Roy Welmaker

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 200 lb

BornDecember 6, 1913 · Atlanta, GA, USA

Seasons9 (1932–1945)

Atlanta Black Crackers 1932; Homestead Grays 1936–1939; Philadelphia Stars 1939–1940; Homestead Grays 1942; Homestead Grays 1944–1945

Percentile snapshot

1945 season — qualified pitchers

26.2

61.9

88.1

60.7

SHO

26.2

124

71.4

65.5

72.6

135.7

29.8

ERA

2.59

84.5

WHIP

1.194

77.4

K/9

5.31

84.5

FIP

3.71

35.7

FIP-

90.1

66.7

ERA+

159.4

sWAR

3.7

of 85 qualified 1945 pitchers (min 46 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

7.9

84.2

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1932	4	12	11	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	.091	.167	.091	.258	-5.2	-20.6	.143	-0.6
1936	9	22	20	3	5	1	0	0	2	0	.250	.318	.300	.618	65.3	58.7	.297	0.8
1937	9	19	17	4	7	0	2	4	0	0	.412	.412	.647	1.059	156.8	168.1	.463	1.6
1938	9	16	15	2	8	1	0	0	0	0	.533	.533	.600	1.133	185.8	198.7	.518	0.9
1939	14	26	25	3	2	0	0	0	1	0	.080	.115	.080	.195	-30.4	-47.3	.101	-0.7
1940	13	17	16	1	6	1	0	1	1	2	.375	.412	.438	.849	118.6	121.2	.397	0.4
1942	21	52	47	4	8	1	0	5	2	2	.170	.204	.191	.396	21.2	13.1	.194	0.8
1944	5	21	19	4	4	0	0	1	0	0	.211	.211	.211	.421	17.0	13.0	.198	0.8
1945	16	57	53	7	14	2	0	5	4	1	.264	.316	.302	.618	76.6	73.5	.300	3.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1932	3	3	0	3	0	2	0	31	14	8	12	0	19.0	6.63	2.053	5.68	3.44	92.2	56.2	-0.6
1936	9	6	3	3	1	3	0	62	28	25	23	2	54.0	4.67	1.611	3.83	5.15	100.7	109.5	0.8
1937	7	5	5	0	0	3	1	31	10	11	25	2	39.0	2.31	1.077	5.77	4.26	85.4	216.2	1.6
1938	7	6	1	2	0	1	0	30	15	14	4	1	33.0	4.09	1.333	1.09	5.48	108.4	123.5	0.9
1939	12	7	3	4	0	3	0	74	41	25	33	3	55.7	6.63	1.778	5.34	4.64	95.8	73.1	-0.7
1940	9	5	2	2	0	1	0	36	19	7	13	2	31.3	5.46	1.372	3.73	4.70	90.0	95.7	0.4
1942	18	16	9	6	0	10	0	130	56	27	61	8	119.7	4.21	1.312	4.59	3.75	95.5	93.1	0.8
1944	5	5	5	0	0	3	1	36	14	19	28	0	39.3	3.20	1.398	6.41	3.76	87.2	134.7	0.8
1945	15	15	12	2	0	13	1	124	39	38	80	3	135.7	2.59	1.194	5.31	3.71	90.1	159.4	3.7

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

100

242

223

RBI

.2466

OBP

.2821

SLG

.2915

OPS

.5736

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

527

SO (P)

279

BB allowed

174

ERA

4.033

WHIP

1.3823

K/9

4.77

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	2B	RBI	BB	TB
1940-05-19	PHS @ NE Gameday	3	0	3	0	1	0	3
1942-08-18	HOM @ CAG Gameday	4	1	2	1	3	0	3
1945-06-24	KCM @ HOM Gameday	3	1	2	1	2	1	3
1936-06-24	BEG @ HOM Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	1	3
1938-07-03	HOM @ TIC Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1944-09-02	HOM @ PHS Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	9	11	0
1945-08-16	KCM @ HOM Gameday	10.0	6	3	3	3	10	0
1932-06-20	ATL @ MNT Gameday	8.0	12	11	5	3	10	0
1942-08-18	HOM @ CAG Gameday	9.0	15	8	6	1	9	1
1937-07-21	HOM @ PHS Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	0	8	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

1× 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.