Paul Derringer

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 205 lb

BornOctober 17, 1906 · Springfield, KY, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1931

Final gameSeptember 27, 1945

Seasons15 (1931–1945)

St. Louis Cardinals 1931–1932; Cincinnati Reds 1933; St. Louis Cardinals 1933; Cincinnati Reds 1934–1942; Chicago Cubs 1943–1945

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified pitchers

78.6

82.1

28.6

70.2

SHO

26.2

223

20.2

23.8

54.8

73.8

34.5

213.7

ERA

3.45

38.1

WHIP

1.282

K/9

3.62

46.4

FIP

3.05

85.7

FIP-

82.7

ERA+

106.7

42.9

sWAR

2.7

60.7

of 85 qualified 1945 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

107.5

sWAR

44.6

98.4

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1931	35	79	72	2	7	0	0	0	1	1	18	.097	.110	.097	.207	-64.2	-44.6	.099	3.0
1932	39	79	73	8	13	4	0	0	4	2	11	.178	.211	.233	.443	10.1	18.0	.204	2.0
1933	36	85	81	5	14	0	0	0	4	1	15	.173	.193	.173	.366	-7.3	5.3	.174	2.4
1934	47	98	92	6	18	2	2	0	4	3	21	.196	.221	.261	.482	22.8	29.5	.221	3.9
1935	45	99	93	3	13	1	0	0	7	0	14	.140	.140	.151	.290	-31.9	-21.2	.132	3.6
1936	51	99	90	7	18	2	0	0	7	2	15	.200	.217	.222	.440	15.2	21.5	.206	2.1
1937	43	82	80	2	16	3	1	0	11	0	20	.200	.200	.263	.463	17.4	27.3	.209	1.5
1938	41	125	119	8	21	1	0	2	15	2	24	.176	.190	.235	.425	7.0	18.3	.195	5.5
1939	38	128	110	10	23	3	0	0	17	1	11	.209	.216	.236	.453	10.5	22.5	.209	6.1
1940	37	112	108	4	18	4	0	0	8	0	19	.167	.167	.204	.370	-12.0	2.5	.168	5.1
1941	29	86	84	2	13	1	0	0	6	0	15	.155	.155	.167	.321	-24.5	-8.6	.150	2.6
1942	29	77	68	4	9	2	0	0	4	3	9	.132	.169	.162	.331	-16.2	-2.2	.163	2.4
1943	32	62	58	4	13	3	0	0	2	0	6	.224	.224	.276	.500	29.3	44.4	.233	1.3
1944	42	60	57	2	9	1	0	0	4	1	9	.158	.172	.175	.348	-14.8	-1.2	.165	0.3
1945	35	84	75	3	15	3	0	0	8	0	12	.200	.200	.240	.440	12.5	23.8	.204	2.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1931	35	23	18	8	2	15	4	225	79	65	134	9	211.7	3.36	1.370	5.70	3.24	82.0	117.5	3.0
1932	39	30	11	14	0	14	1	296	105	67	78	6	233.3	4.05	1.556	3.01	3.46	87.7	97.5	2.0
1933	36	33	7	27	1	17	2	264	91	60	89	4	248.0	3.30	1.306	3.23	2.86	85.7	100.9	2.4
1934	47	31	15	21	4	18	1	297	104	59	122	8	261.0	3.59	1.364	4.21	3.27	81.7	111.7	3.9
1935	45	33	22	13	2	20	3	295	108	49	120	13	276.7	3.51	1.243	3.90	3.34	84.6	112.3	3.6
1936	51	37	19	19	5	13	2	331	126	42	121	11	282.3	4.02	1.321	3.86	3.18	83.1	95.3	2.1
1937	43	26	10	14	1	12	1	240	100	55	94	7	222.7	4.04	1.325	3.80	3.26	86.8	92.8	1.5
1938	41	37	21	14	3	26	4	315	100	49	132	20	307.0	2.93	1.186	3.87	3.20	87.3	125.1	5.5
1939	38	35	25	7	0	28	5	321	98	35	128	15	301.0	2.93	1.183	3.83	2.99	77.5	131.5	6.1
1940	37	37	20	12	0	26	3	280	101	48	115	17	296.7	3.06	1.106	3.49	3.20	84.6	123.5	5.1
1941	29	28	12	14	1	17	2	233	84	54	76	16	228.3	3.31	1.257	3.00	3.52	98.6	107.8	2.6
1942	29	27	10	11	0	13	1	203	71	49	68	4	208.7	3.06	1.208	2.93	2.65	81.1	106.5	2.4
1943	32	22	10	14	3	10	2	184	69	39	75	7	174.0	3.57	1.282	3.88	2.81	83.7	93.9	1.3
1944	42	16	7	13	3	7	0	205	83	39	69	13	180.0	4.15	1.356	3.45	3.35	94.2	85.8	0.3
1945	35	30	16	11	4	15	1	223	82	51	86	8	213.7	3.45	1.282	3.62	3.05	82.7	106.7	2.7

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

579

1,355

1,260

220

RBI

102

219

.1746

OBP

.1862

SLG

.2079

OPS

.3941

Pitching

G (P)

579

274th-most career G (P)

445

91st-most career GS

223

74th-most career W

212

33rd-most career L

251

78th-most career CG

SHO

101st-most career SHO

3,645

58th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,507

235th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

761

300th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.459

413th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2820

479th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.72

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	TB
1937-08-20	CHC @ CIN Gameday	4	0	3	2	0	0	5	5
1938-08-18	CIN @ CHC Gameday	5	2	2	0	0	1	2	5
1939-09-03	CHC @ CIN Gameday	4	0	3	1	0	0	2	4
1938-05-17	CIN @ PHI Gameday	6	1	3	1	0	0	0	4
1934-07-28	CHC @ CIN Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	0	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1931-06-14	PHI @ STL Gameday	9.0	10	3	3	1	11	1
1931-07-19	SF @ STL Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	2	11	0
1935-04-21	CIN @ CHC Gameday	12.0	16	4	4	3	10	1
1931-08-30	PIT @ STL Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	2	10	0
1944-08-29	PIT @ CHC Gameday	9.0	9	4	4	2	10	1

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

6× 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.