Sam Zoldak

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 185 lb

BornDecember 8, 1918 · Brooklyn, NY, USA

MLB debutMay 13, 1944

Final gameAugust 26, 1952

Seasons9 (1944–1952)

St. Louis Browns 1944–1947; Cleveland Indians 1948; St. Louis Browns 1948; Cleveland Indians 1949–1950; Philadelphia Athletics 1951–1952

Percentile snapshot

1948 season — qualified pitchers

27.8

48.6

40.3

5.6

SHO

27.8

168

66.7

69.4

52.8

159.7

29.2

ERA

3.44

61.1

WHIP

1.322

61.1

K/9

1.69

FIP

4.01

37.5

FIP-

94.9

47.2

ERA+

122.9

72.2

sWAR

2.8

48.6

of 73 qualified 1948 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

12.5

89.3

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	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1944	18	6	6	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	82.2	87.4	.314	0.3
1945	27	20	20	0	1	0	1	0	8	0	.050	.050	.050	.100	-106.9	-71.4	.048	0.5
1946	35	58	52	3	9	1	0	3	12	0	.173	.218	.192	.410	-1.9	12.7	.201	2.1
1947	35	62	58	4	10	2	3	3	10	0	.172	.213	.207	.420	0.9	14.9	.204	2.4
1948	34	62	58	3	11	2	2	1	9	1	.190	.203	.224	.428	1.1	13.4	.202	2.8
1949	27	8	8	1	3	0	0	0	2	0	.375	.375	.375	.750	99.4	103.2	.355	0.5
1950	33	19	16	2	3	0	2	2	0	0	.188	.316	.188	.503	44.4	35.0	.268	0.9
1951	26	46	45	1	7	1	2	0	6	0	.156	.156	.178	.333	-29.6	-11.0	.154	2.4
1952	16	25	23	1	4	0	1	1	5	0	.174	.208	.174	.382	-12.6	3.8	.187	0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1944	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	49	16	19	15	1	38.7	3.72	1.759	3.49	3.58	100.7	95.5	0.3
1945	26	1	3	2	0	1	0	74	26	18	19	3	69.7	3.36	1.321	2.45	3.23	92.9	103.5	0.5
1946	35	21	9	11	2	9	2	166	65	57	51	11	170.3	3.43	1.309	2.69	3.71	101.3	106.7	2.1
1947	35	19	9	10	1	6	1	162	66	76	36	7	171.0	3.47	1.392	1.89	3.87	100.6	110.7	2.4
1948	34	21	11	10	0	4	1	168	61	43	30	10	159.7	3.44	1.322	1.69	4.01	94.9	122.9	2.8
1949	27	0	1	2	0	0	0	60	25	18	11	4	53.0	4.25	1.472	1.87	4.08	101.5	94.6	0.5
1950	33	3	4	2	4	0	0	64	28	21	15	6	63.7	3.96	1.335	2.12	4.50	103.9	109.5	0.9
1951	26	18	6	10	0	8	1	127	45	24	18	9	128.0	3.16	1.180	1.27	3.77	89.5	133.2	2.4
1952	16	10	0	6	1	2	0	86	34	25	12	3	75.3	4.06	1.473	1.43	3.56	91.0	96.3	0.5

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

251

306

286

RBI

.1748

OBP

.2054

SLG

.1958

OPS

.4012

Pitching

G (P)

250

SHO

929

SO (P)

207

BB allowed

301

ERA

3.544

WHIP

1.3526

K/9

2.00

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	TB
1947-07-14	MIN @ BAL Gameday	5	1	4	1	2	5
1951-07-15	ATH @ CWS Gameday	4	0	2	0	2	2
1948-05-25	BOS @ BAL Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	2
1946-07-01	BAL @ CLE Gameday	2	0	2	0	0	2
1946-08-27	BAL @ MIN Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1946-09-02	CLE @ BAL Gameday	11.0	10	2	2	4	6	0
1946-06-10	BAL @ MIN Gameday	9.0	11	1	1	1	5	0
1946-06-05	BAL @ BOS Gameday	5.1	7	7	7	2	5	1
1944-06-11	CLE @ BAL Gameday	5.0	7	4	4	4	5	0
1946-06-25	ATH @ BAL Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	2	4	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.