Verdell Mathis

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 155 lb

BornNovember 18, 1913 · Crawfordsville, AR, USA

Seasons9 (1940–1948)

Memphis Red Sox 1940; Chicago American Giants 1941; Memphis Red Sox 1941–1943; Philadelphia Stars 1943; Memphis Red Sox 1944–1948

Percentile snapshot

1943 season — qualified pitchers

19.6

26.5

76.5

27.5

SHO

24.5

74.5

84.3

88.2

22.5

71.6

88.3

23.5

ERA

3.16

WHIP

1.279

52.9

K/9

4.38

65.7

FIP

3.78

32.4

FIP-

93.0

62.7

ERA+

128.8

76.5

sWAR

2.0

47.1

of 103 qualified 1943 pitchers (min 78 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

6.7

82.4

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
1940	43	131	117	14	25	3	0	1	9	12	1	3	.214	.287	.265	.552	72.1	66.5	.280	0.4
1941	11	31	30	6	12	0	0	0	4	1	0	0	.400	.419	.400	.819	138.7	143.6	.395	0.2
1942	20	47	43	7	19	1	0	0	4	4	0	1	.442	.489	.465	.954	177.7	185.0	.452	1.8
1943	28	98	85	13	18	1	0	0	8	12	1	0	.212	.309	.224	.533	72.2	63.0	.276	2.0
1944	24	77	72	7	20	2	1	0	6	5	0	1	.278	.325	.333	.658	99.9	104.1	.315	1.6
1945	17	46	36	11	10	2	0	0	5	7	0	1	.278	.395	.333	.729	120.2	114.5	.361	0.7
1946	10	35	34	4	7	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	.206	.229	.235	.464	40.2	36.9	.227	0.1
1947	3	8	8	2	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.375	.375	.375	.750	99.3	102.0	.357	-0.1
1948	7	14	12	2	2	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	.167	.231	.167	.397	20.5	7.6	.203	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1940	9	4	1	3	0	2	0	47	23	14	29	0	49.0	4.22	1.245	5.33	3.59	86.9	97.8	0.4
1941	6	4	3	2	0	3	0	41	18	8	24	2	33.7	4.81	1.455	6.42	3.64	98.1	77.1	0.2
1942	13	10	5	6	1	8	0	83	30	16	41	3	79.0	3.42	1.253	4.67	3.65	89.9	118.6	1.8
1943	14	10	6	4	0	7	1	92	31	21	43	2	88.3	3.16	1.279	4.38	3.78	93.0	128.8	2.0
1944	12	10	8	2	0	9	1	84	29	28	61	3	88.0	2.97	1.273	6.24	3.28	97.5	113.5	1.6
1945	5	5	2	2	0	4	0	39	14	4	16	0	34.0	3.71	1.265	4.24	3.45	81.5	114.4	0.7
1946	2	2	0	2	0	1	0	11	3	3	6	0	11.0	2.45	1.273	4.91	3.72	90.8	167.0	0.1
1947	3	3	1	1	0	1	0	19	13	16	9	2	16.3	7.16	2.143	4.96	7.67	155.6	68.8	-0.1
1948	4	3	1	2	0	1	0	24	14	11	16	2	21.0	6.00	1.667	6.86	5.35	110.5	80.7	-0.1

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

163

487

437

116

RBI

.2654

OBP

.3313

SLG

.2998

OPS

.6311

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

420

SO (P)

245

BB allowed

121

ERA

3.747

WHIP

1.3347

K/9

5.25

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	BB	TB
1944-07-02	CAG @ MEM Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	2	1	5
1940-05-12	HSL @ MEM Gameday	5	1	2	0	1	2	0	5
1941-08-08	MEM @ HOM Gameday	4	0	3	0	0	3	0	3
1942-05-31	MEM @ CAG Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	0	3
1942-04-19	MEM @ CAG Gameday	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1942-05-24	CAG @ MEM Gameday	9.0	7	4	2	2	10
1944-08-20	MEM @ CAG Gameday	9.0	12	2	1	1	9
1944-08-22	MEM @ KCM Gameday	9.0	10	4	4	0	9
1943-06-03	NBY @ PHS Gameday	5.1	5	2	2	2	8
1944-05-03	KCM @ MEM Gameday	10.1	6	4	3	6	7

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

4× 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.