Luke Hudson
Cincinnati Reds 2002; Cincinnati Reds 2004–2005; Kansas City Royals 2006–2007
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
| 2004 | 9 | 18 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .167 | .125 | .292 | -33.4 | -22.2 | .141 | 1.4 |
| 2005 | 21 | 29 | 25 | 7 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .320 | .370 | .400 | .770 | 106.3 | 101.8 | .349 | -0.9 |
| 2006 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.5 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 1 | 6.0 | 4.50 | 1.833 | 10.50 | 5.71 | 136.8 | 92.7 | 0.0 |
| 2004 | 9 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 13 | 25 | 38 | 3 | 48.3 | 2.42 | 1.262 | 7.08 | 3.86 | 90.4 | 176.5 | 1.4 |
| 2005 | 19 | 16 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 83 | 60 | 50 | 53 | 14 | 84.7 | 6.38 | 1.571 | 5.63 | 6.05 | 141.6 | 67.0 | -0.9 |
| 2006 | 26 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 109 | 58 | 38 | 64 | 7 | 102.0 | 5.12 | 1.441 | 5.65 | 4.06 | 87.2 | 91.0 | 0.5 |
| 2007 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2.0 | 18.00 | 3.000 | 0.00 | 15.81 | 345.6 | 25.4 | -0.3 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-08-06 | MIA @ CIN Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2005-09-30 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2004-08-25 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004-09-11 | MIL @ CIN Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005-08-12 | CIN @ MIL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-09-04 | NYY @ KC Gameday | 7.0 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| 2004-09-23 | CIN @ ATL Gameday | 5.0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
| 2005-08-28 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 6.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 0 |
| 2006-07-28 | KC @ TEX Gameday | 6.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0 |
| 2005-08-23 | CIN @ WSH Gameday | 7.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 |
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.