MLB / Players

Steve Gromek

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 180 lb

BornJanuary 15, 1920 · Hamtramck, MI, USA

MLB debutAugust 18, 1941

Final gameJuly 25, 1957

Seasons17 (1941–1957)

Cleveland Indians 1941–1953; Detroit Tigers 1953–1957

Percentile snapshot

1955 season — qualified pitchers

7.7

32.7

55.8

48.1

30.8

SHO

42.3

183

59.6

100

11.5

13.5

181.0

34.6

ERA

3.98

36.5

WHIP

1.215

84.6

K/9

3.63

15.4

FIP

4.25

21.2

FIP-

109.7

13.5

ERA+

97.4

sWAR

2.0

38.5

of 53 qualified 1955 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

108.5

sWAR

28.7

96.3

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	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1941	9	6	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	-21.1	-9.1	.154	0.1
1942	14	17	15	2	5	1	1	2	2	1	0	.333	.412	.533	.945	170.7	172.3	.437	0.6
1943	3	2	2	2	2	0	0	1	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	546.6	501.2	.948	-0.1
1944	44	84	73	11	19	1	1	7	6	13	1	.260	.316	.301	.618	79.3	80.1	.300	4.4
1945	37	104	91	8	21	2	0	10	10	17	0	.231	.307	.253	.560	66.6	66.2	.282	5.0
1946	37	58	56	4	11	0	0	0	2	14	1	.196	.224	.196	.421	9.5	21.5	.203	-0.4
1947	30	22	22	1	7	1	0	1	0	5	0	.318	.318	.364	.682	88.0	95.2	.317	0.7
1948	38	45	41	3	6	1	0	1	3	7	0	.146	.205	.171	.375	-3.2	2.8	.190	2.9
1949	27	28	24	2	4	1	0	1	2	5	0	.167	.231	.208	.439	12.6	19.2	.220	1.6
1950	31	41	38	1	6	0	0	1	1	9	0	.158	.179	.158	.337	-20.5	-10.6	.163	1.8
1951	27	33	27	2	8	1	0	2	5	8	0	.296	.406	.333	.740	116.5	108.5	.364	2.6
1952	30	38	30	2	3	0	0	3	5	10	0	.100	.229	.100	.329	1.5	-2.9	.188	0.8
1953	24	49	43	0	3	0	0	2	0	11	0	.070	.070	.070	.140	-89.7	-62.4	.065	0.3
1954	36	98	79	6	15	0	0	3	8	21	0	.190	.273	.190	.463	26.8	29.2	.236	5.5
1955	28	74	54	10	9	1	0	5	16	12	0	.167	.357	.185	.542	71.7	51.6	.300	2.0
1956	40	41	27	3	4	0	0	1	11	10	0	.148	.395	.148	.543	79.8	50.0	.317	1.4
1957	15	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-134.1	-100.0	.000	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1941	9	2	1	1	2	1	0	25	11	11	19	0	23.3	4.24	1.543	7.33	2.55	65.0	92.4	0.1
1942	14	0	2	0	0	0	0	46	18	23	14	2	44.3	3.65	1.556	2.84	4.06	117.6	94.5	0.6
1943	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	4	0	4	0	4.0	9.00	1.500	9.00	0.35	11.1	34.8	-0.1
1944	35	21	10	9	1	12	2	160	58	70	115	5	203.7	2.56	1.129	5.08	2.81	84.9	129.4	4.4
1945	33	30	19	9	1	21	3	229	71	66	101	6	251.0	2.55	1.175	3.62	2.78	85.9	127.3	5.0
1946	29	21	5	15	4	5	2	159	74	47	75	20	153.7	4.33	1.341	4.39	4.14	125.0	76.4	-0.4
1947	29	7	3	5	4	0	0	77	35	36	39	8	84.3	3.74	1.340	4.16	4.05	116.2	93.3	0.7
1948	38	9	9	3	2	4	1	109	41	51	50	10	130.0	2.84	1.231	3.46	4.29	104.9	144.2	2.9
1949	27	12	4	6	0	3	0	86	34	40	22	8	92.0	3.33	1.370	2.15	4.51	112.4	120.7	1.6
1950	31	13	10	7	0	4	1	94	46	36	43	10	113.3	3.65	1.147	3.41	4.13	95.4	118.6	1.8
1951	27	8	7	4	1	4	0	98	33	29	40	6	107.3	2.77	1.183	3.35	3.48	90.4	139.1	2.6
1952	29	13	7	7	1	3	1	109	50	28	65	14	122.7	3.67	1.117	4.77	3.52	103.1	93.1	0.8
1953	24	18	7	9	1	6	1	149	67	39	67	17	136.7	4.41	1.376	4.41	4.26	105.7	91.1	0.3
1954	36	32	18	16	1	17	4	236	77	57	102	26	252.7	2.74	1.160	3.63	3.73	100.5	135.2	5.5
1955	28	25	13	10	0	8	2	183	80	37	73	26	181.0	3.98	1.215	3.63	4.25	109.7	97.4	2.0
1956	40	13	8	6	4	4	0	142	67	47	64	25	141.0	4.28	1.340	4.09	5.09	123.6	96.4	1.4
1957	15	1	0	1	1	0	0	32	16	13	11	3	23.7	6.08	1.901	4.18	4.89	127.7	63.0	-0.4

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

470

742

630

124

RBI

146

.1968

OBP

.2792

SLG

.2175

OPS

.4967

Pitching

G (P)

447

225

123

424th-most career W

108

463rd-most career L

464th-most career CG

SHO

317th-most career SHO

2,065

421st-most career IP

SO (P)

904

BB allowed

630

491st-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.409

377th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2448

316th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.94

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	RBI	TB
1945-07-13	CLE @ NYY Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	3	5
1954-08-29	DET @ ATH Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	1	3
1951-08-02	CLE @ MIN Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	0	3
1942-05-29	CLE @ DET Gameday	1	0	1	0	1	2	3
1944-06-18	CWS @ CLE Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1944-07-14	BAL @ CLE Gameday	14.0	8	2	2	8	10	0
1955-06-17	DET @ BAL Gameday	10.1	6	3	3	1	10	2
1944-07-25	NYY @ CLE Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	1	10	0
1954-04-13	BAL @ DET Gameday	9.0	7	0	0	2	9	0
1946-09-10	NYY @ CLE Gameday	9.0	5	2	2	2	8	1

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.