Virgil Trucks stats
Pitcher
Bio
- Debut
- 1941
Bio
- Debut
- 1941
Stats
Standard
Career regular season
- GP
- 517
- W
- 177
- L
- 135
- ERA
- 3.39
- IP
- 2682.1
- K
- 1,534
- BB
- 1,088
- WHIP
- 1.31
| 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 | DET | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9.00 | 2.0 | 3 | 0 | 2.00 |
| 1942 | DET | 28 | 14 | 8 | 2.74 | 167.2 | 91 | 74 | 1.32 |
| 1943 | DET | 33 | 16 | 10 | 2.84 | 202.2 | 118 | 52 | 1.10 |
| 1945 | DET | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.69 | 5.1 | 3 | 2 | 0.94 |
| 1946 | DET | 32 | 14 | 9 | 3.23 | 236.2 | 161 | 75 | 1.23 |
| 1947 | DET | 36 | 10 | 12 | 4.53 | 180.2 | 108 | 79 | 1.47 |
| 1948 | DET | 43 | 14 | 13 | 3.78 | 211.2 | 123 | 85 | 1.30 |
| 1949 | DET | 41 | 19 | 11 | 2.81 | 275.0 | 153 | 124 | 1.21 |
| 1950 | DET | 7 | 3 | 1 | 3.54 | 48.1 | 25 | 21 | 1.37 |
| 1951 | DET | 37 | 13 | 8 | 4.33 | 153.2 | 89 | 75 | 1.48 |
| 1952 | DET | 35 | 5 | 19 | 3.97 | 197.0 | 129 | 82 | 1.38 |
| 1953 |  BAL/CHW | 40 | 20 | 10 | 2.93 | 264.1 | 149 | 99 | 1.26 |
| 1954 | CHW | 40 | 19 | 12 | 2.79 | 264.2 | 152 | 95 | 1.21 |
| 1955 | CHW | 32 | 13 | 8 | 3.96 | 175.0 | 91 | 61 | 1.35 |
| 1956 | DET | 22 | 6 | 5 | 3.83 | 120.0 | 43 | 63 | 1.39 |
| 1957 | ATH | 48 | 9 | 7 | 3.03 | 116.0 | 55 | 62 | 1.45 |
| 1958 |  ATH/NYY | 41 | 2 | 2 | 3.65 | 61.2 | 41 | 39 | 1.57 |
Career Postseason
- GP
- 2
- W
- 1
- L
- 0
- ERA
- 3.46
- IP
- 13.0
- K
- 7
- BB
- 5
- WHIP
- 1.46
Expanded
Career regular season
- QS
- 0
- CG
- 124
- SHO
- 33
- K/9
- 5.1
- 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 | DET | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942 | DET | 0 | 8 | 2 | 4.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1943 | DET | 0 | 10 | 2 | 5.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1945 | DET | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946 | DET | 0 | 15 | 2 | 6.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947 | DET | 0 | 8 | 2 | 5.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948 | DET | 0 | 7 | 0 | 5.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949 | DET | 0 | 17 | 6 | 5.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1950 | DET | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1951 | DET | 0 | 6 | 1 | 5.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1952 | DET | 0 | 8 | 3 | 5.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953 | BAL/CHW | 0 | 17 | 5 | 5.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1954 | CHW | 0 | 16 | 5 | 5.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1955 | CHW | 0 | 7 | 3 | 4.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1956 | DET | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1957 | ATH | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1958 | ATH/NYY | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What were Virgil Trucks's career stats?
Virgil Trucks played 17 seasons for the Tigers, the White Sox and the Athletics. He had 177 wins and 1,534 strikeouts with a 3.39 ERA over 2,682.1 innings. His best season was 1953: 20 wins, a 2.93 ERA and 149 strikeouts.
League leaderboards and awards
17 seasons, 1 postseason, 1941 to 1958
Championships ×2
- 1945 World Series with the Detroit Tigers
- 1958 World Series with the New York Yankees
All-time career rank
- 219th in strikeouts (pitching) (1,534)
- 164th in wins (pitching) (177)
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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