Rube Marquard

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 180 lb

BornOctober 9, 1886 · Cleveland, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 25, 1908

Final gameSeptember 18, 1925

Seasons18 (1908–1925)

New York Giants 1908–1914; Brooklyn Robins 1915; New York Giants 1915; Brooklyn Robins 1916–1920; Cincinnati Reds 1921; Boston Braves 1922–1925

Percentile snapshot

1923 season — qualified pitchers

68.9

77.3

53.8

18.2

54.5

SHO

84.1

265

17.4

19.7

34.8

76.5

24.2

239.0

79.5

ERA

3.73

WHIP

1.381

48.5

K/9

2.94

38.6

FIP

3.69

66.7

FIP-

94.6

60.6

ERA+

104.7

43.2

sWAR

2.2

54.5

of 133 qualified 1923 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

102.7

sWAR

33.7

97.1

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
1908	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.2	-100.0	.000	0.0
1909	29	58	54	3	8	1	0	0	2	1	17	0	0	.148	.164	.167	.330	-8.1	2.5	.162	1.5
1910	13	30	27	1	3	1	0	0	0	1	8	0	0	.111	.143	.148	.291	-24.2	-14.6	.146	-0.7
1911	45	110	104	9	17	1	2	1	10	2	23	0	0	.163	.187	.240	.427	13.2	20.3	.203	5.2
1912	43	113	96	14	21	2	0	0	8	7	17	2	0	.219	.279	.240	.518	43.9	42.6	.258	5.7
1913	42	113	105	5	23	1	0	0	6	4	14	1	0	.219	.261	.229	.490	39.3	41.4	.240	5.2
1914	39	91	84	3	15	0	0	0	0	2	15	0	0	.179	.198	.179	.376	6.8	14.2	.184	1.2
1915	33	68	63	3	7	0	0	0	3	1	10	0	0	.111	.138	.111	.250	-32.9	-22.5	.125	-2.0
1916	36	69	63	3	9	0	1	0	5	4	17	1	0	.143	.194	.175	.369	3.6	13.0	.184	4.8
1917	37	81	75	6	15	2	0	0	4	3	13	1	0	.200	.231	.227	.457	31.2	39.3	.222	2.9
1918	34	80	76	0	13	2	0	0	3	2	14	0	0	.171	.203	.197	.400	13.2	22.3	.197	2.5
1919	8	24	23	1	6	2	0	0	3	0	3	0	0	.261	.261	.348	.609	72.7	81.1	.282	1.2
1920	28	67	59	2	10	1	0	0	0	5	12	1	1	.169	.234	.186	.421	16.3	20.6	.212	1.6
1921	39	99	95	3	19	3	0	0	10	0	16	0	0	.200	.208	.232	.440	11.5	19.4	.202	3.1
1922	39	66	63	3	14	0	0	0	4	0	9	0	0	.222	.222	.222	.444	10.8	16.9	.206	-0.5
1923	38	91	86	4	12	0	0	0	3	0	17	0	0	.140	.140	.140	.279	-35.4	-25.3	.129	2.2
1924	6	12	11	0	3	0	0	0	1	1	2	0	0	.273	.333	.273	.606	69.5	66.7	.293	0.7
1925	26	22	22	3	3	1	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	.136	.136	.182	.318	-26.1	-16.8	.142	-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
1908	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	6	2	2	2	0	5.0	3.60	1.600	3.60	2.95	122.4	67.0	0.0
1909	29	22	5	13	1	8	0	155	50	73	109	2	173.0	2.60	1.318	5.67	2.46	95.1	99.5	1.5
1910	13	8	4	4	0	2	0	65	35	40	52	2	70.7	4.46	1.486	6.62	3.14	105.3	67.0	-0.7
1911	45	33	24	7	3	22	5	221	77	106	237	9	277.7	2.50	1.178	7.68	2.53	75.8	133.6	5.2
1912	43	38	26	11	1	22	1	286	84	80	175	9	294.7	2.57	1.242	5.35	2.80	82.7	132.1	5.7
1913	42	33	23	10	3	20	4	248	80	49	151	10	288.0	2.50	1.031	4.72	2.57	81.4	126.2	5.2
1914	39	33	12	22	2	15	4	261	91	47	92	9	268.0	3.06	1.149	3.09	2.56	95.2	87.9	1.2
1915	33	23	11	10	3	10	2	207	87	38	92	8	193.7	4.04	1.265	4.28	2.55	96.9	65.1	-2.0
1916	36	20	13	6	5	15	2	169	36	38	107	2	205.0	1.58	1.010	4.70	1.94	73.7	166.8	4.8
1917	37	29	19	12	0	14	2	200	66	60	117	5	232.7	2.55	1.117	4.53	2.43	88.4	107.6	2.9
1918	34	29	9	18	0	19	4	231	70	59	89	7	239.0	2.64	1.213	3.35	2.69	97.7	104.4	2.5
1919	8	7	3	3	0	3	0	54	15	10	29	1	59.0	2.29	1.085	4.42	2.19	74.4	128.6	1.2
1920	28	26	10	7	0	10	1	181	68	35	89	5	189.7	3.23	1.139	4.22	2.58	80.7	98.9	1.6
1921	39	35	17	14	0	18	2	291	100	50	88	8	265.7	3.39	1.284	2.98	3.36	93.8	105.9	3.1
1922	39	24	11	15	1	7	0	255	112	66	57	12	198.0	5.09	1.621	2.59	4.28	108.1	77.9	-0.5
1923	38	29	11	14	0	11	3	265	99	65	78	10	239.0	3.73	1.381	2.94	3.69	94.6	104.7	2.2
1924	6	6	1	2	0	1	0	33	12	13	10	3	36.0	3.00	1.278	2.50	4.65	123.9	125.0	0.7
1925	26	8	2	8	0	0	0	105	46	27	19	5	72.0	5.75	1.833	2.38	4.61	115.5	69.4	-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

536

1,195

1,107

198

RBI

208

.1789

OBP

.2075

SLG

.2023

OPS

.4098

Pitching

G (P)

536

365th-most career G (P)

404

137th-most career GS

201

116th-most career W

177

80th-most career L

197

142nd-most career CG

SHO

111th-most career SHO

3,307

94th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,593

202nd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

858

193rd-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.076

198th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2372

279th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.34

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
1911-07-24	SF @ CIN Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	0	2	6
1912-04-11	SF @ LAD Gameday	4	2	3	2	0	0	3	5
1911-07-08	CHC @ SF Gameday	4	1	1	0	0	1	1	4
1921-07-12	CIN @ LAD Gameday	4	0	3	0	0	0	1	3
1911-07-31	SF @ STL Gameday	4	0	3	0	0	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	BB	SO
1911-09-04	ATL @ SF Gameday	10.0	14	8	3	14
1911-05-13	STL @ SF Gameday	8.0	12	5	3	14
1911-08-14	PHI @ SF Gameday	12.0	7	2	4	13
1911-08-24	PIT @ SF Gameday	9.0	2	1	0	11
1909-09-02	STL @ SF Gameday	7.0	4	5	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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1971 (Veterans)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.