MLB / Players

Clay Kirby

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 175 lb

BornJune 25, 1948 · Washington, DC, USA

MLB debutApril 11, 1969

Final gameSeptember 28, 1976

Seasons8 (1969–1976)

San Diego Padres 1969–1973; Cincinnati Reds 1974–1975; Montreal Expos 1976

Percentile snapshot

1974 season — qualified pitchers

36.9

47.6

85.7

23.8

SHO

13.1

210

64.3

57.1

23.8

160

73.8

66.7

230.7

48.8

ERA

3.28

WHIP

1.305

52.4

K/9

6.24

85.7

FIP

3.25

72.6

FIP-

91.9

66.7

ERA+

108.0

53.6

sWAR

2.6

47.6

of 85 qualified 1974 pitchers (min 163 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

91.7

9.3

sWAR

7.7

83.9

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1969	35	76	66	3	4	1	0	7	37	.061	.162	.076	.238	-31.2	-30.4	.137	1.2
1970	36	82	74	4	11	1	1	5	38	.149	.203	.162	.365	-1.1	0.6	.181	0.7
1971	40	97	86	3	8	0	3	6	35	.093	.152	.093	.245	-35.1	-27.0	.130	3.9
1972	35	84	74	3	5	0	2	4	30	.068	.115	.068	.183	-57.5	-45.2	.098	2.4
1973	35	66	54	1	5	1	1	1	21	.093	.109	.111	.220	-49.3	-37.0	.106	-1.4
1974	36	88	74	4	7	0	3	6	36	.095	.163	.095	.257	-29.6	-25.5	.140	2.6
1975	26	38	32	3	6	1	2	2	15	.188	.235	.219	.454	22.0	26.8	.223	-0.3
1976	22	25	18	1	1	1	3	1	5	.056	.105	.111	.216	-54.2	-39.0	.111	-1.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1969	35	35	7	20	2	0	204	91	100	113	18	215.7	3.80	1.410	4.72	4.17	118.2	92.9	1.2
1970	36	34	10	16	6	1	198	108	120	154	29	214.7	4.53	1.481	6.46	4.97	125.8	87.3	0.7
1971	38	36	15	13	13	2	213	84	103	231	20	267.3	2.83	1.182	7.78	2.98	90.2	116.8	3.9
1972	34	34	12	14	9	2	197	83	116	175	21	238.7	3.13	1.311	6.60	3.69	112.3	104.9	2.4
1973	34	31	8	18	4	2	214	102	66	129	30	191.7	4.79	1.461	6.06	4.29	123.1	72.7	-1.4
1974	36	35	12	9	7	1	210	84	91	160	15	230.7	3.28	1.305	6.24	3.25	91.9	108.0	2.6
1975	26	19	10	6	1	0	113	58	54	48	13	110.7	4.72	1.509	3.90	4.88	133.7	77.3	-0.3
1976	22	15	1	8	0	0	81	50	63	51	10	78.7	5.72	1.831	5.83	5.48	152.9	62.7	-1.4

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

265

556

478

RBI

217

.0983

OBP

.1566

SLG

.1088

OPS

.2654

Pitching

G (P)

261

239

104

SHO

1,548

SO (P)

1,061

BB allowed

713

366th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.837

WHIP

1.3844

K/9

6.17

341st-highest career K/9

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	RBI	BB	TB
1973-06-28	SD @ CIN Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	0	2
1970-05-06	SD @ PHI Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	0	2
1971-05-30	NYM @ SD Gameday	2	0	2	0	0	2	2
1976-04-22	WSH @ CHC Gameday	1	0	1	1	3	0	2
1975-07-31	SF @ CIN Gameday	2	1	1	1	1	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1971-09-24	HOU @ SD Gameday	15.0	8	1	1	3	15	1
1971-06-10	SD @ NYM Gameday	9.0	4	2	2	1	13	1
1973-06-23	ATL @ SD Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	1	13	0
1971-05-09	CIN @ SD Gameday	9.0	9	2	1	4	12	0
1971-09-29	SF @ SD Gameday	10.0	7	1	1	5	11	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.