MLB / Players

Art Mahaffey

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb

BornJune 4, 1938 · Cincinnati, OH, USA

MLB debutJuly 30, 1960

Final gameJuly 17, 1966

Seasons7 (1960–1966)

Philadelphia Phillies 1960–1965; St. Louis Cardinals 1966

Percentile snapshot

1962 season — qualified pitchers

77.6

85.1

16.4

SHO

43.3

253

16.4

120

32.8

177

86.6

1.5

274.0

ERA

3.94

32.8

WHIP

1.219

76.1

K/9

5.81

65.7

FIP

4.15

32.8

FIP-

107.8

20.9

ERA+

97.8

28.4

sWAR

2.5

40.3

of 68 qualified 1962 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

3.7

76.2

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
1960	14	35	30	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	8	.100	.100	.100	.200	-64.5	-45.1	.091	2.3
1961	36	79	63	3	8	2	0	0	3	3	20	.127	.164	.159	.323	-20.1	-13.1	.153	1.7
1962	42	106	92	6	13	0	1	2	10	3	29	.141	.177	.228	.405	3.1	9.5	.187	2.5
1963	26	55	50	2	10	3	0	0	1	1	12	.200	.231	.260	.491	37.3	42.7	.228	0.3
1964	34	56	50	4	6	2	0	1	4	1	26	.120	.137	.220	.357	-10.9	-0.2	.160	-0.4
1965	22	22	21	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	11	.095	.095	.095	.190	-62.7	-45.5	.087	-1.8
1966	12	7	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.9	-100.0	.000	-0.9

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1960	14	12	7	3	0	5	1	78	24	34	56	9	93.3	2.31	1.200	5.40	3.83	100.9	163.9	2.3
1961	36	32	11	19	0	12	3	205	100	70	158	27	219.3	4.10	1.254	6.48	3.88	96.9	97.5	1.7
1962	41	39	19	14	0	20	2	253	120	81	177	36	274.0	3.94	1.219	5.81	4.15	107.8	97.8	2.5
1963	26	22	7	10	0	6	1	143	66	48	97	18	149.0	3.99	1.282	5.86	3.83	118.5	81.1	0.3
1964	34	29	12	9	0	2	2	161	79	82	80	17	157.3	4.52	1.544	4.58	4.82	138.4	77.0	-0.4
1965	22	9	2	5	0	1	0	82	49	32	52	11	71.0	6.21	1.606	6.59	4.83	139.0	56.0	-1.8
1966	12	5	1	4	1	0	0	37	25	21	19	7	35.0	6.43	1.657	4.89	6.07	166.1	56.9	-0.9

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

186

360

313

RBI

109

.1342

OBP

.1605

SLG

.1917

OPS

.3522

Pitching

G (P)

185

148

SHO

999

SO (P)

639

BB allowed

368

ERA

4.171

WHIP

1.3283

K/9

5.76

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1962-08-02	PHI @ NYM Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	4	0	5
1962-05-19	CHC @ PHI Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	2	0	5
1963-07-04	PIT @ PHI Gameday	4	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	4
1964-04-17	PHI @ CHC Gameday	1	1	1	0	0	1	3	1	4
1962-07-20	ATL @ PHI Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1961-04-23	CHC @ PHI Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	1	17	0
1962-08-02	PHI @ NYM Gameday	9.0	5	4	4	1	12	4
1962-07-20	ATL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	3	11	1
1963-04-26	PHI @ CHC Gameday	9.0	3	2	2	3	11	1
1963-04-09	CIN @ PHI Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	3	10	0

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.

Honors

2× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.