Cal McLish

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 179 lb

BornDecember 1, 1925 · Anadarko, OK, USA

MLB debutMay 13, 1944

Final gameJuly 14, 1964

Seasons15 (1944–1964)

Brooklyn Dodgers 1944; Brooklyn Dodgers 1946; Pittsburgh Pirates 1947–1948; Chicago Cubs 1949; Chicago Cubs 1951; Cleveland Indians 1956–1959; Cincinnati Reds 1960; Chicago White Sox 1961; Philadelphia Phillies 1962–1964

Percentile snapshot

1963 season — qualified pitchers

15.5

49.3

45.1

50.7

47.9

SHO

33.8

184

64.8

50.7

66.2

9.9

71.8

209.7

39.4

ERA

3.26

43.7

WHIP

1.145

K/9

4.21

9.9

FIP

3.29

57.7

FIP-

101.7

42.3

ERA+

99.2

33.8

sWAR

2.4

39.4

of 72 qualified 1963 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

93.7

14.8

sWAR

11.7

88.5

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; 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
1944	31	33	32	6	7	1	0	0	1	0	12	0	.219	.219	.250	.469	18.7	31.5	.216	-3.3
1946	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1947	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
1948	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-131.7	-100.0	.000	-0.2
1949	9	9	9	4	3	0	0	1	1	0	3	0	.333	.333	.667	1.000	160.0	164.1	.432	-0.1
1951	31	45	42	2	5	0	1	0	1	3	20	0	.119	.178	.167	.344	-19.7	-7.7	.168	0.7
1956	39	15	9	2	1	1	0	0	2	6	4	0	.111	.467	.222	.689	126.0	87.5	.390	0.2
1957	44	54	43	7	8	0	0	2	7	7	17	0	.186	.300	.326	.626	76.3	72.5	.299	3.5
1958	39	82	64	6	6	0	0	0	1	13	25	0	.094	.244	.094	.337	6.9	-1.7	.194	4.1
1959	35	87	74	8	14	2	1	0	8	4	25	1	.189	.231	.243	.474	29.6	32.9	.222	2.7
1960	37	44	41	1	2	0	0	0	1	1	14	0	.049	.070	.049	.119	-87.2	-67.0	.060	0.5
1961	31	58	54	2	9	1	0	0	5	1	24	0	.167	.182	.185	.367	-10.3	-0.1	.170	0.7
1962	32	57	51	2	4	1	0	0	0	5	24	0	.078	.161	.098	.259	-28.7	-27.6	.139	0.7
1963	33	78	69	7	14	3	0	0	3	5	28	0	.203	.257	.246	.503	45.9	47.4	.240	2.4
1964	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.3	-100.0	.000	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
1944	23	13	3	10	0	3	0	110	73	48	24	10	84.0	7.82	1.881	2.57	5.26	145.1	46.3	-3.3
1946	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0.0	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1947	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	1.0	18.00	2.000	0.00	5.57	132.3	23.4	-0.1
1948	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	8	5	2	1	0	5.0	9.00	2.000	1.80	3.37	82.8	45.2	-0.2
1949	8	2	1	1	0	0	0	31	15	12	6	5	23.0	5.87	1.870	2.35	6.40	161.3	67.6	-0.1
1951	30	17	4	10	0	5	1	159	72	52	46	16	145.7	4.45	1.449	2.84	4.31	106.7	90.8	0.7
1956	37	2	2	4	1	0	0	67	34	32	27	5	61.7	4.96	1.605	3.94	4.24	101.3	84.4	0.2
1957	42	7	9	7	1	2	0	118	44	67	88	11	144.3	2.74	1.282	5.49	3.61	96.3	136.4	3.5
1958	39	30	16	8	1	13	0	214	75	70	97	25	225.7	2.99	1.258	3.87	3.97	107.3	123.6	4.1
1959	35	32	19	8	1	13	0	253	95	72	113	26	235.3	3.63	1.381	4.32	3.92	104.9	102.9	2.7
1960	37	21	4	14	0	2	1	170	70	48	56	16	151.3	4.16	1.441	3.33	4.37	114.4	91.9	0.5
1961	31	27	10	13	1	4	0	178	79	47	80	21	162.3	4.38	1.386	4.44	4.09	103.9	89.8	0.7
1962	32	24	11	5	1	5	1	184	73	45	71	15	154.7	4.25	1.481	4.13	3.97	103.1	90.7	0.7
1963	32	32	13	11	0	10	2	184	76	56	98	14	209.7	3.26	1.145	4.21	3.29	101.7	99.2	2.4
1964	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	6	2	1	6	0	5.3	3.38	1.313	10.13	1.06	30.6	103.1	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

368

564

490

RBI

196

.1490

OBP

.2197

SLG

.1939

OPS

.4136

Pitching

G (P)

352

209

SHO

1,609

SO (P)

713

BB allowed

552

ERA

3.999

WHIP

1.3903

K/9

3.99

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	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1959-09-14	CLE @ NYY Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	0	3	0	4
1963-05-14	PHI @ LAD Gameday	3	2	2	2	0	0	0	1	4
1957-09-02	ATH @ CLE Gameday	4	2	1	0	0	1	4	0	4
1949-05-22	ATL @ CHC Gameday	4	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	4
1957-07-07	CLE @ CWS Gameday	2	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1957-09-23	DET @ CLE Gameday	11.0	9	4	1	6	9	0
1958-06-26	BOS @ CLE Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	2	9	2
1963-07-01	PIT @ PHI Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	1	9	1
1958-08-01	BOS @ CLE Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	5	8	0
1959-09-14	CLE @ NYY Gameday	8.1	12	5	4	2	8	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

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.