Cecil Upshaw
Atlanta Braves 1966–1969; Atlanta Braves 1971–1973; Houston Astros 1973; Cleveland Indians 1974; New York Yankees 1974; Chicago White Sox 1975
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 510.5 | 455.0 | .912 | 0.2 |
| 1967 | 30 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .375 | .167 | .542 | 89.0 | 61.7 | .304 | 1.0 |
| 1968 | 52 | 30 | 23 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .174 | .208 | .174 | .382 | 6.1 | 15.9 | .188 | 2.0 |
| 1969 | 62 | 24 | 21 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .238 | .238 | .381 | .619 | 64.2 | 71.0 | .279 | 2.1 |
| 1971 | 49 | 17 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -138.8 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.8 |
| 1972 | 42 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .286 | -46.3 | -21.7 | .133 | 0.5 |
| 1973 | 40 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -125.9 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
| 1974 | 43 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.1 |
| 1975 | 29 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.8 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 3.0 | 0.00 | 1.000 | 6.00 | 4.34 | 118.1 | — | 0.2 |
| 1967 | 30 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 42 | 13 | 8 | 31 | 4 | 45.3 | 2.58 | 1.103 | 6.15 | 3.23 | 96.5 | 129.7 | 1.0 |
| 1968 | 52 | 0 | 8 | 7 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 98 | 32 | 24 | 74 | 6 | 116.7 | 2.47 | 1.046 | 5.71 | 2.67 | 89.0 | 121.4 | 2.0 |
| 1969 | 62 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 102 | 34 | 29 | 57 | 7 | 105.3 | 2.91 | 1.244 | 4.87 | 3.29 | 91.1 | 124.4 | 2.1 |
| 1971 | 49 | 0 | 11 | 6 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 95 | 32 | 28 | 56 | 5 | 82.0 | 3.51 | 1.500 | 6.15 | 3.07 | 83.5 | 104.6 | 0.8 |
| 1972 | 42 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 22 | 19 | 23 | 5 | 53.7 | 3.69 | 1.286 | 3.86 | 4.00 | 106.3 | 102.0 | 0.5 |
| 1973 | 40 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 23 | 17 | 24 | 3 | 42.0 | 4.93 | 1.500 | 5.14 | 3.62 | 98.9 | 74.5 | -0.2 |
| 1974 | 43 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 63 | 23 | 28 | 34 | 2 | 67.7 | 3.06 | 1.345 | 4.52 | 3.32 | 93.2 | 116.6 | 1.1 |
| 1975 | 29 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 17 | 21 | 22 | 5 | 47.3 | 3.23 | 1.479 | 4.18 | 4.59 | 118.7 | 119.5 | 0.8 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969-05-25 | PHI @ ATL Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1966-10-01 | ATL @ CIN Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1967-08-26 | ATL @ SF Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1968-06-07 | ATL @ CHC Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1968-06-15 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969-09-19 | ATL @ SD Gameday | 7.1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 1969-07-30 | ATL @ PHI Gameday | 4.0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 1968-09-19 | ATL @ HOU Gameday | 3.1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 |
| 1968-08-24 | PHI @ ATL Gameday | 6.2 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
| 1971-05-17 | NYM @ ATL Gameday | 3.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 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.