MLB / Players

Preacher Roe

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 170 lb

BornFebruary 26, 1916 · Ash Flat, AR, USA

MLB debutAugust 22, 1938

Final gameSeptember 4, 1954

Seasons12 (1938–1954)

St. Louis Cardinals 1938; Pittsburgh Pirates 1944–1947; Brooklyn Dodgers 1948–1954

Percentile snapshot

1953 season — qualified pitchers

1.7

22.4

37.9

100

37.9

SHO

24.1

171

72.4

74.1

94.8

5.2

157.0

3.4

ERA

4.36

39.7

WHIP

1.344

56.9

K/9

4.87

70.7

FIP

4.55

12.1

FIP-

105.1

24.1

ERA+

99.4

44.8

sWAR

1.1

22.4

of 59 qualified 1953 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

116.9

86.2

sWAR

28.7

96.2

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
1938	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-131.8	-100.0	.000	-0.3
1944	39	62	53	4	7	0	0	1	3	23	.132	.179	.132	.311	-24.7	-13.1	.157	2.9
1945	33	89	75	3	8	1	0	3	6	21	.107	.173	.120	.293	-26.4	-19.2	.155	4.8
1946	21	18	15	2	1	0	0	0	3	5	.067	.222	.067	.289	-16.4	-17.4	.180	-0.8
1947	38	46	40	1	5	0	0	1	2	15	.125	.167	.125	.292	-36.8	-22.8	.146	-0.4
1948	34	65	51	4	5	0	0	1	5	14	.098	.179	.098	.277	-31.2	-24.0	.149	4.4
1949	30	84	70	5	8	0	0	7	7	28	.114	.195	.114	.309	-22.1	-16.1	.163	5.0
1950	36	101	91	8	14	1	0	3	2	27	.154	.172	.165	.337	-26.4	-11.3	.157	4.6
1951	34	100	89	3	10	0	0	7	2	36	.112	.132	.112	.244	-53.1	-33.9	.117	4.8
1952	27	65	57	2	4	0	0	3	3	19	.070	.117	.070	.187	-64.0	-47.0	.099	2.4
1953	25	65	57	4	3	0	1	2	3	18	.053	.100	.105	.205	-61.6	-46.7	.100	1.1
1954	15	25	21	1	3	1	0	0	2	9	.143	.217	.190	.408	-2.5	6.8	.199	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1938	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	4	2	1	0	2.7	13.50	3.000	3.38	4.24	107.0	29.3	-0.3
1944	39	25	13	11	1	7	1	182	64	59	88	7	185.3	3.11	1.300	4.27	3.06	81.9	120.1	2.9
1945	33	31	14	13	1	15	3	228	75	46	148	11	235.0	2.87	1.166	5.67	2.59	65.7	137.0	4.8
1946	21	10	3	8	2	1	0	83	40	25	28	5	70.0	5.14	1.543	3.60	3.61	102.3	68.5	-0.8
1947	38	22	4	15	2	4	1	156	84	63	59	19	144.0	5.25	1.521	3.69	4.78	113.5	80.2	-0.4
1948	34	22	12	8	2	8	2	156	52	33	86	14	177.7	2.63	1.064	4.36	3.21	79.8	152.9	4.4
1949	30	27	15	6	1	13	3	201	66	44	109	25	212.7	2.79	1.152	4.61	3.68	89.1	147.9	5.0
1950	36	32	19	11	1	16	2	245	92	66	125	34	250.7	3.30	1.241	4.49	4.06	97.2	126.5	4.6
1951	34	33	22	3	0	19	2	247	87	64	113	30	257.7	3.04	1.207	3.95	3.76	94.3	131.3	4.8
1952	27	25	11	2	0	8	2	163	55	39	83	16	158.7	3.12	1.273	4.71	3.48	93.3	119.4	2.4
1953	25	24	11	3	0	9	1	171	76	40	85	27	157.0	4.36	1.344	4.87	4.55	105.1	99.4	1.1
1954	15	10	3	4	0	1	0	69	35	23	31	11	63.0	5.00	1.460	4.43	4.80	115.5	83.1	0.0

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

333

721

620

RBI

215

.1097

OBP

.1611

SLG

.1194

OPS

.2805

Pitching

G (P)

333

261

493rd-most career GS

127

394th-most career W

101

409th-most career CG

SHO

317th-most career SHO

1,914

SO (P)

956

BB allowed

504

ERA

3.432

390th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2594

380th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.49

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
1953-07-07	LAD @ PIT Gameday	5	1	2	0	1	1	0	5
1954-05-23	PIT @ LAD Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	0	1	3
1949-06-07	CHC @ LAD Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	2	0	2
1952-05-18	CHC @ LAD Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	2	0	2
1945-08-25	CIN @ PIT Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1948-09-05	SF @ LAD Gameday	12.0	8	3	3	2	11	2
1945-09-03	PIT @ STL Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	1	11	1
1949-09-05	ATL @ LAD Gameday	9.0	7	2	1	1	11	0
1949-06-07	CHC @ LAD Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	3	10	1
1945-06-10	PIT @ STL Gameday	10.0	5	1	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

5× 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.