Willie Sudhoff

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 7 in · 165 lb

BornSeptember 17, 1874 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutAugust 20, 1897

Final gameJune 16, 1906

Seasons10 (1897–1906)

St. Louis Browns 1897–1898; Cleveland Spiders 1899; St. Louis Perfectos 1899; St. Louis Cardinals 1900–1901; St. Louis Browns 1902–1905; Washington Senators 1906

Percentile snapshot

1905 season — qualified pitchers

39.3

59.5

33.3

14.3

51.2

SHO

21.4

222

48.8

32.1

28.6

2.4

244.0

48.8

ERA

2.99

32.1

WHIP

1.230

38.1

K/9

2.58

11.9

FIP

3.43

4.8

FIP-

135.3

2.4

ERA+

84.9

22.9

sWAR

1.2

33.3

of 85 qualified 1905 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

90.5

7.2

sWAR

11.2

88.1

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1897	11	44	42	7	10	1	0	0	3	1	4	0	.238	.256	.262	.518	41.8	36.7	.248	0.7
1898	41	131	120	5	19	2	1	0	4	5	34	0	.158	.198	.192	.390	17.8	11.7	.195	0.2
1899	36	114	95	10	15	1	1	0	6	12	16	0	.158	.252	.189	.442	35.3	21.7	.232	-0.6
1900	35	119	106	15	20	1	1	0	6	11	26	8	.189	.271	.217	.488	46.1	35.5	.250	2.0
1901	38	121	108	11	19	2	3	1	17	10	30	0	.176	.252	.278	.530	58.7	54.8	.259	2.2
1902	31	85	77	6	13	2	0	0	5	4	12	3	.169	.220	.195	.414	23.0	16.8	.204	3.5
1903	41	116	110	12	20	1	2	0	6	3	21	1	.182	.204	.227	.431	30.1	30.7	.202	5.0
1904	29	94	85	5	14	3	0	0	7	6	21	0	.165	.237	.200	.437	45.0	42.0	.220	-1.6
1905	32	93	86	6	16	3	1	0	3	7	15	1	.186	.247	.244	.491	61.0	59.4	.244	1.2
1906	9	7	7	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.429	.429	.429	.857	168.0	169.2	.410	-1.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1897	11	9	2	7	0	9	0	126	46	21	19	8	92.7	4.47	1.586	1.85	4.84	112.5	96.3	0.7
1898	41	38	11	27	1	35	0	355	152	102	65	11	315.0	4.34	1.451	1.86	4.04	112.1	83.0	0.2
1899	36	33	15	18	0	24	0	324	147	87	39	9	264.7	5.00	1.553	1.33	4.32	112.3	77.0	-0.6
1900	16	14	6	8	0	13	2	128	39	37	29	3	127.0	2.76	1.299	2.06	3.74	101.2	133.7	2.0
1901	38	26	17	11	2	25	1	281	108	92	78	4	276.3	3.52	1.350	2.54	3.75	115.0	92.8	2.2
1902	30	25	12	12	0	20	0	213	70	67	42	6	220.0	2.86	1.273	1.72	3.86	110.9	121.5	3.5
1903	38	35	21	15	0	30	5	262	74	56	104	4	293.7	2.27	1.083	3.19	2.91	100.8	127.3	5.0
1904	27	24	8	15	0	20	1	232	93	54	63	8	222.3	3.76	1.286	2.55	3.27	132.2	65.7	-1.6
1905	32	30	10	20	0	23	1	222	81	78	70	8	244.0	2.99	1.230	2.58	3.43	135.3	84.9	1.2
1906	9	5	0	2	0	0	0	30	20	9	7	1	19.7	9.15	1.983	3.20	4.10	153.5	29.2	-1.4

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

303

924

836

149

RBI

180

.1782

OBP

.2375

SLG

.2225

OPS

.4600

Pitching

G (P)

278

239

102

135

247th-most career L

199

138th-most career CG

SHO

2,075

412th-most career IP

SO (P)

516

BB allowed

603

ERA

3.599

WHIP

1.3376

K/9

2.24

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1901-04-21	CHC @ STL Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	3	1	4
1901-09-09	STL @ SF Gameday	4	2	2	1	0	2	1	4
1903-08-20	NYY @ BAL Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	2	1	4
1901-06-24	STL @ SF Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	2	0	4
1903-06-04	BAL @ MIN Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1901-06-14	LAD @ STL Gameday	9.0	10	2	2	0	6
1902-04-26	CLE @ BAL Gameday	9.0	8	3	3	2	6
1903-06-04	BAL @ MIN Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	3	6
1903-08-02	DET @ BAL Gameday	9.0	8	1	1	2	6
1905-04-24	CWS @ BAL Gameday	9.0	6	1	0	3	6

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.