MLB / Players

Don Gullett

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 190 lb

BornJanuary 6, 1951 · Lynn, KY, USA

MLB debutApril 10, 1970

Final gameJuly 9, 1978

Seasons9 (1970–1978)

Cincinnati Reds 1970–1976; New York Yankees 1977–1978

Percentile snapshot

1974 season — qualified pitchers

36.9

47.6

72.6

64.3

48.8

SHO

60.7

201

65.5

29.8

183

84.5

22.6

243.0

58.3

ERA

3.04

77.4

WHIP

1.189

78.6

K/9

6.78

90.5

FIP

3.37

60.7

FIP-

95.1

51.2

ERA+

116.6

72.6

sWAR

4.3

of 85 qualified 1974 pitchers (min 163 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

114.7

82.2

sWAR

22.3

94.4

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1970	44	20	19	3	4	0	1	2	1	6	1	0	.211	.250	.316	.566	48.8	51.3	.261	2.3
1971	40	82	75	3	9	1	0	3	1	20	0	0	.120	.143	.133	.276	-34.8	-20.1	.134	3.9
1972	31	45	38	7	8	1	0	3	2	14	0	0	.211	.250	.237	.487	40.5	43.6	.234	0.3
1973	53	79	64	6	12	0	1	6	7	20	1	0	.188	.264	.219	.483	42.2	39.3	.239	2.5
1974	39	97	80	8	19	2	0	10	6	19	0	1	.238	.287	.263	.550	57.6	57.1	.268	4.3
1975	22	68	62	5	14	1	1	9	2	15	0	0	.226	.246	.274	.520	37.0	44.5	.245	4.2
1976	25	51	44	2	8	0	0	3	1	7	0	0	.182	.200	.182	.382	-1.9	8.8	.184	2.1
1977	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.3
1978	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	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
1970	44	2	5	2	6	0	0	54	21	44	76	4	77.7	2.43	1.262	8.81	3.26	80.7	166.0	2.3
1971	35	31	16	6	0	4	3	196	64	64	107	14	217.7	2.65	1.194	4.42	3.31	97.8	127.7	3.9
1972	31	16	9	10	2	2	0	127	59	43	96	15	134.7	3.94	1.262	6.42	3.53	108.2	82.7	0.3
1973	45	30	18	8	2	7	4	198	89	69	153	24	228.3	3.51	1.169	6.03	3.52	101.2	99.2	2.5
1974	36	35	17	11	0	10	3	201	82	88	183	22	243.0	3.04	1.189	6.78	3.37	95.1	116.6	4.3
1975	22	22	15	4	0	8	3	127	43	56	98	11	159.7	2.42	1.146	5.52	3.37	92.5	150.5	4.2
1976	23	20	11	3	1	4	0	119	42	48	64	8	126.0	3.00	1.325	4.57	3.60	101.5	118.2	2.1
1977	22	22	14	4	0	7	1	137	63	69	116	14	158.3	3.58	1.301	6.59	3.75	94.2	111.2	2.3
1978	8	8	4	2	0	2	0	46	18	20	28	3	44.7	3.63	1.478	5.64	3.58	97.8	101.0	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

284

442

382

RBI

101

.1937

OBP

.2340

SLG

.2225

OPS

.4565

Pitching

G (P)

266

186

109

SHO

436th-most career SHO

1,390

SO (P)

921

BB allowed

501

ERA

3.114

217th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2273

247th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

5.96

388th-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	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1975-10-04	PIT @ CIN Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	3	5
1974-07-16	CIN @ STL Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	0	3	4
1976-10-09	CIN @ PHI Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	0	3	3
1973-09-22	CIN @ LAD Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	0	2	3
1975-06-16	ATL @ CIN Gameday	3	0	1	0	1	0	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1977-09-23	NYY @ TOR Gameday	9.0	5	3	3	0	12	2
1973-09-18	HOU @ CIN Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	0	11	0
1974-09-10	SD @ CIN Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	0	11	1
1972-09-15	SD @ CIN Gameday	7.0	5	1	1	5	11	1
1972-08-25	PHI @ CIN Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	4	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.