MLB / Players

Bennie Daniels

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 193 lb

BornJune 17, 1932 · Tuscaloosa, AL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 24, 1957

Final gameSeptember 18, 1965

Seasons9 (1957–1965)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1957–1960; Washington Senators 1961–1965

Percentile snapshot

1964 season — qualified pitchers

20.9

11.9

59.7

4.5

SHO

40.3

147

74.6

37.3

41.8

163.0

ERA

3.70

32.8

WHIP

1.294

35.8

K/9

4.03

FIP

4.34

4.5

FIP-

117.9

4.5

ERA+

99.4

41.8

sWAR

1.6

29.9

of 68 qualified 1964 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

3.0

73.8

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	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1957	1	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-124.9	-100.0	.000	0.2
1958	8	8	8	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	5	0	.125	.125	.125	.250	-50.9	-32.3	.114	-0.3
1959	36	34	29	4	9	2	1	1	3	5	10	0	.310	.412	.552	.963	163.5	157.2	.428	-0.2
1960	10	16	16	1	3	0	0	0	2	0	7	0	.188	.188	.188	.375	-8.1	3.7	.171	-1.6
1961	32	86	76	6	15	0	0	2	5	6	34	0	.197	.253	.276	.529	39.4	42.8	.246	3.7
1962	44	50	46	2	6	1	0	1	6	0	27	1	.130	.130	.217	.348	-23.6	-7.7	.152	-0.2
1963	36	60	46	5	7	1	0	0	3	7	20	0	.152	.278	.174	.452	36.2	29.7	.234	0.4
1964	33	55	47	4	6	0	0	1	4	4	16	0	.128	.196	.191	.388	0.8	8.0	.187	1.6
1965	33	37	30	2	4	0	0	0	1	4	13	0	.133	.235	.133	.369	10.5	8.1	.195	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1957	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	5	1	3	2	0	7.0	1.29	1.143	2.57	3.23	85.9	292.0	0.2
1958	8	5	0	3	0	1	0	31	17	15	7	3	27.7	5.53	1.663	2.28	5.15	134.1	69.4	-0.3
1959	34	12	7	9	1	0	0	115	61	39	67	9	100.7	5.45	1.530	5.99	3.68	95.1	70.9	-0.2
1960	10	6	1	3	0	0	0	52	35	17	16	4	40.3	7.81	1.711	3.57	4.41	117.8	47.9	-1.6
1961	32	28	12	11	0	12	1	184	81	80	110	14	212.0	3.44	1.245	4.67	3.50	88.0	115.6	3.7
1962	44	21	7	16	2	3	1	172	87	68	66	14	161.3	4.85	1.488	3.68	4.13	104.6	81.3	-0.2
1963	35	24	5	10	1	6	1	163	82	58	88	19	168.7	4.38	1.310	4.70	3.93	107.0	83.9	0.4
1964	33	24	8	10	0	3	2	147	67	64	73	20	163.0	3.70	1.294	4.03	4.34	117.9	99.4	1.6
1965	33	18	5	13	1	1	0	135	61	39	42	16	116.3	4.72	1.496	3.25	4.47	129.2	73.3	-0.6

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

233

348

300

RBI

134

.1700

OBP

.2378

SLG

.2400

OPS

.4778

Pitching

G (P)

230

139

SHO

997

SO (P)

471

BB allowed

383

ERA

4.441

WHIP

1.3912

K/9

4.25

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	HR	RBI	TB
1961-07-26	TEX @ MIN Gameday	2	1	2	1	1	5
1959-07-28	PIT @ LAD Gameday	2	1	1	1	2	4
1964-05-16	CWS @ TEX Gameday	3	1	1	1	2	4
1961-05-21	TEX @ LAA Gameday	4	1	1	1	1	4
1962-07-22	TEX @ NYY Gameday	4	1	1	1	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1963-07-07	LAA @ TEX Gameday	9.0	5	3	3	1	12	1
1961-08-17	LAA @ TEX Gameday	9.0	10	3	3	4	10	0
1961-08-31	CLE @ TEX Gameday	9.0	9	3	3	5	8	1
1961-09-26	TEX @ LAA Gameday	9.0	4	2	2	4	8	2
1961-08-22	TEX @ BOS Gameday	10.2	11	3	2	3	7	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.