MLB / Players

Hippo Vaughn

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 215 lb

BornApril 9, 1888 · Weatherford, TX, USA

MLB debutJune 19, 1908

Final gameJuly 9, 1921

Seasons13 (1908–1921)

New York Highlanders 1908; New York Highlanders 1910–1912; Washington Senators 1912; Chicago Cubs 1913–1921

Percentile snapshot

1920 season — qualified pitchers

95.4

84.4

10.1

90.8

SHO

85.3

301

11.9

37.6

17.4

131

97.2

16.5

301.0

91.7

ERA

2.54

79.8

WHIP

1.269

45.9

K/9

3.92

67.9

FIP

2.96

72.5

FIP-

93.1

63.3

ERA+

125.3

79.8

sWAR

5.8

92.7

of 110 qualified 1920 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

118.7

88.1

sWAR

43.7

98.3

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
1908	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-118.7	-100.0	.000	0.0
1910	30	82	75	6	10	1	0	0	4	7	23	1	0	.133	.207	.147	.354	6.7	8.1	.189	4.2
1911	26	60	49	4	7	1	0	0	3	9	20	1	0	.143	.276	.163	.439	30.3	19.7	.242	0.0
1912	27	52	51	5	8	2	0	0	1	0	12	0	0	.157	.173	.196	.369	-0.5	4.4	.178	0.4
1913	7	21	21	3	4	0	0	0	1	0	7	0	0	.190	.190	.190	.381	-1.8	8.9	.179	1.6
1914	42	106	97	10	14	3	1	1	3	5	33	2	0	.144	.186	.227	.413	14.4	22.5	.201	5.5
1915	43	97	86	8	14	3	0	0	9	7	27	3	2	.163	.242	.198	.440	28.8	30.8	.225	2.7
1916	44	112	104	4	14	1	1	0	7	3	46	0	0	.135	.159	.163	.322	-17.1	-1.4	.156	4.1
1917	41	111	100	7	16	2	1	0	6	9	33	1	0	.160	.229	.200	.429	23.3	28.4	.217	6.2
1918	35	106	96	13	23	3	2	0	8	6	21	4	0	.240	.284	.313	.597	78.2	81.4	.289	7.3
1919	38	107	98	5	17	4	0	0	2	8	27	0	0	.173	.236	.214	.450	33.5	36.7	.224	7.3
1920	40	116	102	14	22	3	1	1	12	12	23	0	0	.216	.298	.294	.592	69.9	69.1	.289	5.8
1921	17	44	41	2	10	2	0	1	5	2	12	0	0	.244	.279	.366	.645	64.4	69.0	.293	-1.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1908	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	4	2	0	2.3	3.86	2.143	7.71	5.68	229.1	64.3	0.0
1910	30	25	13	11	1	18	5	190	45	58	107	1	221.7	1.83	1.119	4.34	2.26	85.1	145.4	4.2
1911	26	18	8	10	0	11	0	158	71	54	74	2	145.7	4.39	1.455	4.57	3.33	93.6	81.1	0.0
1912	27	18	6	11	0	9	1	141	62	80	95	1	144.0	3.88	1.535	5.94	3.49	102.7	87.8	0.4
1913	7	6	5	1	0	5	2	37	9	27	36	0	56.0	1.45	1.143	5.79	2.89	90.4	221.1	1.6
1914	42	35	21	13	1	23	4	236	67	109	165	1	293.7	2.05	1.175	5.06	2.37	85.2	135.8	5.5
1915	41	34	20	12	1	18	4	240	86	77	148	4	269.7	2.87	1.176	4.94	2.43	84.7	99.9	2.7
1916	44	35	17	15	1	21	4	269	72	67	144	4	294.0	2.20	1.143	4.41	2.26	85.6	119.6	4.1
1917	41	38	23	13	0	27	5	255	66	91	195	3	295.7	2.01	1.170	5.94	2.21	77.3	142.4	6.2
1918	35	33	22	10	0	27	8	216	56	76	148	4	290.3	1.74	1.006	4.59	2.32	83.5	159.8	7.3
1919	38	37	21	14	1	25	4	264	61	62	141	3	306.7	1.79	1.063	4.14	2.31	80.6	160.4	7.3
1920	40	38	19	16	0	24	4	301	85	81	131	8	301.0	2.54	1.269	3.92	2.96	93.1	125.3	5.8
1921	17	14	3	11	0	7	0	153	73	31	30	8	109.3	6.01	1.683	2.47	4.38	115.4	63.2	-1.4

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

392

1,015

921

159

RBI

285

.1726

OBP

.2319

SLG

.2226

OPS

.4545

Pitching

G (P)

390

331

257th-most career GS

178

169th-most career W

137

231st-most career L

215

117th-most career CG

SHO

41st-most career SHO

2,730

190th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,416

272nd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

817

237th-most career BB allowed

ERA

2.486

41st-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2007

170th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.67

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1916-04-27	STL @ CHC Gameday	4	2	2	1	0	2	0	4
1917-08-24	CHC @ SF Gameday	4	2	2	1	0	0	0	4
1914-06-26	CHC @ CIN Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	1	4
1920-07-19	ATL @ CHC Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	0	4
1921-06-22	CHC @ STL Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	1	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1914-07-13	SF @ CHC Gameday	9.0	5	2	2	4	12
1918-05-30	CIN @ CHC Gameday	9.0	6	1	0	1	12
1910-05-24	CWS @ NYY Gameday	12.0	9	5	0	2	11
1912-07-17	BAL @ MIN Gameday	9.0	9	6	0	2	11
1917-04-25	CHC @ CIN Gameday	9.0	11	2	1	4	11

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

1× Pitching Triple Crown

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