Mule Watson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb

BornOctober 15, 1896 · Arizona, LA, USA

MLB debutJuly 4, 1918

Final gameSeptember 18, 1924

Seasons7 (1918–1924)

Philadelphia Athletics 1918–1919; Boston Braves 1920; Pittsburgh Pirates 1920; Boston Braves 1921–1923; New York Giants 1923–1924

Percentile snapshot

1922 season — qualified pitchers

80.9

67.8

18.3

45.2

SHO

38.3

262

26.1

105

16.5

38.3

37.4

201.0

62.6

ERA

4.70

25.2

WHIP

1.597

12.2

K/9

2.37

25.2

FIP

4.08

51.3

FIP-

103.0

ERA+

84.3

12.2

sWAR

0.4

of 116 qualified 1922 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

3.5

75.4

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1918	21	49	47	0	6	1	0	0	3	1	17	.128	.146	.149	.295	-33.9	-12.6	.147	0.1
1919	4	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-131.3	-100.0	.000	-0.6
1920	18	29	27	2	3	0	0	0	1	1	11	.111	.143	.111	.254	-37.6	-25.1	.128	-0.7
1921	44	94	87	9	12	2	1	0	1	1	36	.138	.148	.184	.332	-22.0	-10.9	.151	1.5
1922	41	71	66	4	13	1	1	0	1	1	17	.197	.221	.242	.463	16.8	21.3	.216	0.4
1923	28	56	54	4	10	3	0	0	4	0	15	.185	.185	.241	.426	4.3	13.1	.193	1.4
1924	22	37	35	4	9	0	2	2	11	2	11	.257	.297	.543	.840	115.4	121.3	.368	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
1918	21	19	7	10	0	11	3	139	53	44	30	0	141.7	3.37	1.292	1.91	2.69	94.0	85.0	0.1
1919	4	2	0	1	0	0	0	17	11	7	6	2	14.3	6.91	1.674	3.77	4.97	150.7	47.8	-0.6
1920	18	10	5	4	0	4	2	94	41	24	17	2	86.0	4.29	1.372	1.78	3.38	110.4	71.1	-0.7
1921	44	31	14	13	2	15	1	269	111	57	48	11	259.3	3.85	1.257	1.67	3.91	107.9	94.1	1.5
1922	41	29	8	14	1	8	1	262	105	59	53	9	201.0	4.70	1.597	2.37	4.08	103.0	84.3	0.4
1923	28	19	9	7	1	9	0	159	59	41	36	13	139.7	3.80	1.432	2.32	4.56	117.2	102.2	1.4
1924	22	16	7	4	0	6	1	122	42	24	18	7	99.7	3.79	1.465	1.63	4.26	110.7	101.4	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

178

342

322

RBI

108

.1646

OBP

.1824

SLG

.2298

OPS

.4122

Pitching

G (P)

178

126

SHO

942

SO (P)

208

BB allowed

256

ERA

4.033

WHIP

1.3996

K/9

1.99

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
1922-07-17	ATL @ CIN Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	4
1924-06-08	PIT @ SF Gameday	1	2	1	0	0	1	4	1	4
1924-06-28	ATL @ SF Gameday	1	1	1	0	0	1	3	0	4
1923-09-15	SF @ CHC Gameday	2	0	2	1	0	0	1	0	3
1922-05-23	ATL @ STL Gameday	2	1	2	1	0	0	0	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1922-09-21	CIN @ ATL Gameday	9.0	5	2	2	1	6	0
1921-06-01	LAD @ ATL Gameday	9.0	9	5	5	4	5	0
1921-08-13	PHI @ ATL Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	0	5	0
1922-09-01	PHI @ ATL Gameday	9.0	7	0	0	1	5	0
1923-07-19	STL @ SF Gameday	9.0	10	3	3	2	5	3

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.