MLB / Players

Bill Hoffer

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 155 lb

BornNovember 8, 1870 · Cedar Rapids, IA, USA

MLB debutApril 26, 1895

Final gameJuly 4, 1901

Seasons6 (1895–1901)

Baltimore Orioles 1895–1898; Pittsburgh Pirates 1898–1899; Cleveland Blues 1901

Percentile snapshot

1899 season — qualified pitchers

13.7

11.8

19.6

68.6

11.8

SHO

54.9

169

90.2

86.3

72.5

31.4

163.7

11.8

ERA

3.63

41.2

WHIP

1.424

33.3

K/9

2.42

62.7

FIP

4.15

15.7

FIP-

107.9

15.7

ERA+

106.0

43.1

sWAR

1.8

35.3

of 52 qualified 1899 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

114.2

80.9

sWAR

18.5

92.9

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
1895	41	142	126	22	27	3	1	0	9	8	15	0	.214	.288	.254	.542	53.2	40.3	.270	7.1
1896	35	143	125	23	38	7	4	0	15	12	12	8	.304	.379	.424	.803	109.6	111.2	.382	6.7
1897	42	149	139	20	33	8	1	1	16	6	20	2	.237	.279	.331	.610	63.0	60.5	.289	3.1
1898	12	39	35	2	6	1	1	0	4	4	6	0	.171	.256	.257	.514	53.6	46.8	.259	-0.1
1899	33	97	91	12	18	2	0	0	2	1	14	1	.198	.247	.220	.467	36.0	28.4	.233	1.8
1901	17	48	44	3	6	0	2	0	2	3	11	0	.136	.208	.227	.436	32.8	21.5	.213	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1895	41	38	31	6	0	32	4	296	112	124	80	9	314.0	3.21	1.338	2.29	4.81	100.8	148.7	7.1
1896	35	35	25	7	0	32	3	317	116	95	93	1	309.0	3.38	1.333	2.71	3.77	86.5	129.0	6.7
1897	38	33	22	11	0	29	1	350	145	104	62	5	303.3	4.30	1.497	1.84	4.32	100.5	100.0	3.1
1898	8	7	3	4	0	7	0	88	34	31	16	0	65.3	4.68	1.821	2.20	3.75	104.0	76.9	-0.1
1899	23	19	8	10	0	15	2	169	66	64	44	5	163.7	3.63	1.424	2.42	4.15	107.9	106.0	1.8
1901	16	10	3	8	3	10	0	113	50	35	19	2	99.0	4.55	1.495	1.73	3.88	107.5	79.5	0.0

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

180

618

560

128

RBI

.2286

OBP

.2918

SLG

.3036

OPS

.5954

Pitching

G (P)

161

142

125

313th-most career CG

SHO

1,254

SO (P)

314

BB allowed

453

ERA

3.753

WHIP

1.4239

K/9

2.25

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	3B	RBI	BB	TB
1901-07-04	CWS @ CLE Gameday	4	1	2	1	1	0	4
1901-06-10	CLE @ BAL Gameday	2	1	1	1	0	0	3
1901-05-23	MIN @ CLE Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	0	1
1901-05-11	CLE @ BAL Gameday	2	0	1	0	0	1	1
1901-06-01	ATH @ CLE Gameday	2	0	1	0	0	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-07-04	CWS @ CLE Gameday	9.0	9	5	4	3	3	0
1901-05-08	CWS @ CLE Gameday	9.0	12	3	2	2	2	0
1901-05-03	CLE @ DET Gameday	8.0	8	6	5	4	2	0
1901-06-27	CLE @ CWS Gameday	8.0	10	5	3	2	2	0
1901-05-11	CLE @ BAL Gameday	7.0	13	10	5	5	2	1

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.