Red Faber

1914–1933 · 20 seasons · Bats both sides, throws right · Born 1888

  • Hall of Fame 1964

JavaScript is switched off, so the extra columns cannot be unfolded. Every season below is already on the page and every number in it is real.

Pitching: 14 of 18 columns. Folded away: HR, BFP, CG, SHO. Hitting: 17 of 26 columns. Folded away: CS, TB, HBP, wOBA, wRAA, WAR: Bat, WAR: Field, WAR: Run, WAR: Pos.

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Pitching

SeasonTeamLgGGSIPWLSVSOBBHERERAWHIPWARFIP
1914Chicago White SoxAL4019181.310948864154542.681.202.12.96
1915Chicago White SoxAL5032299.72414218299264852.551.215.92.43
1916Chicago White SoxAL3525205.317918761167462.021.113.32.56
1917Chicago White SoxAL4129248.0161338485224531.921.253.02.80
1918Chicago White SoxAL11980.7411262370111.231.150.92.98
1919Chicago White SoxAL2520162.311904545185693.831.421.23.49
1920Chicago White SoxAL4039319.023131108883321062.991.324.93.31
1921Chicago White SoxAL4339330.72515112487293912.481.155.43.66
1922Chicago White SoxAL4338352.021172148833341102.811.197.03.48
1923Chicago White SoxAL3231232.3141109162233883.411.274.83.46
1924Chicago White SoxAL2120161.391104758173693.851.432.04.14
1925Chicago White SoxAL3432238.01211071592661003.781.373.44.21
1926Chicago White SoxAL2725184.715906557203733.561.413.43.53
1927Chicago White SoxAL1815110.74703941131564.551.551.53.87
1928Chicago White SoxAL2727201.313904368223843.751.451.94.45
1929Chicago White SoxAL3131234.01313068612411013.881.293.94.21
1930Chicago White SoxAL2926169.081316249188794.211.402.74.37
1931Chicago White SoxAL4419184.0101414957210783.811.450.94.36
1932Chicago White SoxAL425106.021162638123443.741.521.03.74
1933Chicago White SoxAL36286.3345182892333.441.390.53.80
Career20 seasons6694834086.72542132814711213410614303.151.3059.7

Hitting

SeasonTeamLgGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBAVGOBPSLGOPSWAR
1914Chicago White SoxAL40675538100110160.145.277.164.441-0.3
1915Chicago White SoxAL50118841111120620334.131.311.190.5020.0
1916Chicago White SoxAL3573634600025340.095.174.095.269-0.9
1917Chicago White SoxAL41876914100210380.058.177.072.250-1.1
1918Chicago White SoxAL1129241100003110.042.148.042.190-0.4
1919Chicago White SoxAL25635481000046200.185.267.185.452-0.3
1920Chicago White SoxAL401291041011100119391.106.244.115.359-1.0
1921Chicago White SoxAL43134108816000417351.148.270.148.418-0.9
1922Chicago White SoxAL4314312582520057420.200.248.216.464-0.9
1923Chicago White SoxAL338769715301510281.217.316.304.6210.0
1924Chicago White SoxAL2163546800017150.148.246.148.394-0.5
1925Chicago White SoxAL34957738100410240.104.225.117.342-0.9
1926Chicago White SoxAL27746079200108210.150.250.183.433-0.5
1927Chicago White SoxAL1844372103004280.270.308.351.6590.0
1928Chicago White SoxAL27787038201104310.114.162.186.348-0.9
1929Chicago White SoxAL31907881020158240.128.209.192.402-0.8
1930Chicago White SoxAL2963494200029210.041.190.041.230-0.8
1931Chicago White SoxAL4464534410036260.075.183.094.278-0.7
1932Chicago White SoxAL423018041001870.222.462.278.7390.2
1933Chicago White SoxAL361918000000060.000.000.000.000-0.5
Career20 seasons67015501269981702123701694797.134.240.161.401-11.2

Gold shading marks a top-five finish in that league that season. Filled for first, shaded for second and third, faint for fourth and fifth, with the exact place in the corner of the cell. These rankings are ours, not part of the source data: we work them out from the season lines on this site and count each league on its own, so a first in the American League is not a first across baseball. Rate statistics use the same qualifying line as the season tool, which is why a relief pitcher can have the lowest ERA in his league and still have no shading on it — he did not pitch enough innings to qualify. A ranking is only drawn when its column is on screen; press Show all columns for the rest. On a season where this player both batted and pitched, the WAR column is left unshaded either way: the data keeps one WAR ranking for the year and does not say which of the two it belongs to, and a guess here would put a league lead on the wrong line.

The dark chips beside a season are awards. Those are records rather than our arithmetic: MVP (Most Valuable Player), CY (Cy Young Award), ROY (Rookie of the Year), GG (Gold Glove), SS (Silver Slugger). Two of them are lettered in the metal they are named after — Gold Glove in gold, Silver Slugger in silver — but the letters say which is which, so nothing here depends on telling the two apart by colour.

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Not every award existed yet. This database has Rookie of the Year from 1947, Cy Young Award from 1956, Gold Glove from 1957, Silver Slugger from 1980. A season before that is a season the award did not exist, not a season this player missed out on.

The WAR columns are worked out on this site — they are not part of the source data, and they will not match Baseball-Reference exactly.

Everything else on this page comes straight from the Lahman database. WAR is our own calculation from those same season lines: fielding is estimated from putouts and assists rather than measured, fielding innings are missing before 1954, and the fielding component is capped. Treat it as a reasonable estimate of value, not as a record. The season tool explains the method in full.

means the value is not in the source for that season, which is not the same as zero. In the Career and Subtotal rows it marks a statistic that cannot be added up across seasons — wOBA and FIP both need league constants that change every year, so we leave them blank rather than invent one. Leagues on this page: AL (American League).

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