Claude Osteen

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 160 lb

BornAugust 9, 1939 · Caney Springs, TN, USA

MLB debutJuly 6, 1957

Final gameSeptember 27, 1975

Seasons18 (1957–1975)

Cincinnati Redlegs 1957; Cincinnati Redlegs 1959; Cincinnati Reds 1960–1961; Washington Senators 1961–1964; Los Angeles Dodgers 1965–1973; Houston Astros 1974; St. Louis Cardinals 1974; Chicago White Sox 1975

Percentile snapshot

1975 season — qualified pitchers

68.3

81.7

4.9

8.5

14.6

SHO

237

31.7

25.6

18.3

1.2

58.5

204.3

34.1

ERA

4.36

12.2

WHIP

1.610

K/9

2.77

2.4

FIP

4.34

7.3

FIP-

112.3

13.4

ERA+

88.6

17.1

sWAR

0.8

17.1

of 83 qualified 1975 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

104.3

54.5

sWAR

43.6

98.3

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1957	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-133.4	-100.0	.000	0.1
1959	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.2	-100.0	.000	-0.2
1960	26	12	12	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	7	0	0	.083	.083	.083	.167	-75.8	-54.4	.076	-0.3
1961	9	8	7	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	.143	.143	.143	.286	-37.5	-22.6	.131	-0.1
1962	37	49	48	3	10	1	1	0	2	0	10	0	0	.208	.208	.271	.479	18.2	28.7	.214	2.1
1963	49	79	70	8	12	0	0	1	4	4	20	0	0	.171	.216	.214	.431	14.1	20.9	.203	3.0
1964	40	103	90	8	14	4	0	1	7	3	34	1	0	.156	.188	.233	.421	3.6	15.8	.191	3.7
1965	42	108	99	6	12	0	1	0	2	3	32	0	0	.121	.147	.141	.288	-21.9	-14.8	.137	4.4
1966	39	83	76	8	16	1	2	1	6	5	18	1	1	.211	.259	.316	.575	66.6	66.5	.264	4.3
1967	42	112	101	9	18	3	1	2	9	4	22	0	0	.178	.206	.287	.493	40.7	46.0	.226	3.0
1968	40	95	84	4	15	3	0	0	2	2	26	0	0	.179	.198	.214	.412	19.4	28.6	.196	1.7
1969	44	126	111	7	24	1	0	1	12	5	25	0	0	.216	.246	.252	.498	41.2	45.2	.235	6.4
1970	39	100	93	10	19	5	0	1	9	3	20	0	0	.204	.232	.290	.523	38.8	43.0	.239	3.1
1971	39	99	86	7	16	3	0	0	7	4	21	0	0	.186	.220	.221	.441	23.1	29.4	.210	2.0
1972	36	100	88	9	24	5	1	1	11	5	19	0	0	.273	.319	.386	.706	105.7	103.4	.328	5.8
1973	33	88	78	4	12	1	0	0	1	2	22	0	0	.154	.175	.167	.342	-9.7	-2.0	.164	2.7
1974	31	55	53	4	13	4	0	0	3	0	11	0	0	.245	.245	.321	.566	54.1	60.8	.262	1.3
1975	37	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
1957	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	3	3	0	4.0	2.25	1.750	6.75	3.26	79.9	181.6	0.1
1959	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	6	9	3	1	7.7	7.04	2.609	3.52	7.06	174.1	57.5	-0.2
1960	20	3	0	1	0	0	0	53	27	30	15	5	48.3	5.03	1.717	2.79	5.30	138.6	76.1	-0.3
1961	4	3	1	1	0	0	0	14	10	9	14	3	18.7	4.82	1.232	6.75	4.70	118.3	82.5	-0.1
1962	28	22	8	13	1	7	2	140	61	47	59	12	150.3	3.65	1.244	3.53	3.78	96.0	108.0	2.1
1963	40	29	9	14	0	8	2	222	79	60	109	23	212.3	3.35	1.328	4.62	3.70	100.8	109.7	3.0
1964	37	36	15	13	0	13	0	256	95	64	133	20	257.0	3.33	1.245	4.66	3.22	87.5	110.5	3.7
1965	40	40	15	15	0	9	1	253	89	78	162	19	287.0	2.79	1.153	5.08	3.21	98.1	117.3	4.4
1966	39	38	17	14	0	8	3	238	76	65	137	6	240.3	2.85	1.261	5.13	2.69	81.4	116.2	4.3
1967	39	39	17	17	0	14	5	298	103	52	152	19	288.3	3.22	1.214	4.74	3.02	97.3	96.6	3.0
1968	39	36	12	18	0	5	3	267	87	54	119	14	253.7	3.09	1.265	4.22	3.02	108.7	90.1	1.7
1969	41	41	20	15	0	16	7	293	95	74	183	17	321.0	2.66	1.143	5.13	2.95	88.0	126.0	6.4
1970	37	37	16	14	0	11	4	280	110	52	114	24	258.7	3.83	1.284	3.97	3.82	99.1	100.8	3.1
1971	38	38	14	11	0	11	4	262	101	63	109	25	259.0	3.51	1.255	3.79	3.72	113.9	93.1	2.0
1972	33	33	20	11	0	14	4	232	74	69	100	16	252.0	2.64	1.194	3.57	3.43	102.3	126.8	5.8
1973	33	33	16	11	0	12	3	227	87	61	86	20	236.7	3.31	1.217	3.27	3.72	106.9	105.2	2.7
1974	31	23	9	11	0	7	2	184	68	58	51	9	161.0	3.80	1.503	2.85	3.80	108.0	92.4	1.3
1975	37	37	7	16	0	5	0	237	99	92	63	16	204.3	4.36	1.610	2.77	4.34	112.3	88.6	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

588

1,220

1,099

207

RBI

291

.1884

OBP

.2172

SLG

.2493

OPS

.4665

Pitching

G (P)

541

358th-most career G (P)

488

56th-most career GS

196

131st-most career W

195

48th-most career L

140

257th-most career CG

SHO

44th-most career SHO

3,460

78th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,612

194th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

940

142nd-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.298

307th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2747

444th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.19

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
1970-05-26	LAD @ SF Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	4	8
1964-08-15	LAA @ TEX Gameday	2	2	2	1	1	1	6
1969-08-07	PIT @ LAD Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	2	5
1967-06-14	LAD @ CHC Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	1	5
1974-07-02	HOU @ ATL Gameday	3	1	3	1	0	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1967-09-13	SF @ LAD Gameday	9.0	5	3	3	0	10	1
1969-07-12	SF @ LAD Gameday	9.0	9	2	2	1	10	0
1963-09-29	TEX @ CWS Gameday	9.0	7	2	0	1	9	1
1966-04-16	CHC @ LAD Gameday	9.0	8	2	1	1	9	0
1963-06-14	TEX @ CLE Gameday	11.0	9	2	1	3	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

3× 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.