MLB / Players

Tom Hilgendorf

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Left
Listed at6 ft 1 in · 187 lb
BornMarch 10, 1942 · Clinton, IA, USA
MLB debutAugust 15, 1969
Final gameSeptember 28, 1975
Seasons6 (1969–1975)

St. Louis Cardinals 1969–1970; Cleveland Indians 1972–1974; Philadelphia Phillies 1975

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
5.7
80.8

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
196961101100100001.0001.0002.0003.000792.1725.31.3290.3
197023110000000000.000.000.000.000-123.6-100.0.0000.2
197219141301000101100.077.071.077.148-93.5-56.4.0670.7
1973480000000000001.8
197435000000000000-0.2
19755315120310031400.250.308.333.64177.176.1.3072.9

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19696000200312206.31.42.7892.842.9782.9252.30.3
1970230043002291313020.73.921.6945.663.4884.4105.20.2
19721953101051142125447.02.681.5324.793.78119.2118.40.7
19734815361087333658994.73.141.2995.513.8398.7123.61.8
19743504330058261723648.34.841.5524.284.35120.174.8-0.2
19755307300081233852696.72.141.2314.843.5695.3174.42.9

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

G
184
PA
31
AB
27
R
0
H
5
2B
2
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
5
BB
1
SO
15
SB
0
BA
.1852
OBP
.2069
SLG
.2593
OPS
.4662

Pitching

G (P)
184
GS
6
W
19
L
14
SV
14
CG
2
SHO
0
IP
314
SO (P)
173
BB allowed
127
ERA
3.041
WHIP
1.3677
K/9
4.96

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1969-09-26STL @ WSH Gameday101100102
1975-08-28PHI @ SF Gameday401100102
1975-07-18HOU @ PHI Gameday101000101
1975-08-01PHI @ WSH Gameday201000101
1972-09-14CLE @ MIL Gameday101000001

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1972-07-30MIL @ CLE Gameday9.0611270
1972-08-13CLE @ DET Gameday4.2511550
1975-08-28PHI @ SF Gameday7.1600240
1973-07-18CLE @ LAA Gameday3.0200240
1975-06-25PIT @ PHI Gameday3.0100040

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.