MLB / Players

Cy Blanton

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 180 lb

BornJuly 6, 1908 · Waurika, OK, USA

MLB debutSeptember 23, 1934

Final gameMay 6, 1942

Seasons9 (1934–1942)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1934–1939; Philadelphia Phillies 1940–1942

Percentile snapshot

1941 season — qualified pitchers

44.3

23.7

18.6

28.9

SHO

35.1

186

42.3

29.9

49.5

55.7

28.9

163.7

44.3

ERA

4.51

23.7

WHIP

1.485

26.8

K/9

3.52

46.4

FIP

3.76

58.8

FIP-

104.2

28.9

ERA+

79.9

11.3

sWAR

-0.4

9.3

of 98 qualified 1941 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

109.5

71.2

sWAR

15.2

91.1

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	R	H	2B	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1934	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	118.2	45.2	.372	0.2
1935	35	104	97	3	13	1	6	4	19	.134	.168	.144	.313	-23.3	-15.9	.151	6.3
1936	44	92	84	6	13	2	5	3	17	.155	.184	.179	.362	-11.1	-2.3	.173	3.4
1937	36	98	85	4	14	0	3	9	20	.165	.245	.165	.409	14.8	13.7	.209	3.9
1938	29	69	64	4	13	0	7	1	17	.203	.215	.203	.419	4.6	15.6	.196	1.8
1939	10	14	14	2	4	1	3	0	3	.286	.286	.357	.643	64.9	72.6	.292	0.3
1940	13	28	24	3	2	0	0	2	6	.083	.154	.083	.237	-39.5	-32.7	.128	0.2
1941	28	58	51	0	6	0	2	3	15	.118	.167	.118	.284	-27.9	-18.7	.146	-0.4
1942	6	8	8	0	1	0	0	0	1	.125	.125	.125	.250	-48.2	-26.0	.118	-0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1934	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	5	3	4	5	1	8.0	3.38	1.125	5.63	5.34	129.6	122.0	0.2
1935	35	31	18	13	1	23	4	220	73	55	142	3	254.3	2.58	1.081	5.02	2.73	66.8	158.3	6.3
1936	44	32	13	15	3	15	4	235	92	55	127	9	235.7	3.51	1.231	4.85	3.20	79.2	115.0	3.4
1937	36	34	14	12	0	14	4	250	89	76	143	13	242.7	3.30	1.343	5.30	3.47	89.7	117.2	3.9
1938	29	25	11	7	0	10	1	190	71	46	80	13	172.7	3.70	1.367	4.17	3.62	95.5	102.5	1.8
1939	10	6	2	3	0	1	0	45	20	10	11	4	42.0	4.29	1.310	2.36	4.24	109.3	90.5	0.3
1940	13	10	4	3	0	5	0	82	37	21	24	7	77.0	4.32	1.338	2.81	4.16	109.0	88.3	0.2
1941	28	25	6	13	0	7	1	186	82	57	64	11	163.7	4.51	1.485	3.52	3.76	104.2	79.9	-0.4
1942	6	3	0	4	0	0	0	30	14	13	15	3	22.3	5.64	1.925	6.04	4.57	140.7	57.6	-0.5

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

202

473

428

RBI

.1542

OBP

.1973

SLG

.1636

OPS

.3609

Pitching

G (P)

202

167

SHO

436th-most career SHO

1,218

SO (P)

611

BB allowed

337

ERA

3.553

489th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2969

K/9

4.51

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
1937-08-15	PIT @ STL Gameday	4	0	4	0	1	0	4
1939-08-27	PIT @ LAD Gameday	5	1	3	1	3	0	4
1936-05-31	PIT @ CHC Gameday	2	0	2	1	1	0	3
1938-08-29	LAD @ PIT Gameday	4	0	2	0	3	0	2
1935-09-06	LAD @ PIT Gameday	4	1	2	0	2	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1935-04-24	PIT @ CIN Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	3	11	0
1937-06-12	PIT @ LAD Gameday	9.0	11	3	3	1	11	1
1935-05-26	PHI @ PIT Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	3	9	0
1937-09-18	LAD @ PIT Gameday	9.0	10	2	2	2	9	0
1936-07-23	PIT @ PHI Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	0	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

2× 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.