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Tex Hughson

Cecil Carlton Hughson

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 198 lb.

Born: February 9, 1916 in Buda, TX
High School: Kyle HS (Kyle, TX)
School: University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX) (All Transactions)
Debut: April 16, 1941
Team: RedSox 1941-1949

Final Game: October 2, 1949
Died: August 6, 1993 in San Marcos, TX
Buried: San Marcos Cemetery, San Marcos, TX
Relatives: Cousin of Jack Creel
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Standard Pitching

Year Age Tm Lg W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF ERA+ WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB Awards
1941 25 BOS AL 5 3 .625 4.13 12 8 2 4 0 0 61.0 70 30 28 3 13 22 1 0 0 260 101 1.361 10.3 0.4 1.9 3.2 1.69
1942 26 BOS AL 22 6 .786 2.59 38 30 5 22 4 4 281.0 258 92 81 10 75 113 1 1 1 1150 144 1.185 8.3 0.3 2.4 3.6 1.51 AS,MVP-6
1943 27 BOS AL 12 15 .444 2.64 35 32 3 20 4 2 266.0 242 87 78 23 73 114 2 0 0 1080 126 1.184 8.2 0.8 2.5 3.9 1.56 AS
1944 28 BOS AL 18 5 .783 2.26 28 23 5 19 2 5 203.1 172 57 51 4 41 112 2 1 0 814 152 1.048 7.6 0.2 1.8 5.0 2.73 AS,MVP-12
1946 30 BOS AL 20 11 .645 2.75 39 35 4 21 6 3 278.0 252 89 85 15 51 172 2 0 1 1128 133 1.090 8.2 0.5 1.7 5.6 3.37 MVP-13
1947 31 BOS AL 12 11 .522 3.33 29 26 3 13 3 0 189.1 173 86 70 17 71 119 2 0 0 798 116 1.289 8.2 0.8 3.4 5.7 1.68
1948 32 BOS AL 3 1 .750 5.12 15 0 11 0 0 0 19.1 21 14 11 0 7 6 0 0 0 84 87 1.448 9.8 0.0 3.3 2.8 0.86
1949 33 BOS AL 4 2 .667 5.33 29 2 17 0 0 3 77.2 82 49 46 5 41 35 1 0 3 349 82 1.584 9.5 0.6 4.8 4.1 0.85
8 Yrs 96 54 .640 2.94 225 156 50 99 19 17 1375.2 1270 504 450 77 372 693 11 2 5 5663 125 1.194 8.3 0.5 2.4 4.5 1.86
162 Game Avg. 17 10 .640 2.94 40 28 9 18 3 3 246 227 90 80 14 66 124 2 0 1 1011 125 1.194 8.3 0.5 2.4 4.5 1.86

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR Explained (v2.1): 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Starter, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl
Year Age Tm Lg IP G GS R RA9 RA9opp RA9def RA9role PPFp RA9avg RAA WAA gmLI WAAadj WAR RAR waaWL% 162WL% Salary Awards
1941 25 BOS AL 61.0 12 8 30 4.43 4.54 -0.13 0.00 103.4 4.83 2 0.2 1.0 -0.0 0.6 8 .520 .501 $
1942 26 BOS AL 281.1 38 30 92 2.94 4.29 0.21 0.00 101.9 4.16 36 4.2 1.0 -0.2 5.6 57 .610 .526 $ AS,MVP-6
1943 27 BOS AL 266.0 35 32 87 2.94 3.97 0.06 0.00 101.6 3.98 30 3.7 1.0 -0.2 5.0 46 .606 .523 $ AS
1944 28 BOS AL 203.1 28 23 57 2.52 3.93 -0.07 0.00 101.2 4.05 34 4.2 1.0 -0.1 5.3 47 .651 .526 $ AS,MVP-12
1946 30 BOS AL 278.0 39 35 89 2.88 3.98 0.15 0.00 101.9 3.91 31 3.7 1.0 -0.2 5.4 53 .596 .523 $ MVP-13
1947 31 BOS AL 189.1 29 26 86 4.09 4.22 0.05 0.00 104.4 4.34 6 0.7 1.0 -0.1 1.9 20 .524 .504 $
1948 32 BOS AL 19.1 15 0 14 6.52 4.48 0.19 0.00 102.3 4.39 -5 -0.4 .8 0.0 -0.3 -3 .470 .497 $
1949 33 BOS AL 77.2 29 2 49 5.68 4.72 0.16 0.00 104.7 4.78 -8 -0.8 1.3 -0.2 -0.4 -1 .474 .495 $
8 Seasons 1376.0 225 156 504 3.30 4.14 0.09 0.00 102.3 4.15 127 15.6 1.1 -1.1 23.1 229 .569 .512 $

Postseason Pitching

Year Age Tm Lg Series Rslt Opp W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB
1946 30 BOS AL WS L STL 0 1 .000 3.14 3 2 0 0 0 0 14.1 14 8 5 1 3 1 8 1 0 0 61 1.186 8.8 0.6 1.9 5.0 2.67
1 WS 0 1 .000 3.14 3 2 0 0 0 0 14.1 14 8 5 1 3 1 8 1 0 0 61 1.186 8.8 0.6 1.9 5.0 2.67

All-Star Pitching

Year Tm Lg Age GS W L W-L% ERA GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB
1942 BOS AL 26
1943 BOS AL 27 0 0 0 6.00 1 0 0 1 3.0 5 2 2 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 14 1.667 15.0 3.0 0.0 6.0
1944 BOS AL 28 0 0 1 .000 16.20 0 0 0 0 1.2 5 4 3 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 11 3.600 27.0 0.0 5.4 10.8 2.00
3 Yrs (2 GP) 0 0 1 .000 9.64 1 0 0 1 4.2 10 6 5 1 1 0 4 0 0 0 25 2.357 19.3 1.9 1.9 7.7 4.00

Batting Against -- Pitching*

Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS BAbip TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB ROE
1948 32 BOS AL 15 46 76 14 21 0 0 0 0 1 7 6 .276 .337 .276 .614 .300 21 1 0 1 0 2
1949 33 BOS AL 29 327 305 49 82 15 3 5 0 0 41 35 .269 .357 .387 .744 .291 118 12 1 1 0 4
2 Yrs 44 373 381 63 103 15 3 5 0 1 48 41 .270 .353 .365 .718 .293 139 13 1 2 0 6
162 Game Avg. 65 551 563 93 152 22 4 7 0 1 71 61 .270 .353 .365 .718 .293 205 19 1 3 0 9
MLB Averages .259 .331 .329 .660 .277

Win Probability

Year Age Tm Lg PtchR PitchW Plays WPA WPA+ WPA- aLI WPA/LI Clutch RE24 REW boLI RE24/boLI LevHi LevMd LevLo
1948 32 BOS AL -2.2 -0.2 49 -0.0 0.6 -0.6 .60 0.1 -0.1 -4.2 -0.4 0.58 -0.3 3 0 7
1949 33 BOS AL -6.5 -0.6 338 -0.8 7.0 -7.8 1.31 -0.3 -0.3 -5.6 -0.5 1.30 -1.9 8 6 9
8 Yrs 119.6 13.3 387 -0.8 7.5 -8.3 1.22 -0.2 -0.5 -9.8 -0.9 1.21 -2.2 11 6 16

Starting Pitching*

Year Age Tm Lg G GS Wgs Lgs ND Wchp Ltuf Wtm Ltm tmW-L% Wlst Lsv CG SHO QS QS% GmScA Best Wrst BQR BQS sDR lDR RS/GS RS/IP IP/GS Pit/GS <80 80-99 100-119 ≥120 Max
1941 25 BOS AL 12 8 4 3 1 0 1 5 3 .625 0 0 4 0 5 63% 52.5 75 17 6 2 4.4 6.5
1942 26 BOS AL 38 30 22 6 2 6 4 23 7 .767 0 0 22 4 20 67% 59.8 86 32 19 6 5.4 8.7
1943 27 BOS AL 35 32 12 14 6 0 6 16 15 .516 0 0 20 4 20 63% 59.2 92 24 17 8 3.2 8.2
1944 28 BOS AL 28 23 18 5 0 1 1 18 5 .783 0 0 19 2 18 78% 63.4 85 14 15 2 6.0 8.5
1946 30 BOS AL 39 35 19 11 5 2 6 22 13 .629 0 0 21 6 24 69% 60.2 90 20 27 3 3.8 7.8
1947 31 BOS AL 29 26 11 11 4 1 4 15 11 .577 0 0 13 3 16 62% 54.0 88 20 9 9 4.3 6.9
1949 33 BOS AL 29 2 0 1 1 0 0 0 2 .000 1 1 0 0 1 50% 35.0 51 19 7 2 1 1 5.5 5.4 5.5
7 Yrs 210 156 86 51 19 10 22 99 56 .639 1 1 99 19 104 67% 59 92 14 7 2 94 31 4.4 5.4 7.9
MLB Averages .500 54% 51 115 -11 4.3 4.8 6.9

Reliever Pitching*

Year Age Tm Lg G GR GF Wgr Lgr SVOpp SV BSv SV% SVSit Hold IR IS IS% 1stIP aLI LevHi LevMd LevLo Ahd Tie Bhd Runr Empt >3o <3o IPmult 0DR Out/GR Pit/GR
1941 25 BOS AL 12 4 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 6.8
1942 26 BOS AL 38 8 5 0 0 0 4 0 0 0 6 1 1 7.5
1943 27 BOS AL 35 3 3 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 2 1 0 5.0
1944 28 BOS AL 28 5 5 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 3 0 1 5.0
1946 30 BOS AL 39 4 4 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 0 0 3.8
1947 31 BOS AL 29 3 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 10.0
1948 32 BOS AL 15 15 11 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 7 6 86% .597 3 0 7 0 3 8 4 7 4 5 3 0 3.9
1949 33 BOS AL 29 27 17 4 1 4 3 2 75% 4 0 29 7 24% 8 1.307 8 6 9 7 3 13 15 8 15 3 14 3 7.4
8 Yrs 225 69 50 10 3 4 17 2 425% 4 0 36 13 36% 1.219 11 6 16 7 6 21 19 15 35 10 17 5 6.2

Ratio Pitching*

Year Age Tm Lg PA Ptn% HR% SO% BB% XBH% X/H% GB/FB GO/AO IP% LD% HR/FB IF/FB DPopp DPs DP%
1941 25 BOS AL 260 1.2% 8.5% 5.0% 2.3% 9% 83%
1942 26 BOS AL 1150 0.9% 9.8% 6.5% 3.7% 16% 81%
1943 27 BOS AL 1080 2.1% 10.6% 6.8% 3.7% 17% 78%
1944 28 BOS AL 814 0.5% 13.8% 5.0% 2.7% 13% 79%
1946 30 BOS AL 1124 1.3% 15.3% 4.5% 3.7% 17% 77%
1947 31 BOS AL 798 2.1% 14.9% 8.9% 3.9% 18% 72%
1948 32 BOS AL 84 70% 0.0% 13.0% 15.2% 0.0% 0% 1.55 152% 8 1 13%
1949 33 BOS AL 348 63% 1.5% 10.7% 12.5% 7.0% 28% 1.04 81% 73 12 16%
8 Yrs 5658 64% 1.4% 12.4% 6.6% 3.7% 16% 1.10 79% 81 13 16%
MLB Averages 48% 1.4% 10.0% 10.1% 3.5% 14% 0.95 85% 10%

Baserunning & Situational Stats*

Hits Home Runs Advances Baserunning
Year Age Tm Lg PA H Inf Bnt All GS GSo vRH vLH Hm Rd <2,3B Scr SO % ROE WP PB SBO SB CS SB% SB2 CS2 SB3 CS3 SBH CSH PO PCS BT PAu
1941 25 BOS AL 70 3 0
1942 26 BOS AL 258 10 1
1943 27 BOS AL 242 23 0
1944 28 BOS AL 172 4 0
1946 30 BOS AL 252 15 1
1947 31 BOS AL 173 17 0
1948 32 BOS AL 46 21 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 100% 2 0 0 18 0 1 0% 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 38
1949 33 BOS AL 327 82 5 0 18 2 3 3 2 24 11 3 46% 4 3 2 141 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 21
8 Yrs 373 1270 77 0 18 2 3 3 2 26 13 3 50% 6 5 2 159 0 1 0% 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 59
MLB Averages 53% 56%

Cumulative Pitching

Year Age W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF ERA+ WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB ERA+
1941 25 5 3 .625 4.13 12 8 2 4 0 0 61.0 70 30 28 3 13 22 1 0 0 260 101 1.361 10.3 0.4 1.9 3.2 1.69 101
1942 26 27 9 .750 2.87 50 38 7 26 4 4 342.0 328 122 109 13 88 135 2 1 1 1410 133 1.216 8.6 0.3 2.3 3.6 1.53 133
1943 27 39 24 .619 2.77 85 70 10 46 8 6 608.0 570 209 187 36 161 249 4 1 1 2490 130 1.202 8.4 0.5 2.4 3.7 1.55 130
1944 28 57 29 .663 2.64 113 93 15 65 10 11 811.1 742 266 238 40 202 361 6 2 1 3304 135 1.164 8.2 0.4 2.2 4.0 1.79 135
1945 29 57 29 .663 2.64 113 93 15 65 10 11 811.1 742 266 238 40 202 361 6 2 1 3304 135 1.164 8.2 0.4 2.2 4.0 1.79 135
1946 30 77 40 .658 2.67 152 128 19 86 16 14 1089.1 994 355 323 55 253 533 8 2 2 4432 134 1.145 8.2 0.5 2.1 4.4 2.11 134
1947 31 89 51 .636 2.77 181 154 22 99 19 14 1278.2 1167 441 393 72 324 652 10 2 2 5230 131 1.166 8.2 0.5 2.3 4.6 2.01 131
1948 32 92 52 .639 2.80 196 154 33 99 19 14 1298.0 1188 455 404 72 331 658 10 2 2 5314 130 1.170 8.2 0.5 2.3 4.6 1.99 130
1949 33 96 54 .640 2.94 225 156 50 99 19 17 1375.2 1270 504 450 77 372 693 11 2 5 5663 125 1.194 8.3 0.5 2.4 4.5 1.86 125

Neutralized Pitching

Change to: Default / 750 Runs / 1968 Dodgers / 2000 Rockies or

All seasons are converted to 162-game seasons &
average team scoring of 716 total runs (4.42 R/G)
How this works
Year Age W L W-L% ERA IP H R ER HR BB SO HBP WHIP H/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB HR/9 Gact
1941 25 3 3 .500 3.92 62.0 70 30 27 3 13 22 1 1.339 10.2 1.9 3.2 1.69 0.4 12
1942 26 21 10 .677 2.73 287.0 275 97 87 11 80 116 1 1.237 8.6 2.5 3.6 1.45 0.3 38
1943 27 18 11 .621 3.17 261.0 270 102 92 26 81 112 2 1.345 9.3 2.8 3.9 1.38 0.9 35
1944 28 16 6 .727 2.53 206.0 187 64 58 4 45 113 2 1.126 8.2 2.0 4.9 2.51 0.2 28
1946 30 20 11 .645 2.95 284.0 270 103 93 16 55 176 2 1.144 8.6 1.7 5.6 3.20 0.5 39
1947 31 12 9 .571 3.51 190.0 182 82 74 18 75 119 2 1.353 8.6 3.6 5.6 1.59 0.9 29
1948 32 1 1 .500 4.50 20.0 21 11 10 0 7 6 0 1.400 9.5 3.2 2.7 0.86 0.0 15
1949 33 3 5 .375 4.95 80.0 82 49 44 5 41 36 1 1.538 9.2 4.6 4.1 0.88 0.6 29
8 Yrs 94 56 .627 3.14 1390.0 1357 538 485 83 397 700 11 1.262 8.8 4.5 1.76 0.5 225

* Many Detailed Statistics are based on play-by-play accounts accumulated by RetroSheet. These totals may be incomplete (3.6% of all plays from 1918 to 1973 are missing or have incomplete accounts, click link for year and team summary) for some players prior to 1974 and even complete seasons may not match the official totals due to errors in both the official totals and the play-by-play accounts. Pre-1954 seasons have a substantial numbers of games missing play-by-play accounts and should be viewed as essentially incomplete.

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1942 AL (6, 27%)
1944 AL (12, 7%)
1946 AL (13, 6%)
0.40 Career Shares (514th)

Wins Above Replacements c a p y
1942 AL  5.6 (5th)
1944 AL  5.3 (8th)

WAR for Pitcherss c a p y
1942 AL  5.6 (1st)
1943 AL  5.0 (2nd)
1944 AL  5.3 (3rd)
1946 AL  5.4 (4th)

Earned Run Average s c a p y
1942 AL  2.59 (6th)
1943 AL  2.64 (10th)
1944 AL  2.26 (3rd)
1946 AL  2.75 (8th)
Career  2.94 (151st)

Wins s c a p y
1942 AL  22 (1st)
1944 AL  18 (4th)
1946 AL  20 (4th)

Win-Loss % s c a p y
1942 AL  .786 (3rd)
1944 AL  .783 (1st)
1946 AL  .645 (7th)
Career  .640 (38th)

Walks & Hits per IP s c a p y
1942 AL  1.185 (5th)
1943 AL  1.184 (8th)
1944 AL  1.048 (1st)
1946 AL  1.090 (2nd)
1947 AL  1.289 (8th)
Career  1.194 (128th)

Hits per 9 IP s c a p y
1944 AL  7.613 (4th)
1946 AL  8.158 (10th)
1947 AL  8.224 (9th)
Career  8.309 (237th)

Bases On Balls per 9 IP s c a p y
1942 AL  2.402 (7th)
1943 AL  2.470 (6th)
1944 AL  1.815 (6th)
1946 AL  1.651 (1st)

Strikeouts per 9 IP s c a p y
1944 AL  4.957 (4th)
1946 AL  5.568 (5th)
1947 AL  5.657 (2nd)

Games Played s c a p y
1942 AL  38 (3rd)
1946 AL  39 (4th)

Saves s c a p y
1942 AL  4 (6th)
1944 AL  5 (7th)
1946 AL  3 (8th)
1949 AL  3 (10th)

Innings Pitched s c a p y
1942 AL  281.0 (1st)
1943 AL  266.0 (2nd)
1946 AL  278.0 (3rd)

Strikeouts s c a p y
1942 AL  113 (1st)
1943 AL  114 (6th)
1944 AL  112 (7th)
1946 AL  172 (3rd)
1947 AL  119 (6th)

Games Started s c a p y
1942 AL  30 (5th)
1943 AL  32 (3rd)
1946 AL  35 (2nd)

Complete Games s c a p y
1942 AL  22 (1st)
1943 AL  20 (1st)
1944 AL  19 (3rd)
1946 AL  21 (5th)

Shutouts s c a p y
1942 AL  4 (2nd)
1943 AL  4 (3rd)
1946 AL  6 (2nd)
1947 AL  3 (5th)

Home Runs s c a p y
1943 AL  23 (1st)
1946 AL  15 (6th)
1947 AL  17 (2nd)

Hits s c a p y
1942 AL  258 (4th)
1943 AL  242 (2nd)
1946 AL  252 (3rd)

Strikeouts / Base On Balls s c a p y
1942 AL  1.507 (6th)
1943 AL  1.562 (7th)
1944 AL  2.732 (1st)
1946 AL  3.373 (1st)
1947 AL  1.676 (2nd)

Home Runs per 9 IP s c a p y
1944 AL  0.177 (6th)

Losses s c a p y
1943 AL  15 (4th)

Earned Runs s c a p y
1943 AL  78 (8th)
1946 AL  85 (6th)

Batters Faced s c a p y
1942 AL  1,150 (1st)
1943 AL  1,080 (2nd)
1946 AL  1,128 (5th)

Games Finished s c a p y
1949 AL  17 (8th)

Adjusted ERA+ s c a p y
1942 AL  144 (7th)
1943 AL  126 (9th)
1944 AL  152 (3rd)
1946 AL  134 (7th)
1947 AL  117 (10th)
Career  125 (72nd)

Adj. Pitching Runs s c a p y
1942 AL  36 (1st)
1943 AL  22 (5th)
1944 AL  28 (3rd)
1946 AL  32 (6th)
Career  118 (186th)

Adj. Pitching Wins s c a p y
1942 AL  3.9 (1st)
1943 AL  2.5 (5th)
1944 AL  3.2 (3rd)
1946 AL  3.5 (6th)
Career  13.1 (173rd)

                                         

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkPitching - 20 (94), Average HOFer ≈ 40
Gray InkPitching - 109 (189), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame MonitorPitching - 43 (313), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsPitching - 27 (174), Average HOFer ≈ 50

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