MLB / Players

Rube Benton

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 190 lb

BornJune 27, 1890 · Clinton, NC, USA

MLB debutJune 28, 1910

Final gameSeptember 21, 1925

Seasons15 (1910–1925)

Cincinnati Reds 1910–1915; New York Giants 1915–1921; Cincinnati Reds 1923–1925

Percentile snapshot

1924 season — qualified pitchers

56.9

35.4

26.9

51.5

15.4

SHO

43.8

166

55.4

76.2

86.9

24.6

82.3

162.7

46.9

ERA

2.77

89.2

WHIP

1.168

93.1

K/9

2.32

19.2

FIP

3.11

97.7

FIP-

83.9

92.3

ERA+

134.1

82.3

sWAR

3.6

76.9

of 131 qualified 1924 pitchers (min 153 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

101.2

42.8

sWAR

23.4

94.8

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
1910	12	11	11	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	0	.091	.091	.091	.182	-60.2	-46.1	.087	-0.6
1911	6	16	14	0	2	1	0	0	2	0	6	0	0	.143	.143	.214	.357	-8.1	1.5	.164	1.0
1912	50	108	104	6	14	3	0	0	9	0	31	1	0	.135	.143	.163	.306	-21.8	-14.7	.145	3.0
1913	23	54	48	8	10	0	1	0	8	4	7	0	0	.208	.269	.250	.519	48.0	48.7	.255	1.0
1914	41	95	91	4	13	2	1	0	7	1	31	1	0	.143	.152	.187	.339	-15.9	-1.1	.161	2.1
1915	45	79	76	3	16	3	0	0	7	0	16	1	1	.211	.211	.250	.461	26.7	39.1	.216	1.0
1916	38	84	78	3	7	0	1	0	3	2	21	1	0	.090	.113	.115	.228	-45.1	-28.5	.112	0.6
1917	35	79	72	1	12	1	1	0	2	2	18	0	0	.167	.189	.208	.398	14.5	24.5	.191	1.6
1918	3	9	7	1	1	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	.143	.333	.286	.619	105.9	92.4	.323	0.6
1919	35	70	67	5	13	0	0	1	7	0	8	0	0	.194	.194	.239	.433	18.0	31.1	.202	2.5
1920	33	69	65	3	6	0	0	0	3	0	14	0	0	.092	.092	.092	.185	-66.5	-46.3	.087	1.2
1921	18	24	21	1	3	1	0	0	1	1	4	0	0	.143	.182	.190	.372	-8.1	-0.6	.177	1.3
1923	33	85	80	5	23	3	0	0	4	1	12	0	0	.288	.305	.325	.630	67.1	69.7	.292	2.9
1924	32	51	46	5	12	2	0	0	3	5	10	0	0	.261	.333	.304	.638	78.6	75.6	.306	3.6
1925	33	53	45	0	9	2	0	0	4	4	3	0	0	.200	.265	.244	.510	34.7	33.9	.245	1.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1910	12	2	0	1	0	0	0	44	20	23	15	1	38.0	4.74	1.763	3.55	3.83	130.8	61.8	-0.6
1911	6	6	3	3	0	5	0	44	10	23	28	0	44.7	2.01	1.500	5.64	3.12	95.7	161.5	1.0
1912	50	39	18	20	2	22	2	316	104	118	162	2	302.0	3.10	1.437	4.83	3.11	95.1	105.5	3.0
1913	23	22	11	7	0	9	1	140	56	60	68	4	144.3	3.49	1.386	4.24	3.47	108.7	91.5	1.0
1914	41	31	16	18	2	16	5	223	89	95	121	3	271.0	2.96	1.173	4.02	2.68	93.1	97.4	2.1
1915	45	28	9	18	5	9	2	222	84	76	109	2	237.0	3.19	1.257	4.14	2.75	99.2	86.6	1.0
1916	38	30	16	8	2	15	3	210	76	58	115	5	238.7	2.87	1.123	4.34	2.47	98.6	87.4	0.6
1917	35	25	15	9	3	14	3	190	65	41	70	5	215.0	2.72	1.074	2.93	2.70	104.5	95.1	1.6
1918	3	3	1	2	0	2	0	17	5	3	9	0	24.0	1.88	.833	3.38	1.92	72.0	142.6	0.6
1919	35	28	17	11	2	11	1	181	61	52	53	5	209.0	2.63	1.115	2.28	3.05	107.0	108.5	2.5
1920	33	25	9	16	2	12	4	222	65	31	52	8	193.3	3.03	1.309	2.42	3.13	102.2	101.2	1.2
1921	18	9	5	2	0	3	1	72	23	17	11	2	72.0	2.88	1.236	1.38	3.75	101.0	129.3	1.3
1923	33	26	14	10	1	15	0	243	89	57	59	10	219.0	3.66	1.370	2.42	3.86	100.8	104.9	2.9
1924	32	15	7	9	1	6	1	166	50	24	42	2	162.7	2.77	1.168	2.32	3.11	83.9	134.1	3.6
1925	33	16	9	10	1	6	1	182	66	34	36	3	146.7	4.05	1.473	2.21	3.60	88.0	101.0	1.6

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

437

887

825

142

RBI

188

.1721

OBP

.1955

SLG

.2085

OPS

.4040

Pitching

G (P)

437

305

341st-most career GS

150

263rd-most career W

144

191st-most career L

145

239th-most career CG

SHO

189th-most career SHO

2,517

250th-most career IP

SO (P)

950

BB allowed

712

369th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.085

201st-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2648

407th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.40

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
1913-07-01	STL @ CIN Gameday	3	3	3	0	1	0	2	0	5
1919-07-23	CIN @ SF Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	1	3	0	5
1914-05-10	CIN @ STL Gameday	2	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	4
1923-07-13	CIN @ PHI Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	0	1	1	3
1912-08-07	CIN @ ATL Gameday	5	0	2	1	0	0	3	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1915-06-11	LAD @ CIN Gameday	15.0	8	0	0	6	14
1912-08-22	PHI @ CIN Gameday	9.0	4	3	2	5	10
1911-09-24	SF @ CIN Gameday	9.0	11	5	0	1	9
1913-06-11	PHI @ CIN Gameday	9.0	4	2	0	1	9
1915-07-06	CIN @ CHC Gameday	13.0	16	5	5	4	8

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.