MLB / Players

Deacon Phillippe

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornMay 23, 1872 · Rural Retreat, VA, USA

MLB debutApril 21, 1899

Final gameAugust 13, 1911

Seasons13 (1899–1911)

Louisville Colonels 1899; Pittsburgh Pirates 1900–1911

Percentile snapshot

1907 season — qualified pitchers

53.8

42.3

55.1

57.7

79.5

26.9

SHO

14.1

214

44.9

47.4

83.3

23.1

214.0

39.7

ERA

2.61

26.9

WHIP

1.168

44.9

K/9

2.57

FIP

2.14

73.1

FIP-

87.0

74.4

ERA+

94.4

28.6

sWAR

1.8

33.3

of 79 qualified 1907 pitchers (min 157 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

120.4

sWAR

40.8

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
1899	44	142	128	17	26	5	0	0	10	8	16	3	.203	.255	.242	.498	43.2	36.6	.247	5.3
1900	38	114	105	7	19	3	1	0	7	1	16	0	.181	.218	.229	.447	28.4	23.3	.217	4.9
1901	38	125	113	11	26	3	1	1	15	10	19	1	.230	.293	.301	.594	75.5	72.9	.289	6.9
1902	32	120	113	16	25	2	2	1	12	2	18	0	.221	.248	.301	.549	64.5	68.9	.267	5.3
1903	37	130	124	20	26	4	2	0	16	5	20	0	.210	.246	.274	.520	48.1	47.7	.252	5.7
1904	21	68	65	4	8	0	0	0	4	2	4	0	.123	.149	.123	.272	-16.5	-16.1	.137	0.2
1905	38	109	97	6	9	0	0	0	4	8	21	0	.093	.178	.093	.270	-11.0	-18.6	.152	5.0
1906	33	86	82	5	20	2	0	0	6	3	15	0	.244	.279	.268	.547	64.7	68.9	.272	3.2
1907	35	77	65	5	12	0	0	0	3	7	6	0	.185	.264	.185	.449	42.3	40.7	.237	1.8
1908	5	4	4	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.500	.750	129.2	138.9	.348	-1.3
1909	22	44	42	1	3	1	0	0	4	1	8	0	.071	.093	.095	.188	-54.1	-41.6	.095	1.4
1910	31	43	41	3	9	1	0	1	8	1	5	0	.220	.238	.317	.555	49.8	59.9	.264	2.5
1911	3	2	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000	3.000	542.8	729.5	1.060	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1899	42	38	21	17	1	33	2	331	113	64	68	10	321.0	3.17	1.231	1.91	3.58	93.1	121.5	5.3
1900	38	33	20	13	0	29	1	274	88	42	75	7	279.0	2.84	1.133	2.42	3.14	85.1	130.2	4.9
1901	37	32	22	12	2	30	1	274	73	38	103	7	296.0	2.22	1.054	3.13	3.03	92.2	148.3	6.9
1902	31	30	20	9	0	29	5	265	62	26	122	1	272.0	2.05	1.070	4.04	2.01	72.4	135.5	5.3
1903	36	33	25	9	2	31	4	269	78	29	123	4	289.3	2.43	1.030	3.83	2.40	73.2	135.3	5.7
1904	21	19	10	10	1	17	3	183	60	26	82	1	166.7	3.24	1.254	4.43	1.95	70.8	84.9	0.2
1905	38	33	20	13	0	25	5	235	68	48	133	0	279.0	2.19	1.014	4.29	2.25	75.5	136.2	5.0
1906	33	24	15	10	0	19	3	216	60	26	90	3	218.7	2.47	1.107	3.70	2.00	74.5	108.6	3.2
1907	35	26	14	11	2	17	1	214	62	36	61	2	214.0	2.61	1.168	2.57	2.14	87.0	94.4	1.8
1908	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	20	15	3	1	0	12.0	11.25	1.917	0.75	2.54	108.6	20.8	-1.3
1909	22	13	8	3	0	7	1	121	34	14	38	2	131.7	2.32	1.025	2.60	2.18	84.2	111.3	1.4
1910	31	8	14	2	4	5	1	111	31	9	30	4	121.7	2.29	.986	2.22	2.61	84.5	134.7	2.5
1911	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	5	2	3	0	6.0	7.50	1.167	4.50	2.62	76.9	45.5	-0.1

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

377

1,064

980

185

RBI

148

.1888

OBP

.2356

SLG

.2337

OPS

.4693

Pitching

G (P)

372

289

389th-most career GS

189

149th-most career W

109

450th-most career L

242

91st-most career CG

SHO

148th-most career SHO

2,607

226th-most career IP

SO (P)

929

BB allowed

363

ERA

2.586

55th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1051

28th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.21

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	BB	TB
1910-07-22	LAD @ PIT Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	1	4	0	5
1902-06-07	PIT @ SF Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	5
1902-08-17	PIT @ CIN Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	4
1903-04-30	PIT @ STL Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	0	0	0	4
1902-04-23	CIN @ PIT Gameday	3	3	2	0	1	0	2	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1903-10-01	PIT @ BOS Gameday	9.0	6	3	2	0	10
1904-05-12	LAD @ PIT Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	0	9
1904-05-17	SF @ PIT Gameday	9.0	11	7	0	3	9
1903-06-02	SF @ PIT Gameday	9.0	8	0	0	1	8
1904-06-13	PIT @ ATL Gameday	9.0	9	4	0	0	8

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.