Bio
- Debut
- 1890
Bio
- Debut
- 1890
Stats
Standard
Career regular season
- GP
- 236
- W
- 101
- L
- 100
- ERA
- 4.39
- IP
- 1727.2
- K
- 453
- BB
- 667
- WHIP
- 1.57
| 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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1890 |  PIT/PHI | 25 | 13 | 11 | 4.55 | 201.2 | 88 | 93 | 1.62 |
| 1891 | PHI | 39 | 20 | 15 | 3.56 | 296.0 | 108 | 121 | 1.43 |
| 1892 |  PHI/PIT | 24 | 13 | 6 | 3.63 | 178.2 | 50 | 70 | 1.45 |
| 1893 | — | 42 | 12 | 28 | 4.71 | 334.1 | 78 | 156 | 1.79 |
| 1894 | — | 34 | 15 | 12 | 5.81 | 217.0 | 49 | 75 | 1.65 |
| 1895 | — | 34 | 10 | 12 | 3.92 | 218.1 | 39 | 79 | 1.50 |
| 1896 | — | 20 | 14 | 5 | 3.58 | 155.2 | 19 | 39 | 1.33 |
| 1897 | STL | 8 | 1 | 6 | 5.28 | 61.1 | 8 | 12 | 1.74 |
| 1898 | STL | 10 | 3 | 5 | 5.98 | 64.2 | 14 | 22 | 1.67 |
Expanded
Career regular season
- QS
- 0
- CG
- 152
- SHO
- 4
- K/9
- 2.4
- 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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1890 | PIT/PHI | 0 | 20 | 1 | 3.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1891 | PHI | 0 | 25 | 1 | 3.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1892 | PHI/PIT | 0 | 15 | 0 | 2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1893 | — | 0 | 34 | 0 | 2.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1894 | — | 0 | 15 | 0 | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1895 | — | 0 | 16 | 1 | 1.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1896 | — | 0 | 14 | 1 | 1.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1897 | STL | 0 | 7 | 0 | 1.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1898 | STL | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What were Duke Esper's career stats?
Duke Esper played 9 seasons for the Phillies and the Cardinals. He had 101 wins and 453 strikeouts with a 4.39 ERA over 1,727.2 innings. His best season was 1891: 20 wins, a 3.56 ERA and 108 strikeouts.
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