MLB / Players

Chuck Estrada

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb

BornFebruary 15, 1938 · San Luis Obispo, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 21, 1960

Final gameJune 11, 1967

Seasons7 (1960–1967)

Baltimore Orioles 1960–1964; Chicago Cubs 1966; New York Mets 1967

Percentile snapshot

1962 season — qualified pitchers

16.4

58.2

16.4

7.5

22.4

SHO

199

53.7

34.3

121

1.5

165

79.1

28.4

223.3

58.2

ERA

3.83

40.3

WHIP

1.433

14.9

K/9

6.65

85.1

FIP

4.19

28.4

FIP-

112.8

10.4

ERA+

97.1

25.4

sWAR

1.9

32.8

of 68 qualified 1962 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

3.7

76.1

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
1960	36	78	64	2	9	1	1	0	5	5	17	1	.141	.203	.188	.390	3.3	8.1	.191	2.5
1961	33	81	70	4	8	1	0	0	0	2	32	0	.114	.139	.129	.267	-36.2	-26.0	.127	2.1
1962	38	77	66	3	10	0	0	1	3	2	20	0	.152	.174	.197	.371	-5.5	3.3	.170	1.9
1963	8	12	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	.100	.100	.100	.200	-60.0	-42.3	.091	-0.2
1964	18	16	14	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	.143	.143	.143	.286	-37.3	-19.3	.130	-0.6
1966	9	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.6	-100.0	.000	-0.5
1967	9	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.1	-100.0	.000	-1.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1960	36	25	18	11	2	12	1	162	83	101	144	18	208.7	3.58	1.260	6.21	3.81	101.0	105.5	2.5
1961	33	31	15	9	0	6	1	159	87	132	160	19	212.0	3.69	1.373	6.79	4.17	108.6	103.9	2.1
1962	34	33	9	17	0	6	0	199	95	121	165	24	223.3	3.83	1.433	6.65	4.19	112.8	97.1	1.9
1963	8	7	3	2	0	0	0	26	16	19	16	2	31.3	4.60	1.436	4.60	4.18	120.5	75.5	-0.2
1964	17	6	3	2	0	0	0	62	32	21	32	8	54.7	5.27	1.518	5.27	4.45	124.9	67.7	-0.6
1966	9	1	1	1	0	0	0	16	10	5	3	2	12.3	7.30	1.703	2.19	5.75	156.2	50.5	-0.5
1967	9	2	1	2	0	0	0	28	23	17	15	5	22.0	9.41	2.045	6.14	6.70	200.6	35.5	-1.5

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

151

272

232

RBI

.1293

OBP

.1612

SLG

.1595

OPS

.3207

Pitching

G (P)

146

105

SHO

764

SO (P)

535

BB allowed

416

ERA

4.074

WHIP

1.3973

K/9

6.30

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
1962-09-13	TEX @ BAL Gameday	3	1	1	0	0	1	2	0	4
1960-05-07	CLE @ BAL Gameday	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	0	3
1960-08-25	DET @ BAL Gameday	3	2	1	1	0	0	1	1	2
1961-08-26	BAL @ MIN Gameday	3	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	2
1960-07-19	BAL @ ATH Gameday	2	0	1	0	0	0	1	1	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1960-08-25	DET @ BAL Gameday	9.0	5	3	3	4	12	1
1961-06-06	LAA @ BAL Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	6	12	0
1961-08-20	BAL @ TEX Gameday	9.0	5	3	3	5	12	1
1961-09-05	DET @ BAL Gameday	8.2	3	0	0	2	11	0
1962-08-24	NYY @ BAL Gameday	9.0	5	2	2	4	10	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.