MLB / Players

Hugh Mulcahy

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 190 lb

BornSeptember 9, 1913 · Brighton, MA, USA

MLB debutJuly 24, 1935

Final gameMay 8, 1947

Seasons9 (1935–1947)

Philadelphia Phillies 1935–1940; Philadelphia Phillies 1945–1946; Pittsburgh Pirates 1947

Percentile snapshot

1940 season — qualified pitchers

74.5

95.7

68.1

94.7

SHO

78.7

283

2.1

112

7.4

12.8

68.1

40.4

280.0

92.6

ERA

3.60

56.4

WHIP

1.336

53.2

K/9

2.64

7.4

FIP

3.73

70.2

FIP-

97.6

47.9

ERA+

106.1

45.7

sWAR

3.5

68.1

of 95 qualified 1940 pitchers (min 153 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

88.4

4.2

sWAR

3.6

75.9

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
1935	19	17	17	0	0	0	0	0	7	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.3	-100.0	.000	0.1
1936	3	10	8	0	2	0	1	1	0	.250	.333	.250	.583	52.7	50.7	.289	0.6
1937	56	79	73	9	11	2	3	3	5	.151	.184	.178	.362	-17.8	-5.0	.173	-0.3
1938	47	103	94	6	16	2	5	2	15	.170	.188	.191	.379	-12.0	2.4	.178	0.3
1939	38	83	76	3	12	1	5	2	12	.158	.179	.171	.351	-19.5	-5.6	.167	-0.7
1940	37	103	94	5	19	2	7	3	7	.202	.227	.223	.450	16.6	25.1	.212	3.5
1945	5	9	7	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.125	.000	.125	-60.7	-63.4	.095	0.2
1946	16	19	16	1	3	2	0	2	5	.188	.278	.313	.590	63.9	67.9	.286	-0.1
1947	2	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	69.2	74.5	.307	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1935	18	5	1	5	1	0	0	62	28	25	11	2	52.7	4.78	1.652	1.88	4.81	107.6	93.4	0.1
1936	3	2	1	1	0	2	0	20	8	12	2	0	22.7	3.18	1.412	0.79	4.72	105.3	141.1	0.6
1937	56	25	8	18	3	9	1	256	123	97	54	17	215.7	5.13	1.637	2.25	4.92	116.4	82.4	-0.3
1938	46	34	10	20	1	15	0	294	137	120	90	14	267.3	4.61	1.549	3.03	4.16	105.4	85.5	0.3
1939	38	31	9	16	4	14	1	246	125	93	59	19	225.7	4.99	1.502	2.35	4.76	121.2	78.8	-0.7
1940	36	36	13	22	0	21	3	283	112	91	82	12	280.0	3.60	1.336	2.64	3.73	97.6	106.1	3.5
1945	5	4	1	3	0	1	0	33	12	9	2	1	28.3	3.81	1.482	0.64	3.91	103.4	99.1	0.2
1946	16	5	2	4	0	1	0	69	31	33	12	3	62.7	4.45	1.628	1.72	4.38	129.2	76.1	-0.1
1947	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	8	3	7	2	1	6.7	4.05	2.250	2.70	7.07	167.9	103.9	0.1

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

223

426

388

RBI

.1649

OBP

.1940

SLG

.1881

OPS

.3821

Pitching

G (P)

220

143

SHO

1,162

SO (P)

314

BB allowed

487

ERA

4.486

WHIP

1.5133

K/9

2.43

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
1939-05-21	PHI @ STL Gameday	3	0	3	0	0	3
1937-09-29	SF @ PHI Gameday	2	1	2	1	1	3
1940-07-21	PHI @ CHC Gameday	4	2	2	1	0	3
1940-05-14	STL @ PHI Gameday	4	0	2	0	3	2
1939-08-16	PHI @ ATL Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1940-05-23	CHC @ PHI Gameday	13.0	15	4	3	0	10	1
1940-09-18	CIN @ PHI Gameday	13.0	13	4	3	1	7	0
1938-06-29	SF @ PHI Gameday	9.0	9	6	6	6	7	1
1938-08-24	PHI @ CIN Gameday	8.0	5	3	2	5	6	0
1938-07-04	ATL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	14	10	6	5	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.

Honors

1× All-Star

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