MLB / Players

Nap Rucker

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 190 lb

BornSeptember 30, 1884 · Crabapple, GA, USA

MLB debutApril 15, 1907

Final gameSeptember 13, 1916

Seasons10 (1907–1916)

Brooklyn Superbas 1907–1910; Brooklyn Dodgers 1911–1912; Brooklyn Superbas 1913; Brooklyn Robins 1914–1916

Percentile snapshot

1913 season — qualified pitchers

67.1

79.7

54.4

22.8

59.5

SHO

82.3

236

35.4

21.5

44.3

111

74.7

48.1

260.0

75.9

ERA

2.87

45.6

WHIP

1.165

74.7

K/9

3.84

45.6

FIP

2.77

70.9

FIP-

86.6

75.9

ERA+

111.5

50.6

sWAR

3.7

67.1

of 80 qualified 1913 pitchers (min 152 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

116.9

86.1

sWAR

34.8

97.3

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
1907	37	103	97	6	15	1	1	0	8	3	23	0	.155	.180	.186	.366	8.9	18.2	.182	3.5
1908	42	119	117	3	21	0	1	0	6	1	14	1	.179	.186	.197	.383	12.3	24.0	.185	4.1
1909	38	110	101	3	12	1	0	0	0	2	16	0	.119	.136	.129	.265	-26.6	-16.8	.132	3.6
1910	41	116	110	6	23	1	0	0	3	2	15	0	.209	.223	.218	.441	22.6	30.5	.215	4.4
1911	48	114	104	6	21	2	2	1	9	3	15	0	.202	.224	.288	.513	39.4	45.8	.242	5.3
1912	45	109	102	8	25	2	1	0	12	3	12	1	.245	.267	.284	.551	47.5	51.6	.262	6.9
1913	41	93	87	3	21	1	0	0	0	4	10	0	.241	.275	.253	.528	47.9	51.0	.255	3.7
1914	16	38	34	6	9	1	1	0	1	1	4	0	.265	.286	.353	.639	81.4	87.6	.302	0.5
1915	19	45	42	2	9	1	0	0	3	3	6	0	.214	.267	.238	.505	49.8	52.5	.249	1.9
1916	9	11	11	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	2	0	.091	.091	.091	.182	-69.5	-44.4	.086	0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1907	37	30	15	13	0	26	4	242	63	80	131	3	275.3	2.06	1.169	4.28	2.16	93.6	112.3	3.5
1908	42	37	17	19	1	30	6	265	77	125	199	1	333.3	2.08	1.170	5.37	2.09	91.7	109.8	4.1
1909	38	33	13	19	1	28	6	245	77	101	201	6	309.3	2.24	1.119	5.85	2.22	87.8	112.6	3.6
1910	41	39	17	18	0	27	6	293	92	84	147	5	320.3	2.58	1.177	4.13	2.54	86.0	114.1	4.4
1911	48	33	22	18	4	23	5	255	95	110	190	12	315.7	2.71	1.156	5.42	3.04	92.8	120.8	5.3
1912	45	34	18	21	4	23	6	272	73	72	151	6	297.7	2.21	1.156	4.57	2.75	81.9	152.1	6.9
1913	41	33	14	15	3	16	4	236	83	67	111	3	260.0	2.87	1.165	3.84	2.77	86.6	111.5	3.7
1914	16	16	7	6	0	5	0	113	39	27	35	2	103.7	3.39	1.350	3.04	2.67	94.2	83.8	0.5
1915	19	15	9	4	1	7	1	134	33	28	38	3	122.7	2.42	1.321	2.79	2.79	100.6	114.4	1.9
1916	9	4	2	1	0	1	0	34	7	7	14	0	37.3	1.69	1.098	3.38	2.20	83.4	156.2	0.7

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

336

858

805

157

RBI

117

.1950

OBP

.2164

SLG

.2261

OPS

.4425

Pitching

G (P)

336

274

438th-most career GS

134

343rd-most career W

134

252nd-most career L

186

161st-most career CG

SHO

54th-most career SHO

2,375

289th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,217

382nd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

701

391st-most career BB allowed

ERA

2.421

30th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1746

111th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.61

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	TB
1912-09-21	STL @ LAD Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	0	2	4
1912-09-28	PHI @ LAD Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	0	2	4
1914-06-03	ATL @ LAD Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	0	2	4
1911-07-01	LAD @ PHI Gameday	2	1	1	0	0	1	1	4
1911-08-05	LAD @ CHC Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	0	2	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1909-07-24	STL @ LAD Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	3	16
1908-09-05	ATL @ LAD Gameday	9.0	0	0	0	0	14
1911-07-15	STL @ LAD Gameday	9.0	8	1	1	3	12
1908-05-26	LAD @ CIN Gameday	8.0	9	4	0	3	12
1908-06-22	PHI @ LAD Gameday	10.0	8	0	0	3	11

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.