MLB / Players

Don Mossi

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 195 lb

BornJanuary 11, 1929 · St. Helena, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 17, 1954

Final gameOctober 1, 1965

Seasons12 (1954–1965)

Cleveland Indians 1954–1958; Detroit Tigers 1959–1963; Chicago White Sox 1964; Kansas City Athletics 1965

Percentile snapshot

1962 season — qualified pitchers

28.4

25.4

37.3

32.8

55.2

47.8

SHO

19.4

195

56.7

58.2

100

121

43.3

28.4

180.3

16.4

ERA

4.19

19.4

WHIP

1.281

55.2

K/9

6.04

70.1

FIP

3.52

62.7

FIP-

86.7

71.6

ERA+

96.8

23.9

sWAR

1.7

25.4

of 68 qualified 1962 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

113.9

sWAR

24.3

95.1

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1954	40	23	19	1	3	0	0	0	0	3	10	.158	.273	.158	.431	23.5	21.5	.230	2.9
1955	57	11	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	4	.111	.273	.111	.384	18.7	6.8	.223	2.3
1956	48	22	20	1	3	2	0	0	2	2	10	.150	.227	.250	.477	21.6	26.0	.230	1.4
1957	36	60	55	4	12	0	1	0	1	4	12	.218	.267	.255	.521	40.4	44.5	.248	1.0
1958	43	27	26	3	3	0	0	0	1	0	13	.115	.111	.115	.226	-57.5	-36.7	.102	0.6
1959	36	86	77	6	13	4	0	1	8	3	28	.169	.198	.260	.457	12.1	22.1	.208	4.1
1960	23	54	43	0	5	0	0	0	2	7	12	.116	.255	.116	.371	10.1	3.5	.207	2.4
1961	35	91	79	8	13	2	0	1	8	6	28	.165	.224	.228	.451	15.9	20.7	.214	5.5
1962	36	66	55	5	9	0	0	0	3	10	20	.164	.292	.164	.456	33.4	25.8	.240	1.7
1963	24	47	39	2	8	2	0	0	4	6	12	.205	.311	.256	.568	65.1	59.5	.277	1.5
1964	34	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	.167	.167	.167	.333	-19.1	-4.5	.152	0.6
1965	51	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.6	-100.0	.000	0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1954	40	5	6	1	7	2	0	56	20	39	55	5	93.0	1.94	1.022	5.32	3.18	86.6	190.0	2.9
1955	57	1	4	3	9	0	0	81	22	18	69	4	81.7	2.42	1.212	7.60	2.07	52.2	163.8	2.3
1956	48	3	6	5	11	0	0	79	35	33	59	6	87.7	3.59	1.278	6.06	3.21	76.7	116.5	1.4
1957	36	22	11	10	2	6	1	165	73	57	97	16	159.0	4.13	1.396	5.49	3.60	96.2	90.6	1.0
1958	43	5	7	8	3	0	0	106	44	30	55	6	101.7	3.90	1.338	4.87	3.13	84.7	95.0	0.6
1959	34	30	17	9	0	15	3	210	85	49	125	20	228.0	3.36	1.136	4.93	3.19	79.0	120.4	4.1
1960	23	22	9	8	0	9	2	158	61	32	69	17	158.3	3.47	1.200	3.92	3.55	90.0	113.9	2.4
1961	35	34	15	7	1	12	1	237	79	47	137	29	240.3	2.96	1.182	5.13	3.52	86.4	137.6	5.5
1962	35	27	11	13	1	8	1	195	84	36	121	24	180.3	4.19	1.281	6.04	3.52	86.7	96.8	1.7
1963	24	16	7	7	2	3	0	110	51	17	68	20	122.7	3.74	1.035	4.99	3.98	106.7	99.8	1.5
1964	34	0	3	1	7	0	0	37	13	7	36	9	40.0	2.93	1.100	8.10	4.18	120.7	118.6	0.6
1965	51	0	5	8	7	0	0	59	23	20	41	0	55.3	3.74	1.428	6.67	2.00	57.4	93.2	0.3

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

463

501

436

RBI

152

.1628

OBP

.2381

SLG

.2041

OPS

.4422

Pitching

G (P)

460

165

101

373rd-most career SV

SHO

1,548

SO (P)

932

BB allowed

385

ERA

3.430

386th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2132

202nd-lowest career WHIP

K/9

5.42

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
1959-09-04	ATH @ DET Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	0	1	0	5
1959-08-30	DET @ ATH Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	1	1	0	5
1961-07-16	ATH @ DET Gameday	3	2	1	0	0	1	2	1	4
1959-09-12	DET @ NYY Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	3
1957-06-25	CLE @ NYY Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1961-04-21	LAA @ DET Gameday	9.0	8	1	1	2	9	1
1957-09-27	CLE @ CWS Gameday	7.0	5	2	2	6	9	1
1959-08-30	DET @ ATH Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	2	8	0
1959-08-09	DET @ BOS Gameday	8.2	12	3	3	4	8	1
1962-07-04	DET @ CLE Gameday	8.2	6	1	1	1	8	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

1× 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.