Bio
- Debut
- 1941
Bio
- Debut
- 1941
Stats
Standard
Career regular season
- GP
- 447
- W
- 123
- L
- 108
- ERA
- 3.41
- IP
- 2064.2
- K
- 904
- BB
- 630
- WHIP
- 1.24
| 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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | CLE | 9 | 1 | 1 | 4.24 | 23.1 | 19 | 11 | 1.54 |
| 1942 | CLE | 14 | 2 | 0 | 3.65 | 44.1 | 14 | 23 | 1.56 |
| 1943 | CLE | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9.00 | 4.0 | 4 | 0 | 1.50 |
| 1944 | CLE | 35 | 10 | 9 | 2.56 | 203.2 | 115 | 70 | 1.13 |
| 1945 | CLE | 33 | 19 | 9 | 2.55 | 251.0 | 101 | 66 | 1.18 |
| 1946 | CLE | 29 | 5 | 15 | 4.33 | 153.2 | 75 | 47 | 1.34 |
| 1947 | CLE | 29 | 3 | 5 | 3.74 | 84.1 | 39 | 36 | 1.34 |
| 1948 | CLE | 38 | 9 | 3 | 2.84 | 130.0 | 50 | 51 | 1.23 |
| 1949 | CLE | 27 | 4 | 6 | 3.33 | 92.0 | 22 | 40 | 1.37 |
| 1950 | CLE | 31 | 10 | 7 | 3.65 | 113.1 | 43 | 36 | 1.15 |
| 1951 | CLE | 27 | 7 | 4 | 2.77 | 107.1 | 40 | 29 | 1.18 |
| 1952 | CLE | 29 | 7 | 7 | 3.67 | 122.2 | 65 | 28 | 1.12 |
| 1953 |  CLE/DET | 24 | 7 | 9 | 4.41 | 136.2 | 67 | 39 | 1.38 |
| 1954 | DET | 36 | 18 | 16 | 2.74 | 252.2 | 102 | 57 | 1.16 |
| 1955 | DET | 28 | 13 | 10 | 3.98 | 181.0 | 73 | 37 | 1.22 |
| 1956 | DET | 40 | 8 | 6 | 4.28 | 141.0 | 64 | 47 | 1.34 |
| 1957 | DET | 15 | 0 | 1 | 6.08 | 23.2 | 11 | 13 | 1.90 |
Career Postseason
- GP
- 1
- W
- 1
- L
- 0
- ERA
- 1.00
- IP
- 9.0
- K
- 2
- BB
- 1
- WHIP
- 0.89
Expanded
Career regular season
- QS
- 0
- CG
- 92
- SHO
- 17
- K/9
- 3.9
- 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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1941 | CLE | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942 | CLE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1943 | CLE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1944 | CLE | 0 | 12 | 2 | 5.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1945 | CLE | 0 | 21 | 3 | 3.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946 | CLE | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947 | CLE | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948 | CLE | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949 | CLE | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1950 | CLE | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1951 | CLE | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1952 | CLE | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953 | CLE/DET | 0 | 6 | 1 | 4.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954 | DET | 0 | 17 | 4 | 3.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955 | DET | 0 | 8 | 2 | 3.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1956 | DET | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1957 | DET | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What were Steve Gromek's career stats?
Steve Gromek played 17 seasons for the Guardians and the Tigers. He had 123 wins and 904 strikeouts with a 3.41 ERA over 2,064.2 innings. His best season was 1945: 19 wins, a 2.55 ERA and 101 strikeouts.
League leaderboards and awards
17 seasons, 1 postseason, 1941 to 1957
Championships
- 1948 World Series with the Cleveland Guardians
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