MLB / Players

Willie Mitchell

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 176 lb

BornDecember 1, 1889 · Pleasant Grove, MS, USA

MLB debutSeptember 22, 1909

Final gameMay 31, 1919

Seasons11 (1909–1919)

Cleveland Naps 1909–1914; Cleveland Indians 1915–1916; Detroit Tigers 1916–1919

Percentile snapshot

1917 season — qualified pitchers

24.4

35.6

48.9

SHO

78.9

172

64.4

78.9

71.1

47.8

53.3

185.3

32.2

ERA

2.19

73.3

WHIP

1.176

61.1

K/9

3.88

63.3

FIP

2.37

FIP-

87.9

84.4

ERA+

123.6

78.9

sWAR

2.6

57.8

of 91 qualified 1917 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

103.0

49.6

sWAR

15.0

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	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1909	3	8	7	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	.286	.375	.286	.661	115.1	106.8	.337	0.6
1910	35	67	63	1	10	0	2	0	15	0	.159	.172	.159	.331	-7.2	2.7	.163	1.4
1911	32	67	64	2	7	1	3	1	21	0	.109	.123	.125	.248	-37.2	-31.2	.121	0.5
1912	29	58	53	4	6	0	3	4	11	2	.113	.175	.113	.289	-14.0	-17.7	.155	2.3
1913	35	79	70	7	10	2	3	3	25	0	.143	.178	.171	.350	-9.2	1.0	.175	4.9
1914	39	97	81	5	7	1	4	8	22	1	.086	.169	.099	.267	-29.3	-21.1	.151	1.0
1915	36	89	79	3	10	1	4	4	20	0	.127	.169	.139	.308	-16.9	-9.3	.160	2.4
1916	35	56	47	3	9	0	3	6	10	0	.191	.296	.191	.488	48.6	45.5	.262	-0.1
1917	31	65	59	3	7	0	4	1	11	0	.119	.148	.119	.266	-33.1	-19.3	.137	2.6
1918	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-131.5	-100.0	.000	-0.3
1919	3	6	5	0	1	0	1	1	1	0	.200	.333	.200	.533	62.5	51.4	.286	-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
1909	3	3	1	2	0	3	0	18	4	10	8	0	23.0	1.57	1.217	3.13	3.42	135.6	161.0	0.6
1910	35	18	12	8	0	11	1	155	53	55	102	2	183.7	2.60	1.143	5.00	2.42	94.7	98.5	1.4
1911	30	22	7	14	0	9	0	190	74	60	78	1	177.3	3.76	1.410	3.96	3.34	98.9	90.0	0.5
1912	29	15	5	8	1	8	0	149	51	56	94	0	163.7	2.80	1.253	5.17	2.96	87.2	120.9	2.3
1913	35	22	14	8	0	14	4	153	46	88	141	1	217.0	1.91	1.111	5.85	2.58	85.6	157.7	4.9
1914	39	32	12	17	1	16	3	228	91	124	179	3	257.0	3.19	1.370	6.27	2.63	92.3	89.4	1.0
1915	36	30	11	14	1	12	1	210	74	84	149	1	236.0	2.82	1.246	5.68	2.26	74.7	107.3	2.4
1916	35	23	9	10	1	8	2	174	72	67	84	2	171.3	3.78	1.407	4.41	2.76	94.3	77.3	-0.1
1917	30	22	12	8	0	12	5	172	45	46	80	2	185.3	2.19	1.176	3.88	2.37	87.9	123.6	2.6
1918	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	3	4	5	2	0	4.0	9.00	2.000	4.50	4.91	182.1	30.0	-0.3
1919	3	2	1	2	0	0	0	12	8	10	4	2	13.7	5.27	1.610	2.63	6.26	195.1	60.9	-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

279

594

530

RBI

138

.1302

OBP

.1797

SLG

.1396

OPS

.3193

Pitching

G (P)

276

190

456th-most career CG

SHO

354th-most career SHO

1,632

SO (P)

921

BB allowed

605

ERA

2.879

137th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2678

419th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

5.08

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	RBI	BB	TB
1911-09-21	CLE @ NYY Gameday	5	1	2	1	2	0	3
1914-06-06	BOS @ CLE Gameday	2	0	2	1	1	0	3
1915-09-27	CLE @ NYY Gameday	3	1	2	1	1	1	3
1910-10-05	CLE @ DET Gameday	5	0	2	0	1	0	2
1913-08-11	CLE @ MIN Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1914-07-21	CLE @ ATH Gameday	10.2	6	2	2	4	13
1913-07-25	CLE @ NYY Gameday	13.0	9	2	1	8	12
1913-07-02	CLE @ BAL Gameday	10.2	5	2	2	3	11
1915-09-17	CLE @ ATH Gameday	10.0	7	3	3	3	11
1914-06-27	CLE @ BAL Gameday	9.0	6	4	1	9	11

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.