Otto Hess
Cleveland Bronchos 1902; Cleveland Naps 1904–1908; Boston Braves 1912–1915
Percentile snapshot
1913 season — qualified pitchers
of 80 qualified 1913 pitchers (min 154 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1902 | 7 | 16 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .071 | .188 | .071 | .259 | -6.3 | -25.2 | .153 | -0.8 |
| 1904 | 34 | 104 | 100 | 4 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 27 | 0 | 0 | .120 | .146 | .160 | .306 | -10.4 | -3.1 | .148 | 2.7 |
| 1905 | 54 | 185 | 173 | 15 | 44 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 7 | 59 | 2 | 0 | .254 | .291 | .347 | .638 | 98.8 | 102.0 | .305 | 1.1 |
| 1906 | 53 | 157 | 154 | 13 | 31 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 53 | 1 | 0 | .201 | .212 | .260 | .471 | 40.9 | 48.0 | .224 | 6.9 |
| 1907 | 19 | 37 | 30 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 0 | .133 | .278 | .133 | .411 | 50.6 | 32.7 | .235 | 0.4 |
| 1908 | 9 | 15 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .067 | .000 | .067 | -77.6 | -77.9 | .051 | -0.5 |
| 1912 | 33 | 100 | 94 | 10 | 23 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 0 | .245 | .245 | .372 | .617 | 53.2 | 63.4 | .282 | 2.3 |
| 1913 | 35 | 94 | 83 | 9 | 26 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .313 | .367 | .410 | .776 | 118.8 | 118.6 | .367 | 1.6 |
| 1914 | 31 | 50 | 47 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .234 | .250 | .319 | .569 | 61.8 | 69.8 | .269 | 0.4 |
| 1915 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .400 | .400 | .600 | 1.000 | 203.9 | 205.0 | .462 | 0.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1902 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 67 | 29 | 23 | 13 | 0 | 43.7 | 5.98 | 2.061 | 2.68 | 3.86 | 111.4 | 58.0 | -0.8 |
| 1904 | 21 | 16 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 15 | 4 | 134 | 28 | 31 | 64 | 2 | 151.3 | 1.67 | 1.090 | 3.81 | 2.54 | 99.0 | 154.3 | 2.7 |
| 1905 | 26 | 25 | 10 | 15 | 0 | 22 | 4 | 179 | 75 | 72 | 109 | 1 | 213.7 | 3.16 | 1.175 | 4.59 | 2.64 | 99.6 | 83.8 | 1.1 |
| 1906 | 43 | 36 | 20 | 17 | 3 | 33 | 7 | 274 | 68 | 85 | 167 | 4 | 333.7 | 1.83 | 1.076 | 4.50 | 2.61 | 98.2 | 145.1 | 6.9 |
| 1907 | 17 | 14 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 84 | 30 | 37 | 36 | 1 | 93.3 | 2.89 | 1.296 | 3.47 | 3.28 | 131.2 | 86.5 | 0.4 |
| 1908 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7.0 | 5.14 | 1.714 | 2.57 | 2.11 | 89.2 | 45.9 | -0.5 |
| 1912 | 33 | 31 | 12 | 17 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 270 | 106 | 90 | 80 | 3 | 254.0 | 3.76 | 1.417 | 2.83 | 3.51 | 98.4 | 95.0 | 2.3 |
| 1913 | 29 | 27 | 7 | 17 | 0 | 19 | 2 | 231 | 93 | 70 | 80 | 12 | 218.3 | 3.83 | 1.379 | 3.30 | 3.66 | 111.7 | 85.5 | 1.6 |
| 1914 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 89 | 30 | 33 | 24 | 2 | 89.0 | 3.03 | 1.371 | 2.43 | 3.29 | 119.8 | 90.6 | 0.4 |
| 1915 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 14.0 | 3.86 | 1.571 | 3.21 | 3.36 | 125.8 | 69.2 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1906-07-26 | MIN @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1913-06-05 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1906-10-06 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1913-09-06 | PHI @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1905-09-13 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1904-09-21 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 0 |
| 1912-08-31 | ATL @ PHI Gameday | 9.0 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 0 |
| 1905-05-02 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 11.1 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 9 | 0 |
| 1905-07-20 | BOS @ CLE Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
| 1905-08-28 | NYY @ CLE Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 |
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.