MLB / Players

Babe Adams

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 185 lb

BornMay 18, 1882 · Tipton, IN, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1906

Final gameAugust 11, 1926

Seasons19 (1906–1926)

St. Louis Cardinals 1906; Pittsburgh Pirates 1907; Pittsburgh Pirates 1909–1916; Pittsburgh Pirates 1918–1926

Percentile snapshot

1923 season — qualified pitchers

38.6

56.1

62.9

59.1

44.7

54.5

SHO

196

44.7

79.5

26.5

41.7

158.7

39.4

ERA

4.42

24.2

WHIP

1.393

44.7

K/9

2.16

8.3

FIP

3.63

70.5

FIP-

90.6

74.2

ERA+

90.6

20.5

sWAR

1.3

33.3

of 133 qualified 1923 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

116.7

85.9

sWAR

47.9

98.7

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1906	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-118.6	-100.0	.000	-0.6
1907	4	7	7	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.286	.286	.286	.571	70.9	79.1	.277	-1.1
1909	25	46	39	0	2	0	1	0	1	2	15	0	0	.051	.098	.103	.200	-47.0	-37.9	.106	3.5
1910	34	97	83	9	16	3	0	0	6	9	23	0	0	.193	.272	.229	.501	45.1	44.8	.257	5.1
1911	40	107	103	9	26	5	1	0	10	3	17	0	0	.252	.274	.320	.594	59.9	65.6	.281	6.9
1912	28	62	53	5	12	3	1	0	3	8	9	0	0	.226	.328	.321	.649	84.5	80.8	.319	2.8
1913	43	118	114	13	33	6	2	0	13	1	16	0	0	.289	.296	.377	.673	90.2	96.3	.312	7.1
1914	40	103	97	8	16	0	2	1	4	3	29	0	0	.165	.198	.237	.435	25.4	32.3	.210	3.3
1915	40	91	85	4	12	1	0	0	7	4	14	0	0	.141	.180	.153	.333	-5.9	2.1	.166	1.6
1916	16	25	22	1	6	0	1	0	2	2	1	0	0	.273	.333	.364	.697	113.2	111.6	.333	-2.0
1918	3	9	9	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	3	0	0	.333	.333	.556	.889	163.6	166.2	.411	0.8
1919	34	101	92	2	17	2	1	0	4	6	13	0	0	.185	.235	.228	.463	32.6	38.4	.227	5.9
1920	35	92	89	4	13	0	0	1	3	1	18	0	0	.146	.156	.180	.335	-20.4	-4.2	.157	5.3
1921	25	66	63	7	16	2	4	0	6	1	7	1	0	.254	.266	.413	.678	69.3	76.3	.301	4.0
1922	27	65	56	6	16	2	0	1	6	4	7	0	0	.286	.333	.375	.708	82.1	82.8	.329	3.0
1923	26	62	55	5	15	5	1	0	8	6	13	0	1	.273	.344	.400	.744	95.8	95.5	.346	1.3
1924	9	12	11	1	2	1	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	.182	.182	.273	.455	8.4	20.7	.202	1.6
1925	33	35	31	3	7	1	0	0	1	3	6	0	0	.226	.294	.258	.552	39.4	39.5	.266	0.0
1926	19	9	9	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.222	.222	.222	.444	7.4	18.0	.207	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1906	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	9	6	2	0	0	4.0	13.50	2.750	0.00	3.76	145.9	19.1	-0.6
1907	4	3	0	2	0	1	0	40	17	3	11	1	22.0	6.95	1.955	4.50	2.42	98.5	35.4	-1.1
1909	25	12	12	3	2	7	3	88	16	23	65	0	130.0	1.11	.854	4.50	1.75	67.6	233.5	3.5
1910	34	30	18	9	0	16	3	217	61	60	101	4	245.0	2.24	1.131	3.71	2.58	83.4	137.8	5.1
1911	40	37	22	12	0	24	6	253	76	42	133	5	293.3	2.33	1.006	4.08	2.45	71.8	146.2	6.9
1912	28	21	11	8	0	11	2	169	55	35	63	4	170.3	2.91	1.198	3.33	2.98	90.8	113.0	2.8
1913	43	37	21	10	0	24	4	271	75	49	144	8	313.7	2.15	1.020	4.13	2.50	82.5	141.0	7.1
1914	40	35	13	16	1	19	3	253	79	39	91	5	283.0	2.51	1.032	2.89	2.33	87.9	105.6	3.3
1915	40	30	14	14	2	17	2	229	78	34	62	6	245.0	2.87	1.073	2.28	2.61	96.9	93.9	1.6
1916	16	10	2	9	0	4	1	91	46	12	22	2	72.3	5.72	1.424	2.74	2.68	100.4	46.6	-2.0
1918	3	3	1	1	0	2	0	15	3	4	6	0	22.7	1.19	.838	2.38	2.30	81.4	237.2	0.8
1919	34	29	17	10	1	23	6	213	58	23	92	1	263.3	1.98	.896	3.14	2.09	70.7	149.1	5.9
1920	35	33	17	13	2	19	8	240	63	18	84	6	263.0	2.16	.981	2.87	2.48	78.6	146.2	5.3
1921	25	20	14	5	0	11	2	155	47	18	55	4	160.0	2.64	1.081	3.09	2.97	77.9	143.9	4.0
1922	27	19	8	11	0	12	4	191	68	15	39	1	171.3	3.57	1.202	2.05	3.03	74.2	114.2	3.0
1923	26	22	13	7	1	11	0	196	78	25	38	8	158.7	4.42	1.393	2.16	3.63	90.6	90.6	1.3
1924	9	3	3	1	0	2	0	31	5	3	5	1	39.7	1.13	.857	1.13	3.26	84.8	338.2	1.6
1925	33	10	6	5	3	3	0	129	61	17	18	7	101.3	5.42	1.441	1.60	4.24	95.5	82.0	0.0
1926	19	0	2	3	3	0	0	51	25	8	7	5	36.7	6.14	1.609	1.72	4.95	125.5	64.3	-0.6

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

482

1,108

1,019

216

RBI

194

.2120

OBP

.2516

SLG

.2807

OPS

.5323

Pitching

G (P)

482

494th-most career G (P)

355

209th-most career GS

194

135th-most career W

140

213th-most career L

206

127th-most career CG

SHO

35th-most career SHO

2,995

139th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,036

BB allowed

430

ERA

2.755

97th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.0920

22nd-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.11

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	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1913-07-18	PIT @ LAD Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	0	3	5
1911-07-24	LAD @ PIT Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	0	2	5
1922-09-24	PIT @ LAD Gameday	4	3	2	0	0	1	2	5
1913-06-09	LAD @ PIT Gameday	3	2	2	1	1	0	1	5
1921-07-02	CIN @ PIT Gameday	4	2	2	1	1	0	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1909-09-06	CHC @ PIT Gameday	10.0	10	3	0	3	12	0
1911-06-10	LAD @ PIT Gameday	9.0	9	0	0	2	10	0
1913-09-26	CHC @ PIT Gameday	9.0	9	1	0	1	10	0
1910-08-26	LAD @ PIT Gameday	9.0	6	2	0	2	9	0
1909-10-13	DET @ PIT Gameday	9.0	6	4	3	1	8	2

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.