MLB / Players

Oral Hildebrand

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 175 lb

BornApril 7, 1907 · Indianapolis, IN, USA

MLB debutSeptember 8, 1931

Final gameJuly 28, 1940

Seasons10 (1931–1940)

Cleveland Indians 1931–1936; St. Louis Browns 1937–1938; New York Yankees 1939–1940

Percentile snapshot

1938 season — qualified pitchers

29.8

48.9

31.9

37.2

43.6

SHO

194

47.9

103

14.9

30.9

53.2

8.5

163.0

38.3

ERA

5.69

4.3

WHIP

1.638

4.3

K/9

3.64

41.5

FIP

5.14

9.6

FIP-

104.2

22.3

ERA+

86.7

10.6

sWAR

0.5

10.6

of 95 qualified 1938 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

106.5

63.2

sWAR

17.7

92.5

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1931	5	11	11	0	2	0	0	0	0	3	.182	.182	.182	.364	-17.3	-6.7	.168	0.3
1932	27	52	48	1	7	1	0	3	1	5	.146	.163	.167	.330	-25.3	-16.1	.154	2.3
1933	36	85	84	4	16	0	2	10	1	7	.190	.200	.238	.438	5.5	14.2	.201	3.5
1934	33	83	76	5	13	3	0	8	3	5	.171	.203	.211	.413	0.7	6.8	.196	1.8
1935	34	63	55	9	9	1	1	4	2	7	.164	.193	.218	.411	-3.9	5.7	.193	2.5
1936	36	71	63	7	12	2	0	8	6	7	.190	.261	.222	.483	22.1	20.4	.238	2.0
1937	30	81	70	9	14	3	0	7	2	2	.200	.222	.243	.465	5.6	15.2	.215	1.2
1938	24	65	59	3	15	2	0	5	2	6	.254	.279	.288	.567	35.2	40.2	.264	0.5
1939	21	48	44	5	8	1	0	5	1	5	.182	.200	.205	.405	1.6	6.2	.189	2.9
1940	13	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.9	-100.0	.000	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
1931	5	2	2	1	0	2	0	25	13	13	6	0	26.7	4.39	1.425	2.03	4.60	99.5	105.4	0.3
1932	27	15	8	6	0	7	0	124	53	62	49	7	129.3	3.69	1.438	3.41	4.51	96.6	126.7	2.3
1933	36	31	16	11	0	15	6	205	92	88	90	8	220.3	3.76	1.330	3.68	3.90	88.9	116.7	3.5
1934	33	28	11	9	1	10	1	225	99	99	72	14	198.0	4.50	1.636	3.27	4.89	109.1	99.6	1.8
1935	34	20	9	8	5	8	0	171	75	63	49	12	171.3	3.94	1.366	2.57	4.58	102.2	113.9	2.5
1936	36	21	10	11	4	9	0	197	95	83	65	10	174.7	4.90	1.603	3.35	4.98	99.0	102.8	2.0
1937	30	27	8	17	1	12	1	228	115	87	75	18	201.3	5.14	1.565	3.35	4.88	102.4	92.8	1.2
1938	23	23	8	10	0	10	0	194	103	73	66	18	163.0	5.69	1.638	3.64	5.14	104.2	86.7	0.5
1939	21	15	10	4	2	7	1	102	43	41	50	11	126.7	3.06	1.129	3.55	4.47	101.6	144.0	2.9
1940	13	0	1	1	0	0	0	19	4	14	5	1	19.3	1.86	1.707	2.33	5.41	124.6	233.0	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

259

562

513

RBI

.1871

OBP

.2147

SLG

.2242

OPS

.4389

Pitching

G (P)

258

182

SHO

1,431

SO (P)

527

BB allowed

623

ERA

4.353

WHIP

1.4769

K/9

3.32

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	RBI	BB	TB
1935-08-18	MIN @ CLE Gameday	2	2	2	0	1	2	0	4
1933-06-26	MIN @ CLE Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	1	0	4
1938-06-25	MIN @ BAL Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	2	1	3
1939-06-25	BAL @ NYY Gameday	5	1	2	1	0	2	0	3
1933-08-20	BOS @ CLE Gameday	5	1	1	0	1	2	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1936-06-24	ATH @ CLE Gameday	9.0	9	2	2	2	10	0
1934-08-26	CLE @ BOS Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	3	7	0
1938-06-21	ATH @ BAL Gameday	9.0	5	2	2	3	7	1
1939-09-14	DET @ NYY Gameday	6.2	4	0	0	0	7	0
1934-08-21	CLE @ ATH Gameday	6.0	11	7	7	6	7	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.