MLB / Players

Cal Koonce

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb

BornNovember 18, 1940 · Fayetteville, NC, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1962

Final gameAugust 8, 1971

Seasons10 (1962–1971)

Chicago Cubs 1962–1967; New York Mets 1967–1969; Boston Red Sox 1970; New York Mets 1970; Boston Red Sox 1971

Percentile snapshot

1965 season — qualified pitchers

58.3

5.6

4.2

66.7

9.7

SHO

19.4

181

65.3

68.1

77.8

6.9

61.1

173.0

11.1

ERA

3.69

33.3

WHIP

1.347

20.8

K/9

4.58

19.4

FIP

3.90

11.1

FIP-

106.4

15.3

ERA+

99.2

38.9

sWAR

1.6

29.2

of 73 qualified 1965 pitchers (min 164 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

7.6

83.8

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1962	35	68	64	7	6	1	2	1	25	.094	.108	.109	.217	-59.1	-42.5	.102	1.8
1963	21	24	19	1	2	0	0	1	8	.105	.190	.105	.296	-20.6	-14.2	.158	-0.3
1964	6	10	10	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.7	-100.0	.000	0.8
1965	38	58	49	2	5	1	1	5	21	.102	.200	.122	.322	-9.2	-8.0	.171	1.6
1966	45	29	23	2	3	1	1	3	9	.130	.231	.174	.405	15.1	13.8	.205	0.9
1967	47	21	20	1	2	0	0	0	7	.100	.100	.100	.200	-62.8	-42.1	.093	0.5
1968	55	16	14	0	0	0	0	2	8	.000	.125	.000	.125	-65.2	-59.7	.094	1.6
1969	40	17	17	1	4	0	1	0	7	.235	.235	.235	.471	23.3	32.3	.219	-0.5
1970	36	28	22	5	2	0	3	4	9	.091	.222	.091	.313	-12.0	-12.5	.179	1.5
1971	13	2	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.500	.000	.500	130.1	48.7	.377	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1962	35	30	10	10	0	3	1	200	84	86	84	17	190.7	3.97	1.500	3.97	4.46	109.0	103.3	1.8
1963	21	13	2	6	0	0	0	75	37	32	44	9	72.7	4.58	1.472	5.45	4.30	124.3	75.5	-0.3
1964	6	2	3	0	0	0	0	30	7	7	17	1	31.0	2.03	1.194	4.94	2.75	74.9	180.8	0.8
1965	38	23	7	9	0	3	1	181	71	52	88	17	173.0	3.69	1.347	4.58	3.90	106.4	99.2	1.6
1966	45	5	5	5	2	0	0	113	46	35	65	13	108.7	3.81	1.362	5.38	4.02	109.3	96.7	0.9
1967	45	6	5	5	2	2	1	97	40	28	52	4	96.0	3.75	1.302	4.88	3.02	87.6	91.8	0.5
1968	55	2	6	4	11	0	0	80	26	32	50	4	97.0	2.41	1.155	4.64	3.07	103.1	123.5	1.6
1969	40	0	6	3	7	0	0	85	46	42	48	8	83.0	4.99	1.530	5.20	4.38	121.2	72.4	-0.5
1970	36	8	3	6	2	1	0	89	38	43	47	9	98.3	3.48	1.342	4.30	4.19	105.6	114.0	1.5
1971	13	1	0	1	0	0	0	22	13	11	9	3	21.0	5.57	1.571	3.86	4.93	134.5	65.8	-0.3

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

336

273

239

RBI

.1004

OBP

.1660

SLG

.1130

OPS

.2790

Pitching

G (P)

334

SHO

971

SO (P)

504

BB allowed

368

ERA

3.780

WHIP

1.3795

K/9

4.67

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	RBI	BB	TB
1965-04-29	CHC @ CIN Gameday	5	0	2	0	1	0	2
1962-06-24	CHC @ PIT Gameday	3	1	1	1	0	0	2
1965-06-22	CHC @ ATL Gameday	3	1	1	1	0	0	2
1966-09-01	CHC @ CIN Gameday	3	1	1	1	0	1	2
1970-09-02	DET @ BOS Gameday	3	1	1	0	2	1	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1970-08-17	CWS @ BOS Gameday	7.0	7	2	2	4	8	1
1965-06-13	CIN @ CHC Gameday	8.1	12	7	6	2	7	0
1963-08-24	NYM @ CHC Gameday	8.0	5	2	2	1	7	1
1964-09-22	LAD @ CHC Gameday	8.0	7	0	0	2	7	0
1965-09-26	PIT @ CHC Gameday	6.0	7	3	3	2	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.