MLB / Players

Jay Hughes

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at185 lb

BornJanuary 22, 1874 · Sacramento, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1898

Final gameSeptember 27, 1902

Seasons4 (1898–1902)

Baltimore Orioles 1898; Brooklyn Superbas 1899; Brooklyn Superbas 1901–1902

Percentile snapshot

1902 season — qualified pitchers

42.3

49.3

53.5

52.1

SHO

221

64.8

49.3

64.8

49.3

245.0

49.3

ERA

2.94

52.1

WHIP

1.122

80.3

K/9

3.20

54.9

FIP

2.75

74.6

FIP-

99.1

49.3

ERA+

94.5

36.6

sWAR

2.4

47.9

of 72 qualified 1902 pitchers (min 141 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

113.1

79.1

sWAR

16.5

91.9

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1898	52	180	164	23	37	7	4	2	20	12	27	0	.226	.282	.354	.636	80.1	81.6	.307	4.8
1899	35	121	107	17	27	4	2	0	14	12	16	1	.252	.328	.327	.655	83.4	79.6	.322	6.8
1901	31	104	91	16	16	2	0	0	8	8	13	1	.176	.242	.198	.440	35.5	28.5	.223	2.5
1902	31	99	90	11	19	4	3	1	13	7	20	0	.211	.276	.356	.631	91.5	94.3	.308	2.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1898	38	35	23	12	31	5	268	107	100	81	4	300.7	3.20	1.224	2.42	3.58	99.3	112.5	4.8
1899	35	35	28	6	30	3	250	87	119	99	6	291.7	2.68	1.265	3.05	3.89	101.2	143.3	6.8
1901	31	29	17	12	24	0	265	91	102	96	3	250.7	3.27	1.464	3.45	3.69	111.6	101.2	2.5
1902	30	29	15	10	26	0	221	80	54	87	3	245.0	2.94	1.122	3.20	2.75	99.1	94.5	2.4

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

149

504

452

RBI

.2190

OBP

.2840

SLG

.3164

OPS

.6004

Pitching

G (P)

134

128

111

359th-most career CG

SHO

1,088

SO (P)

363

BB allowed

375

ERA

3.019

182nd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2675

416th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.00

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
1901-09-23	LAD @ CIN Gameday	6	2	4	0	0	0	4	0	4
1902-08-09	STL @ LAD Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	0	2	0	4
1902-07-19	ATL @ LAD Gameday	1	1	1	0	0	1	2	0	4
1902-07-06	LAD @ CIN Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	0	3	0	3
1902-09-27	SF @ LAD Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	0	2	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1902-07-02	PHI @ LAD Gameday	9.0	2	1	1	0	8
1902-09-27	SF @ LAD Gameday	9.0	9	4	0	0	7
1901-06-24	CHC @ LAD Gameday	9.0	8	1	1	2	6
1901-07-17	LAD @ PIT Gameday	9.0	9	3	1	6	6
1901-08-20	LAD @ PHI Gameday	9.0	11	2	1	3	6

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.