MLB / Players

Red Faber

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 180 lb

BornSeptember 6, 1888 · Cascade, IA, USA

MLB debutApril 17, 1914

Final gameSeptember 20, 1933

Seasons20 (1914–1933)

Chicago White Sox 1914–1933

Percentile snapshot

1931 season — qualified pitchers

SHO

210

184.0

ERA

3.82

WHIP

1.451

K/9

2.40

FIP

4.48

FIP-

106.1

ERA+

110.6

sWAR

2.3

of 101 qualified 1931 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

118.5

87.8

sWAR

63.8

99.5

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1914	40	67	55	3	8	1	0	0	1	10	16	0	.145	.277	.164	.441	43.8	34.8	.245	1.9
1915	50	118	84	11	11	1	2	0	6	20	33	4	.131	.311	.190	.502	66.1	49.8	.282	4.7
1916	35	73	63	4	6	0	0	0	2	5	34	0	.095	.174	.095	.269	-23.7	-18.3	.152	3.7
1917	41	87	69	1	4	1	0	0	2	10	38	0	.058	.177	.072	.250	-21.0	-23.9	.153	4.4
1918	11	29	24	1	1	0	0	0	0	3	11	0	.042	.148	.042	.190	-46.7	-42.6	.123	2.2
1919	25	63	54	8	10	0	0	0	4	6	20	0	.185	.267	.185	.452	28.9	28.3	.235	0.4
1920	40	129	104	10	11	1	0	0	1	19	39	1	.106	.244	.115	.359	7.9	-2.3	.205	5.4
1921	43	134	108	8	16	0	0	0	4	17	35	1	.148	.270	.148	.418	18.2	9.9	.227	8.9
1922	43	143	125	8	25	2	0	0	5	7	42	0	.200	.248	.216	.464	18.0	22.0	.226	8.0
1923	33	87	69	7	15	3	0	1	5	10	28	1	.217	.316	.304	.621	66.7	64.4	.305	4.0
1924	21	63	54	6	8	0	0	0	1	7	15	0	.148	.246	.148	.394	7.4	3.8	.212	2.0
1925	34	95	77	3	8	1	0	0	4	10	24	0	.104	.225	.117	.342	-0.8	-9.4	.192	3.0
1926	27	74	60	7	9	2	0	0	10	8	21	0	.150	.250	.183	.433	19.1	16.7	.225	2.4
1927	18	44	37	2	10	3	0	0	4	2	8	0	.270	.308	.351	.659	70.6	73.3	.308	0.6
1928	27	78	70	3	8	2	0	1	10	4	31	0	.114	.162	.186	.348	-15.1	-8.2	.167	2.2
1929	31	90	78	8	10	2	0	1	5	8	24	0	.128	.209	.192	.402	3.2	4.4	.199	2.9
1930	29	63	49	4	2	0	0	0	2	9	21	0	.041	.190	.041	.230	-21.4	-37.2	.148	1.9
1931	44	64	53	4	4	1	0	0	3	6	26	0	.075	.183	.094	.278	-15.4	-23.7	.156	2.3
1932	42	30	18	0	4	1	0	0	1	8	7	0	.222	.462	.278	.739	123.4	100.5	.387	1.9
1933	36	19	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-113.0	-100.0	.000	1.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1914	40	19	10	9	4	11	2	154	54	64	88	3	181.3	2.68	1.202	4.37	2.84	107.2	98.9	1.9
1915	50	32	24	14	2	21	2	264	85	99	182	3	299.7	2.55	1.211	5.47	2.39	81.2	115.5	4.7
1916	35	25	17	9	1	15	3	167	46	61	87	1	205.3	2.02	1.110	3.81	2.51	90.2	137.8	3.7
1917	41	29	16	13	3	16	3	224	53	85	84	1	248.0	1.92	1.246	3.05	2.66	99.6	139.1	4.4
1918	11	9	4	1	1	5	1	70	11	23	26	3	80.7	1.23	1.153	2.90	2.85	103.8	224.1	2.2
1919	25	20	11	9	0	9	0	185	69	45	45	7	162.3	3.83	1.417	2.49	3.52	110.2	83.4	0.4
1920	40	39	23	13	1	28	2	332	106	88	108	8	319.0	2.99	1.317	3.05	3.41	90.8	125.7	5.4
1921	43	39	25	15	1	32	4	293	91	87	124	10	330.7	2.48	1.149	3.38	3.71	87.9	170.4	8.9
1922	43	38	21	17	2	31	4	334	110	83	148	10	352.0	2.81	1.185	3.78	3.23	80.4	142.9	8.0
1923	32	31	14	11	0	15	2	233	88	62	91	6	232.3	3.41	1.270	3.53	3.34	84.4	115.9	4.0
1924	21	20	9	11	0	9	0	173	69	58	47	5	161.3	3.85	1.432	2.62	4.06	97.2	108.5	2.0
1925	34	32	12	11	0	16	1	266	100	59	71	8	238.0	3.78	1.366	2.68	3.72	88.5	111.0	3.0
1926	27	25	15	9	0	13	1	203	73	57	65	3	184.7	3.56	1.408	3.17	3.39	87.8	108.4	2.4
1927	18	15	4	7	0	6	0	131	56	41	39	2	110.7	4.55	1.554	3.17	3.84	95.7	88.0	0.6
1928	27	27	13	9	0	16	2	223	84	68	43	11	201.3	3.75	1.445	1.92	4.39	110.2	106.0	2.2
1929	31	31	13	13	0	15	1	241	101	61	68	10	234.0	3.88	1.291	2.62	3.89	92.2	108.5	2.9
1930	29	26	8	13	1	10	0	188	79	49	62	7	169.0	4.21	1.402	3.30	4.21	92.3	108.5	1.9
1931	44	19	10	14	1	5	1	210	78	57	49	11	184.0	3.82	1.451	2.40	4.48	106.1	110.6	2.3
1932	42	5	2	11	6	0	0	123	44	38	26	0	106.0	3.74	1.519	2.21	3.74	87.4	114.5	1.9
1933	36	2	3	4	5	0	0	92	33	28	18	2	86.3	3.44	1.390	1.88	3.92	93.5	121.9	1.3

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

670

1,550

1,269

170

RBI

169

479

.1340

OBP

.2400

SLG

.1608

OPS

.4008

Pitching

G (P)

669

157th-most career G (P)

483

62nd-most career GS

254

44th-most career W

213

32nd-most career L

273

59th-most career CG

SHO

125th-most career SHO

4,087

39th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,471

252nd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,213

48th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.149

235th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3015

K/9

3.24

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
1915-04-15	CWS @ BAL Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	0	5
1928-08-15	CWS @ NYY Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	2	5
1927-09-11	CWS @ MIN Gameday	4	1	2	2	0	0	4
1929-06-24	CWS @ DET Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	2	4
1923-06-06	CWS @ NYY Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1922-05-17	CWS @ ATH Gameday	12.2	10	3	3	2	13	1
1915-04-15	CWS @ BAL Gameday	9.0	7	0	0	4	11	0
1915-06-24	CWS @ CLE Gameday	11.0	3	0	0	2	9	0
1920-07-27	CWS @ DET Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	6	9	0
1922-09-13	NYY @ CWS Gameday	9.0	5	3	1	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

Hall of Fame, 1964 (Veterans)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.