Wes Ferrell

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 195 lb

BornFebruary 2, 1908 · Greensboro, NC, USA

MLB debutSeptember 9, 1927

Final gameMay 6, 1941

Seasons15 (1927–1941)

Cleveland Indians 1927–1933; Boston Red Sox 1934–1937; Washington Senators 1937; New York Yankees 1938; Washington Senators 1938; New York Yankees 1939; Brooklyn Dodgers 1940; Boston Braves 1941

Percentile snapshot

1938 season — qualified pitchers

42.6

62.8

81.9

37.2

43.6

SHO

245

125

4.3

18.1

24.5

8.5

179.0

53.2

ERA

6.28

1.1

WHIP

1.849

K/9

2.16

7.4

FIP

5.40

6.4

FIP-

118.6

2.1

ERA+

72.4

3.2

sWAR

-0.7

1.1

of 95 qualified 1938 pitchers (min 157 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

115.3

83.3

sWAR

52.5

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1927	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
1928	2	4	4	0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.750	1.000	140.4	152.1	.420	0.5
1929	47	102	93	12	22	5	3	1	12	6	28	1	.237	.283	.387	.670	62.6	67.7	.303	4.9
1930	53	133	118	19	35	8	3	0	14	12	15	0	.297	.362	.415	.777	93.5	92.9	.354	8.2
1931	48	128	116	24	37	6	1	9	30	10	21	0	.319	.373	.621	.994	144.7	150.2	.437	6.9
1932	55	140	128	14	31	5	2	2	18	6	21	0	.242	.276	.359	.635	55.1	59.9	.288	6.3
1933	61	161	140	26	38	7	0	7	26	20	22	0	.271	.363	.471	.834	115.4	116.8	.381	3.1
1934	34	88	78	12	22	4	0	4	17	7	15	1	.282	.341	.487	.828	103.6	107.8	.374	4.6
1935	75	179	150	25	52	5	1	7	32	21	16	0	.347	.427	.533	.960	143.0	141.7	.437	9.1
1936	61	154	135	20	36	6	1	5	24	14	10	0	.267	.336	.437	.773	83.5	86.1	.351	7.0
1937	71	158	139	14	39	7	0	1	25	16	21	0	.281	.355	.353	.707	83.0	81.6	.333	2.7
1938	31	83	61	7	13	3	0	1	7	16	11	0	.213	.377	.311	.688	89.4	79.4	.342	-0.7
1939	3	8	8	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	2	0	.125	.125	.250	.375	-14.8	-4.1	.162	0.1
1940	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.3	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1941	4	5	4	2	2	0	0	1	2	1	1	0	.500	.600	1.250	1.850	390.9	418.5	.763	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
1927	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	2	0	0	1.0	27.00	5.000	0.00	9.06	218.2	15.4	-0.2
1928	2	2	0	2	0	1	0	15	4	5	4	0	16.0	2.25	1.250	2.25	3.47	84.9	181.6	0.5
1929	43	25	21	10	5	18	1	256	97	109	100	7	242.7	3.60	1.504	3.71	3.95	89.8	122.2	4.9
1930	43	35	25	13	3	25	1	299	109	106	143	14	296.7	3.31	1.365	4.34	4.17	86.6	145.7	8.2
1931	40	35	22	12	3	27	2	276	115	130	123	9	276.3	3.75	1.469	4.01	4.23	91.5	123.5	6.9
1932	38	34	23	13	1	26	3	299	117	104	105	17	287.7	3.66	1.401	3.29	4.25	91.0	127.6	6.3
1933	28	26	11	12	0	16	1	225	94	70	41	8	201.0	4.21	1.468	1.84	4.21	96.1	104.2	3.1
1934	26	23	14	5	1	17	3	205	73	49	67	4	181.0	3.63	1.403	3.33	3.51	75.4	128.5	4.6
1935	41	38	25	14	0	31	3	336	126	108	110	16	322.3	3.52	1.377	3.07	4.09	87.9	132.1	9.1
1936	39	38	20	15	0	28	3	330	140	119	106	11	301.0	4.19	1.492	3.17	4.51	86.5	124.4	7.0
1937	37	35	14	19	0	26	0	325	153	122	123	25	281.0	4.90	1.591	3.94	4.74	104.8	92.0	2.7
1938	28	26	15	10	0	10	0	245	125	86	43	18	179.0	6.28	1.849	2.16	5.40	118.6	72.4	-0.7
1939	3	3	1	2	0	1	0	14	10	17	6	2	19.3	4.66	1.603	2.79	6.50	147.7	94.5	0.1
1940	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	3	4	4	0	4.0	6.75	2.000	9.00	4.50	113.0	59.0	-0.1
1941	4	3	2	1	0	1	0	13	8	9	10	1	14.0	5.14	1.571	6.43	4.21	118.7	69.0	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

548

1,345

1,176

175

329

RBI

208

129

185

.2798

OBP

.3510

SLG

.4456

OPS

.7966

Pitching

G (P)

374

323

286th-most career GS

193

143rd-most career W

128

286th-most career L

227

104th-most career CG

SHO

317th-most career SHO

2,623

222nd-most career IP

SO (P)

985

BB allowed

1,040

101st-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.039

WHIP

1.4811

K/9

3.38

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1936-08-12	ATH @ BOS Gameday	4	2	3	2	6	0	9
1931-08-31	CLE @ CWS Gameday	4	4	3	2	5	0	9
1935-07-31	BOS @ MIN Gameday	4	2	3	2	4	0	9
1934-08-22	CWS @ BOS Gameday	4	2	3	2	2	1	9
1934-07-13	BOS @ BAL Gameday	3	2	2	2	4	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1936-04-14	ATH @ BOS Gameday	9.0	10	4	2	6	10
1929-07-19	NYY @ CLE Gameday	9.0	7	3	2	5	9
1931-08-27	BAL @ CLE Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	6	9
1937-08-19	MIN @ NYY Gameday	11.2	10	4	1	9	8
1930-06-08	MIN @ CLE Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	4	8

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.