MLB / Players

Hugh High

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 7 in · 155 lb

BornOctober 24, 1887 · Pottstown, PA, USA

MLB debutApril 11, 1913

Final gameMay 22, 1918

Seasons6 (1913–1918)

Detroit Tigers 1913–1914; New York Yankees 1915–1918

Percentile snapshot

1915 season — qualified batters

119

25.5

505

29.1

427

26.7

36.4

110

30.9

53.3

46.1

15.8

RBI

39.4

78.2

32.1

64.8

30.9

.258

35.8

OBP

.356

66.1

SLG

.342

33.9

OPS

.698

48.5

wRC+

111.7

55.8

OPS+

109.2

52.7

wOBA

.351

58.2

sWAR

2.3

55.8

of 166 qualified 1915 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

5.1

79.6

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
1913	87	216	183	18	42	6	1	0	16	28	24	6	0	.230	.335	.273	.608	84.0	78.1	.312	0.4
1914	84	221	184	25	49	5	3	0	17	26	21	7	6	.266	.363	.326	.689	109.0	103.8	.348	1.0
1915	119	505	427	51	110	19	7	1	43	62	47	22	13	.258	.356	.342	.698	111.7	109.2	.351	2.3
1916	116	451	377	44	99	13	4	1	28	47	44	13	0	.263	.349	.326	.675	104.6	101.7	.339	1.1
1917	103	430	365	37	86	11	6	1	19	48	31	8	0	.236	.329	.307	.636	95.7	92.7	.322	0.6
1918	7	11	10	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	.000	.091	.000	.091	-85.3	-72.8	.071	-0.2

Career totals

516

1,834

1,546

176

386

RBI

123

212

168

.2497

OBP

.3446

SLG

.3176

OPS

.6622

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
1914-07-29	MIN @ DET Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	0	4	1	6
1916-05-31	ATH @ NYY Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	1	2	0	6
1913-07-05	DET @ BAL Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	0	2	0	5
1917-09-05	NYY @ MIN Gameday	4	0	3	0	1	0	0	0	5
1915-07-31	CWS @ NYY Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1913-04-10	DET @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-11	DET @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-14	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-15	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1913-04-16	DET @ CLE Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	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.