MLB / Players

Rip Sewell

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 180 lb

BornMay 11, 1907 · Decatur, AL, USA

MLB debutJune 14, 1932

Final gameSeptember 19, 1949

Seasons13 (1932–1949)

Detroit Tigers 1932; Pittsburgh Pirates 1938–1949

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified pitchers

63.1

52.4

57.1

45.2

38.1

SHO

26.2

212

9.5

46.4

26.2

188.0

57.1

ERA

4.07

15.5

WHIP

1.612

4.8

K/9

2.87

26.2

FIP

4.10

16.7

FIP-

104.3

22.6

ERA+

96.7

26.2

sWAR

2.2

of 85 qualified 1945 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

107.5

66.2

sWAR

29.3

96.4

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	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1932	5	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	163.2	160.4	.460	-0.8
1938	17	12	12	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.083	.083	.083	.167	-75.7	-54.1	.077	0.1
1939	52	62	55	5	11	1	0	1	4	3	11	0	.200	.241	.273	.514	31.1	38.6	.241	1.5
1940	47	77	73	14	14	2	1	1	4	3	19	0	.192	.224	.288	.511	31.6	40.2	.235	4.3
1941	42	99	92	12	16	2	0	1	5	3	15	0	.174	.200	.228	.428	9.3	20.4	.202	2.2
1942	41	91	87	9	13	3	0	0	4	3	19	2	.149	.178	.184	.362	-11.5	4.8	.175	2.2
1943	41	108	105	9	30	4	1	0	17	2	21	7	.286	.299	.343	.642	74.8	82.2	.303	6.4
1944	44	116	112	10	25	4	1	1	12	2	19	1	.223	.237	.304	.540	37.9	48.8	.249	5.0
1945	35	72	64	10	20	3	0	0	6	7	11	1	.313	.380	.359	.740	105.8	102.6	.357	2.2
1946	26	56	50	4	9	2	0	0	1	4	12	1	.180	.241	.220	.461	18.6	29.1	.229	1.2
1947	24	41	40	2	5	0	0	1	4	1	6	0	.125	.146	.200	.346	-28.4	-10.4	.159	2.0
1948	21	49	42	5	6	1	0	1	2	6	15	0	.143	.250	.238	.488	28.9	30.9	.241	2.2
1949	28	22	16	1	1	0	0	0	0	3	4	0	.063	.250	.063	.313	-1.6	-13.1	.195	0.9

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1932	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	19	15	8	2	2	10.7	12.66	2.531	1.69	7.44	166.9	35.2	-0.8
1938	17	0	0	1	1	0	0	41	18	21	17	3	38.3	4.23	1.617	3.99	4.67	123.0	89.7	0.1
1939	52	12	10	9	2	5	1	177	80	73	69	10	176.3	4.08	1.418	3.52	4.02	103.7	95.0	1.5
1940	33	23	16	5	1	14	2	169	59	67	60	6	189.7	2.80	1.244	2.85	3.63	94.6	137.2	4.3
1941	39	32	14	17	2	18	2	225	103	84	76	18	249.0	3.72	1.241	2.75	3.94	108.5	97.6	2.2
1942	40	33	17	15	2	18	5	259	94	72	69	13	248.0	3.41	1.335	2.50	3.31	97.6	99.3	2.2
1943	35	31	21	9	3	25	2	267	75	75	65	6	265.3	2.54	1.289	2.20	3.15	90.5	136.7	6.4
1944	38	33	21	12	2	24	3	263	101	99	87	15	286.0	3.18	1.266	2.74	3.67	98.4	117.5	5.0
1945	33	24	11	9	1	9	1	212	85	91	60	9	188.0	4.07	1.612	2.87	4.10	104.3	96.7	2.2
1946	25	20	8	12	0	11	2	140	61	53	33	6	149.3	3.68	1.292	1.99	3.49	98.9	95.8	1.2
1947	24	12	6	4	0	4	1	121	48	36	36	11	121.0	3.57	1.298	2.68	4.12	97.9	117.9	2.0
1948	21	17	13	3	0	7	0	126	47	37	36	9	121.7	3.48	1.340	2.66	3.87	95.3	116.9	2.2
1949	28	6	6	1	1	2	1	82	33	32	26	8	76.0	3.91	1.500	3.08	4.48	107.7	106.4	0.9

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

423

807

750

152

RBI

154

.2027

OBP

.2411

SLG

.2640

OPS

.5051

Pitching

G (P)

390

243

143

292nd-most career W

137

270th-most career CG

SHO

246th-most career SHO

2,119

387th-most career IP

SO (P)

636

BB allowed

748

309th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.478

430th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3443

K/9

2.70

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
1944-05-24	PIT @ ATL Gameday	4	0	3	2	0	0	3	5
1941-08-06	PIT @ CHC Gameday	5	3	2	0	0	1	1	5
1943-07-16	STL @ PIT Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	0	3	4
1943-08-29	CHC @ PIT Gameday	3	0	3	1	0	0	1	4
1943-06-28	CIN @ PIT Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	0	2	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1941-06-27	PIT @ CHC Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	2	8
1940-08-04	PIT @ PHI Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	2	7
1942-07-05	CIN @ PIT Gameday	9.0	12	3	3	5	7
1941-07-14	PIT @ SF Gameday	8.1	6	3	3	2	7
1939-05-10	PIT @ SF Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	1	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.

Honors

4× 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.