Mort Cooper
St. Louis Cardinals 1938–1944; Boston Braves 1945; St. Louis Cardinals 1945; Boston Braves 1946–1947; New York Giants 1947; Chicago Cubs 1949
Percentile snapshot
1946 season — qualified pitchers
of 78 qualified 1946 pitchers (min 154 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 4 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .222 | .333 | .556 | 35.1 | 47.8 | .248 | 0.5 |
| 1939 | 47 | 76 | 69 | 4 | 16 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .232 | .243 | .362 | .605 | 45.5 | 56.8 | .271 | 4.5 |
| 1940 | 38 | 91 | 83 | 5 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 22 | 0 | 0 | .157 | .167 | .181 | .347 | -22.2 | -5.9 | .161 | 3.0 |
| 1941 | 29 | 75 | 70 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .186 | .230 | .186 | .415 | 7.4 | 15.6 | .205 | 1.5 |
| 1942 | 37 | 113 | 103 | 6 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 21 | 0 | 0 | .184 | .208 | .194 | .402 | 0.9 | 15.8 | .194 | 8.4 |
| 1943 | 37 | 107 | 100 | 7 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .170 | .186 | .230 | .416 | 2.5 | 19.7 | .197 | 6.3 |
| 1944 | 34 | 105 | 94 | 9 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .202 | .257 | .234 | .491 | 36.7 | 40.3 | .240 | 5.9 |
| 1945 | 24 | 35 | 32 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .294 | .344 | .638 | 72.6 | 76.6 | .301 | 2.3 |
| 1946 | 28 | 77 | 67 | 5 | 14 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .209 | .232 | .269 | .501 | 27.0 | 41.3 | .237 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 18 | 32 | 27 | 3 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .222 | .276 | .407 | .683 | 73.7 | 77.9 | .308 | -0.2 |
| 1949 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 8 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 23.7 | 3.04 | 1.225 | 4.18 | 4.00 | 101.1 | 130.1 | 0.5 |
| 1939 | 45 | 26 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 2 | 208 | 76 | 97 | 130 | 6 | 210.7 | 3.25 | 1.448 | 5.55 | 3.36 | 81.6 | 126.6 | 4.5 |
| 1940 | 38 | 29 | 11 | 12 | 3 | 16 | 3 | 225 | 93 | 86 | 95 | 12 | 230.7 | 3.63 | 1.348 | 3.71 | 3.76 | 94.2 | 109.9 | 3.0 |
| 1941 | 29 | 25 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 175 | 81 | 69 | 118 | 15 | 186.7 | 3.91 | 1.307 | 5.69 | 3.50 | 92.7 | 96.7 | 1.5 |
| 1942 | 37 | 35 | 22 | 7 | 0 | 22 | 10 | 207 | 55 | 68 | 152 | 9 | 278.7 | 1.78 | .987 | 4.91 | 2.40 | 69.9 | 193.3 | 8.4 |
| 1943 | 37 | 32 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 24 | 6 | 228 | 70 | 79 | 141 | 5 | 274.0 | 2.30 | 1.120 | 4.63 | 2.60 | 77.0 | 146.9 | 6.3 |
| 1944 | 34 | 33 | 22 | 7 | 1 | 22 | 7 | 227 | 69 | 60 | 97 | 6 | 252.3 | 2.46 | 1.137 | 3.46 | 2.84 | 80.2 | 144.1 | 5.9 |
| 1945 | 24 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 97 | 33 | 34 | 59 | 5 | 101.7 | 2.92 | 1.289 | 5.22 | 3.18 | 83.3 | 130.5 | 2.3 |
| 1946 | 28 | 27 | 13 | 11 | 1 | 15 | 4 | 181 | 69 | 39 | 83 | 16 | 199.0 | 3.12 | 1.106 | 3.75 | 3.12 | 90.8 | 110.1 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 18 | 15 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 99 | 50 | 26 | 27 | 9 | 83.3 | 5.40 | 1.500 | 2.92 | 4.33 | 107.2 | 74.5 | -0.2 |
| 1949 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946-09-26 | ATL @ SF Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 1939-06-22 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1947-06-28 | PHI @ SF Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1939-07-04 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1939-08-13 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944-10-08 | STL @ BAL Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 0 |
| 1944-05-28 | STL @ SF Gameday | 9.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 0 |
| 1941-05-08 | STL @ LAD Gameday | 11.2 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 0 |
| 1941-05-23 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 0 |
| 1942-09-20 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 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.