Ned Garver

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 180 lb

BornDecember 25, 1925 · Ney, OH, USA

MLB debutApril 28, 1948

Final gameJune 4, 1961

Seasons14 (1948–1961)

St. Louis Browns 1948–1951; Detroit Tigers 1952; St. Louis Browns 1952; Detroit Tigers 1953–1956; Kansas City Athletics 1957–1960; Los Angeles Angels 1961

Percentile snapshot

1959 season — qualified pitchers

21.4

53.6

21.4

19.6

48.2

39.3

SHO

37.5

214

37.5

57.1

91.1

1.8

39.3

201.3

35.7

ERA

3.71

46.4

WHIP

1.272

48.2

K/9

2.73

FIP

3.95

FIP-

99.2

39.3

ERA+

107.3

51.8

sWAR

3.3

60.7

of 57 qualified 1959 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

111.0

74.3

sWAR

38.6

97.8

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1948	46	79	66	9	19	1	1	1	9	4	3	0	0	.288	.329	.379	.707	78.9	83.6	.333	4.7
1949	55	91	75	12	14	4	0	0	2	12	8	0	0	.187	.299	.240	.539	38.4	39.1	.277	3.6
1950	51	106	91	13	26	4	0	1	10	8	9	0	0	.286	.343	.363	.706	73.3	75.5	.333	7.1
1951	49	109	95	8	29	6	1	1	9	9	9	0	0	.305	.365	.421	.786	106.8	107.2	.367	4.9
1952	25	57	51	5	9	2	0	0	5	4	8	0	0	.176	.250	.216	.466	20.4	26.8	.232	2.1
1953	30	82	72	3	11	0	0	1	6	6	12	0	0	.153	.218	.194	.412	3.2	11.5	.203	0.9
1954	36	90	79	3	13	2	0	0	4	6	15	0	1	.165	.224	.190	.413	5.0	14.7	.205	5.0
1955	33	91	76	11	17	1	0	1	13	9	5	1	0	.224	.295	.276	.572	56.0	56.8	.276	2.5
1956	6	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	.000	.167	.000	.167	-44.6	-52.1	.126	0.1
1957	24	51	44	7	8	1	0	0	4	4	9	0	0	.182	.245	.205	.449	16.9	22.7	.220	1.6
1958	31	79	69	5	12	3	0	0	1	6	16	0	0	.174	.240	.217	.457	21.0	25.5	.221	1.7
1959	32	80	71	9	20	2	1	2	9	4	7	0	0	.282	.316	.423	.738	96.5	98.4	.331	3.3
1960	28	34	27	2	2	1	0	0	0	3	4	0	0	.074	.167	.111	.278	-30.2	-24.0	.149	1.3
1961	12	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.8	-100.0	.000	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1948	38	24	7	11	5	7	0	200	75	95	75	14	198.0	3.41	1.490	3.41	4.36	97.2	131.7	4.7
1949	41	32	12	17	3	16	1	245	99	102	70	14	223.7	3.98	1.551	2.82	4.09	91.5	112.1	3.6
1950	37	31	13	18	0	22	2	264	98	108	85	18	260.0	3.39	1.431	2.94	4.25	87.4	143.3	7.1
1951	33	30	20	12	0	24	1	237	102	96	84	17	246.0	3.73	1.354	3.07	4.02	93.1	115.8	4.9
1952	22	22	8	10	0	8	2	139	63	58	63	15	157.7	3.60	1.249	3.60	3.98	103.9	106.6	2.1
1953	30	26	11	11	1	13	0	228	98	66	69	16	198.3	4.45	1.482	3.13	3.95	97.8	90.8	0.9
1954	35	32	14	11	1	16	3	216	77	62	93	20	246.3	2.81	1.129	3.40	3.48	93.9	131.8	5.0
1955	33	32	12	16	0	16	1	251	102	67	83	21	230.7	3.98	1.379	3.24	3.83	98.8	97.4	2.5
1956	6	3	0	2	0	1	0	15	8	13	6	2	17.7	4.08	1.585	3.06	5.68	137.7	101.1	0.1
1957	24	23	6	13	0	6	1	120	62	55	61	13	145.3	3.84	1.204	3.78	3.96	101.5	101.7	1.6
1958	31	28	12	11	1	10	3	192	90	66	72	24	201.0	4.03	1.284	3.22	4.29	110.7	96.3	1.7
1959	32	30	10	13	1	9	2	214	83	42	61	22	201.3	3.71	1.272	2.73	3.95	99.2	107.3	3.3
1960	28	15	4	9	0	5	2	110	52	35	50	15	122.3	3.83	1.185	3.68	4.09	102.8	103.9	1.3
1961	12	2	0	3	0	0	0	40	18	16	9	2	29.0	5.59	1.931	2.79	4.43	104.8	75.8	-0.2

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

458

962

827

180

RBI

109

.2177

OBP

.2827

SLG

.2830

OPS

.5657

Pitching

G (P)

402

330

263rd-most career GS

129

383rd-most career W

157

135th-most career L

153

220th-most career CG

SHO

292nd-most career SHO

2,477

264th-most career IP

SO (P)

881

BB allowed

881

178th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.731

WHIP

1.3531

K/9

3.20

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	BB	TB
1959-07-05	CWS @ ATH Gameday	4	1	4	0	1	2	0	7
1959-06-21	ATH @ BAL Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	2	0	7
1951-08-10	BAL @ DET Gameday	4	0	4	1	0	0	0	5
1951-09-30	CWS @ BAL Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	1	0	5
1955-09-04	DET @ ATH Gameday	4	3	2	0	1	1	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1952-04-15	BAL @ DET Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	1	9	0
1953-06-13	MIN @ DET Gameday	8.2	11	6	6	4	9	1
1957-04-24	CLE @ ATH Gameday	8.2	10	6	6	1	9	2
1952-05-17	BOS @ BAL Gameday	8.0	2	1	1	1	8	1
1949-08-31	NYY @ BAL Gameday	9.0	12	3	2	2	7	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

1× 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.