Tom Hughes

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 175 lb

BornNovember 29, 1878 · Chicago, IL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 7, 1900

Final gameOctober 3, 1913

Seasons13 (1900–1913)

Chicago Orphans 1900–1901; Baltimore Orioles 1902; Boston Americans 1902–1903; New York Highlanders 1904; Washington Senators 1904–1909; Washington Senators 1911–1913

Percentile snapshot

1912 season — qualified pitchers

36.8

52.9

57.5

51.7

35.6

SHO

33.3

201

52.9

62.1

36.8

108

67.8

196.0

48.3

ERA

2.94

50.6

WHIP

1.423

21.8

K/9

4.96

78.2

FIP

3.66

16.1

FIP-

110.6

13.8

ERA+

112.8

52.9

sWAR

2.8

55.2

of 88 qualified 1912 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

93.0

12.5

sWAR

20.1

93.6

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1900	3	8	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	.000	.250	.000	.250	15.0	-28.2	.193	-0.1
1901	38	124	118	7	14	1	0	0	5	2	41	3	0	.119	.133	.127	.260	-21.4	-23.7	.127	2.3
1902	25	80	73	9	17	3	0	0	4	3	19	2	0	.233	.263	.274	.537	47.5	48.4	.255	1.6
1903	33	101	93	14	26	4	2	1	13	3	24	1	0	.280	.309	.398	.707	106.2	108.6	.325	4.5
1904	40	118	111	12	26	5	3	1	12	3	34	1	0	.234	.254	.360	.615	84.1	89.7	.286	0.0
1905	39	111	104	11	22	4	2	1	10	6	32	1	0	.212	.255	.317	.572	78.5	81.6	.275	4.4
1906	30	71	66	7	14	1	2	1	4	3	12	0	0	.212	.246	.333	.580	76.3	81.4	.276	-0.2
1907	36	85	80	6	19	4	0	1	9	2	24	0	0	.238	.256	.325	.581	83.7	89.4	.279	0.5
1908	43	98	87	7	17	1	3	0	7	3	23	0	0	.195	.222	.276	.498	60.7	65.7	.241	3.2
1909	22	41	36	2	3	1	0	0	1	2	10	0	0	.083	.132	.111	.243	-27.3	-22.2	.128	0.5
1911	34	84	81	5	15	1	1	1	5	1	24	0	0	.185	.195	.259	.454	21.0	27.2	.214	1.6
1912	31	76	67	9	13	3	1	0	7	6	25	0	1	.194	.260	.269	.529	52.9	51.7	.262	2.8
1913	36	41	36	0	4	0	1	0	2	3	14	0	0	.111	.200	.167	.367	6.3	7.5	.194	-1.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1900	3	3	1	1	0	3	0	31	12	7	12	0	21.0	5.14	1.810	5.14	2.83	76.5	71.8	-0.1
1901	37	35	10	23	0	32	1	309	111	115	225	4	308.3	3.24	1.375	6.57	2.93	89.7	100.9	2.3
1902	22	21	10	8	0	16	1	171	65	56	60	2	157.7	3.71	1.440	3.42	3.33	90.9	99.1	1.6
1903	33	31	20	7	0	25	5	232	70	60	112	5	244.7	2.57	1.193	4.12	2.97	98.3	117.5	4.5
1904	35	32	10	23	0	26	1	274	104	82	123	7	260.7	3.59	1.366	4.25	2.98	110.8	74.9	0.0
1905	39	35	17	20	0	26	6	239	76	79	149	3	291.3	2.35	1.092	4.60	2.49	94.6	111.9	4.4
1906	30	24	7	17	0	18	1	230	82	81	90	5	204.0	3.62	1.525	3.97	3.15	117.8	73.9	-0.2
1907	34	23	7	14	4	18	2	206	73	47	102	1	211.0	3.11	1.199	4.35	2.28	93.8	77.9	0.5
1908	43	31	18	15	4	24	3	224	68	77	165	3	276.3	2.21	1.089	5.37	2.10	92.4	102.6	3.2
1909	22	13	4	7	1	7	2	113	36	33	77	1	120.3	2.69	1.213	5.76	2.06	86.0	89.0	0.5
1911	34	27	11	17	0	17	2	251	86	77	86	7	223.0	3.47	1.471	3.47	3.64	110.6	94.8	1.6
1912	31	26	13	10	0	11	1	201	64	78	108	8	196.0	2.94	1.423	4.96	3.66	110.6	112.8	2.8
1913	36	12	4	12	6	4	0	129	62	61	59	6	129.7	4.30	1.465	4.10	3.92	133.6	68.1	-1.0

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

410

1,038

958

190

RBI

283

.1983

OBP

.2312

SLG

.2777

OPS

.5089

Pitching

G (P)

399

313

317th-most career GS

132

360th-most career W

174

85th-most career L

227

104th-most career CG

SHO

175th-most career SHO

2,644

216th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,368

299th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

853

200th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.094

205th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3098

K/9

4.66

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
1904-09-05	MIN @ BOS Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	1	1	0	5
1911-06-02	DET @ MIN Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	5
1904-05-26	BAL @ NYY Gameday	4	1	2	1	1	0	0	1	5
1911-04-18	NYY @ MIN Gameday	4	0	3	1	0	0	1	0	4
1902-08-30	BOS @ DET Gameday	5	3	3	1	0	0	0	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1901-07-31	CHC @ CIN Gameday	13.2	13	5	5	6	15	0
1901-09-21	ATL @ CHC Gameday	17.0	8	0	0	5	13	0
1908-05-27	CLE @ MIN Gameday	9.0	4	2	0	2	12	1
1909-07-09	MIN @ CLE Gameday	9.0	11	3	0	1	12	0
1901-08-19	CHC @ CIN Gameday	8.0	7	2	1	1	12	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.