Worst Earned Run Averages (ERAs)

[Bamay22]

Trevor Rosenthal with a 13.50 ERA in 15.1 innings in 2019 deserves a shoutout.

[carsdaddy]

How does that compare in terms of pure suck over innings pitched with Jimmy Gobble's 8.81 ERA over 31 2/3 innings? A bit of a "quality over quantity" debate if you wilL!

Gobble was just throwing the ball and than ducking , I can't imagine anyone worse than 8.81.

[Otis Nixon's Bodyguard]

Patrick Corbin, right. now. 4-17, 6.81. Following his 9-16, 5.82 last year.

[elmer]

Early Wynn elected to HOF in 1972 ERA. 3.64

[carsdaddy]

Worst E.R.A.'s

How about single season Starters? I guess this could be a seperate thread. Some come to mind:

1) Bobo Newsome 1938 Browns 20-16 5.08 E.R.A.
2) Rick Helling 1998 Rangers 20-7 4.41
3) Jim Merritt 1970 Reds 20-12 4.08
4) Dan Spillner 1980 Indians 16-11 5.29
5) Len Barker 1980 Indians 19-12 4.17

These are,of course,before this crazy era of 4.25 E.R.A.s being respectable!

If you had era of 4.25, before the 90's , you were considered not very good.

[carsdaddy]

A picther with 4.25 ERA will be looking over his sholder for his entire career.

How about single season Starters? I guess this could be a seperate thread. Some come to mind:

1) Bobo Newsome 1938 Browns 20-16 5.08 E.R.A.
2) Rick Helling 1998 Rangers 20-7 4.41
3) Jim Merritt 1970 Reds 20-12 4.08
4) Dan Spillner 1980 Indians 16-11 5.29
5) Len Barker 1980 Indians 19-12 4.17

These are,of course,before this crazy era of 4.25 E.R.A.s being respectable!

[LVW]

10 worst ERAs in a 30+ save season:

1. Brad Lidge 2009 7.21 ERA 31 Sv- also the worst ERA for a 20+ Sv season
2. Shawn Chacon 2004 7.11 ERA 35 Sv
3. Mike Henneman 1996 5.79 ERA 31 Sv
4. Todd Worrell 1997 5.28 ERA 35 Sv
5. Brad Lidge 2006 5.28 ERA 32 Sv
6. Dave Veres 1999 5.14 ERA 31 Sv
7. Joe Borowski 1997 5.07 ERA 45 Sv- worst ERA for a 40+ Sv season(2nd worst Brian Wilson 2008 4.62 ERA 41 Sv).
8. Jeff Montgomery 4.98 ERA 36 Sv
9. Jose Mesa 1999 4.98 ERA 33 Sv
10. Billy Koch 2001 4.80 ERA 36 Sv.

50+ Sv season- John Smoltz 2002 3.25 ERA 55 Sv
10+ Sv season Mike Perez 1994 8.71 ERA 12 Sv

[JCincy]

Joe Nuxhall, 1944
ERA: 67.50
At the age of 15 he pitched 2/3rds of inning for the Cincinnati Reds in 1944. He allowed 5 earned runs, 2 hits and 5 walks.


He did return 8 years later... and finished his career with an average ERA of 3.9.

[cbenson5]

Jose Lima earned a spot on this thread with a 5.26 era in over 1500 innings.

[Imgran]

I wonder if this is a record. Derrick Turnbow's 6.87 era in 56 innings a couple seasons ago... After all he was a member of the All Star team in 06 when he posted those numbers. (he collapsed big time after the break)

How does that compare in terms of pure suck over innings pitched with Jimmy Gobble's 8.81 ERA over 31 2/3 innings? A bit of a "quality over quantity" debate if you wilL!

[buppers]

Using baseball-reference.com play index I found 13 pitchers with 20 or more starts with an ERA of 7.00+. Including 2 Phillies from 1930 who actually came in 1 and 2. Sweetland and Willoughby with 7.71 and 7.59 with 27 and 24 GS.

There were a total of 139 pitchers with 20 or more starts with an ERA of 6.00+. AMAZING!!!

eD

[janduscframe]

I wonder if this is a record. Derrick Turnbow's 6.87 era in 56 innings a couple seasons ago... After all he was a member of the All Star team in 06 when he posted those numbers. (he collapsed big time after the break)

[Francoeurstein]

Randy Johnson managed to have a solid season despite an ERA of 5.00.
He was 17-11 with 172 strikeouts and 114 ER in 205 innings. I wonder how he managed to have half of that ERA 4 seasons previous to that.

[National Acrobat]

A more recent player to come to mind with a high ERA is Hideo Nomo. In 2004 his ERA was 8.24 in 84.0 innings. In 2005 he had a 7.24 ERA in 100.7 innings. Another player from Tampa Bay, Dewon Brazelton had a 7.61 ERA in 71.0 innings last year. Ouch, that hurts for the D-rays.

Casey Fossum for the Rays is working on that as well this year. Only Maddon putting him in the Bullpen may prevent him from pitching over 100 innings with an ERA over 7.00 for the season.

[utterchaos jr.]

Every year he's not horrible, he's a pretty good player.

But...he has to work on the W/L thing and ERA :hyper: