Al McBean

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 165 lb

BornMay 15, 1938 · Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands

MLB debutJuly 2, 1961

Final gameMay 10, 1970

Seasons10 (1961–1970)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1961–1968; Los Angeles Dodgers 1969; San Diego Padres 1969; Los Angeles Dodgers 1970; Pittsburgh Pirates 1970

Percentile snapshot

1968 season — qualified pitchers

57.3

17.3

6.7

46.7

41.3

SHO

25.3

204

34.7

25.3

100

6.7

78.7

198.3

22.7

ERA

3.58

WHIP

1.346

6.7

K/9

4.54

9.3

FIP

3.22

FIP-

109.1

ERA+

82.4

sWAR

0.5

of 76 qualified 1968 pitchers (min 163 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

111.1

74.6

sWAR

16.0

91.6

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1961	28	16	15	2	4	0	0	1	3	0	3	.267	.267	.467	.733	88.4	91.2	.317	1.1
1962	34	71	67	4	14	2	1	0	6	0	36	.209	.209	.269	.478	19.6	28.0	.214	2.5
1963	59	32	31	4	6	1	0	1	3	0	11	.194	.194	.323	.516	36.6	46.4	.229	2.5
1964	58	14	12	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	7	.083	.083	.083	.167	-70.6	-52.5	.076	2.6
1965	62	30	27	2	6	1	0	0	2	1	12	.222	.250	.259	.509	40.7	44.4	.237	3.0
1966	50	10	10	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	6	.100	.100	.100	.200	-62.5	-43.9	.091	1.2
1967	51	34	29	0	6	0	1	0	3	3	11	.207	.303	.276	.579	73.9	67.0	.285	3.0
1968	43	70	67	5	13	0	0	1	8	1	17	.194	.206	.239	.445	23.7	34.3	.209	0.5
1969	32	6	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	3	.200	.333	.200	.533	71.5	47.2	.281	0.1
1970	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-118.8	-100.0	.000	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1961	27	2	3	2	0	0	0	72	31	42	49	4	74.3	3.75	1.534	5.93	3.90	97.8	106.3	1.1
1962	33	29	15	10	0	6	2	212	78	65	119	11	189.7	3.70	1.460	5.65	3.36	85.8	105.7	2.5
1963	55	7	13	3	11	2	1	100	35	39	74	5	122.3	2.57	1.136	5.44	2.82	86.1	127.4	2.5
1964	58	0	8	3	22	0	0	76	19	17	41	4	89.7	1.91	1.037	4.12	3.12	88.9	184.0	2.6
1965	62	1	6	6	18	0	0	111	29	42	54	5	114.0	2.29	1.342	4.26	3.44	97.5	154.2	3.0
1966	47	0	4	3	3	0	0	95	31	24	54	9	86.7	3.22	1.373	5.61	3.68	102.1	111.8	1.2
1967	51	8	7	4	4	5	0	118	37	43	54	6	131.0	2.54	1.229	3.71	3.44	101.3	133.5	3.0
1968	36	28	9	12	0	9	2	204	79	63	100	10	198.3	3.58	1.346	4.54	3.22	109.1	82.4	0.5
1969	32	1	2	7	4	0	0	56	25	23	27	7	55.3	4.07	1.428	4.39	4.68	138.6	83.0	0.1
1970	8	0	0	0	1	0	0	14	9	7	3	2	11.0	7.36	1.909	2.45	6.58	167.7	53.2	-0.3

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

425

284

264

RBI

106

.1970

OBP

.2177

SLG

.2614

OPS

.4791

Pitching

G (P)

409

288th-most career SV

SHO

1,072

SO (P)

575

BB allowed

365

ERA

3.131

222nd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3270

K/9

4.83

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
1961-08-05	PIT @ CIN Gameday	2	1	2	0	1	2	0	5
1968-07-28	STL @ PIT Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	4	0	4
1963-06-16	PIT @ STL Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	0	4
1967-09-06	ATL @ PIT Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	3	2	3
1962-05-16	ATL @ PIT Gameday	2	1	1	1	0	1	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1962-07-16	STL @ PIT Gameday	9.0	9	2	2	2	9	0
1962-08-08	STL @ PIT Gameday	8.0	9	2	0	0	9	0
1962-08-30	CHC @ PIT Gameday	7.1	5	3	2	2	9	0
1968-06-17	HOU @ PIT Gameday	8.2	9	3	3	3	7	0
1962-04-24	SF @ PIT Gameday	8.1	7	3	2	2	7	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.