MLB / Players

Carl Morton

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 200 lb

BornJanuary 18, 1944 · Kansas City, MO, USA

MLB debutApril 11, 1969

Final gameAugust 21, 1976

Seasons8 (1969–1976)

Montreal Expos 1969–1972; Atlanta Braves 1973–1976

Percentile snapshot

1975 season — qualified pitchers

86.6

95.1

79.3

8.5

57.3

SHO

45.1

302

2.4

108

12.2

42.7

32.9

277.7

ERA

3.50

58.5

WHIP

1.383

34.1

K/9

2.53

FIP

3.86

34.1

FIP-

103.5

34.1

ERA+

106.7

62.2

sWAR

3.5

69.5

of 83 qualified 1975 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

101.2

42.8

sWAR

17.4

92.3

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
1969	8	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	.000	.125	.000	.125	-64.5	-62.4	.094	-0.1
1970	43	112	93	6	15	2	0	2	7	6	29	0	.161	.208	.247	.455	15.6	21.1	.212	4.6
1971	36	83	77	7	14	0	0	2	6	3	23	1	.182	.210	.260	.470	22.4	32.1	.219	-1.2
1972	35	61	52	5	7	2	1	0	2	4	20	0	.135	.211	.212	.422	14.6	19.6	.208	0.9
1973	40	101	94	7	17	4	0	3	15	4	25	0	.181	.222	.319	.541	37.3	44.0	.250	4.6
1974	38	107	89	8	10	1	0	0	1	6	33	0	.112	.168	.124	.292	-27.8	-18.6	.152	4.4
1975	39	103	94	9	15	2	0	0	5	4	30	0	.160	.194	.181	.375	-7.5	3.4	.184	3.5
1976	27	54	45	2	8	0	0	0	6	2	15	1	.178	.204	.178	.382	-6.9	6.2	.185	0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1969	8	5	0	3	0	0	0	29	15	18	16	2	29.3	4.60	1.602	4.91	4.50	123.2	79.3	-0.1
1970	43	37	18	11	0	10	4	281	114	125	154	27	284.7	3.60	1.426	4.87	4.36	106.3	113.8	4.6
1971	36	35	10	18	1	9	0	252	114	83	84	22	213.7	4.80	1.568	3.54	4.32	123.3	72.9	-1.2
1972	27	27	7	13	0	3	1	170	75	53	51	16	172.0	3.92	1.297	2.67	4.12	117.0	89.7	0.9
1973	38	37	15	10	0	10	4	254	97	70	112	18	256.3	3.41	1.264	3.93	3.46	88.1	115.1	4.6
1974	38	38	16	12	0	7	1	293	96	89	113	10	274.7	3.15	1.391	3.70	3.23	85.7	119.8	4.4
1975	39	39	17	16	0	11	2	302	108	82	78	19	277.7	3.50	1.383	2.53	3.86	103.5	106.7	3.5
1976	26	24	4	9	0	1	1	172	65	45	42	6	140.3	4.17	1.546	2.69	3.67	98.5	89.5	0.6

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

266

629

551

RBI

178

.1561

OBP

.2007

SLG

.2178

OPS

.4185

Pitching

G (P)

255

242

SHO

478th-most career SHO

1,649

SO (P)

650

BB allowed

565

ERA

3.734

WHIP

1.4060

K/9

3.55

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	HR	RBI	TB
1973-07-31	CIN @ ATL Gameday	3	1	2	1	1	2	6
1970-05-07	SF @ WSH Gameday	5	2	3	2	0	1	5
1970-07-21	WSH @ LAD Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	2	5
1970-09-19	CHC @ WSH Gameday	2	1	2	0	1	2	5
1971-07-07	WSH @ NYM Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	2	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1970-05-20	NYM @ WSH Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	6	10	0
1971-06-14	SD @ WSH Gameday	9.0	9	2	2	6	9	0
1970-09-15	NYM @ WSH Gameday	9.2	10	4	4	3	8	2
1973-05-05	ATL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	7	0	0	3	8	0
1974-09-06	SF @ ATL Gameday	8.0	9	2	2	0	8	0

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× Rookie of the Year

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.