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Rube Waddell played 13 major-league seasons (1897-1910) as a P (407), 1B (1). Career totals and every year-by-year line below come from the SABR/Lahman database (CC BY-SA), covering 1871-2025.
Showing 13 season lines
| Year | Age | Team | G | AB | R | H | HR | RBI | SB | BB | SO | AVG | OPS | OPS+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1897 | 21 | LS3 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 | .000 | -100 |
| 1899 | 23 | LS3 | 10 | 34 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | .235 | .529 | 49 |
| 1900 | 24 | PIT | 30 | 81 | 6 | 14 | 0 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 15 | .173 | .455 | 28 |
| 1901 | 25 | PIT|CHN | 32 | 101 | 16 | 25 | 2 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 23 | .248 | .658 | 95 |
| 1902 | 26 | PHA | 34 | 112 | 8 | 32 | 1 | 18 | 1 | 4 | 17 | .286 | .712 | 103 |
| 1903 | 27 | PHA | 39 | 115 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 36 | .122 | .290 | -10 |
| 1904 | 28 | PHA | 46 | 139 | 6 | 17 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 37 | .122 | .308 | 1 |
| 1905 | 29 | PHA | 46 | 116 | 4 | 20 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 34 | .172 | .416 | 36 |
| 1906 | 30 | PHA | 43 | 86 | 5 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 32 | .163 | .440 | 42 |
| 1907 | 31 | PHA | 44 | 101 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 38 | .119 | .291 | -5 |
| 1908 | 32 | SLA | 43 | 91 | 4 | 10 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 35 | .110 | .377 | 26 |
| 1909 | 33 | SLA | 31 | 75 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 23 | .067 | .183 | -40 |
| 1910 | 34 | SLA | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .111 | .311 | 0 |
| Year | Age | Team | G | GS | W | L | SV | IP | SO | BB | ERA | ERA+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1897 | 21 | LS3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3.21 | 134 |
| 1899 | 23 | LS3 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 79 | 44 | 14 | 3.08 | 125 |
| 1900 | 24 | PIT | 29 | 22 | 8 | 13 | 0 | 208.2 | 130 | 55 | 2.37 | 156 |
| 1901 | 25 | PIT|CHN | 31 | 30 | 14 | 16 | 0 | 251.1 | 172 | 75 | 3.01 | 110 |
| 1902 | 26 | PHA | 33 | 27 | 24 | 7 | 0 | 276.1 | 210 | 64 | 2.05 | 174 |
| 1903 | 27 | PHA | 39 | 38 | 21 | 16 | 0 | 324 | 302 | 85 | 2.44 | 121 |
| 1904 | 28 | PHA | 46 | 46 | 25 | 19 | 0 | 383 | 349 | 91 | 1.62 | 160 |
| 1905 | 29 | PHA | 46 | 34 | 27 | 10 | 0 | 328.2 | 287 | 90 | 1.48 | 179 |
| 1906 | 30 | PHA | 43 | 34 | 15 | 17 | 0 | 272.2 | 196 | 92 | 2.21 | 122 |
| 1907 | 31 | PHA | 44 | 33 | 19 | 13 | 0 | 284.2 | 232 | 73 | 2.15 | 118 |
| 1908 | 32 | SLA | 43 | 36 | 19 | 14 | 3 | 285.2 | 232 | 90 | 1.89 | 126 |
| 1909 | 33 | SLA | 31 | 28 | 11 | 14 | 0 | 220.1 | 141 | 57 | 2.37 | 104 |
| 1910 | 34 | SLA | 10 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 33 | 16 | 11 | 3.55 | 71 |
| Year | Pos | G | GS | PO | A | E | DP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1897 | P | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 1899 | P | 10 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 2 | 1 |
| 1900 | P | 29 | 0 | 12 | 49 | 5 | 1 |
| 1901 | P | 31 | 0 | 32 | 66 | 5 | 0 |
| 1901 | 1B | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1902 | P | 33 | 0 | 15 | 64 | 7 | 1 |
| 1903 | P | 39 | 0 | 17 | 77 | 7 | 3 |
| 1904 | P | 46 | 46 | 27 | 105 | 9 | 2 |
| 1905 | P | 46 | 34 | 13 | 89 | 15 | 3 |
| 1906 | P | 43 | 34 | 15 | 64 | 6 | 0 |
| 1907 | P | 44 | 33 | 17 | 67 | 12 | 3 |
| 1908 | P | 43 | 36 | 5 | 79 | 10 | 1 |
| 1909 | P | 31 | 28 | 13 | 56 | 11 | 1 |
| 1910 | P | 10 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 |
Team codes are the source codes (e.g. NYN for the New York Mets, BS1 for the 1875 Boston club). OPS+ is league-season normalized, not park-adjusted; unrecorded source values (such as RBI in the earliest recorded seasons) are absent, never zero-filled.
Rube Waddell won: Pitching Triple Crown 1905 (AL), Baseball Magazine All-Star 1908 (AL).
Every career total and season line is computed from the SABR / Sean Lahman baseball database (2025 edition, CC BY-SA 3.0), the same source behind our historical position leaderboards. Rate stats use league-season normalization only (OPS+ and ERA+ as marked, never park-adjusted); unrecorded early-era values stay absent rather than being invented. Career totals sum only what the source records.
Award winners and MVP / Cy Young / Rookie of the Year voting history come from the same database; the year pages live under MLB award voting history. Official transactions (2011 to the current season) come from the MLB StatsAPI feed on our transactions archive.