Seasons in Boston: 1908-1915
Honors: 2x World Series Champion, 1915 ERA Champion
Red Sox Numbers: 1.99 ERA, 1.08 WHIP, 117 W, 986 K, 68 ERA-, 26.2 fWAR
Signature Season (1912): 344 IP, 258 K, 34 W, 1 SV, 1.91 ERA, 1.01 WHIP, 7.6 fWAR
It’s always a little challenging to wrap your head around the numbers put up by great Deadball Era pitchers. The art of pitching, the mound, and the ball were all so different back then that what these players accomplished seems foreign to us now.