MLB / Players

Curt Young

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 175 lb

BornApril 16, 1960 · Saginaw, MI, USA

MLB debutJune 24, 1983

Final gameJuly 5, 1993

Seasons11 (1983–1993)

Oakland Athletics 1983–1991; Kansas City Royals 1992; New York Yankees 1992; Oakland Athletics 1993

Percentile snapshot

1987 season — qualified pitchers

11.7

29.9

49.4

92.2

54.5

SHO

194

62.3

58.4

94.8

124

45.5

3.9

203.0

44.2

ERA

4.08

45.5

WHIP

1.172

89.6

K/9

5.50

41.6

FIP

4.78

16.9

FIP-

113.6

15.6

ERA+

103.2

sWAR

2.3

42.9

of 78 qualified 1987 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

90.7

7.6

sWAR

5.8

81.1

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1983	8	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.2
1984	20	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.8
1985	19	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.3
1986	29	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.0
1987	31	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-111.5	-100.0	.000	2.3
1988	26	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
1989	25	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.1
1990	28	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4
1991	41	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
1992	23	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.6
1993	3	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1983	8	2	0	1	0	0	17	16	5	5	1	9.0	16.00	2.444	5.00	5.16	132.0	24.4	-1.2
1984	20	17	9	4	2	1	118	49	31	41	9	108.7	4.06	1.371	3.40	4.15	109.0	93.7	0.8
1985	19	7	0	4	0	0	57	37	22	19	15	46.0	7.24	1.717	3.72	7.65	195.2	54.2	-1.3
1986	29	27	13	9	5	2	176	76	57	116	19	198.0	3.45	1.177	5.27	3.84	97.4	114.1	3.0
1987	31	31	13	7	6	0	194	92	44	124	38	203.0	4.08	1.172	5.50	4.78	113.6	103.2	2.3
1988	26	26	11	8	1	0	162	72	50	69	23	156.3	4.14	1.356	3.97	4.89	128.4	91.9	0.9
1989	25	20	5	9	1	0	117	46	47	55	10	111.0	3.73	1.477	4.46	4.38	118.1	99.5	1.1
1990	26	21	9	6	0	0	124	67	53	56	17	124.3	4.85	1.424	4.05	5.01	134.2	77.0	-0.4
1991	41	1	4	2	0	0	74	38	34	27	8	68.3	5.00	1.580	3.56	5.22	134.6	77.5	-0.2
1992	23	7	4	2	0	0	80	30	17	20	2	67.7	3.99	1.433	2.66	3.43	86.6	99.2	0.6
1993	3	3	1	1	0	0	14	7	6	4	5	14.7	4.30	1.364	2.45	8.12	196.3	96.2	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

253

RBI

.0000

OBP

.0000

SLG

.0000

OPS

.0000

Pitching

G (P)

251

162

SHO

1,107

SO (P)

536

BB allowed

366

ERA

4.309

WHIP

1.3541

K/9

4.36

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
1987-04-17	ATH @ SEA Gameday	1
1988-10-16	ATH @ LAD Gameday	0
1990-06-17	ATH @ CWS Gameday	0
1990-09-21	DET @ ATH Gameday	0
1991-06-28	KC @ ATH Gameday	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1987-04-07	ATH @ MIN Gameday	7.0	5	3	3	3	10	1
1987-09-10	KC @ ATH Gameday	7.0	5	2	2	2	8	1
1987-06-09	CWS @ ATH Gameday	9.0	1	3	2	3	7	1
1988-09-08	ATH @ KC Gameday	8.0	4	1	1	0	7	1
1984-09-25	ATH @ TEX Gameday	7.0	5	1	1	2	7	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.