Carlos May
Chicago White Sox 1968–1976; New York Yankees 1976; California Angels 1977; New York Yankees 1977
Percentile snapshot
1975 season — qualified batters
of 128 qualified 1975 batters (min 499 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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 | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 17 | 71 | 67 | 4 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .179 | .214 | .194 | .408 | 7.5 | 24.4 | .190 | -0.6 |
| 1969 | 100 | 434 | 367 | 62 | 103 | 18 | 2 | 18 | 62 | 58 | 66 | 1 | 4 | .281 | .385 | .488 | .873 | 139.5 | 136.9 | .396 | 3.0 |
| 1970 | 150 | 643 | 555 | 83 | 158 | 28 | 4 | 12 | 68 | 79 | 96 | 12 | 5 | .285 | .373 | .414 | .788 | 115.6 | 113.2 | .361 | 2.6 |
| 1971 | 141 | 574 | 500 | 64 | 147 | 21 | 7 | 7 | 70 | 62 | 61 | 16 | 7 | .294 | .375 | .406 | .781 | 124.5 | 119.5 | .364 | 2.4 |
| 1972 | 148 | 615 | 523 | 83 | 161 | 26 | 3 | 12 | 68 | 79 | 70 | 23 | 14 | .308 | .405 | .438 | .843 | 157.2 | 149.9 | .392 | 5.3 |
| 1973 | 149 | 617 | 553 | 62 | 148 | 20 | 0 | 20 | 96 | 53 | 73 | 8 | 6 | .268 | .334 | .412 | .747 | 106.6 | 107.2 | .342 | 1.3 |
| 1974 | 149 | 604 | 551 | 66 | 137 | 19 | 2 | 8 | 58 | 46 | 76 | 8 | 9 | .249 | .306 | .334 | .640 | 81.7 | 82.5 | .300 | -0.1 |
| 1975 | 128 | 534 | 454 | 55 | 123 | 19 | 2 | 8 | 53 | 67 | 46 | 12 | 7 | .271 | .373 | .374 | .747 | 110.9 | 110.4 | .347 | 1.5 |
| 1976 | 107 | 405 | 351 | 45 | 91 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 43 | 43 | 37 | 5 | 1 | .259 | .344 | .333 | .677 | 104.8 | 101.0 | .326 | 0.5 |
| 1977 | 76 | 226 | 199 | 21 | 47 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 22 | 25 | 0 | 0 | .236 | .311 | .312 | .623 | 70.3 | 73.4 | .283 | -0.7 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973-08-26 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| 1969-04-09 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1972-07-23 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1972-04-18 | TEX @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 8 |
| 1973-09-03 | TEX @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.