Bio
- Debut
- 1912
Bio
- Debut
- 1912
Stats
Standard
Career regular season
- GP
- 453
- W
- 169
- L
- 157
- ERA
- 2.98
- IP
- 2782.2
- K
- 1,014
- BB
- 851
- WHIP
- 1.27
| GP: Games the player appeared in, however briefly. | W: Games in which this pitcher was credited with the win. | L: Games in which this pitcher was charged with the loss. | ERA: Earned runs allowed per nine innings pitched — lower is better. Under 3.00 is excellent. | IP: Innings pitched. The decimal counts outs, so 6.2 is six innings and two more outs. | K: Batters this pitcher struck out. | BB: Times the batter reached first base on four balls. | WHIP: Walks and hits allowed per inning pitched — lower is better. Around 1.00 is elite. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1912 | CIN | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4.50 | 2.0 | 0 | 1 | 2.50 |
| 1913 | STL | 15 | 2 | 8 | 3.10 | 93.0 | 51 | 39 | 1.27 |
| 1914 | STL | 36 | 19 | 6 | 1.72 | 256.0 | 118 | 87 | 1.09 |
| 1915 | STL | 38 | 16 | 18 | 2.64 | 276.0 | 124 | 85 | 1.26 |
| 1916 | STL | 29 | 12 | 8 | 2.63 | 192.0 | 82 | 55 | 1.21 |
| 1917 | STL | 44 | 16 | 20 | 3.10 | 281.1 | 111 | 85 | 1.22 |
| 1918 | STL | 31 | 9 | 15 | 2.43 | 211.0 | 74 | 60 | 1.19 |
| 1919 | STL | 31 | 13 | 14 | 3.11 | 202.2 | 69 | 55 | 1.17 |
| 1920 | STL | 39 | 20 | 12 | 2.53 | 270.0 | 90 | 80 | 1.24 |
| 1921 | STL | 32 | 15 | 6 | 2.59 | 208.2 | 83 | 37 | 1.25 |
| 1922 | STL | 37 | 11 | 13 | 5.54 | 180.1 | 73 | 69 | 1.61 |
| 1923 | STL | 30 | 8 | 13 | 3.26 | 185.0 | 53 | 69 | 1.45 |
| 1924 |  STL/LAD | 32 | 13 | 6 | 3.10 | 171.1 | 39 | 49 | 1.19 |
| 1927 | LAD | 27 | 11 | 8 | 3.48 | 145.0 | 32 | 40 | 1.33 |
| 1928 | LAD | 28 | 3 | 8 | 3.26 | 99.1 | 12 | 35 | 1.40 |
| 1929 | STL | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12.00 | 9.0 | 3 | 5 | 2.44 |
Expanded
Career regular season
- QS
- 0
- CG
- 162
- SHO
- 34
- K/9
- 3.3
- GB
- 0
- FB
- 0
- G/F
- 0.00
- WP
- 0
| QS: Quality starts: six innings or more with no more than three earned runs. | CG: Complete games, pitched from the first out to the last. | SHO: Shutouts — complete games with no run allowed. | K/9: Strikeouts for every nine innings pitched. | GB: Ground balls hit against this pitcher. | FB: Fly balls hit against this pitcher. | G/F: Ground balls for every fly ball hit against this pitcher. | WP: Wild pitches — throws the catcher had no chance to stop. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1913 | STL | 0 | 5 | 1 | 4.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1914 | STL | 0 | 16 | 7 | 4.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1915 | STL | 0 | 19 | 3 | 4.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1916 | STL | 0 | 11 | 2 | 3.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1917 | STL | 0 | 16 | 3 | 3.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1918 | STL | 0 | 16 | 1 | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1919 | STL | 0 | 13 | 3 | 3.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1920 | STL | 0 | 20 | 5 | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1921 | STL | 0 | 13 | 1 | 3.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1922 | STL | 0 | 8 | 2 | 3.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1923 | STL | 0 | 7 | 2 | 2.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1924 | STL/LAD | 0 | 8 | 2 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1927 | LAD | 0 | 6 | 1 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1928 | LAD | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1929 | STL | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What were Bill Doak's career stats?
Bill Doak played 16 seasons for the Reds, the Cardinals and the Dodgers. He had 169 wins and 1,014 strikeouts with a 2.98 ERA over 2,782.2 innings. His best season was 1920: 20 wins, a 2.53 ERA and 90 strikeouts.
League leaderboards and awards
16 seasons, 1912 to 1929
All-time career rank
- 185th in wins (pitching) (169)
Among the 8,948 MLB players with a career line on file, regular season. A place deeper than 300th is not listed.
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