MLB / Players

Amos Rusie

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 200 lb

BornMay 30, 1871 · Mooresville, IN, USA

MLB debutMay 9, 1889

Final gameJune 9, 1901

Seasons10 (1889–1901)

Indianapolis Hoosiers 1889; New York Giants 1890–1895; New York Giants 1897–1898; Cincinnati Reds 1901

Percentile snapshot

1898 season — qualified pitchers

54.2

60.4

66.7

70.8

87.5

68.8

SHO

85.4

288

52.1

101

54.2

103

114

89.6

33.3

300.0

56.3

ERA

3.03

72.9

WHIP

1.303

66.7

K/9

3.42

81.3

FIP

3.39

64.6

FIP-

94.0

64.6

ERA+

118.9

74.5

sWAR

4.6

68.8

of 49 qualified 1898 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

132.3

97.3

sWAR

70.7

99.7

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1889	33	106	103	15	18	3	1	0	4	2	19	3	.175	.198	.223	.421	27.3	17.0	.201	-0.7
1890	73	292	284	31	79	13	6	0	28	7	26	6	.278	.298	.366	.664	89.3	93.0	.315	11.7
1891	62	223	220	30	54	5	2	0	15	3	25	2	.245	.256	.286	.542	60.3	57.6	.257	9.0
1892	70	259	256	19	55	7	4	1	26	3	29	4	.215	.224	.285	.509	54.8	53.4	.241	7.7
1893	56	216	212	32	57	3	4	3	27	3	19	0	.269	.282	.363	.646	70.5	70.9	.302	10.8
1894	56	194	186	20	52	5	4	3	26	5	24	5	.280	.302	.398	.700	69.1	67.4	.319	13.3
1895	53	179	179	14	44	3	1	1	19	0	28	2	.246	.246	.291	.536	43.6	37.8	.249	6.9
1897	40	148	144	25	40	1	3	0	22	3	8	1	.278	.297	.326	.624	66.2	64.4	.296	8.5
1898	41	139	138	23	29	2	4	0	8	1	8	2	.210	.216	.283	.498	40.5	42.3	.236	4.6
1901	3	9	8	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.125	.222	.125	.347	13.0	0.8	.190	-1.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1889	33	22	12	10	0	19	1	246	133	116	109	12	225.0	5.32	1.609	4.36	4.38	108.9	75.6	-0.7
1890	67	62	29	34	1	56	4	436	156	289	341	3	548.7	2.56	1.321	5.59	3.21	90.2	139.2	11.7
1891	61	57	33	20	1	52	6	391	142	262	337	6	500.3	2.55	1.305	6.06	2.89	86.5	130.9	9.0
1892	65	62	32	31	0	59	2	410	171	270	304	7	541.0	2.84	1.257	5.06	3.04	92.7	115.5	7.7
1893	56	52	33	21	1	50	4	451	173	218	208	15	482.0	3.23	1.388	3.88	4.24	91.0	144.3	10.8
1894	54	50	36	13	1	45	3	426	137	200	195	10	444.0	2.78	1.410	3.95	4.61	86.6	191.8	13.3
1895	49	47	23	23	0	42	4	384	163	159	201	9	393.3	3.73	1.381	4.60	4.12	86.4	128.0	6.9
1897	38	37	28	10	0	35	2	314	91	87	135	6	322.3	2.54	1.244	3.77	3.63	84.3	169.3	8.5
1898	37	36	20	11	1	33	4	288	101	103	114	6	300.0	3.03	1.303	3.42	3.39	94.0	118.9	4.6
1901	3	2	0	1	0	2	0	43	21	3	6	1	22.0	8.59	2.091	2.45	3.39	99.8	39.5	-1.1

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

487

1,765

1,730

209

429

RBI

176

186

.2480

OBP

.2621

SLG

.3197

OPS

.5818

Pitching

G (P)

463

427

106th-most career GS

246

53rd-most career W

174

85th-most career L

393

18th-most career CG

SHO

111th-most career SHO

3,779

52nd-most career IP

SO (P)

1,950

104th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,707

7th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.068

194th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3486

K/9

4.64

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	H	RBI	TB
1901-06-09	SF @ CIN Gameday	3	1	1	1
1901-04-20	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0	0	0	0
1901-04-24	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0	0	0	0
1901-04-26	CIN @ CHC Gameday	0	0	0	0
1901-04-27	CIN @ CHC Gameday	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-06-05	LAD @ CIN Gameday	8.0	9	1	1	1	5	0
1901-05-08	STL @ CIN Gameday	9.0	19	14	12	1	1	1
1901-06-09	SF @ CIN Gameday	5.0	15	10	8	1	0	0
1901-04-20	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1901-04-24	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1977 (Veterans)

1× Pitching Triple Crown

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.