Vern Olsen
Chicago Cubs 1939–1942; Chicago Cubs 1946
Percentile snapshot
1941 season — qualified pitchers
of 98 qualified 1941 pitchers (min 155 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .667 | .000 | .667 | 202.9 | 92.3 | .502 | 0.5 |
| 1940 | 35 | 62 | 57 | 4 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 0 | .263 | .288 | .316 | .604 | 63.4 | 68.1 | .279 | 3.6 |
| 1941 | 37 | 67 | 63 | 7 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .238 | .262 | .317 | .579 | 57.6 | 64.8 | .270 | 3.0 |
| 1942 | 32 | 54 | 48 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .188 | .264 | .208 | .472 | 39.4 | 41.0 | .239 | -0.7 |
| 1946 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 7.7 | 0.00 | 1.174 | 3.52 | 4.77 | 121.1 | — | 0.5 |
| 1940 | 34 | 20 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 172 | 57 | 62 | 71 | 5 | 172.7 | 2.97 | 1.355 | 3.70 | 3.41 | 90.5 | 127.0 | 3.6 |
| 1941 | 37 | 23 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 202 | 65 | 59 | 73 | 7 | 185.7 | 3.15 | 1.406 | 3.54 | 3.24 | 91.6 | 112.2 | 3.0 |
| 1942 | 32 | 17 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 161 | 70 | 55 | 46 | 6 | 140.3 | 4.49 | 1.539 | 2.95 | 3.38 | 104.9 | 71.9 | -0.7 |
| 1946 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 3 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 9.7 | 2.79 | 1.966 | 7.45 | 3.46 | 104.5 | 118.5 | 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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941-05-08 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1941-07-27 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1941-08-12 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1942-06-19 | CHC @ SF Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1942-07-21 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940-09-21 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 11.0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 0 |
| 1940-07-12 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 0 |
| 1942-08-30 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 7.0 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 1 |
| 1942-05-26 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 10.0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 1 |
| 1940-08-22 | LAD @ CHC Gameday | 9.0 | 2 | 0 | 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.