Waite Hoyt

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornSeptember 9, 1899 · Brooklyn, NY, USA

MLB debutJuly 24, 1918

Final gameMay 15, 1938

Seasons21 (1918–1938)

New York Giants 1918; Boston Red Sox 1919–1920; New York Yankees 1921–1929; Detroit Tigers 1930; New York Yankees 1930; Detroit Tigers 1931; Philadelphia Athletics 1931; Brooklyn Dodgers 1932; New York Giants 1932; Pittsburgh Pirates 1933–1936; Brooklyn Dodgers 1937; Pittsburgh Pirates 1937; Brooklyn Dodgers 1938

Percentile snapshot

1937 season — qualified pitchers

36.5

33.3

72.9

47.9

SHO

36.5

211

40.6

66.7

41.7

54.2

195.0

58.3

ERA

3.42

68.8

WHIP

1.267

72.9

K/9

3.00

19.8

FIP

3.37

89.6

FIP-

84.9

81.3

ERA+

116.3

62.5

sWAR

2.9

67.7

of 97 qualified 1937 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

112.5

77.9

sWAR

53.6

99.1

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1918	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-124.3	-100.0	.000	0.0
1919	13	40	38	1	5	0	0	3	0	3	0	.132	.132	.132	.263	-39.5	-23.8	.125	0.5
1920	22	46	43	3	5	0	1	0	1	11	0	.116	.136	.163	.299	-27.9	-19.3	.141	-0.1
1921	43	110	99	8	22	1	1	7	2	17	0	.222	.238	.253	.490	17.9	25.0	.229	6.1
1922	37	100	92	4	20	2	2	6	5	12	0	.217	.258	.283	.540	34.8	40.3	.254	4.5
1923	37	93	84	7	16	0	1	4	3	15	0	.190	.218	.214	.433	7.0	14.6	.208	4.5
1924	46	90	75	8	10	2	0	3	3	6	0	.133	.167	.160	.327	-24.3	-15.2	.160	3.0
1925	46	90	79	5	24	2	3	8	2	1	1	.304	.329	.405	.734	84.1	87.9	.339	3.6
1926	40	83	76	4	16	3	0	4	0	8	0	.211	.211	.250	.461	9.8	21.5	.212	2.2
1927	36	111	99	10	22	2	1	9	3	8	0	.222	.245	.263	.508	30.0	34.5	.239	6.1
1928	42	113	109	15	28	1	0	12	1	5	0	.257	.264	.266	.530	37.0	42.3	.246	4.4
1929	30	85	76	9	17	4	1	6	1	11	0	.224	.234	.303	.536	34.7	41.1	.242	1.5
1930	34	67	62	2	10	0	0	3	2	9	0	.161	.188	.161	.349	-13.3	-11.6	.166	1.4
1931	32	77	73	6	17	3	0	9	2	12	0	.233	.253	.274	.527	31.8	37.3	.245	1.1
1932	26	39	37	1	3	1	0	1	0	6	0	.081	.081	.108	.189	-64.9	-48.9	.084	0.1
1933	36	32	32	1	5	0	0	5	0	2	0	.156	.156	.156	.313	-28.0	-10.4	.145	1.6
1934	48	62	56	2	10	1	0	7	4	8	0	.179	.233	.196	.430	12.1	15.6	.209	4.4
1935	39	58	54	4	14	1	1	7	1	7	0	.259	.273	.315	.588	51.0	56.1	.267	3.1
1936	22	44	39	4	6	1	0	1	3	6	0	.154	.214	.179	.394	3.0	6.7	.195	2.8
1937	38	74	60	2	5	2	0	5	6	13	0	.083	.167	.117	.283	-26.6	-22.7	.150	2.9
1938	6	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	.000	.250	.000	.250	-3.5	-26.9	.188	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1918	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1.0	0.00	.000	18.00	-1.70	-63.6	—	0.0
1919	13	11	4	6	0	6	1	99	38	22	28	1	105.3	3.25	1.149	2.39	2.75	90.8	93.3	0.5
1920	22	11	6	6	1	6	2	123	59	47	45	2	121.3	4.38	1.401	3.34	3.56	98.0	83.0	-0.1
1921	43	32	19	13	3	21	1	301	97	81	102	3	282.3	3.09	1.353	3.25	3.54	82.7	138.5	6.1
1922	37	31	19	12	0	17	3	271	101	76	95	13	265.0	3.43	1.309	3.23	3.83	94.5	118.1	4.5
1923	37	28	17	9	1	19	1	227	80	66	60	9	238.7	3.02	1.228	2.26	3.77	95.5	130.9	4.5
1924	46	32	18	13	4	14	2	295	104	76	71	8	247.0	3.79	1.502	2.59	3.93	93.8	110.6	3.0
1925	46	30	11	14	6	17	1	283	108	78	86	14	243.0	4.00	1.486	3.19	4.12	96.5	106.8	3.6
1926	40	28	16	12	4	12	1	224	93	62	79	4	217.7	3.85	1.314	3.27	3.32	84.9	101.6	2.2
1927	36	32	22	7	1	23	3	242	75	54	86	10	256.3	2.63	1.155	3.02	3.58	90.2	150.6	6.1
1928	42	31	23	7	8	19	3	279	102	60	67	16	273.0	3.36	1.242	2.21	3.97	102.5	115.3	4.4
1929	30	25	10	9	1	12	0	219	95	69	57	9	201.7	4.24	1.428	2.54	4.10	102.5	94.4	1.5
1930	34	27	11	10	4	10	1	240	96	56	35	14	183.3	4.71	1.615	1.72	5.01	107.1	99.5	1.4
1931	32	26	13	13	0	14	2	254	112	69	40	11	203.0	4.97	1.591	1.77	4.61	102.5	90.7	1.1
1932	26	16	6	10	1	3	0	141	60	37	36	9	124.0	4.35	1.435	2.61	4.29	113.4	86.8	0.1
1933	36	8	5	7	4	4	1	118	38	19	44	3	117.0	2.92	1.171	3.38	2.66	80.0	113.9	1.6
1934	48	15	15	6	5	8	3	184	62	43	105	6	190.7	2.93	1.191	4.96	3.10	75.3	140.7	4.4
1935	39	11	7	11	6	5	0	187	62	27	63	8	164.0	3.40	1.305	3.46	3.40	83.1	120.2	3.1
1936	22	9	7	5	1	6	0	115	35	20	37	5	116.7	2.70	1.157	2.85	3.56	88.0	149.7	2.8
1937	38	19	8	9	2	10	1	211	74	36	65	8	195.0	3.42	1.267	3.00	3.37	84.9	116.3	2.9
1938	6	1	0	3	0	0	0	24	9	5	3	1	16.3	4.96	1.776	1.65	4.08	105.5	78.0	-0.1

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

674

1,419

1,287

255

RBI

100

161

.1981

OBP

.2229

SLG

.2354

OPS

.4583

Pitching

G (P)

674

151st-most career G (P)

423

109th-most career GS

237

62nd-most career W

182

68th-most career L

353rd-most career SV

226

107th-most career CG

SHO

163rd-most career SHO

3,762

53rd-most career IP

SO (P)

1,206

390th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,003

116th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.588

WHIP

1.3396

K/9

2.88

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	RBI	TB
1925-06-08	BAL @ NYY Gameday	3	1	2	0	2	0	6
1922-07-02	ATH @ NYY Gameday	4	0	3	0	1	3	5
1925-08-06	DET @ NYY Gameday	4	0	3	1	0	2	4
1931-08-23	ATH @ BAL Gameday	5	1	3	1	0	2	4
1927-07-30	CLE @ NYY Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	3	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1922-04-15	NYY @ MIN Gameday	9.0	7	3	3	3	10	0
1924-04-22	NYY @ MIN Gameday	9.0	7	3	3	2	8	0
1926-10-06	NYY @ STL Gameday	9.0	14	5	2	1	8	0
1928-10-09	NYY @ STL Gameday	9.0	11	3	2	3	8	0
1929-06-10	BAL @ NYY Gameday	9.0	5	2	2	2	8	1

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

Hall of Fame, 1969 (Veterans)

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.