MLB / Players

Stan Coveleski

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 166 lb

BornJuly 13, 1889 · Shamokin, PA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1912

Final gameAugust 3, 1928

Seasons14 (1912–1928)

Philadelphia Athletics 1912; Cleveland Indians 1916–1924; Washington Senators 1925–1927; New York Yankees 1928

Percentile snapshot

1926 season — qualified pitchers

69.8

96.1

77.5

30.2

47.3

50.4

SHO

86.8

272

3.9

38.8

35.7

94.6

245.3

88.4

ERA

3.12

79.8

WHIP

1.439

37.2

K/9

1.83

5.4

FIP

3.56

82.9

FIP-

91.2

72.1

ERA+

125.1

78.3

sWAR

4.6

88.4

of 130 qualified 1926 pitchers (min 152 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

127.1

95.4

sWAR

54.4

99.1

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1912	5	8	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	5	0	.143	.250	.143	.393	28.8	15.5	.217	0.1
1916	45	80	75	8	13	1	2	1	5	1	19	0	.173	.184	.280	.464	17.7	36.2	.220	0.9
1917	46	107	97	1	13	2	1	0	4	3	34	0	.134	.160	.175	.335	-11.7	2.0	.166	5.8
1918	38	117	110	6	21	4	0	0	3	2	26	0	.191	.205	.227	.433	8.6	26.3	.212	7.4
1919	43	110	94	10	20	5	1	0	6	13	31	0	.213	.308	.287	.596	65.9	64.7	.296	5.8
1920	41	131	111	13	25	4	2	0	17	11	28	0	.225	.295	.297	.592	56.3	56.6	.286	8.0
1921	43	131	116	3	18	5	1	0	16	4	26	0	.155	.183	.216	.399	-8.1	1.1	.187	5.6
1922	35	108	99	4	10	1	1	0	7	6	21	0	.101	.160	.131	.292	-31.4	-23.5	.149	4.3
1923	33	91	79	9	7	0	0	0	6	1	25	0	.089	.122	.089	.211	-56.3	-44.2	.108	4.6
1924	37	94	82	3	11	1	0	0	4	8	32	0	.134	.211	.146	.357	-10.9	-7.9	.188	2.7
1925	32	94	81	3	9	0	0	0	7	1	25	1	.111	.133	.111	.244	-44.3	-36.7	.120	5.2
1926	36	87	82	8	17	3	2	0	3	2	26	0	.207	.226	.293	.519	26.9	36.6	.240	4.6
1927	5	6	6	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	71.3	74.6	.311	0.3
1928	12	23	19	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	9	0	.053	.053	.053	.105	-85.8	-71.7	.049	-0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1912	5	2	2	1	0	2	1	18	8	4	9	0	21.0	3.43	1.048	3.86	2.81	87.7	93.4	0.1
1916	45	27	15	13	3	11	1	247	88	58	76	6	232.0	3.41	1.315	2.95	2.77	93.6	86.7	0.9
1917	45	36	19	14	4	24	9	202	60	94	133	3	298.3	1.81	.992	4.01	2.33	87.2	147.9	5.8
1918	38	33	22	13	1	25	2	261	63	76	87	2	311.0	1.82	1.084	2.52	2.46	83.2	161.9	7.4
1919	43	34	24	12	4	24	4	286	83	60	118	2	286.0	2.61	1.210	3.71	2.48	74.5	127.4	5.8
1920	41	38	24	14	2	26	3	284	87	65	133	6	315.0	2.49	1.108	3.80	2.96	77.5	153.7	8.0
1921	43	40	23	13	2	28	2	341	118	84	99	6	315.0	3.37	1.349	2.83	3.67	85.2	127.8	5.6
1922	35	33	17	14	2	21	3	292	102	64	98	14	276.7	3.32	1.287	3.19	3.61	89.0	122.3	4.3
1923	33	31	13	14	2	17	5	251	70	42	54	8	228.0	2.76	1.285	2.13	3.47	86.5	145.1	4.6
1924	37	33	15	16	0	18	2	286	108	73	58	6	240.3	4.04	1.494	2.17	3.93	90.6	107.2	2.7
1925	32	32	20	5	0	15	3	230	76	73	58	7	241.0	2.84	1.257	2.17	3.94	92.7	149.6	5.2
1926	36	34	14	11	1	11	3	272	85	81	50	1	245.3	3.12	1.439	1.83	3.56	91.2	125.1	4.6
1927	5	4	2	1	0	0	0	13	5	8	3	0	14.3	3.14	1.465	1.88	4.32	105.9	129.8	0.3
1928	12	8	5	1	0	2	0	72	37	20	5	5	58.0	5.74	1.586	0.78	5.01	129.3	67.5	-0.8

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

451

1,187

1,058

168

RBI

309

.1588

OBP

.2018

SLG

.2051

OPS

.4069

Pitching

G (P)

450

385

160th-most career GS

215

92nd-most career W

142

205th-most career L

224

111th-most career CG

SHO

54th-most career SHO

3,082

127th-most career IP

SO (P)

981

BB allowed

802

254th-most career BB allowed

ERA

2.891

143rd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2515

345th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

2.86

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1921-07-12	BOS @ CLE Gameday	4	0	2	2	0	0	3	0	4
1920-09-17	MIN @ CLE Gameday	3	2	2	0	1	0	1	1	4
1916-05-30	CLE @ BAL Gameday	4	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	4
1919-07-29	CLE @ ATH Gameday	2	1	2	1	0	0	2	1	3
1920-04-14	BAL @ CLE Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1918-05-15	CLE @ ATH Gameday	12.2	9	3	1	3	10	1
1920-05-15	CLE @ NYY Gameday	8.0	4	2	2	2	9	1
1917-06-25	BAL @ CLE Gameday	9.0	9	6	2	4	8	0
1920-09-17	MIN @ CLE Gameday	9.0	7	3	3	2	8	1
1921-09-14	CLE @ ATH Gameday	9.0	9	5	2	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

Hall of Fame, 1969 (Veterans)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.