Sid Hudson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 180 lb

BornJanuary 3, 1915 · Coalfield, TN, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1940

Final gameSeptember 25, 1954

Seasons12 (1940–1954)

Washington Senators 1940–1942; Washington Senators 1946–1951; Boston Red Sox 1952; Washington Senators 1952; Boston Red Sox 1953–1954

Percentile snapshot

1953 season — qualified pitchers

22.4

1.7

65.5

1.7

SHO

164

91.4

96.6

86.2

12.1

82.8

156.0

1.7

ERA

3.52

65.5

WHIP

1.365

48.3

K/9

3.46

29.3

FIP

3.90

56.9

FIP-

93.4

65.5

ERA+

118.6

72.4

sWAR

2.5

53.4

of 59 qualified 1953 pitchers (min 153 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

94.1

15.4

sWAR

16.1

91.6

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	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1940	38	96	93	8	22	2	1	10	1	6	0	0	.237	.245	.280	.524	33.2	39.6	.237	1.5
1941	33	94	86	6	16	3	0	7	2	8	1	0	.186	.205	.221	.425	1.7	12.6	.198	4.3
1942	36	95	89	7	19	0	0	6	3	7	0	0	.213	.247	.213	.461	22.5	29.9	.225	0.6
1946	31	44	43	2	12	3	0	4	0	2	0	1	.279	.279	.349	.628	69.0	78.9	.288	1.2
1947	20	40	39	4	12	1	0	6	1	0	0	0	.308	.325	.333	.658	79.0	84.2	.310	-1.2
1948	39	65	59	5	14	4	1	4	3	6	0	0	.237	.274	.339	.613	55.7	63.5	.287	-1.3
1949	40	76	67	6	16	2	0	10	4	4	0	0	.239	.282	.269	.550	39.5	46.3	.268	2.2
1950	31	97	93	10	20	1	1	12	1	7	0	0	.215	.223	.247	.471	11.0	21.9	.218	3.2
1951	24	50	44	6	12	0	0	2	5	3	0	0	.273	.347	.273	.620	73.5	70.3	.306	-0.1
1952	28	74	70	4	12	1	0	7	3	9	0	0	.171	.205	.186	.391	-7.2	7.7	.190	2.9
1953	30	54	50	3	7	0	1	6	2	4	0	1	.140	.173	.180	.353	-23.7	-6.6	.168	2.5
1954	33	13	13	1	2	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	.154	.154	.154	.308	-47.3	-18.7	.143	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
1940	38	31	17	16	1	19	3	272	128	81	96	20	252.0	4.57	1.401	3.43	4.19	101.5	90.4	1.5
1941	33	33	13	14	0	17	3	242	96	97	108	12	249.7	3.46	1.358	3.89	3.70	89.3	119.7	4.3
1942	35	31	10	17	2	19	1	266	116	70	72	9	239.3	4.36	1.404	2.71	3.38	91.9	84.2	0.6
1946	31	15	8	11	1	6	1	160	57	37	35	9	142.3	3.60	1.384	2.21	3.64	109.2	92.6	1.2
1947	20	17	6	9	0	5	1	113	66	58	37	8	106.0	5.60	1.613	3.14	4.38	119.4	65.4	-1.2
1948	39	29	4	16	1	4	0	217	119	107	53	11	182.0	5.88	1.780	2.62	4.81	113.5	72.1	-1.3
1949	40	27	8	17	1	11	2	234	98	91	54	11	209.0	4.22	1.555	2.33	4.04	96.6	99.0	2.2
1950	30	30	14	14	0	17	0	261	108	98	75	17	237.7	4.09	1.511	2.84	4.32	96.9	109.1	3.2
1951	23	19	5	12	0	8	0	168	79	52	43	8	138.7	5.13	1.587	2.79	3.92	96.5	79.2	-0.1
1952	28	25	10	13	0	13	0	204	73	65	74	13	197.0	3.34	1.365	3.38	3.57	94.6	113.5	2.9
1953	30	17	6	9	2	4	0	164	61	49	60	13	156.0	3.52	1.365	3.46	3.90	93.4	118.6	2.5
1954	33	5	3	4	5	0	0	83	35	30	27	5	71.3	4.42	1.584	3.41	3.88	95.8	91.6	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

383

798

746

164

RBI

.2198

OBP

.2461

SLG

.2534

OPS

.4995

Pitching

G (P)

380

279

419th-most career GS

104

152

158th-most career L

123

318th-most career CG

SHO

2,181

356th-most career IP

SO (P)

734

BB allowed

835

223rd-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.275

WHIP

1.4759

K/9

3.03

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	3B	RBI	TB
1953-07-08	BOS @ NYY Gameday	2	0	2	1	2	4
1948-06-20	MIN @ CWS Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	4
1953-05-03	BOS @ BAL Gameday	4	0	3	0	3	3
1942-09-14	MIN @ DET Gameday	3	1	3	0	1	3
1950-06-24	MIN @ CLE Gameday	3	1	3	0	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1941-05-22	CLE @ MIN Gameday	9.0	10	4	4	3	10	0
1940-06-06	CLE @ MIN Gameday	11.0	13	5	5	2	9	1
1940-05-07	BAL @ MIN Gameday	10.0	11	5	5	3	7	2
1941-09-23	BOS @ MIN Gameday	9.0	10	3	3	1	7	0
1950-08-17	NYY @ MIN Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	5	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.

Honors

2× 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.