Rube Vickers
Cincinnati Reds 1902; Brooklyn Superbas 1903; Philadelphia Athletics 1907–1909
Percentile snapshot
1908 season — qualified pitchers
of 82 qualified 1908 pitchers (min 157 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | 4 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .364 | .364 | .455 | .818 | 141.0 | 146.7 | .392 | -0.5 |
| 1903 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .100 | .100 | .100 | .200 | -39.1 | -42.3 | .096 | -1.1 |
| 1907 | 10 | 21 | 20 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .150 | .150 | .150 | .300 | -14.5 | -4.9 | .145 | -0.2 |
| 1908 | 53 | 120 | 106 | 4 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 23 | 0 | 0 | .160 | .233 | .189 | .421 | 36.9 | 35.3 | .218 | 4.1 |
| 1909 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .063 | .063 | .063 | .125 | -79.1 | -60.8 | .060 | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1902 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 31 | 14 | 8 | 6 | 0 | 21.0 | 6.00 | 1.857 | 2.57 | 3.25 | 112.1 | 48.3 | -0.5 |
| 1903 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 27 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 14.0 | 10.93 | 2.571 | 3.21 | 4.16 | 130.4 | 29.2 | -1.1 |
| 1907 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 44 | 19 | 12 | 21 | 1 | 50.3 | 3.40 | 1.113 | 3.75 | 2.54 | 98.7 | 75.8 | -0.2 |
| 1908 | 53 | 34 | 18 | 19 | 1 | 21 | 6 | 264 | 78 | 71 | 156 | 0 | 317.0 | 2.21 | 1.057 | 4.43 | 2.04 | 83.1 | 110.9 | 4.1 |
| 1909 | 18 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 60 | 21 | 19 | 25 | 0 | 55.7 | 3.40 | 1.419 | 4.04 | 2.52 | 100.8 | 73.6 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1902-09-27 | CIN @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1908-06-18 | ATH @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1908-05-01 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1908-05-21 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1908-06-24 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1908-07-11 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 16.0 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 |
| 1908-05-21 | CLE @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
| 1908-06-18 | ATH @ CLE Gameday | 12.2 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 0 |
| 1908-09-01 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 11.2 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 1908-07-04 | BOS @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 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.