MLB / Players

Bud Daley

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb

BornOctober 7, 1932 · Orange, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1955

Final gameJuly 26, 1964

Seasons10 (1955–1964)

Cleveland Indians 1955–1957; Kansas City Athletics 1958–1961; New York Yankees 1961–1964

Percentile snapshot

1961 season — qualified pitchers

69.7

25.8

40.9

7.6

60.6

43.9

SHO

211

42.4

48.5

119

59.1

42.4

193.3

31.8

ERA

4.28

13.6

WHIP

1.469

10.6

K/9

5.54

65.2

FIP

4.09

33.3

FIP-

105.0

25.8

ERA+

91.3

12.1

sWAR

0.9

12.1

of 67 qualified 1961 pitchers (min 163 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

8.5

85.1

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1955	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.5	-100.0	.000	-0.2
1956	14	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.5	-100.0	.000	-0.3
1957	34	23	20	2	4	0	0	1	3	.200	.238	.200	.438	15.4	22.1	.212	0.1
1958	26	17	16	1	2	1	0	0	0	.125	.125	.188	.313	-36.7	-16.2	.139	1.1
1959	39	87	78	5	23	1	13	2	11	.295	.329	.308	.637	74.3	74.0	.298	4.7
1960	37	91	75	10	12	2	5	10	12	.160	.259	.187	.445	22.6	21.5	.227	0.8
1961	39	69	63	4	8	1	3	3	3	.127	.167	.143	.310	-22.6	-14.9	.150	0.9
1962	43	28	27	1	5	0	0	0	4	.185	.185	.185	.370	-8.3	2.7	.169	1.3
1963	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
1964	13	10	8	0	2	0	1	0	2	.250	.333	.250	.583	71.4	65.9	.284	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1955	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	10	5	1	2	1	7.0	6.43	1.571	2.57	4.14	104.4	61.8	-0.2
1956	14	0	1	0	0	0	0	21	14	14	13	2	20.3	6.20	1.721	5.75	5.31	126.8	67.6	-0.3
1957	34	10	2	8	2	1	0	99	43	40	54	7	87.3	4.43	1.592	5.56	3.92	104.8	84.5	0.1
1958	26	5	3	2	0	1	0	67	26	19	39	5	70.7	3.31	1.217	4.97	3.32	85.6	117.2	1.1
1959	39	29	16	13	1	12	2	212	76	62	125	24	216.3	3.16	1.267	5.20	3.76	94.5	125.9	4.7
1960	37	35	16	16	0	13	1	234	117	96	126	27	231.0	4.56	1.429	4.91	4.21	105.9	87.2	0.8
1961	39	27	12	17	1	9	0	211	92	73	119	23	193.3	4.28	1.469	5.54	4.09	105.0	91.3	0.9
1962	43	6	7	5	4	0	0	105	42	21	55	8	105.3	3.59	1.196	4.70	3.20	84.3	105.7	1.3
1963	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	1.0	0.00	2.000	0.00	2.46	69.5	—	0.1
1964	13	3	3	2	1	0	0	37	18	25	16	3	35.0	4.63	1.771	4.11	5.15	142.0	78.3	0.0

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

248

330

291

RBI

.1924

OBP

.2419

SLG

.2096

OPS

.4515

Pitching

G (P)

248

116

SHO

967

SO (P)

549

BB allowed

351

ERA

4.029

WHIP

1.3946

K/9

5.11

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	RBI	TB
1959-05-23	CWS @ ATH Gameday	5	0	2	3	2
1959-05-28	ATH @ CLE Gameday	3	1	2	3	2
1959-06-06	BAL @ ATH Gameday	4	0	2	1	2
1959-06-10	ATH @ NYY Gameday	3	0	2	1	2
1964-06-14	CWS @ NYY Gameday	2	0	2	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1960-06-12	ATH @ BAL Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	1	11	0
1961-05-02	BOS @ ATH Gameday	9.0	8	4	2	2	9	1
1961-09-19	NYY @ BAL Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	0	9	1
1959-08-30	DET @ ATH Gameday	8.0	8	3	3	4	9	1
1960-07-19	BAL @ ATH Gameday	9.1	8	6	6	4	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.

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.