Slim Sallee

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 180 lb

BornFebruary 3, 1885 · Higginsport, OH, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1908

Final gameSeptember 20, 1921

Seasons14 (1908–1921)

St. Louis Cardinals 1908–1915; New York Giants 1916; St. Louis Cardinals 1916; New York Giants 1917–1918; Cincinnati Reds 1919–1920; New York Giants 1920–1921

Percentile snapshot

1919 season — qualified pitchers

42.6

71.3

93.6

62.8

SHO

78.7

221

24.5

56.4

12.8

42.6

227.7

72.3

ERA

2.06

88.3

WHIP

1.059

86.2

K/9

0.95

FIP

2.74

76.6

FIP-

97.8

ERA+

136.1

81.9

sWAR

4.6

85.1

of 95 qualified 1919 pitchers (min 140 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

113.6

79.6

sWAR

38.3

97.7

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
1908	25	46	41	2	2	0	0	0	1	3	22	0	.049	.133	.049	.182	-43.5	-41.1	.111	-0.5
1909	32	82	71	5	8	2	0	0	3	5	23	0	.113	.171	.141	.312	-4.8	-2.0	.164	2.2
1910	18	41	37	3	4	0	0	0	0	2	8	0	.108	.154	.108	.262	-29.1	-23.0	.138	0.9
1911	36	96	89	5	15	0	1	0	9	3	28	0	.169	.196	.191	.387	3.5	8.7	.189	3.9
1912	48	112	103	9	14	2	1	0	0	6	32	0	.136	.191	.175	.366	-1.7	0.4	.184	5.1
1913	50	102	95	7	20	3	0	2	5	1	15	1	.211	.219	.305	.524	39.4	48.8	.242	4.4
1914	46	100	91	6	21	1	0	0	3	3	17	0	.231	.255	.242	.497	43.0	48.6	.242	5.3
1915	46	102	92	0	11	0	0	0	5	6	27	0	.120	.173	.120	.293	-18.2	-11.0	.153	2.0
1916	31	59	53	3	12	1	0	0	1	3	13	0	.226	.268	.245	.513	55.6	60.2	.250	2.9
1917	34	85	77	7	17	0	0	0	11	2	12	0	.221	.241	.221	.461	37.8	44.9	.223	3.3
1918	18	48	41	2	5	0	0	0	3	3	6	0	.122	.182	.122	.304	-9.7	-5.3	.161	1.8
1919	29	88	74	5	14	2	2	0	7	6	20	1	.189	.250	.270	.520	56.7	59.5	.253	4.6
1920	26	44	38	1	7	0	0	0	4	3	8	0	.184	.262	.184	.446	32.8	32.3	.229	1.1
1921	37	26	22	2	8	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	.364	.364	.409	.773	104.3	105.8	.352	1.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1908	25	12	3	8	0	7	1	144	45	36	39	1	128.7	3.15	1.399	2.73	2.36	101.4	73.9	-0.5
1909	32	27	10	11	0	12	1	223	59	59	55	3	219.0	2.42	1.288	2.26	2.70	106.8	104.3	2.2
1910	18	13	7	8	2	9	1	112	38	24	46	4	115.0	2.97	1.183	3.60	2.68	89.6	100.8	0.9
1911	36	30	15	9	3	18	1	234	75	64	74	6	245.0	2.76	1.216	2.72	3.18	94.3	122.5	3.9
1912	48	32	16	17	6	20	3	289	85	72	108	6	294.0	2.60	1.228	3.31	3.07	90.5	130.5	5.1
1913	50	31	19	15	5	18	3	257	83	60	106	11	276.0	2.71	1.149	3.46	3.08	96.5	117.9	4.4
1914	46	30	18	17	6	18	3	252	66	72	105	5	282.3	2.10	1.148	3.35	2.61	94.3	131.3	5.3
1915	46	33	13	17	3	17	2	245	87	57	91	6	275.3	2.84	1.097	2.97	2.63	95.2	97.2	2.0
1916	31	18	14	9	1	11	4	171	44	33	63	4	181.7	2.18	1.123	3.12	2.48	96.2	117.6	2.9
1917	34	24	18	7	4	18	1	199	52	34	54	4	215.7	2.17	1.080	2.25	2.61	100.8	119.2	3.3
1918	18	16	8	8	2	12	1	122	33	12	33	3	132.0	2.25	1.015	2.25	2.37	88.6	118.8	1.8
1919	29	28	21	7	0	22	4	221	52	20	24	4	227.7	2.06	1.059	0.95	2.74	97.8	136.1	4.6
1920	26	13	6	6	2	7	0	145	46	16	15	4	133.0	3.11	1.211	1.02	3.17	104.7	97.4	1.1
1921	37	0	6	4	2	0	0	115	39	14	23	7	96.3	3.64	1.339	2.15	3.89	104.7	102.1	1.2

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

476

1,031

924

158

RBI

233

.1710

OBP

.2127

SLG

.1991

OPS

.4118

Pitching

G (P)

476

307

334th-most career GS

174

181st-most career W

143

195th-most career L

471st-most career SV

189

153rd-most career CG

SHO

175th-most career SHO

2,822

172nd-most career IP

SO (P)

836

BB allowed

573

ERA

2.564

52nd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1702

105th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

2.67

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	HR	RBI	TB
1913-05-12	STL @ ATL Gameday	3	1	3	1	0	0	4
1913-04-18	CHC @ STL Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	1	4
1913-06-09	ATL @ STL Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	0	4
1911-07-20	STL @ SF Gameday	4	0	3	0	0	2	3
1912-04-14	CHC @ STL Gameday	5	1	3	0	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1915-05-20	STL @ LAD Gameday	9.0	8	1	1	2	7	0
1912-07-27	STL @ ATL Gameday	8.0	9	3	2	4	7	0
1912-04-14	CHC @ STL Gameday	12.0	10	4	1	4	6	0
1911-04-12	STL @ CHC Gameday	11.0	10	3	0	3	6	1
1910-05-30	STL @ CHC Gameday	9.0	10	1	0	1	6	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.