MLB / Players

Eppa Rixey

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 210 lb

BornMay 3, 1891 · Culpeper, VA, USA

MLB debutJune 21, 1912

Final gameAugust 5, 1933

Seasons21 (1912–1933)

Philadelphia Phillies 1912–1917; Philadelphia Phillies 1919–1920; Cincinnati Reds 1921–1933

Percentile snapshot

1930 season — qualified pitchers

48.3

35.6

21.2

5.1

SHO

207

45.8

40.7

57.6

14.4

41.5

164.0

44.1

ERA

5.10

WHIP

1.549

25.4

K/9

2.03

5.9

FIP

4.96

29.7

FIP-

104.3

26.3

ERA+

93.2

20.3

sWAR

1.0

23.7

of 119 qualified 1930 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

114.1

80.6

sWAR

65.1

99.5

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
1912	23	57	53	3	9	2	0	0	1	2	17	0	0	.170	.200	.208	.408	1.6	8.9	.197	3.4
1913	35	51	47	3	9	1	1	0	4	1	9	0	0	.191	.208	.255	.464	19.6	29.6	.217	1.8
1914	24	30	26	2	1	1	0	0	0	4	4	0	0	.038	.167	.077	.244	-26.5	-28.6	.148	-1.0
1915	29	64	55	3	9	1	0	0	2	3	13	0	0	.164	.220	.182	.402	17.6	22.0	.203	2.5
1916	38	104	97	6	15	3	0	0	9	2	14	0	0	.155	.180	.186	.366	-3.2	11.1	.177	5.7
1917	39	100	94	3	18	2	0	0	6	0	13	0	0	.191	.191	.213	.404	7.3	22.4	.190	4.4
1919	23	52	47	3	7	2	0	0	2	1	5	0	0	.149	.184	.191	.375	-6.8	8.0	.183	-0.3
1920	43	108	101	6	25	0	1	1	8	2	11	0	0	.248	.276	.297	.573	51.8	58.7	.271	2.6
1921	40	116	101	7	13	1	0	0	4	6	11	0	0	.129	.178	.139	.316	-17.0	-13.0	.158	5.2
1922	40	123	109	8	21	3	0	0	9	2	15	1	0	.193	.214	.220	.434	9.9	14.3	.204	4.3
1923	42	120	107	7	17	1	0	0	7	3	9	0	1	.159	.189	.168	.357	-6.9	-3.1	.173	6.1
1924	35	95	84	10	18	4	0	1	7	4	11	0	1	.214	.258	.298	.556	48.2	51.8	.259	5.0
1925	39	111	103	8	22	0	0	0	11	2	17	1	0	.214	.236	.214	.449	14.3	18.2	.212	6.4
1926	37	95	84	6	19	0	0	0	8	5	8	0	0	.226	.270	.226	.496	36.2	37.2	.241	3.1
1927	34	87	81	4	20	5	1	0	9	3	7	0	0	.247	.274	.333	.607	60.6	64.9	.281	3.3
1928	43	110	104	4	18	2	0	1	8	3	15	0	0	.173	.196	.221	.417	-0.1	10.1	.195	4.2
1929	35	71	65	2	15	1	0	0	1	1	13	0	0	.231	.242	.246	.489	20.1	24.5	.225	2.7
1930	32	59	55	6	11	2	0	0	5	1	8	0	0	.200	.214	.236	.451	8.3	11.3	.204	1.0
1931	22	43	40	0	6	1	0	0	3	2	6	0	0	.150	.190	.175	.365	-5.8	1.4	.177	0.8
1932	25	35	34	2	9	1	0	0	1	1	7	0	0	.265	.286	.294	.580	54.5	58.1	.265	2.7
1933	16	36	35	2	9	0	1	0	6	1	7	0	0	.257	.278	.314	.592	63.4	69.1	.274	1.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1912	23	20	10	10	0	10	3	147	45	54	59	2	162.0	2.50	1.241	3.28	3.22	90.3	142.5	3.4
1913	35	19	9	5	2	9	1	148	54	56	75	4	155.7	3.12	1.310	4.34	3.19	96.2	106.1	1.8
1914	24	15	2	11	0	2	0	124	50	45	41	0	103.0	4.37	1.641	3.58	2.86	97.7	67.0	-1.0
1915	29	22	11	12	1	10	2	163	47	64	88	2	176.7	2.39	1.285	4.48	2.63	95.4	115.0	2.5
1916	38	33	22	10	0	20	3	239	59	74	134	2	287.0	1.85	1.091	4.20	2.31	86.5	144.2	5.7
1917	39	36	16	21	1	23	4	249	71	67	121	1	281.3	2.27	1.123	3.87	2.34	84.4	121.8	4.4
1919	23	18	6	12	0	11	1	160	68	50	63	4	154.0	3.97	1.364	3.68	2.99	94.3	79.9	-0.3
1920	41	33	11	22	2	25	0	288	110	69	109	5	284.3	3.48	1.256	3.45	2.83	84.1	96.8	2.6
1921	40	36	19	18	1	21	2	324	93	66	76	1	301.0	2.78	1.296	2.27	3.24	90.2	129.0	5.2
1922	40	38	25	13	0	26	2	337	123	45	80	13	313.3	3.53	1.219	2.30	3.57	90.3	111.9	4.3
1923	42	37	20	15	1	23	3	334	96	65	97	3	309.0	2.80	1.291	2.83	3.13	81.6	137.2	6.1
1924	35	29	15	14	1	15	4	219	73	47	57	3	238.3	2.76	1.116	2.15	3.26	87.8	134.5	5.0
1925	39	36	21	11	1	22	2	302	92	47	69	8	287.3	2.88	1.215	2.16	3.55	86.9	141.9	6.4
1926	37	29	14	8	0	14	3	231	88	58	61	12	233.0	3.40	1.240	2.36	3.82	104.0	108.2	3.1
1927	34	29	12	10	1	11	1	240	85	43	42	3	219.7	3.48	1.288	1.72	3.41	90.5	108.3	3.3
1928	43	37	19	18	2	17	3	317	111	67	58	4	291.3	3.43	1.318	1.79	3.27	84.1	113.5	4.2
1929	35	24	10	13	1	11	0	235	93	60	37	6	201.0	4.16	1.468	1.66	4.27	95.1	107.8	2.7
1930	32	21	9	13	0	5	0	207	93	47	37	11	164.0	5.10	1.549	2.03	4.96	104.3	93.2	1.0
1931	22	17	4	7	0	4	0	143	55	30	22	4	126.7	3.91	1.366	1.56	3.75	101.9	94.1	0.8
1932	25	11	5	5	0	6	2	108	33	16	14	3	111.7	2.66	1.110	1.13	3.55	93.6	142.5	2.7
1933	16	12	6	3	0	5	1	118	33	12	10	1	94.3	3.15	1.378	0.95	2.88	86.6	105.5	1.3

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

694

1,667

1,522

291

RBI

111

220

.1912

OBP

.2209

SLG

.2240

OPS

.4449

Pitching

G (P)

692

131st-most career G (P)

552

30th-most career GS

266

37th-most career W

251

9th-most career L

290

48th-most career CG

SHO

57th-most career SHO

4,495

29th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,350

305th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,082

83rd-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.148

233rd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2715

435th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

2.70

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	HR	RBI	TB
1924-06-28	CIN @ STL Gameday	4	2	4	1	1	2	8
1920-09-13	CIN @ PHI Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	1	5
1928-06-04	CIN @ ATL Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	1	5
1925-06-16	LAD @ CIN Gameday	4	0	3	0	0	1	3
1925-09-24	LAD @ CIN Gameday	4	0	3	0	0	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1917-08-14	PHI @ ATL Gameday	9.0	10	2	2	1	10
1916-08-19	PHI @ CIN Gameday	14.0	12	1	1	2	9
1915-07-15	STL @ PHI Gameday	10.0	9	3	3	5	9
1912-07-19	PHI @ CHC Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	2	9
1920-05-16	PHI @ CIN Gameday	15.0	13	2	2	4	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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1963 (Veterans)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.