Steve Swetonic

Stephen Albert Swetonic

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 11", Weight: 185 lb.

Born: August 13, 1903 in Mount Pleasant, PA
School: University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA) (All Transactions)
Debut: April 17, 1929
Team: Pirates 1929-1935

Final Game: May 19, 1935
Died: April 22, 1974 in Canonsburg, PA
Buried: Jefferson Memorial Park, Pittsburgh, PA
About biographical information

View team uniforms at Dressed to the Nines a Baseball Hall of Fame on-line exhibit / Report an error

Let people know you like this site. Sponsor this page for $10. Your message will replace this ad.

Standard Pitching

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	BK	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	Awards
1927	23	INA	AA	3	8	.273	4.69	33						140.0	167	92	73		52							1.564	10.7		3.3			INA · AA
1928	24	INA	AA	20	8	.714	3.00	40						234.0	224	93	78		55	87	2		3			1.192	8.6		2.1	3.3	1.58	INA · AA
1929	25	PIT	NL	8	10	.444	4.82	41	12	17	3	0	5	143.2	172	87	77	6	50	35	5	0	4	644	100	1.545	10.8	0.4	3.1	2.2	0.70
1930	26	PIT	NL	6	6	.500	4.47	23	6	14	3	1	5	96.2	107	53	48	6	27	35	0	0	1	420	112	1.386	10.0	0.6	2.5	3.3	1.30
1931	27	PIT	NL	0	2	.000	3.90	14	0	12	0	0	1	27.2	28	12	12	0	16	8	0	0	0	123	99	1.590	9.1	0.0	5.2	2.6	0.50
1932	28	PIT	NL	11	6	.647	2.82	24	19	4	11	4	0	162.2	134	57	51	11	55	39	0	0	3	668	134	1.162	*7.4*	0.6	3.0	2.2	0.71
1933	29	PIT	NL	12	12	.500	3.50	31	21	6	8	3	0	164.2	166	78	64	10	64	37	2	0	4	711	95	1.397	9.1	0.5	3.5	2.0	0.58
5 Yrs				37	36	.507	3.81	133	58	53	25	8	11	595.1	607	287	252	33	212	154	7	0	12	2566	108	1.376	9.2	0.5	3.2	2.3	0.73
162 Game Avg.				13	13	.507	3.81	47	21	19	9	3	4	212	216	102	90	12	75	55	2	0	4	914	108	1.376	9.2	0.5	3.2	2.3	0.73

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	IP	G	GS	R	RA9	RA9opp	RA9def	PPFp	RA9avg	RAA	WAA	gmLI	WAAadj	WAR	RAR	waaWL%	162WL%	Salary
1929	25	PIT	NL	143.2	41	12	87	5.45	5.51	0.00	103.4	5.69	3	0.3	1.0	-0.1	1.4	20	.508	.502	$
1930	26	PIT	NL	96.2	23	6	53	4.93	5.66	-0.10	99.2	5.71	9	0.8	1.0	-0.0	1.5	20	.533	.505	$
1931	27	PIT	NL	27.2	14	0	12	3.90	4.51	0.20	98.7	4.25	1	0.1	1.0	-0.0	0.3	4	.509	.501	$
1932	28	PIT	NL	162.2	24	19	57	3.15	4.58	0.05	96.4	4.36	22	2.4	1.0	-0.1	3.6	38	.600	.515	$
1933	29	PIT	NL	164.2	31	21	78	4.26	4.06	0.03	97.9	3.94	-5	-0.6	1.0	-0.1	0.6	8	.481	.496	$
5 Seasons				595.1	133	58	287	4.34	4.83	0.02	99.0	4.78	30	3.0	1.0	-0.3	7.4	90	.523	.504	$

Ratio Pitching*

Year	Age	Tm	Lg	PA	HR%	SO%	BB%	XBH%	X/H%	IP%
1929	25	PIT	NL	644	0.9%	5.4%	7.8%	2.2%	8%	83%
1930	26	PIT	NL	417	1.4%	8.4%	6.5%	2.4%	9%	82%
1931	27	PIT	NL	123	0.0%	6.5%	13.0%			80%
1932	28	PIT	NL	668	1.7%	5.8%	8.2%	3.7%	19%	83%
1933	29	PIT	NL	711	1.4%	5.2%	9.0%	2.8%	12%	83%
5 Yrs				2563	1.3%	6.0%	8.3%	2.7%	11%	83%
MLB Averages					1.4%	8.1%	8.0%	3.3%	13%	80%

Cumulative Pitching

Year	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	G	GS	GF	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	WP	BF	ERA+	WHIP	H/9	HR/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	ERA+
1929	25	8	10	.444	4.82	41	12	17	3	0	5	143.2	172	87	77	6	50	35	5	4	644	100	1.545	10.8	0.4	3.1	2.2	0.70	100
1930	26	14	16	.467	4.68	64	18	31	6	1	10	240.1	279	140	125	12	77	70	5	5	1064	104	1.481	10.4	0.4	2.9	2.6	0.91	104
1931	27	14	18	.438	4.60	78	18	43	6	1	11	268.0	307	152	137	12	93	78	5	5	1187	104	1.493	10.3	0.4	3.1	2.6	0.84	104
1932	28	25	24	.510	3.93	102	37	47	17	5	11	430.2	441	209	188	23	148	117	5	8	1855	112	1.368	9.2	0.5	3.1	2.4	0.79	112
1933	29	37	36	.507	3.81	133	58	53	25	8	11	595.1	607	287	252	33	212	154	7	12	2566	108	1.376	9.2	0.5	3.2	2.3	0.73	108

Neutralized Pitching

Change to: / / / or

All seasons are converted to 162-game seasons &
average team scoring of 716 total runs (4.42 R/G) How this works

Year	Age	W	L	W-L%	ERA	IP	H	R	ER	HR	BB	SO	HBP	WHIP	H/9	BB/9	SO/9	SO/BB	HR/9	Gact
1929	25	9	8	.529	3.80	154.0	163	72	65	6	47	38	5	1.364	9.5	2.7	2.2	0.81	0.4	41
1930	26	7	4	.636	3.34	105.0	98	43	39	5	25	38	0	1.171	8.4	2.1	3.3	1.52	0.4	23
1931	27	2	1	.667	3.86	28.0	29	13	12	0	17	8	0	1.643	9.3	5.5	2.6	0.47	0.0	14
1932	28	12	6	.667	2.86	167.0	140	59	53	11	57	40	0	1.180	7.5	3.1	2.2	0.70	0.6	24
1933	29	9	9	.500	4.17	162.0	184	83	75	11	71	36	2	1.574	10.2	3.9	2.0	0.51	0.6	31
5 Yrs		39	28	.582	3.56	616.0	614	270	244	33	217	160	7	1.349	9.0		2.3	0.74	0.5	133

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

WAR for Pitchers† s c a p y 1932 NL 3.6 (7th)	Earned Run Average s c a p y 1932 NL 2.82 (4th)	Win-Loss % s c a p y 1932 NL .647 (3rd)	Walks & Hits per IP s c a p y 1932 NL 1.162 (5th)
Hits per 9 IP s c a p y 1932 NL 7.414 (1st)	Games Played s c a p y 1929 NL 41 (7th)	Saves s c a p y 1929 NL 5 (4th) 1930 NL 5 (4th)	Shutouts s c a p y 1932 NL 4 (1st) 1933 NL 3 (9th)
Wild Pitches s c a p y 1929 NL 4 (8th)	Hit By Pitch s c a p y 1929 NL 5 (9th)	Games Finished s c a p y 1929 NL 17 (5th)	Adjusted ERA+ s c a p y 1932 NL 134 (4th)
Adj. Pitching Runs s c a p y 1932 NL 19 (6th)	Adj. Pitching Wins s c a p y 1932 NL 2.0 (6th)

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black Ink	Pitching - 3 (562), Average HOFer ≈ 40
Gray Ink	Pitching - 18 (1146), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame Monitor	Pitching - 2 (1697), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame Standards	Pitching - 4 (1539), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores

Similar Pitchers

Compare Stats to Similars

Most Similar by Ages

Hold mouse over #'s to see names

Eli Grba (987) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Marty Pattin (978) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Ken Gables (984) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Marv Breuer (986) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
Whitey Glazner (975) 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C

* - Signifies Hall of Famer

Other Resources & Links

Error? Compare Search SABR's Baseball Index Other Links@google.com Baseball Library Baseball-Almanac.com Retrosheet The Baseball Cube The Baseball Page WhatIfSports: Steve Swetonic

Viewed 3,125 times through June 1, 2012.
Name and misspellings: Stephen Albert Steve Swetonic

Player Page Tricks and Tips

Sum any set of rows by clicking anywhere (not red or blue) on the first and last rows of your selection. We will then compute the totals for the player between and including those two seasons.
Default Setting for this feature: Turn On / Turn Off
Summation of season totals only works for the initial case when the table is in year order. On a sorted table the results may get a bit goofy.

HIGHLIGHTING: Adding a range or series of player's career seasons or career game numbers (like '#1972:batting_standard', '#1970-1980-sum:batting_standard', or '#1998,1999,2001,2002,sum:pitching_standard') onto the end of a player page url causes the seasons to the highlighted and summed. After changing address bar, reload the page to see highlighting. This will work even in links e-mailed to others. Note that for tables with multiple pages the first table is the default. If you want to create a sum for a table other than the first one, select the rows and after the summation window appears click on "permanent link" link.

The play-by-play information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet.

Automatic Player Linking / Statistical Sharing Tool / Basic Player Linking / Data Coverage

See Front Page for time of last update

Much of the play-by-play, game results, and transaction information both shown and used to create certain data sets was obtained free of charge from and is copyrighted by RetroSheet.

Win Expectancy, Run Expectancy, and Leverage Index calculations provided by Tom Tango of InsideTheBook.com, and co-author of The Book: Playing the Percentages in Baseball.

Total Zone Rating and Wins above Replacement calculations provided by Sean Smith of BaseballProjection.com.

Full-year historical Major League statistics provided by Pete Palmer and Gary Gillette of 24-7 Baseball.

Player head shots courtesy of David Davis. Many thanks to him. We have only selected seasons (players who debuted before 1960) for which we believe the image has reverted into the public domain. We will quickly remove any images for which that can be shown to not be the case.Please let us know if you are aware of any such images on this site.

Play Index Loading Photos from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the Library of Congress.

A Sports Reference Site: About Baseball Reference | Found a bug or have a suggestion?
Privacy Statement | Conditions & Terms of Service | Use of Data

Part of the USA TODAY Sports Media Group.