MLB / Players

Claude Willoughby

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 165 lb

BornNovember 14, 1898 · Buffalo, KS, USA

MLB debutSeptember 18, 1925

Final gameMay 28, 1931

Seasons7 (1925–1931)

Philadelphia Phillies 1925–1930; Pittsburgh Pirates 1931

Percentile snapshot

1929 season — qualified pitchers

98.3

95.8

79.8

18.5

89.1

68.1

SHO

33.6

288

2.5

135

0.8

108

2.5

35.3

17.6

243.3

ERA

4.99

25.2

WHIP

1.627

19.3

K/9

1.85

3.4

FIP

5.09

22.7

FIP-

98.1

47.9

ERA+

104.0

42.9

sWAR

2.5

55.5

of 120 qualified 1929 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

-3.1

0.4

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1925	3	8	8	0	0	0	1	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.5	-100.0	.000	0.8
1926	47	58	52	4	11	1	2	3	11	.212	.255	.231	.485	20.3	26.5	.234	-1.8
1927	35	29	26	1	2	0	1	2	9	.077	.143	.077	.220	-49.2	-41.3	.121	-1.9
1928	35	45	40	1	6	1	2	4	11	.150	.227	.175	.402	-3.6	2.9	.204	-0.3
1929	49	98	91	6	13	1	5	6	25	.143	.196	.154	.350	-25.6	-16.2	.173	2.5
1930	41	53	48	1	5	0	0	5	13	.104	.189	.104	.293	-33.7	-30.0	.156	-1.9
1931	9	7	7	1	2	0	2	0	1	.286	.286	.286	.571	47.6	54.7	.263	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1925	3	3	2	1	0	1	0	26	5	11	6	0	23.0	1.96	1.609	2.35	4.15	87.7	242.0	0.8
1926	47	18	8	12	1	6	0	218	111	71	37	7	168.0	5.95	1.720	1.98	4.36	105.8	69.4	-1.8
1927	35	6	3	7	2	1	1	126	71	53	14	7	97.7	6.54	1.833	1.29	5.32	129.2	63.0	-1.9
1928	35	13	6	5	1	5	1	180	77	83	26	6	130.7	5.30	2.013	1.79	4.94	116.1	80.3	-0.3
1929	49	34	15	14	4	14	1	288	135	108	50	15	243.3	4.99	1.627	1.85	5.09	98.1	104.0	2.5
1930	41	24	4	17	1	5	1	241	129	68	38	17	153.0	7.59	2.020	2.24	5.87	107.3	72.1	-1.9
1931	9	2	0	2	0	1	0	32	18	12	4	4	25.7	6.31	1.714	1.40	6.09	158.9	60.7	-0.4

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

219

298

272

RBI

.1434

OBP

.2021

SLG

.1544

OPS

.3565

Pitching

G (P)

219

100

SHO

841

SO (P)

175

BB allowed

406

ERA

5.841

WHIP

1.8031

K/9

1.87

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	TB
1928-08-17	PHI @ PIT Gameday	3	0	2	1	3
1926-06-25	ATL @ PHI Gameday	3	0	2	0	2
1926-09-10	CHC @ PHI Gameday	4	1	2	0	2
1926-09-29	PHI @ ATL Gameday	3	1	2	0	2
1929-05-22	PHI @ ATL Gameday	5	1	2	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1929-08-10	STL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	2	7
1928-09-25	CHC @ PHI Gameday	9.0	10	2	2	0	6
1930-08-10	PHI @ CIN Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	2	6
1926-06-02	SF @ PHI Gameday	9.0	10	2	2	3	5
1926-09-24	CIN @ PHI Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	3	5

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.