MLB / Players

Ray Caldwell

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 190 lb

BornApril 26, 1888 · Corydon Township Warren County, PA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 9, 1910

Final gameSeptember 29, 1921

Seasons12 (1910–1921)

New York Highlanders 1910–1912; New York Yankees 1913–1918; Boston Red Sox 1919; Cleveland Indians 1919–1921

Percentile snapshot

1920 season — qualified pitchers

48.6

77.1

85.3

52.3

76.1

SHO

26.6

286

17.4

102

14.7

37.6

62.4

10.1

237.7

62.4

ERA

3.86

14.7

WHIP

1.468

11.9

K/9

3.03

38.5

FIP

3.56

31.2

FIP-

93.3

62.4

ERA+

98.9

40.4

sWAR

2.4

53.2

of 110 qualified 1920 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

99.1

34.1

sWAR

25.8

95.6

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
1910	6	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.1	-100.0	.000	-0.2
1911	59	159	147	14	40	4	1	0	17	11	23	5	0	.272	.323	.313	.636	71.5	72.0	.311	3.7
1912	44	82	76	18	18	1	2	0	6	5	13	4	1	.237	.284	.303	.587	61.1	63.3	.286	0.0
1913	59	102	97	10	28	3	2	0	11	3	15	3	0	.289	.310	.361	.671	88.1	93.9	.322	3.0
1914	59	126	113	9	22	4	0	0	10	7	24	2	1	.195	.248	.230	.478	38.1	43.8	.241	4.5
1915	72	155	144	27	35	4	1	4	20	9	32	4	3	.243	.288	.368	.656	89.8	96.6	.317	4.0
1916	45	95	93	6	19	2	0	0	4	2	17	1	0	.204	.221	.226	.447	20.2	33.4	.219	0.7
1917	63	140	124	12	32	6	1	2	12	16	16	2	0	.258	.343	.371	.714	116.9	116.1	.352	3.1
1918	65	169	151	14	44	10	0	1	18	13	23	2	0	.291	.352	.377	.729	118.0	118.2	.359	2.0
1919	39	74	71	9	21	5	1	0	6	0	13	0	0	.296	.296	.394	.690	87.7	94.8	.320	1.9
1920	41	105	89	17	19	3	0	0	7	10	13	0	2	.213	.300	.247	.547	48.7	45.5	.274	2.4
1921	38	56	53	2	11	4	0	1	3	2	5	0	0	.208	.236	.340	.576	36.8	45.0	.262	0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1910	6	2	1	0	1	1	0	19	8	9	17	1	19.3	3.72	1.448	7.91	2.56	96.3	71.3	-0.2
1911	41	27	14	14	1	19	1	240	95	79	145	7	255.0	3.35	1.251	5.12	3.22	90.4	106.1	3.7
1912	30	26	8	16	0	13	3	196	91	67	95	1	183.3	4.47	1.435	4.66	3.18	90.4	78.7	0.0
1913	27	16	9	8	1	15	2	131	44	60	87	5	164.3	2.41	1.162	4.76	3.08	102.9	124.4	3.0
1914	31	23	17	9	1	22	5	153	46	51	92	5	213.0	1.94	.958	3.89	2.56	93.6	140.5	4.5
1915	36	35	19	16	0	31	3	266	98	107	130	6	305.0	2.89	1.223	3.84	2.88	98.8	100.9	4.0
1916	21	18	5	12	0	14	1	142	55	65	76	6	165.7	2.99	1.249	4.13	3.20	111.8	95.8	0.7
1917	32	29	13	16	0	21	1	199	75	76	102	8	236.0	2.86	1.165	3.89	2.76	102.2	94.4	3.1
1918	24	21	9	8	1	14	1	173	60	62	59	2	176.7	3.06	1.330	3.01	2.71	96.5	91.8	2.0
1919	24	18	12	5	0	10	2	125	48	50	47	2	139.0	3.11	1.259	3.04	3.23	103.2	101.1	1.9
1920	34	33	20	10	0	20	1	286	102	63	80	9	237.7	3.86	1.468	3.03	3.56	93.3	98.9	2.4
1921	37	12	6	6	4	4	1	159	80	49	76	7	147.0	4.90	1.415	4.65	3.84	89.1	88.0	0.6

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

590

1,269

1,164

138

289

RBI

114

196

.2483

OBP

.2972

SLG

.3222

OPS

.6194

Pitching

G (P)

343

260

133

353rd-most career W

120

335th-most career L

184

164th-most career CG

SHO

232nd-most career SHO

2,242

332nd-most career IP

SO (P)

1,006

BB allowed

738

325th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.219

271st-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2609

392nd-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.04

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	TB
1918-08-02	NYY @ BAL Gameday	3	1	2	1	1	2	6
1919-09-17	CLE @ ATH Gameday	5	2	3	2	0	0	5
1921-09-11	CLE @ BAL Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	2	5
1915-04-19	NYY @ ATH Gameday	5	2	2	0	1	1	5
1913-10-03	NYY @ ATH Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	2	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1912-05-27	MIN @ NYY Gameday	9.0	8	5	5	1	10	0
1915-08-28	NYY @ DET Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	2	9	0
1911-06-24	MIN @ NYY Gameday	7.0	7	2	0	2	9	0
1917-04-19	MIN @ NYY Gameday	10.0	10	2	2	1	8	0
1910-10-08	BOS @ NYY Gameday	9.0	11	5	0	4	8	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.