Bio
- Debut
- 1939
Bio
- Debut
- 1939
Stats
Standard
Career regular season
- GP
- 399
- W
- 78
- L
- 100
- ERA
- 4.15
- IP
- 1649.2
- K
- 815
- BB
- 886
- WHIP
- 1.51
| 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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | MIN | 24 | 2 | 2 | 5.55 | 58.1 | 12 | 48 | 1.95 |
| 1940 | MIN | 31 | 3 | 13 | 4.90 | 130.1 | 68 | 88 | 1.66 |
| 1941 | MIN | 34 | 4 | 3 | 5.97 | 78.1 | 40 | 53 | 1.97 |
| 1942 | MIN | 25 | 5 | 9 | 3.34 | 142.2 | 63 | 54 | 1.35 |
| 1945 | MIN | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1.08 | 25.0 | 14 | 10 | 1.24 |
| 1946 | MIN | 29 | 5 | 6 | 6.01 | 91.1 | 61 | 67 | 1.88 |
| 1947 | MIN | 35 | 12 | 16 | 3.13 | 253.0 | 135 | 97 | 1.23 |
| 1948 | MIN | 33 | 8 | 15 | 3.83 | 188.0 | 72 | 122 | 1.56 |
| 1949 |  MIN/BOS | 28 | 6 | 6 | 3.75 | 108.0 | 36 | 56 | 1.44 |
| 1950 | BOS | 33 | 8 | 6 | 5.64 | 129.1 | 60 | 82 | 1.76 |
| 1951 | BOS | 30 | 3 | 0 | 3.34 | 59.1 | 39 | 32 | 1.43 |
| 1952 |  BOS/MIN | 29 | 10 | 9 | 4.13 | 170.0 | 92 | 83 | 1.49 |
| 1953 | MIN | 29 | 10 | 12 | 3.63 | 166.1 | 95 | 62 | 1.24 |
| 1956 | DET | 35 | 1 | 1 | 4.17 | 49.2 | 28 | 32 | 1.73 |
Expanded
Career regular season
- QS
- 0
- CG
- 70
- SHO
- 15
- K/9
- 4.4
- 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. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1939 | MIN | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1940 | MIN | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1941 | MIN | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1942 | MIN | 0 | 8 | 4 | 4.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1945 | MIN | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1946 | MIN | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1947 | MIN | 0 | 14 | 4 | 4.8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1948 | MIN | 0 | 9 | 2 | 3.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1949 | MIN/BOS | 0 | 4 | 0 | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1950 | BOS | 0 | 6 | 0 | 4.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1951 | BOS | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1952 | BOS/MIN | 0 | 11 | 0 | 4.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1953 | MIN | 0 | 10 | 4 | 5.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1956 | DET | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
What were Walt Masterson's career stats?
Walt Masterson played 14 seasons for the Twins, the Red Sox and the Tigers. He had 78 wins and 815 strikeouts with a 4.15 ERA over 1,649.2 innings. His best season was 1947: 12 wins, a 3.13 ERA and 135 strikeouts.
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