MLB / Players

Roy Patterson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb

BornDecember 17, 1876 · Stoddard, WI, USA

MLB debutApril 24, 1901

Final gameSeptember 16, 1907

Seasons7 (1901–1907)

Chicago White Sox 1901–1907

Percentile snapshot

1904 season — qualified pitchers

8.1

6.8

17.6

83.8

5.4

SHO

62.2

148

94.6

91.9

94.6

12.2

74.3

165.0

8.1

ERA

2.29

58.1

WHIP

1.042

78.4

K/9

3.49

36.5

FIP

2.37

74.3

FIP-

95.8

56.8

ERA+

108.1

51.4

sWAR

1.6

35.1

of 75 qualified 1904 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

108.9

69.5

sWAR

15.5

91.3

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
1901	41	131	117	17	26	1	0	1	12	7	11	0	.222	.272	.256	.528	57.1	48.9	.256	3.8
1902	34	113	105	11	20	1	0	0	6	3	15	0	.190	.213	.200	.413	21.3	17.4	.198	3.4
1903	34	113	105	6	11	1	1	0	2	4	19	0	.105	.145	.133	.279	-10.1	-14.0	.138	2.7
1904	22	64	58	1	6	0	0	0	1	3	15	0	.103	.148	.103	.251	-19.9	-18.1	.130	1.6
1905	13	32	30	2	8	2	0	0	1	1	8	0	.267	.290	.333	.624	99.5	103.6	.298	1.8
1906	21	53	49	4	3	2	0	0	1	0	9	1	.061	.061	.102	.163	-58.5	-48.2	.076	1.8
1907	19	31	31	3	3	0	0	0	6	0	9	0	.097	.097	.097	.194	-43.2	-36.6	.093	0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1901	41	35	20	15	0	30	4	345	117	62	127	11	312.3	3.37	1.303	3.66	3.26	91.4	105.8	3.8
1902	34	30	19	14	0	26	2	262	91	67	61	5	268.0	3.06	1.228	2.05	3.38	99.0	111.7	3.4
1903	34	30	15	15	1	26	2	275	88	69	89	5	293.0	2.70	1.174	2.73	3.21	113.4	104.8	2.7
1904	22	17	9	9	0	14	4	148	42	24	64	1	165.0	2.29	1.042	3.49	2.37	95.8	108.1	1.6
1905	13	9	4	6	0	7	0	73	18	16	29	0	88.7	1.83	1.004	2.94	2.35	94.2	136.3	1.8
1906	21	18	10	7	1	12	3	119	33	17	45	1	142.0	2.09	.958	2.85	2.38	91.9	123.7	1.8
1907	19	13	4	6	0	4	1	105	28	18	27	0	96.0	2.63	1.281	2.53	2.40	99.9	91.7	0.4

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

184

537

495

RBI

.1556

OBP

.1883

SLG

.1798

OPS

.3681

Pitching

G (P)

184

152

119

331st-most career CG

SHO

354th-most career SHO

1,365

SO (P)

442

BB allowed

273

ERA

2.749

95th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1722

109th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

2.91

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	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1901-06-28	CLE @ CWS Gameday	5	1	4	0	0	0	4
1903-09-24	CWS @ ATH Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	0	4
1901-06-13	CWS @ BAL Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	2	4
1901-08-13	CWS @ CLE Gameday	5	0	3	0	0	2	3
1901-09-18	CWS @ BAL Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-08-02	DET @ CWS Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	0	9	0
1901-08-13	CWS @ CLE Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	1	9	0
1904-05-28	CWS @ CLE Gameday	6.2	9	3	3	0	8	1
1903-05-17	MIN @ CWS Gameday	9.0	13	6	5	1	7	0
1906-07-11	CWS @ BOS Gameday	9.0	8	0	0	0	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.