MLB / Players

Buzz Capra

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 168 lb

BornOctober 1, 1947 · Chicago, IL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 15, 1971

Final gameSeptember 26, 1977

Seasons7 (1971–1977)

New York Mets 1971–1973; Atlanta Braves 1974–1977

Percentile snapshot

1974 season — qualified pitchers

65.5

16.7

63.1

79.8

59.5

SHO

88.1

163

95.2

100

34.5

137

53.6

78.6

217.0

40.5

ERA

2.28

100

WHIP

1.138

91.7

K/9

5.68

FIP

3.30

70.2

FIP-

87.7

82.1

ERA+

165.3

100

sWAR

6.1

91.7

of 85 qualified 1974 pitchers (min 163 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

5.2

79.7

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1971	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.7	-100.0	.000	-0.3
1972	14	15	12	1	3	1	3	3	.250	.400	.250	.650	111.7	92.2	.337	-0.1
1973	24	5	2	1	0	0	2	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	132.9	52.3	.377	0.3
1974	39	82	67	4	11	1	8	23	.164	.253	.164	.418	18.5	16.8	.220	6.1
1975	12	30	23	2	1	1	1	5	.043	.080	.043	.123	-86.6	-65.3	.068	0.1
1976	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.5
1977	45	42	36	1	4	2	3	9	.111	.179	.111	.291	-35.6	-23.9	.152	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1971	3	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	5	5	6	0	5.3	8.44	1.500	10.13	3.11	91.5	40.2	-0.3
1972	14	6	3	2	0	0	0	50	27	27	45	7	53.0	4.58	1.453	7.64	4.07	121.6	73.1	-0.1
1973	24	0	2	7	4	0	0	35	18	28	35	4	42.0	3.86	1.500	7.50	4.27	118.6	93.3	0.3
1974	39	27	16	8	1	11	5	163	55	84	137	13	217.0	2.28	1.138	5.68	3.30	87.7	165.3	6.1
1975	12	12	4	7	0	5	0	77	37	28	35	8	78.3	4.25	1.340	4.02	4.16	111.4	87.8	0.1
1976	5	0	0	1	0	0	0	9	9	6	4	0	9.3	8.68	1.607	3.86	3.72	99.7	43.0	-0.5
1977	45	16	6	11	0	0	0	142	83	80	100	28	139.3	5.36	1.593	6.46	5.72	131.1	81.3	-0.4

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

142

175

141

RBI

.1348

OBP

.2264

SLG

.1348

OPS

.3612

Pitching

G (P)

142

SHO

544

SO (P)

362

BB allowed

258

ERA

3.869

WHIP

1.3539

K/9

5.99

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	BB	TB
1974-06-28	CIN @ ATL Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	2
1972-05-13	SF @ NYM Gameday	3	0	1	1	0	1
1977-07-24	ATL @ PIT Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	1
1977-09-02	ATL @ NYM Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	1
1972-05-19	NYM @ PHI Gameday	2	1	1	0	2	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1974-09-13	ATL @ SD Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	0	9
1974-10-01	CIN @ ATL Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	4	9
1972-05-19	NYM @ PHI Gameday	7.0	8	3	3	2	9
1974-05-28	PHI @ ATL Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	3	8
1974-08-26	ATL @ WSH Gameday	8.0	6	2	2	3	8

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

1× 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.