Bio
- Debut
- 1932
Bio
- Debut
- 1932
Stats
Standard
Career regular season
- GP
- 178
- W
- 53
- L
- 60
- ERA
- 4.83
- IP
- 987.1
- K
- 279
- BB
- 569
- WHIP
- 1.71
| 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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | ATH | 10 | 3 | 4 | 5.00 | 45.0 | 24 | 28 | 1.56 |
| 1933 | ATH | 38 | 13 | 12 | 4.25 | 218.0 | 43 | 137 | 1.75 |
| 1934 | ATH | 36 | 9 | 17 | 4.41 | 230.2 | 66 | 128 | 1.57 |
| 1935 |  ATH/BAL | 37 | 9 | 13 | 5.44 | 193.2 | 73 | 123 | 1.85 |
| 1936 |  BAL/CHW | 34 | 15 | 11 | 4.89 | 211.2 | 50 | 84 | 1.57 |
| 1937 | CHW | 18 | 4 | 2 | 6.16 | 68.2 | 17 | 51 | 2.02 |
| 1938 | CHW | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4.58 | 19.2 | 6 | 18 | 2.24 |
Expanded
Career regular season
- QS
- 0
- CG
- 58
- SHO
- 2
- K/9
- 2.5
- 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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1932 | ATH | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1933 | ATH | 0 | 16 | 1 | 1.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1934 | ATH | 0 | 15 | 0 | 2.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1935 | ATH/BAL | 0 | 8 | 0 | 3.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1936 | BAL/CHW | 0 | 15 | 1 | 2.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1937 | CHW | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1938 | CHW | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What were Sugar Cain's career stats?
Sugar Cain played 7 seasons for the Athletics and the White Sox. He had 53 wins and 279 strikeouts with a 4.83 ERA over 987.1 innings. His best season was 1936: 15 wins, a 4.89 ERA and 50 strikeouts.
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