Doc Sykes

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 185 lb

BornApril 10, 1892 · Decatur, AL, USA

Seasons8 (1914–1924)

Brooklyn Royal Giants 1914; New York Lincoln Giants 1914; New York Lincoln Stars 1915; Brooklyn Royal Giants 1916; New York Lincoln Stars 1916; New York Lincoln Giants 1917; Hilldale Club 1918; Baltimore Black Sox 1922; Hilldale Club 1922; Baltimore Black Sox 1923–1924

Percentile snapshot

1924 season — qualified pitchers

3.1

5.4

8.5

94.6

4.6

SHO

43.8

94.6

96.2

86.9

5.4

94.6

67.7

6.9

ERA

3.99

43.8

WHIP

1.419

42.3

K/9

2.93

43.1

FIP

4.22

42.3

FIP-

96.2

58.5

ERA+

110.0

56.2

sWAR

0.8

22.3

of 131 qualified 1924 pitchers (min 60 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

6.9

82.7

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
1914	6	16	14	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.214	.214	.214	.429	19.4	16.3	.208	-0.2
1915	14	40	40	3	8	1	0	0	1	0	0	0	.200	.200	.225	.425	14.8	6.2	.196	1.0
1916	16	48	43	4	7	2	0	0	0	3	0	2	.163	.217	.209	.427	26.4	16.4	.215	0.8
1917	1	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	78.9	81.2	.328	0.3
1918	2	6	5	2	3	0	1	0	3	0	0	0	.600	.600	1.000	1.600	331.0	357.3	.752	-0.2
1922	18	55	51	5	13	0	0	1	6	2	4	1	.255	.283	.314	.597	70.8	69.6	.281	5.1
1923	13	33	30	5	6	4	1	0	3	0	0	0	.200	.226	.400	.626	72.1	72.9	.281	-0.8
1924	9	27	23	3	3	1	0	0	1	2	2	0	.130	.200	.174	.374	15.2	2.2	.189	0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1914	6	6	0	5	0	3	0	40	21	18	19	2	38.7	4.89	1.500	4.42	4.53	126.4	73.3	-0.2
1915	12	9	5	2	1	5	1	66	20	26	46	0	78.3	2.30	1.174	5.29	2.49	93.9	115.3	1.0
1916	14	12	3	10	1	8	0	120	49	36	39	1	99.3	4.44	1.570	3.53	4.29	97.8	98.9	0.8
1917	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	7	1	0	2	0	7.0	1.29	1.000	2.57	2.81	72.2	302.9	0.3
1918	2	2	1	1	0	1	0	13	9	4	2	0	12.3	6.57	1.378	1.46	3.59	109.3	50.0	-0.2
1922	18	16	11	4	0	14	2	105	28	34	60	4	141.7	1.78	.981	3.81	4.02	91.9	245.8	5.1
1923	13	13	4	7	0	6	0	95	52	22	41	5	78.0	6.00	1.500	4.73	4.24	107.4	65.8	-0.8
1924	9	8	3	2	0	4	1	72	30	24	22	0	67.7	3.99	1.419	2.93	4.22	96.2	110.0	0.8

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

228

209

RBI

.2105

OBP

.2396

SLG

.2823

OPS

.5219

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

523

SO (P)

231

BB allowed

164

ERA

3.614

WHIP

1.3040

K/9

3.98

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	RBI	TB
1923-05-13	BRG @ BBS Gameday	4	1	1	1	1	2
1923-07-01	NYL @ BBS Gameday	4	0	1	1	1	2
1923-05-06	BG @ BBS Gameday	3	1	1	1	0	2
1923-07-29	BRG @ BBS Gameday	1	0	1	1	0	2
1923-04-30	CSE @ BBS Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1923-07-01	NYL @ BBS Gameday	9.0	7	3	2	3	8	0
1923-05-13	BRG @ BBS Gameday	9.0	12	12	12	4	7	1
1923-05-06	BG @ BBS Gameday	9.0	6	6	2	2	5	0
1923-06-03	CSE @ BBS Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	1	5	0
1923-05-26	BBS @ HIL Gameday	8.0	11	8	8	2	5	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.