MLB / Players

Wilbur Cooper

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb

BornFebruary 24, 1892 · Bearsville, WV, USA

MLB debutAugust 29, 1912

Final gameJuly 21, 1926

Seasons15 (1912–1926)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1912–1924; Chicago Cubs 1925–1926; Detroit Tigers 1926

Percentile snapshot

1925 season — qualified pitchers

57.8

68.9

62.2

10.4

65.2

SHO

249

21.5

101

19.3

26.7

212.3

72.6

ERA

4.28

54.8

WHIP

1.460

43.7

K/9

1.74

5.9

FIP

4.74

40.7

FIP-

110.9

5.9

ERA+

99.9

40.7

sWAR

2.2

55.6

of 136 qualified 1925 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

115.0

82.5

sWAR

56.5

99.2

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
1912	6	16	13	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	.154	.214	.154	.368	5.6	3.3	.190	1.0
1913	30	30	26	2	2	0	0	0	1	3	9	0	0	.077	.172	.077	.249	-20.1	-25.5	.144	0.5
1914	40	97	92	5	19	1	1	0	16	2	17	0	0	.207	.223	.239	.463	33.7	40.8	.222	4.5
1915	38	63	60	1	7	1	0	0	3	1	5	0	0	.117	.131	.133	.264	-33.2	-19.1	.128	0.0
1916	44	86	79	4	17	2	0	0	4	0	20	0	0	.215	.215	.241	.456	24.1	38.3	.213	5.1
1917	41	111	103	8	21	5	1	0	5	6	20	0	0	.204	.248	.272	.520	50.9	56.9	.251	4.9
1918	38	103	95	8	23	2	2	0	5	3	6	2	0	.242	.265	.305	.571	65.0	71.7	.273	5.6
1919	36	107	101	9	29	2	2	0	7	4	9	5	0	.287	.321	.347	.667	97.5	99.0	.317	4.6
1920	44	120	113	11	25	1	3	0	2	5	19	0	3	.221	.254	.283	.537	47.2	53.7	.255	6.4
1921	38	131	122	11	31	5	2	0	9	3	7	0	1	.254	.283	.328	.611	56.5	60.8	.281	5.7
1922	41	117	108	18	29	5	1	4	15	6	6	0	0	.269	.307	.444	.751	87.7	92.0	.338	6.6
1923	39	115	107	9	28	3	1	0	10	5	8	2	2	.262	.295	.308	.603	56.7	59.0	.282	4.6
1924	38	110	104	11	36	5	2	0	15	5	8	2	2	.346	.376	.433	.809	117.4	117.1	.371	5.3
1925	32	85	82	12	17	2	1	2	10	1	4	0	1	.207	.226	.329	.555	31.9	39.8	.247	2.2
1926	16	25	22	2	7	0	1	0	3	2	0	1	0	.318	.375	.409	.784	110.0	112.9	.366	-0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1912	6	4	3	0	0	3	2	32	7	15	30	1	38.0	1.66	1.237	7.11	2.69	82.0	198.1	1.0
1913	30	9	5	3	0	3	1	98	34	45	39	0	93.0	3.29	1.538	3.77	3.30	108.8	92.2	0.5
1914	40	34	16	15	0	19	0	246	63	79	102	4	266.7	2.13	1.219	3.44	2.63	99.2	124.8	4.5
1915	38	21	5	16	4	11	1	180	68	52	71	4	185.7	3.30	1.250	3.44	2.86	106.2	81.6	0.0
1916	42	23	12	11	2	16	2	189	51	74	111	4	246.0	1.87	1.069	4.06	2.57	96.1	143.0	5.1
1917	40	34	17	11	1	23	7	276	78	54	99	4	297.7	2.36	1.109	2.99	2.48	89.0	118.0	4.9
1918	38	29	19	14	3	26	2	219	64	65	117	2	273.3	2.11	1.039	3.85	2.36	83.6	134.1	5.6
1919	35	32	19	13	1	27	4	229	85	74	106	10	286.7	2.67	1.057	3.33	3.09	104.5	110.7	4.6
1920	44	37	24	15	2	28	3	307	87	52	114	4	327.0	2.39	1.098	3.14	2.64	83.8	131.6	6.4
1921	38	38	22	14	0	29	2	341	118	80	134	9	327.0	3.25	1.287	3.69	3.35	88.2	117.2	5.7
1922	41	37	23	14	0	27	4	330	104	61	129	13	294.7	3.18	1.327	3.94	3.46	84.9	128.4	6.6
1923	39	38	17	19	0	26	1	331	117	71	77	11	294.7	3.57	1.364	2.35	3.76	93.8	112.1	4.6
1924	38	35	20	14	1	25	4	296	98	40	62	13	268.7	3.28	1.251	2.08	3.62	94.4	116.9	5.3
1925	32	26	12	14	0	13	0	249	101	61	41	18	212.3	4.28	1.460	1.74	4.74	110.9	99.9	2.2
1926	16	11	2	5	0	3	2	92	44	30	20	6	68.7	5.77	1.777	2.62	4.90	126.6	67.2	-0.5

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

521

1,316

1,227

111

293

RBI

106

140

.2388

OBP

.2692

SLG

.3089

OPS

.5781

Pitching

G (P)

517

406th-most career G (P)

408

131st-most career GS

216

89th-most career W

178

78th-most career L

279

52nd-most career CG

SHO

71st-most career SHO

3,480

75th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,252

360th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

853

200th-most career BB allowed

ERA

2.894

144th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2264

243rd-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.24

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
1925-07-07	CHC @ LAD Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	1	3	0	6
1921-08-12	CHC @ PIT Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	0	2	0	5
1926-05-10	LAD @ CHC Gameday	4	0	3	0	1	0	2	0	5
1922-06-27	PIT @ CHC Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	1	2	0	5
1924-07-06	PIT @ CIN Gameday	4	2	2	1	1	0	2	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1918-08-06	PIT @ PHI Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	2	10
1916-05-04	CHC @ PIT Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	3	9
1916-09-23	PIT @ ATL Gameday	13.0	10	1	1	2	8
1912-09-14	PIT @ LAD Gameday	9.0	10	2	2	5	8
1915-05-31	CHC @ PIT Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	2	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.