MLB / Players

Roger Wolff

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 208 lb

BornApril 10, 1911 · Evansville, IL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 20, 1941

Final gameAugust 25, 1947

Seasons7 (1941–1947)

Philadelphia Athletics 1941–1943; Washington Senators 1944–1946; Cleveland Indians 1947; Pittsburgh Pirates 1947

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified pitchers

63.1

35.7

71.4

92.9

SHO

85.7

200

39.3

59.5

51.2

108

89.3

40.5

250.0

88.1

ERA

2.12

95.2

WHIP

1.012

96.4

K/9

3.89

51.2

FIP

2.59

96.4

FIP-

82.5

82.1

ERA+

147.8

84.5

sWAR

5.1

92.9

of 85 qualified 1945 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

99.9

38.1

sWAR

8.8

85.5

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	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1941	2	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	3	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	-7.2	5.9	.185	0.3
1942	32	79	68	4	6	1	4	7	19	1	.088	.173	.103	.276	-28.2	-22.0	.152	2.9
1943	41	81	74	4	9	0	3	4	17	0	.122	.167	.122	.288	-31.0	-15.5	.149	1.1
1944	33	59	55	6	12	0	3	3	12	0	.218	.259	.218	.477	34.7	39.9	.235	-1.6
1945	33	95	84	2	9	1	6	6	20	0	.107	.167	.119	.286	-23.5	-13.6	.151	5.1
1946	21	46	39	2	4	0	0	5	14	0	.103	.205	.103	.307	-14.1	-10.3	.171	2.2
1947	20	15	12	0	0	0	0	1	8	0	.000	.077	.000	.077	-93.1	-78.3	.058	-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
1941	2	2	0	2	0	2	0	15	6	4	2	0	17.0	3.18	1.118	1.06	3.23	77.6	131.0	0.3
1942	32	25	12	15	3	15	2	206	79	69	94	16	214.3	3.32	1.283	3.95	3.65	98.0	112.3	2.9
1943	41	26	10	15	6	13	2	232	87	72	91	11	221.0	3.54	1.376	3.71	3.20	96.3	93.9	1.1
1944	33	21	4	15	2	5	0	186	86	60	73	9	155.0	4.99	1.587	4.24	3.64	110.7	65.8	-1.6
1945	33	29	20	10	2	21	4	200	59	53	108	7	250.0	2.12	1.012	3.89	2.59	82.5	147.8	5.1
1946	21	17	5	8	0	6	0	115	35	30	50	8	122.0	2.58	1.189	3.69	3.34	100.2	129.2	2.2
1947	20	8	1	4	0	1	0	64	36	28	12	5	46.0	7.04	2.000	2.35	5.43	137.4	56.2	-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

182

380

337

RBI

.1217

OBP

.1846

SLG

.1276

OPS

.3122

Pitching

G (P)

182

128

SHO

1,025

SO (P)

430

BB allowed

316

ERA

3.406

376th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3010

K/9

3.77

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	RBI	BB	TB
1944-05-01	MIN @ BOS Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	3
1945-08-22	MIN @ CLE Gameday	3	0	2	2	0	2
1944-05-31	MIN @ BAL Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	2
1943-09-06	NYY @ ATH Gameday	5	1	2	0	0	2
1944-05-07	MIN @ ATH Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1942-05-30	BOS @ ATH Gameday	9.0	11	4	3	1	9	2
1944-08-25	NYY @ MIN Gameday	11.0	6	4	2	7	8	0
1943-08-02	CWS @ ATH Gameday	9.0	9	3	2	1	8	0
1945-05-05	ATH @ MIN Gameday	9.0	5	3	3	3	7	0
1943-07-30	BAL @ ATH Gameday	8.1	4	2	1	2	7	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.