Curt Simmons

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb

BornMay 19, 1929 · Egypt, PA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 28, 1947

Final gameOctober 1, 1967

Seasons20 (1947–1967)

Philadelphia Phillies 1947–1950; Philadelphia Phillies 1952–1960; St. Louis Cardinals 1960–1965; Chicago Cubs 1966; St. Louis Cardinals 1966; California Angels 1967; Chicago Cubs 1967

Percentile snapshot

1965 season — qualified pitchers

18.1

47.2

12.5

13.9

23.6

SHO

229

19.4

23.6

16.7

44.4

203.0

43.1

ERA

4.08

12.5

WHIP

1.394

11.1

K/9

4.26

11.1

FIP

3.76

16.7

FIP-

101.4

34.7

ERA+

91.0

20.8

sWAR

0.5

9.7

of 73 qualified 1965 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

109.8

sWAR

46.8

98.6

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
1947	1	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	175.7	169.5	.461	0.4
1948	31	58	51	3	7	0	0	0	4	3	13	0	0	.137	.200	.137	.337	-12.7	-6.5	.172	-0.3
1949	39	42	41	1	7	1	0	0	1	1	7	0	0	.171	.190	.195	.386	-8.4	3.9	.180	0.4
1950	34	86	77	11	12	0	0	0	3	6	10	0	0	.156	.217	.156	.373	-4.2	1.3	.185	3.5
1952	28	78	67	4	11	1	0	1	8	6	17	0	0	.164	.233	.224	.457	23.2	28.7	.221	4.2
1953	32	100	93	6	13	1	1	0	3	2	15	1	0	.140	.167	.172	.339	-21.5	-10.5	.156	4.7
1954	38	100	91	11	16	0	0	0	8	3	20	0	0	.176	.202	.176	.378	-13.2	0.8	.178	5.8
1955	27	48	46	5	8	1	1	0	2	1	10	0	0	.174	.191	.239	.431	6.9	14.8	.194	-0.2
1956	39	79	72	6	17	3	0	0	9	4	9	0	0	.236	.273	.278	.551	47.7	50.2	.253	3.1
1957	38	80	71	7	17	1	0	0	7	6	11	0	0	.239	.299	.254	.552	53.9	52.4	.262	3.3
1958	38	63	59	4	12	1	0	0	4	1	14	0	0	.203	.217	.220	.437	6.4	16.9	.200	0.8
1959	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1960	33	53	47	8	10	1	0	0	1	4	9	0	0	.213	.275	.234	.509	35.2	36.9	.245	3.5
1961	32	77	66	9	20	3	0	0	6	8	22	0	0	.303	.378	.348	.727	95.3	88.5	.341	5.2
1962	31	58	50	4	8	1	0	0	4	5	11	0	0	.160	.232	.180	.412	4.9	8.8	.204	2.9
1963	32	87	81	4	13	2	1	0	5	2	32	1	0	.160	.179	.210	.388	-7.5	7.9	.178	5.5
1964	34	106	94	6	10	0	0	0	6	4	32	0	0	.106	.143	.106	.249	-45.6	-30.7	.124	3.2
1965	34	67	64	2	3	1	0	0	1	0	30	0	0	.047	.047	.063	.109	-96.1	-70.1	.049	0.5
1966	29	32	26	0	3	1	0	0	0	3	11	0	1	.115	.207	.154	.361	0.5	1.8	.184	0.3
1967	31	39	37	2	6	1	0	0	4	0	10	0	0	.162	.162	.189	.351	-15.7	1.0	.162	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1947	1	1	1	0	0	1	0	5	1	6	9	0	9.0	1.00	1.222	9.00	2.57	64.7	397.2	0.4
1948	31	23	7	13	0	7	0	169	92	108	86	8	170.0	4.87	1.629	4.55	4.11	105.6	79.9	-0.3
1949	38	14	4	10	1	2	0	133	67	55	83	7	131.3	4.59	1.431	5.69	3.24	80.5	87.6	0.4
1950	31	27	17	8	1	11	2	178	81	88	146	19	214.7	3.40	1.239	6.12	3.50	87.0	118.6	3.5
1952	28	28	14	8	0	15	6	170	63	70	141	11	201.3	2.82	1.192	6.30	2.78	76.4	129.5	4.2
1953	32	30	16	13	0	19	4	211	85	82	138	17	238.0	3.21	1.231	5.22	3.46	82.5	130.4	4.7
1954	34	33	14	15	1	21	3	226	79	98	125	14	253.0	2.81	1.281	4.45	3.37	84.0	142.8	5.8
1955	25	22	8	8	0	3	0	148	71	50	58	15	130.0	4.92	1.523	4.02	4.14	104.2	80.8	-0.2
1956	33	27	15	10	0	14	0	186	74	65	88	17	198.0	3.36	1.268	4.00	3.49	94.0	110.4	3.1
1957	32	29	12	11	0	9	2	214	81	50	92	11	212.0	3.44	1.245	3.91	3.05	80.2	110.8	3.3
1958	29	27	7	14	1	7	1	196	82	40	78	11	168.3	4.38	1.402	4.17	3.20	81.4	89.6	0.8
1959	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	16	5	0	4	2	10.0	4.50	1.600	3.60	4.72	117.2	89.5	0.0
1960	27	19	7	4	0	3	1	162	53	37	67	14	156.0	3.06	1.276	3.87	3.67	91.9	131.2	3.5
1961	30	29	9	10	0	6	2	203	68	64	99	14	195.7	3.13	1.365	4.55	3.63	83.8	138.3	5.2
1962	31	22	10	10	0	9	4	167	60	32	74	18	154.0	3.51	1.292	4.32	3.96	93.5	120.8	2.9
1963	32	32	15	9	0	11	6	209	64	48	127	13	232.7	2.48	1.105	4.91	2.83	80.2	142.5	5.5
1964	34	34	18	9	0	12	3	233	93	49	104	24	244.0	3.43	1.156	3.84	3.84	101.3	110.5	3.2
1965	34	32	9	15	0	5	0	229	92	54	96	19	203.0	4.08	1.394	4.26	3.76	101.4	91.0	0.5
1966	29	15	5	8	0	4	1	114	52	35	38	10	110.7	4.23	1.346	3.09	4.14	112.6	86.9	0.3
1967	31	18	5	8	1	4	1	144	55	32	44	11	116.7	4.24	1.509	3.39	3.98	116.0	80.5	-0.1

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

609

1,256

1,135

194

RBI

283

.1709

OBP

.2127

SLG

.1956

OPS

.4083

Pitching

G (P)

569

292nd-most career G (P)

462

81st-most career GS

193

143rd-most career W

183

65th-most career L

163

193rd-most career CG

SHO

63rd-most career SHO

3,348

91st-most career IP

SO (P)

1,697

162nd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,063

94th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.543

482nd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3069

K/9

4.56

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
1949-06-23	PHI @ PIT Gameday	5	0	4	1	0	0	1	0	5
1953-04-15	SF @ PHI Gameday	4	0	3	1	0	0	0	0	4
1955-05-01	CHC @ PHI Gameday	2	1	2	0	1	0	1	0	4
1952-05-22	PIT @ PHI Gameday	2	1	1	0	0	1	3	0	4
1958-06-07	PHI @ STL Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	0	2	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1952-05-13	CHC @ PHI Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	2	12	0
1962-04-14	STL @ CHC Gameday	9.0	7	4	2	2	11	1
1952-07-15	PHI @ PIT Gameday	9.0	8	3	3	4	10	0
1953-05-16	PHI @ ATL Gameday	9.0	1	0	0	0	10	0
1953-08-02	PHI @ ATL Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	1	10	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.

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.