 76 | 9 | 146.3 | 4.49 | 1.510 | 4.67 | 4.35 | 98.9 | 98.0 | 1.8 |
| 1940 | 16 | 16 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 108 | 45 | 44 | 43 | 8 | 109.7 | 3.69 | 1.386 | 3.53 | 4.29 | 98.9 | 117.5 | 1.7 |
| 1941 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 14 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 24.3 | 5.18 | 1.521 | 2.96 | 5.36 | 150.2 | 68.9 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1936-05-06 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 1936-07-23 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 1936-06-17 | NYY @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 1937-07-09 | MIN @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 1934-05-25 | BOS @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1934-06-09 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 10 | 0 |
| 1936-07-23 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 3 |
| 1938-06-02 | DET @ NYY Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 0 |
| 1938-10-08 | CHC @ NYY Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 1 |
| 1934-07-08 | CWS @ CLE Gameday | 9.0 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.