MLB / Players

Vic Sorrell

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 180 lb

BornApril 9, 1901 · Morrisville, NC, USA

MLB debutApril 22, 1928

Final gameJune 3, 1937

Seasons10 (1928–1937)

Detroit Tigers 1928–1937

Percentile snapshot

1933 season — qualified pitchers

68.7

61.6

55.6

11.1

51.5

61.6

SHO

38.4

233

26.3

14.1

19.2

66.7

232.7

72.7

ERA

3.79

40.4

WHIP

1.337

41.4

K/9

2.90

28.3

FIP

4.42

18.2

FIP-

102.9

33.3

ERA+

113.3

59.6

sWAR

3.3

74.7

of 100 qualified 1933 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

100.9

41.4

sWAR

14.6

90.7

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	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1928	29	61	55	2	6	2	0	1	0	14	0	.109	.109	.145	.255	-51.4	-34.6	.115	0.0
1929	36	88	83	9	12	1	0	6	1	28	0	.145	.155	.157	.311	-31.9	-20.3	.145	-0.4
1930	35	89	80	9	15	3	0	5	5	25	1	.188	.235	.225	.460	15.3	15.9	.218	4.2
1931	35	96	88	4	14	1	0	4	4	12	0	.159	.196	.170	.366	-8.8	-4.4	.178	2.9
1932	33	89	76	7	9	0	1	8	8	18	0	.118	.202	.145	.347	-5.7	-8.4	.179	3.0
1933	36	83	74	2	11	1	0	3	5	16	0	.149	.203	.162	.365	-4.3	-2.6	.182	3.3
1934	28	45	37	1	4	0	0	0	5	9	0	.108	.214	.108	.322	-8.0	-14.0	.179	0.7
1935	12	18	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-118.0	-100.0	.000	0.4
1936	30	50	39	1	6	2	0	1	7	13	0	.154	.283	.205	.488	31.0	22.6	.253	1.0
1937	7	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.7	-100.0	.000	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1928	29	23	8	11	0	8	0	182	91	83	67	9	171.0	4.79	1.550	3.53	4.48	107.9	86.6	0.0
1929	36	31	14	15	1	13	1	270	130	106	81	15	226.0	5.18	1.664	3.23	4.59	106.7	83.2	-0.4
1930	35	30	16	11	1	14	2	245	100	106	97	13	233.3	3.86	1.504	3.74	4.71	98.7	123.6	4.2
1931	35	32	13	14	1	19	1	267	113	114	99	8	245.0	4.15	1.555	3.64	4.28	94.9	108.5	2.9
1932	32	31	14	14	0	13	1	234	105	77	84	11	234.3	4.03	1.327	3.23	4.04	90.7	110.5	3.0
1933	36	28	11	15	1	13	1	233	98	78	75	18	232.7	3.79	1.337	2.90	4.42	102.9	113.3	3.3
1934	28	19	6	9	2	6	1	146	69	45	46	13	129.7	4.79	1.473	3.19	4.86	110.0	92.2	0.7
1935	12	6	4	3	0	4	0	65	23	25	22	2	51.3	4.03	1.753	3.86	4.32	101.3	105.7	0.4
1936	30	14	6	7	3	5	1	153	77	64	37	9	131.3	5.28	1.652	2.54	5.32	106.3	94.9	1.0
1937	7	2	0	2	1	0	0	25	17	8	11	3	17.0	9.00	1.941	5.82	5.54	119.1	51.7	-0.6

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

281

623

553

RBI

144

.1392

OBP

.1905

SLG

.1609

OPS

.3514

Pitching

G (P)

280

216

101

443rd-most career CG

SHO

1,672

SO (P)

619

BB allowed

706

381st-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.431

WHIP

1.5111

K/9

3.33

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	BB	TB
1936-05-16	ATH @ DET Gameday	3	0	2	2	0	1	1	4
1929-06-25	CWS @ DET Gameday	5	2	2	1	0	2	0	3
1932-08-07	BOS @ DET Gameday	4	0	1	0	1	0	0	3
1929-05-30	BAL @ DET Gameday	5	0	2	0	0	3	0	2
1931-08-27	CWS @ DET Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	1	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1930-09-04	BAL @ DET Gameday	8.1	9	4	4	6	9	1
1931-07-11	BAL @ DET Gameday	9.0	11	4	3	2	8	0
1930-07-27	NYY @ DET Gameday	9.0	7	3	3	5	7	0
1930-08-22	DET @ ATH Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	5	7	0
1932-07-04	BAL @ DET Gameday	9.0	13	7	6	3	7	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.