Virgil Trucks

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 198 lb

BornApril 26, 1917 · Birmingham, AL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 27, 1941

Final gameSeptember 26, 1958

Seasons17 (1941–1958)

Detroit Tigers 1941–1943; Detroit Tigers 1945–1952; Chicago White Sox 1953; St. Louis Browns 1953; Chicago White Sox 1954–1955; Detroit Tigers 1956; Kansas City Athletics 1957–1958; New York Yankees 1958

Percentile snapshot

1955 season — qualified pitchers

38.5

55.8

76.9

21.2

SHO

67.3

176

67.3

65.4

69.2

46.2

48.1

175.0

23.1

ERA

3.96

40.4

WHIP

1.354

51.9

K/9

4.68

65.4

FIP

3.88

42.3

FIP-

98.0

ERA+

100.0

34.6

sWAR

1.4

21.2

of 53 qualified 1955 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

115.6

84.1

sWAR

40.8

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	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1941	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
1942	28	66	65	4	8	1	0	0	3	0	12	0	0	.123	.123	.138	.262	-52.2	-28.6	.122	3.5
1943	33	74	72	7	13	1	0	0	7	2	4	0	0	.181	.203	.194	.397	-3.6	13.5	.193	3.4
1945	1	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	.000	.333	.000	.333	40.4	-2.0	.256	0.2
1946	32	97	95	4	17	4	0	0	5	0	13	0	0	.179	.179	.221	.400	-14.0	9.0	.183	3.4
1947	36	71	70	7	19	2	0	0	5	1	7	0	0	.271	.282	.300	.582	50.6	60.6	.273	0.4
1948	43	83	79	6	13	0	1	0	2	2	14	0	0	.165	.185	.190	.375	-15.5	-0.8	.180	3.1
1949	41	107	100	6	12	2	0	0	3	1	15	0	0	.120	.137	.140	.277	-45.7	-26.1	.134	6.2
1950	7	20	20	2	3	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.150	.150	.200	.350	-30.1	-11.7	.158	0.9
1951	37	57	55	5	13	3	0	0	14	0	12	0	0	.236	.236	.291	.527	29.7	41.8	.242	1.1
1952	35	67	64	3	12	0	0	1	3	1	11	1	0	.188	.200	.234	.434	1.5	19.0	.202	1.4
1953	40	102	88	6	19	4	0	1	7	0	13	0	0	.216	.225	.295	.520	26.1	39.4	.236	6.0
1954	40	105	93	5	17	2	0	0	8	1	21	0	0	.183	.188	.204	.392	-12.3	7.6	.181	5.4
1955	32	72	64	2	8	1	0	0	6	0	12	0	0	.125	.123	.141	.264	-48.9	-28.9	.121	1.4
1956	22	47	45	4	11	2	0	0	2	0	4	0	1	.244	.244	.289	.533	32.3	41.5	.244	1.6
1957	48	29	28	1	4	0	0	0	2	0	10	0	0	.143	.143	.143	.286	-44.2	-22.6	.132	2.2
1958	41	9	9	0	2	0	0	0	3	0	2	0	0	.222	.222	.222	.444	15.4	26.2	.204	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
1941	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	0	3	0	2.0	9.00	2.000	13.50	-0.24	-5.3	49.6	-0.1
1942	28	20	14	8	0	8	2	147	51	74	91	3	167.7	2.74	1.318	4.88	3.06	78.9	141.5	3.5
1943	33	25	16	10	2	10	2	170	64	52	118	11	202.7	2.84	1.095	5.24	2.67	77.2	121.9	3.4
1945	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	1	2	3	0	5.3	1.69	.938	5.06	2.44	69.8	207.3	0.2
1946	32	29	14	9	0	15	2	217	85	75	161	23	236.7	3.23	1.234	6.12	3.34	91.5	112.9	3.4
1947	36	26	10	12	2	8	2	186	91	79	108	14	180.7	4.53	1.467	5.38	3.58	95.2	82.9	0.4
1948	43	26	14	13	2	7	0	190	89	85	123	14	211.7	3.78	1.299	5.23	3.68	84.6	114.9	3.1
1949	41	32	19	11	4	17	6	209	86	124	153	16	275.0	2.81	1.211	5.01	3.53	85.1	147.5	6.2
1950	7	7	3	1	0	2	1	45	19	21	25	6	48.3	3.54	1.366	4.66	4.66	100.3	131.3	0.9
1951	37	18	13	8	1	6	1	153	74	75	89	9	153.7	4.33	1.484	5.21	3.74	90.5	95.4	1.1
1952	35	29	5	19	1	8	3	190	87	82	129	12	197.0	3.97	1.381	5.89	3.20	84.9	94.9	1.4
1953	40	33	20	10	3	17	5	234	86	99	149	18	264.3	2.93	1.260	5.07	3.53	87.9	137.0	6.0
1954	40	33	19	12	3	16	5	224	82	95	152	13	264.7	2.79	1.205	5.17	2.96	79.4	133.6	5.4
1955	32	26	13	8	0	7	3	176	77	61	91	19	175.0	3.96	1.354	4.68	3.88	98.0	100.0	1.4
1956	22	16	6	5	1	3	1	104	51	63	43	15	120.0	3.83	1.392	3.23	5.14	124.7	107.8	1.6
1957	48	7	9	7	7	0	0	106	39	62	55	12	116.0	3.03	1.448	4.27	4.45	114.0	129.0	2.2
1958	41	0	2	2	4	0	0	58	25	39	41	3	61.7	3.65	1.573	5.98	3.74	100.9	101.3	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

517

1,009

949

171

RBI

153

.1802

OBP

.1890

SLG

.2129

OPS

.4019

Pitching

G (P)

517

406th-most career G (P)

328

270th-most career GS

177

171st-most career W

135

247th-most career L

124

317th-most career CG

SHO

88th-most career SHO

2,682

206th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,534

220th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,088

80th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.385

363rd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3063

K/9

5.15

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	TB
1956-05-07	DET @ BAL Gameday	3	1	3	2	0	0	5
1953-09-11	CWS @ ATH Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	3	5
1954-07-21	CWS @ NYY Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	2	4
1947-08-20	NYY @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	4
1952-07-31	ATH @ DET Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1946-07-30	NYY @ DET Gameday	9.0	8	5	5	3	13	3
1953-08-18	BAL @ CWS Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	3	12	0
1943-10-02	DET @ MIN Gameday	9.0	10	5	5	3	11	0
1949-06-01	ATH @ DET Gameday	10.0	8	4	4	5	10	0
1946-06-14	MIN @ DET Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	2	10	2

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

2× 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.