Solly Hofman

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 160 lb

BornOctober 29, 1882 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutJuly 28, 1903

Final gameAugust 25, 1916

Seasons14 (1903–1916)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1903; Chicago Cubs 1904–1912; Pittsburgh Pirates 1912–1913; Brooklyn Tip-Tops 1914; Buffalo Blues 1915; Chicago Cubs 1916; New York Yankees 1916

Percentile snapshot

1914 season — qualified batters

147

68.1

583

60.1

515

62.6

58.3

148

72.4

79.1

85.9

77.3

RBI

88.3

49.7

.287

62.6

OBP

.357

61.3

SLG

.412

74.2

OPS

.769

71.8

wRC+

118.1

69.9

OPS+

118.2

66.9

wOBA

.365

69.9

sWAR

3.2

72.4

of 164 qualified 1914 batters (min 486 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

107.1

55.8

OPS+

106.8

55.9

sWAR

19.0

93.1

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1903	3	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-97.1	-100.0	.000	0.0
1904	7	27	26	7	7	0	0	1	4	1	1	2	.269	.296	.385	.681	107.1	112.3	.323	0.1
1905	86	316	287	43	68	14	4	1	38	20	26	15	.237	.289	.324	.613	81.9	83.2	.297	0.4
1906	64	221	195	30	50	2	3	2	20	20	11	13	.256	.326	.328	.654	103.7	103.4	.326	0.7
1907	134	536	470	67	126	11	3	1	36	41	31	29	.268	.328	.311	.639	100.6	100.0	.319	1.7
1908	120	478	411	55	100	15	5	2	42	33	34	15	.243	.309	.319	.628	100.8	100.5	.310	1.4
1909	153	613	527	60	150	21	4	2	58	53	49	20	.285	.351	.351	.702	119.9	119.1	.347	3.7
1910	136	572	477	83	155	24	16	3	86	65	34	29	.325	.406	.461	.867	156.0	157.3	.418	5.7
1911	143	605	512	66	129	17	2	2	70	66	40	30	.252	.341	.305	.645	86.7	82.8	.321	0.8
1912	53	210	178	35	49	15	1	0	20	27	19	5	.275	.374	.371	.745	109.3	105.8	.362	0.9
1913	28	95	83	11	19	5	2	0	7	8	6	3	.229	.297	.337	.634	84.6	85.5	.303	0.2
1914	147	583	515	65	148	25	12	5	83	54	41	34	.287	.357	.412	.769	118.1	118.2	.365	3.2
1915	109	386	346	29	81	10	6	0	27	30	28	12	.234	.295	.298	.593	73.0	74.4	.290	-0.4
1916	11	47	43	2	13	3	2	0	4	3	3	1	.302	.348	.465	.813	142.4	145.4	.384	0.4

Career totals

1,194

4,691

4,072

554

1,095

162

RBI

495

421

323

208

342nd-most career SB

.2689

OBP

.3396

SLG

.3522

OPS

.6918

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
1910-05-28	PIT @ CHC Gameday	4	3	4	1	1	0	2	7
1907-06-20	ATL @ CHC Gameday	4	1	4	0	1	0	0	6
1909-09-10	STL @ CHC Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	1	3	6
1905-08-26	CHC @ PHI Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	0	2	6
1910-06-23	PIT @ CHC Gameday	4	3	3	1	1	0	1	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1903-04-16	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1903-04-17	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1903-04-18	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1903-04-19	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1903-04-21	STL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	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.