Al Worthington

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 195 lb

BornFebruary 5, 1929 · Birmingham, AL, USA

MLB debutJuly 6, 1953

Final gameOctober 2, 1969

Seasons14 (1953–1969)

New York Giants 1953–1954; New York Giants 1956–1957; San Francisco Giants 1958–1959; Boston Red Sox 1960; Chicago White Sox 1960; Cincinnati Reds 1963–1964; Minnesota Twins 1964–1969

Percentile snapshot

1957 season — qualified pitchers

100

5.5

41.8

90.9

SHO

7.3

140

96.4

69.1

65.5

23.6

45.5

157.7

3.6

ERA

4.22

16.4

WHIP

1.243

61.8

K/9

5.14

70.9

FIP

4.10

16.4

FIP-

105.7

21.8

ERA+

91.8

18.2

sWAR

0.7

9.1

of 56 qualified 1957 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

109.6

71.3

sWAR

16.8

92.1

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1953	20	37	31	5	2	1	0	0	2	14	.065	.121	.097	.218	-54.3	-42.4	.110	1.8
1954	10	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-135.9	-100.0	.000	0.2
1956	28	58	51	4	12	1	1	3	0	12	.235	.231	.314	.544	36.5	45.5	.238	1.4
1957	55	43	40	0	4	0	0	3	1	10	.100	.143	.100	.243	-44.8	-32.9	.121	0.7
1958	54	51	44	6	8	1	0	4	2	10	.182	.208	.205	.413	-0.2	10.9	.190	2.0
1959	42	13	13	0	1	0	0	0	0	4	.077	.077	.077	.154	-74.4	-57.6	.070	0.7
1960	10	3	3	1	2	0	0	0	0	1	.667	.667	.667	1.333	286.8	266.5	.613	-0.2
1963	50	14	12	1	1	1	0	2	0	6	.083	.083	.167	.250	-51.9	-30.2	.109	1.1
1964	47	20	16	2	1	0	0	0	0	2	.063	.063	.063	.125	-91.5	-65.0	.057	2.1
1965	62	14	10	1	1	0	0	0	2	4	.100	.250	.100	.350	11.0	2.5	.200	2.2
1966	65	11	11	2	3	3	0	3	0	6	.273	.273	.545	.818	125.3	124.4	.356	2.3
1967	59	9	8	0	0	0	0	0	1	5	.000	.111	.000	.111	-76.3	-65.5	.083	1.5
1968	54	9	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	-143.4	-100.0	.000	1.1
1969	46	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.9	-100.0	.000	-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
1953	20	17	4	8	0	5	2	103	39	54	52	6	102.0	3.44	1.539	4.59	4.01	93.2	125.0	1.8
1954	10	1	0	2	0	0	0	21	7	15	8	0	18.0	3.50	2.000	4.00	4.03	99.6	115.5	0.2
1956	28	24	7	14	0	4	0	158	73	74	95	20	165.7	3.97	1.400	5.16	4.07	108.5	94.5	1.4
1957	55	12	8	11	4	1	1	140	74	56	90	19	157.7	4.22	1.243	5.14	4.10	105.7	91.8	0.7
1958	54	12	11	7	6	1	0	152	61	57	76	17	151.3	3.63	1.381	4.52	4.13	105.7	107.7	2.0
1959	42	3	2	3	2	0	0	68	30	37	45	8	73.3	3.68	1.432	5.52	4.53	120.8	101.9	0.7
1960	10	0	1	2	0	0	0	20	12	15	8	1	17.0	6.35	2.059	4.24	4.87	122.7	62.4	-0.2
1963	50	0	4	4	10	0	0	75	27	31	55	6	81.3	2.99	1.303	6.09	3.36	100.8	111.5	1.1
1964	47	0	6	6	14	0	0	61	19	30	65	4	79.3	2.16	1.147	7.37	2.67	73.6	168.6	2.1
1965	62	0	10	7	21	0	0	57	19	41	59	4	80.3	2.13	1.220	6.61	3.22	90.4	167.3	2.2
1966	65	0	6	3	16	0	0	66	25	27	93	6	91.3	2.46	1.018	9.16	2.17	60.6	145.4	2.3
1967	59	0	8	9	16	0	0	77	29	38	80	6	92.0	2.84	1.250	7.83	2.80	81.6	121.0	1.5
1968	54	0	4	5	18	0	0	67	23	32	57	1	76.3	2.71	1.297	6.72	2.16	69.9	113.8	1.1
1969	46	0	4	1	3	0	0	65	31	20	51	7	61.0	4.57	1.393	7.52	3.16	86.7	79.9	-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

602

292

255

RBI

.1373

OBP

.1648

SLG

.1765

OPS

.3413

Pitching

G (P)

602

241st-most career G (P)

110

149th-most career SV

SHO

1,247

SO (P)

834

BB allowed

527

ERA

3.386

365th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3291

K/9

6.02

373rd-highest career K/9

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	HR	RBI	TB
1956-09-30	SF @ PHI Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	2	5
1958-07-04	CHC @ SF Gameday	2	0	2	1	0	0	3
1966-09-11	BAL @ MIN Gameday	1	1	1	1	0	2	2
1966-07-26	MIN @ NYY Gameday	1	0	1	1	0	1	2
1953-08-30	CHC @ SF Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1956-04-27	PHI @ SF Gameday	9.0	6	3	1	3	9
1958-07-31	SF @ CIN Gameday	5.1	6	4	2	4	9
1967-08-09	TEX @ MIN Gameday	8.2	2	0	0	2	8
1953-07-11	SF @ LAD Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	1	7
1957-05-15	SF @ STL Gameday	8.1	9	2	2	5	7

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.