Satchel Paige
1927–1965 · bats R / throws R · ALS, ASE, ASP, ASW, BCG, Birmingham Black Barons, BIS, BLS
427G
.208AVG
.222OBP
.245SLG
More career statistics
143H
1HR
52RBI
7SB
130–81W–L
1,764.2IP
1,511K
2.84ERA
200GS
44SV
8Rare feats
Career summary: MLB’s official regular-season totals. Season lines, splits and historical game logs below are reconstructed from the covered Retrosheet records and can differ in coverage or scorer revisions. Compare sources and coverage.
Why official totals and the game-record sums differ
The sources can disagree on historical scorer decisions, appearances, and which games belong to a major-league record. The career summary uses the official total; the source game rows retain their recorded values.
| Statistic | MLB official | Recorded game sum |
|---|---|---|
| Batting · Games | 427 | 293 |
| Batting · At bats | 689 | 334 |
| Batting · Doubles | 7 | 5 |
| Batting · Hits | 143 | 68 |
| Batting · Home runs | 1 | 0 |
| Batting · Strikeouts | 32 | 36 |
| Batting · Plate appearances | 730 | 357 |
| Batting · Runs | 53 | 26 |
| Batting · RBI | 52 | 15 |
| Batting · Stolen bases | 7 | 2 |
| Batting · Triples | 8 | 2 |
| Batting · Walks | 12 | 8 |
| Pitching · Games | 404 | 292 |
| Pitching · Batters faced | 7,194 | 4,042 |
| Pitching · p cg | 99 | 54 |
| Pitching · p er | 556 | 227 |
| Pitching · p gs | 200 | 124 |
| Pitching · p h | 1,490 | 893 |
| Pitching · p hr | 61 | 44 |
| Pitching · p ipouts | 5,294 | 3,294 |
| Pitching · p k | 1,511 | 826 |
| Pitching · p r | 668 | 384 |
| Pitching · p w | 472 | 293 |
Career batting
| G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | K | SB | CS | HBP | SF | TB | AVG | OBP | SLG | OPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 427 | 730 | 689 | 53 | 143 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 52 | 12 | 32 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 169 | .208 | .222 | .245 | .467 |
Career pitching
| IP | G | GS | CG | W | L | SV | H | R | ER | HR | BB | K | HBP | WP | ERA | WHIP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,764.7 | 404 | 200 | 99 | 130 | 81 | 44 | 1,490 | 668 | 556 | 61 | 472 | 1,511 | 0 | 0 | 2.84 | 1.112 |
Streaks
6longest hitting streak · 1936-07-05 to 1941-05-11
7longest on-base streak
The three rarest things in this career
| Rarity | What | Date | Rate | Game |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 74 | Four Intentional Walks Issued | 1952-07-01 | 1 in 2,511 games | box score ↗ |
| 66 | 12 scoreless innings | 1952-08-06 | 1 in 6,007 pitcher-games | box score ↗ |
| 66 | Complete Game, Fifteen K | 1936-07-25 | 1 in 1,054 games | box score ↗ |
Splits
Regular season only.
Home and away
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Home | 154 | 191 | 38 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 20 | .211 | .220 | .239 |
| Away | 139 | 166 | 30 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 16 | .195 | .205 | .221 |
By month
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April | 9 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| May | 47 | 61 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 8 | .204 | .246 | .241 |
| June | 60 | 64 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | .197 | .203 | .246 |
| July | 79 | 106 | 20 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 9 | .200 | .198 | .210 |
| August | 59 | 67 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | .188 | .209 | .234 |
| September | 36 | 45 | 13 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 | .302 | .289 | .302 |
| October | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| 12 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
Most-faced opponents
| G | PA | H | HR | RBI | BB | K | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| washington-senators-1901-60 | 32 | 34 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | .182 | .176 | .182 |
| new-york-yankees | 27 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| boston-red-sox | 26 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| chicago-american-giants | 25 | 59 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 4 | .196 | .220 | .232 |
| philadelphia-athletics | 24 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | .000 | .154 | .000 |
| detroit-tigers | 24 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | .056 | .053 | .056 |
| chicago-white-sox | 21 | 22 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 5 | .100 | .136 | .100 |
| cleveland-guardians | 16 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .154 | .154 | .154 |
Season by season
| Year | Team | G | AB | H | HR | RBI | SB | AVG | IP | K |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1933 | PRG, Pittsburgh Crawfords | 13 | 28 | 3 | – | 1 | – | .107 | 91 | 81 |
| 1934 | PCPittsburgh Crawfords | 15 | 43 | 9 | – | 2 | 1 | .209 | 103 | 94 |
| 1936 | PCPittsburgh Crawfords | 17 | 35 | 10 | – | 1 | – | .286 | 91 | 76 |
| 1940 | KMKansas City Monarchs | 1 | 3 | 1 | – | – | – | .333 | 6 | 10 |
| 1941 | Kansas City Monarchs, New York Black Yankees | 15 | 19 | 4 | – | – | – | .211 | 64 | 50 |
| 1942 | KMKansas City Monarchs | 10 | 11 | 5 | – | – | – | .455 | 48 | 46 |
| 1943 | KMKansas City Monarchs | 15 | 20 | 8 | – | 2 | 1 | .400 | 63 | 55 |
| 1944 | KMKansas City Monarchs | 13 | 30 | 6 | – | 3 | – | .200 | 79 | 57 |
| 1945 | KMKansas City Monarchs | 8 | 11 | 7 | – | 1 | – | .636 | 44 | 40 |
| 1946 | KMKansas City Monarchs | 5 | 9 | 3 | – | 1 | – | .333 | 25 | 23 |
| 1947 | KMKansas City Monarchs | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | – | .000 | 7 | 6 |
| 1948 |  Cleveland Guardians | 21 | 23 | 2 | – | – | – | .087 | 72 | 43 |
| 1949 | Cleveland Guardians | 31 | 16 | 1 | – | – | – | .062 | 83 | 54 |
| 1951 |  St. Louis Browns | 23 | 16 | 2 | – | – | – | .125 | 62 | 48 |
| 1952 | St. Louis Browns | 46 | 39 | 5 | – | 2 | – | .128 | 138 | 91 |
| 1953 | St. Louis Browns | 57 | 29 | 2 | – | 2 | – | .069 | 117 | 51 |
| 1965 |  Kansas City Athletics | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | .000 | 3 | 1 |