MLB / Players

Red Embree

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 165 lb

BornAugust 30, 1917 · El Monte, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1941

Final gameOctober 2, 1949

Seasons8 (1941–1949)

Cleveland Indians 1941–1942; Cleveland Indians 1944–1947; New York Yankees 1948; St. Louis Browns 1949

Percentile snapshot

1947 season — qualified pitchers

26.3

35.5

21.1

46.1

10.5

SHO

137

73.7

72.4

51.3

15.8

39.5

162.7

30.3

ERA

3.15

68.4

WHIP

1.254

76.3

K/9

3.10

15.8

FIP

4.03

26.3

FIP-

115.6

5.3

ERA+

110.5

44.7

sWAR

2.1

36.8

of 77 qualified 1947 pitchers (min 157 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

6.2

81.7

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1941	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.0	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1942	19	17	15	1	2	0	1	1	2	.133	.188	.133	.321	-11.6	-6.3	.165	0.3
1944	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4
1945	8	27	21	3	3	0	2	2	3	.143	.217	.143	.360	1.9	7.3	.191	1.8
1946	28	79	70	6	13	3	6	2	8	.186	.208	.229	.437	11.5	25.4	.206	1.7
1947	28	59	52	5	9	0	3	1	14	.173	.189	.173	.362	-10.5	4.1	.174	2.1
1948	20	28	27	2	4	1	3	1	6	.148	.179	.185	.364	-14.1	-1.8	.176	1.0
1949	40	43	37	2	6	0	3	3	10	.162	.225	.162	.387	-10.9	0.1	.200	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1941	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	7	3	3	4	0	4.0	6.75	2.500	9.00	3.76	96.0	58.1	-0.1
1942	19	6	3	4	0	2	0	58	27	31	44	0	63.0	3.86	1.413	6.29	2.73	78.9	89.6	0.3
1944	3	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	5	5	4	0	3.3	13.50	2.100	10.80	4.65	140.2	24.6	-0.4
1945	8	8	4	4	0	5	1	56	15	26	42	3	70.0	1.93	1.171	5.40	2.91	89.9	168.0	1.8
1946	28	26	8	12	0	8	0	170	77	79	87	15	200.0	3.47	1.245	3.92	3.77	113.8	95.6	1.7
1947	27	21	8	10	0	6	0	137	57	67	56	13	162.7	3.15	1.254	3.10	4.03	115.6	110.5	2.1
1948	20	8	5	3	0	4	0	77	32	30	25	6	76.7	3.76	1.396	2.93	4.33	103.5	111.2	1.0
1949	35	19	3	13	1	4	0	146	76	89	24	13	127.3	5.37	1.846	1.70	5.61	125.6	83.1	-0.1

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

147

254

223

RBI

.1659

OBP

.2017

SLG

.1839

OPS

.3856

Pitching

G (P)

141

SHO

707

SO (P)

286

BB allowed

330

ERA

3.717

WHIP

1.3904

K/9

3.64

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	RBI	BB	TB
1946-04-28	CLE @ DET Gameday	5	0	2	1	2	0	3
1948-05-22	NYY @ CWS Gameday	5	0	2	1	2	0	3
1947-09-22	CLE @ DET Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	0	2
1949-06-22	BAL @ NYY Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	1	2
1946-08-11	CLE @ BAL Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1945-06-05	DET @ CLE Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	3	9
1942-05-30	BAL @ CLE Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	1	7
1942-09-09	ATH @ CLE Gameday	8.0	5	4	3	1	7
1945-05-13	NYY @ CLE Gameday	10.0	5	1	1	8	6
1942-05-19	ATH @ CLE Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	5	6

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.