MLB / Players

Huck Betts

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb

BornFebruary 18, 1897 · Millsboro, DE, USA

MLB debutApril 26, 1920

Final gameSeptember 27, 1935

Seasons10 (1920–1935)

Philadelphia Phillies 1920–1925; Boston Braves 1932–1935

Percentile snapshot

1935 season — qualified pitchers

88.4

36.8

5.3

46.3

6.3

SHO

33.7

213

38.9

27.4

66.3

21.1

50.5

159.7

32.6

ERA

5.47

14.7

WHIP

1.585

21.1

K/9

2.25

11.6

FIP

4.04

65.3

FIP-

107.2

21.1

ERA+

68.9

3.2

sWAR

-1.4

of 96 qualified 1935 pitchers (min 153 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

97.7

28.6

sWAR

12.1

88.9

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1920	27	27	25	2	2	0	0	2	8	.080	.148	.080	.228	-49.3	-35.7	.126	0.4
1921	32	31	30	2	8	1	0	1	8	.267	.290	.300	.590	42.9	49.4	.274	0.7
1922	7	5	4	1	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.200	.000	.200	-37.5	-47.4	.152	-0.7
1923	20	32	31	0	3	0	0	0	7	.097	.097	.097	.194	-75.8	-52.0	.090	1.8
1924	38	55	45	7	7	0	2	4	8	.156	.224	.156	.380	-12.2	-2.9	.193	1.3
1925	37	37	34	5	10	2	6	3	4	.294	.351	.353	.704	71.0	71.3	.329	0.3
1932	31	83	79	5	19	0	3	3	7	.241	.268	.241	.509	38.3	41.3	.237	4.6
1933	35	88	76	3	17	1	5	2	7	.224	.253	.237	.490	41.9	46.7	.233	3.4
1934	40	81	69	3	13	1	2	6	8	.188	.253	.203	.456	29.4	28.0	.223	1.6
1935	44	50	44	1	7	0	1	3	5	.159	.229	.159	.388	13.1	9.8	.195	-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
1920	27	4	1	1	0	1	0	86	35	33	18	3	88.3	3.57	1.347	1.83	3.82	113.5	94.5	0.4
1921	32	2	3	7	4	1	0	141	50	14	28	8	100.7	4.47	1.540	2.50	4.00	96.5	92.8	0.7
1922	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	23	16	8	4	3	15.0	9.60	2.067	2.40	6.74	146.6	47.9	-0.7
1923	19	4	2	4	1	3	0	100	29	14	18	7	84.3	3.09	1.352	1.92	4.25	93.6	146.8	1.8
1924	37	9	7	10	2	2	0	160	69	42	46	8	144.3	4.30	1.400	2.87	4.01	91.1	102.3	1.3
1925	35	7	4	5	1	1	0	146	60	38	28	10	97.3	5.55	1.890	2.59	5.13	108.4	85.3	0.3
1932	31	27	13	11	1	16	3	229	69	35	32	9	221.7	2.80	1.191	1.30	3.62	97.7	132.3	4.6
1933	35	26	11	11	4	17	2	225	75	55	40	9	242.0	2.79	1.157	1.49	3.40	111.1	109.8	3.4
1934	40	27	17	10	3	10	2	258	96	42	69	17	213.0	4.06	1.408	2.92	4.11	108.1	93.8	1.6
1935	44	19	2	9	0	2	1	213	97	40	40	9	159.7	5.47	1.585	2.25	4.04	107.2	68.9	-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

311

489

437

RBI

.1968

OBP

.2435

SLG

.2082

OPS

.4517

Pitching

G (P)

307

125

SHO

1,366

SO (P)

323

BB allowed

321

ERA

3.926

WHIP

1.3920

K/9

2.13

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	BB	TB
1932-06-04	ATL @ LAD Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	0	3
1925-07-04	ATL @ PHI Gameday	3	1	3	0	0	1	3
1925-06-24	PHI @ ATL Gameday	5	0	2	1	2	0	3
1932-04-29	SF @ ATL Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	0	2
1932-09-09	CHC @ ATL Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1934-07-25	CIN @ ATL Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	1	7	1
1935-09-21	ATL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	0	6	0
1933-04-24	ATL @ PHI Gameday	11.0	13	5	5	3	5	1
1934-09-09	CHC @ ATL Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	2	5	0
1921-09-17	PHI @ STL Gameday	6.2	11	2	2	0	5	0

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.