MLB / Players

Bill Stafford

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 188 lb

BornAugust 13, 1938 · Catskill, NY, USA

MLB debutAugust 17, 1960

Final gameSeptember 19, 1967

Seasons8 (1960–1967)

New York Yankees 1960–1965; Kansas City Athletics 1966–1967

Percentile snapshot

1962 season — qualified pitchers

28.4

58.2

56.7

71.6

35.8

SHO

43.3

188

64.2

52.2

37.3

109

23.9

32.8

213.3

50.7

ERA

3.67

52.2

WHIP

1.242

62.7

K/9

4.60

23.9

FIP

4.03

37.3

FIP-

106.3

28.4

ERA+

103.4

40.3

sWAR

2.7

49.3

of 68 qualified 1962 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

8.7

85.3

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	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1960	12	22	22	0	1	0	0	1	0	8	0	.045	.045	.045	.091	-94.4	-74.5	.042	1.3
1961	36	74	67	5	12	2	1	3	4	11	0	.179	.225	.239	.464	25.0	28.4	.218	4.5
1962	35	84	78	5	17	4	0	5	2	16	1	.218	.238	.269	.507	33.9	39.7	.231	2.7
1963	28	28	24	2	7	0	1	3	1	7	0	.292	.346	.375	.721	109.1	105.4	.331	-1.6
1964	31	13	13	1	1	1	0	1	0	6	0	.077	.077	.154	.231	-60.6	-37.5	.100	1.2
1965	22	34	29	2	0	0	0	1	0	12	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.6	-100.0	.000	0.5
1966	9	13	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.3	-100.0	.000	-0.5
1967	14	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.3	-100.0	.000	0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1960	11	8	3	1	0	2	1	50	15	18	36	3	60.0	2.25	1.133	5.40	2.80	76.7	162.4	1.3
1961	36	25	14	9	2	8	3	168	58	59	101	13	195.0	2.68	1.164	4.66	3.32	87.5	141.6	4.5
1962	35	33	14	9	0	7	2	188	87	77	109	23	213.3	3.67	1.242	4.60	4.03	106.3	103.4	2.7
1963	28	14	4	8	3	0	0	104	60	42	52	16	89.7	6.02	1.628	5.22	5.13	144.9	58.8	-1.6
1964	31	1	5	0	4	0	0	50	18	22	39	4	60.7	2.67	1.187	5.79	3.22	88.8	135.7	1.2
1965	22	15	3	8	0	1	0	93	44	31	71	16	111.3	3.56	1.114	5.74	3.88	113.7	96.0	0.5
1966	9	8	0	4	0	0	0	42	22	12	31	2	39.7	4.99	1.361	7.03	2.59	76.3	67.9	-0.5
1967	14	0	0	1	0	0	0	12	3	9	10	0	16.0	1.69	1.313	5.63	2.86	90.1	188.0	0.5

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

187

270

245

RBI

.1551

OBP

.1811

SLG

.2000

OPS

.3811

Pitching

G (P)

186

104

SHO

786

SO (P)

449

BB allowed

270

ERA

3.517

WHIP

1.2435

K/9

5.14

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	RBI	BB	TB
1961-09-08	CLE @ NYY Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	2	0	4
1962-07-31	NYY @ TEX Gameday	3	0	2	2	0	2	1	4
1963-06-16	DET @ NYY Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	1	0	4
1961-08-30	NYY @ MIN Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	0	0	3
1962-05-30	NYY @ MIN Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1961-08-26	NYY @ ATH Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	1	8
1960-09-20	MIN @ NYY Gameday	8.1	6	1	1	3	8
1966-07-17	BOS @ ATH Gameday	8.0	6	2	2	1	8
1960-08-31	ATH @ NYY Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	1	7
1961-06-12	LAA @ NYY Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	2	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.