Sheriff Blake

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornSeptember 17, 1899 · Ansted, WV, USA

MLB debutJune 29, 1920

Final gameSeptember 26, 1937

Seasons10 (1920–1937)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1920; Chicago Cubs 1924–1931; Philadelphia Phillies 1931; St. Louis Browns 1937; St. Louis Cardinals 1937

Percentile snapshot

1930 season — qualified pitchers

55.9

56.8

46.6

17.8

SHO

213

41.5

100

31.4

5.1

70.3

28.8

186.7

ERA

4.82

28.8

WHIP

1.671

6.8

K/9

3.86

55.9

FIP

5.31

14.4

FIP-

106.5

ERA+

103.4

sWAR

2.1

47.5

of 119 qualified 1930 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

101.4

43.9

sWAR

16.5

91.9

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	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1920	6	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	33.2	43.4	.235	-0.7
1924	29	33	31	5	9	0	1	3	1	1	1	.290	.313	.355	.667	75.8	79.0	.307	0.3
1925	36	84	79	4	12	1	0	7	2	21	0	.152	.173	.165	.337	-22.3	-13.5	.159	0.5
1926	39	71	65	2	14	0	0	4	2	9	0	.215	.250	.215	.465	22.2	26.3	.225	2.4
1927	32	88	83	2	16	0	0	3	1	10	0	.193	.202	.193	.395	-0.9	7.1	.186	3.4
1928	35	97	88	10	19	1	0	5	1	13	0	.216	.233	.227	.461	14.1	22.3	.216	6.1
1929	38	90	81	11	14	2	0	4	4	10	0	.173	.212	.198	.409	-1.9	2.5	.195	2.9
1930	36	71	66	5	15	0	0	2	2	14	0	.227	.250	.227	.477	14.0	16.4	.221	2.1
1931	30	42	41	6	14	1	0	2	1	9	0	.341	.357	.366	.723	87.0	89.4	.334	-0.3
1937	29	22	20	1	4	0	0	0	0	4	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	-10.2	5.9	.185	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1920	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	21	12	6	7	0	13.3	8.10	2.025	4.73	3.13	99.2	38.9	-0.7
1924	29	11	6	6	1	4	0	123	54	44	42	3	106.3	4.57	1.571	3.55	3.83	99.5	84.2	0.3
1925	36	31	10	18	2	14	0	260	125	114	93	17	231.3	4.86	1.617	3.62	4.80	112.3	88.0	0.5
1926	39	27	11	12	1	11	4	204	79	92	95	7	197.7	3.60	1.497	4.33	3.89	101.9	106.2	2.4
1927	32	27	13	14	0	13	2	238	82	82	64	3	224.3	3.29	1.426	2.57	3.74	97.2	117.0	3.4
1928	34	29	17	11	1	16	4	209	66	101	78	4	240.7	2.47	1.288	2.92	3.64	93.7	157.3	6.1
1929	35	30	14	13	1	13	1	244	104	103	70	8	218.3	4.29	1.589	2.89	4.59	98.0	109.2	2.9
1930	34	24	10	14	0	7	0	213	100	99	80	14	186.7	4.82	1.671	3.86	5.31	106.5	103.4	2.1
1931	30	14	4	9	1	1	0	154	73	61	60	6	121.0	5.43	1.777	4.46	4.24	103.5	75.7	-0.3
1937	29	3	2	5	1	2	0	100	49	38	32	6	80.3	5.49	1.718	3.59	4.62	105.0	79.1	-0.2

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

310

602

558

118

RBI

.2115

OBP

.2334

SLG

.2240

OPS

.4574

Pitching

G (P)

304

196

102

SHO

1,620

SO (P)

621

BB allowed

740

317th-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.133

WHIP

1.5469

K/9

3.45

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	RBI	BB	TB
1928-04-19	CIN @ CHC Gameday	5	1	4	0	0	0	4
1924-07-05	CHC @ STL Gameday	3	2	2	1	1	1	4
1924-08-22	LAD @ CHC Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	0	3
1926-09-18	CHC @ ATL Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	0	3
1931-08-06	SF @ PHI Gameday	4	0	3	0	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1925-07-18	CHC @ PHI Gameday	10.0	11	6	5	7	10	1
1926-06-27	CHC @ STL Gameday	9.0	1	0	0	4	10	0
1924-08-17	PHI @ CHC Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	0	8	0
1925-10-03	STL @ CHC Gameday	9.0	7	3	1	2	7	0
1929-05-06	CHC @ PHI Gameday	8.1	4	2	0	4	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.