Pillette played professional baseball for 29 years from 1917 to 1945, including four seasons in Major League Baseball with the Cincinnati Reds (one inning in 1917) and the Detroit Tigers from 1922 to 1924. In 1922, he compiled a 19–12 win–loss record and ranked second in the American League with a 2.85 earned run average (ERA) and four shutouts and seventh in the league with 19 wins. He never achieved at the same level and concluded his major league career with a 34–32 record and a 3.45 ERA in 107 games. \n', '

Pillette also played 23 years in the Pacific Coast League (PCL) from 1920 to 1921 and 1925 to 1945. He set PCL records with 708 games worked by a pitcher, 23 PCL seasons as a pitcher, and seven PCL teams as a pitcher, and was one of the inaugural inductees into the Pacific Coast League Hall of Fame in 1943. Across all levels of minor and major league play for which records are available, Pillette pitched in 789 games and compiled a 298–296 record.\n', '

Pillette was born in St. Paul, Oregon, in 1895. He dropped out of school at a young age to work on his father\'s farm and began playing semipro baseball in Newberg and Woodburn, Oregon. Pillette was 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) tall, weighed 190 pounds, and batted and threw right-handed.\n', '

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