MLB / Players

Don Wilson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 195 lb

BornFebruary 12, 1945 · Monroe, LA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 29, 1966

Final gameSeptember 28, 1974

Seasons9 (1966–1974)

Houston Astros 1966–1974

Percentile snapshot

1974 season — qualified pitchers

15.5

16.7

23.8

35.7

8.3

SHO

79.8

170

89.3

84.5

100

14.3

112

41.7

57.1

204.7

26.2

ERA

3.08

72.6

WHIP

1.319

47.6

K/9

4.93

51.2

FIP

4.03

14.3

FIP-

115.1

4.8

ERA+

113.8

sWAR

3.3

58.3

of 85 qualified 1974 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

109.8

71.9

sWAR

23.6

94.9

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
1966	1	2	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	1.000	1.500	332.9	314.9	.649	0.2
1967	31	72	66	1	6	1	0	0	1	1	27	.091	.143	.106	.249	-34.9	-26.7	.128	2.8
1968	34	78	70	7	15	2	0	1	6	1	16	.214	.236	.286	.522	51.3	57.1	.246	1.6
1969	34	92	81	7	8	2	0	0	5	3	36	.099	.167	.123	.290	-22.5	-16.6	.150	0.8
1970	30	73	69	1	8	2	0	0	4	0	28	.116	.129	.145	.273	-35.2	-25.3	.127	1.6
1971	35	100	91	5	14	1	0	0	7	1	37	.154	.181	.165	.346	-11.0	0.1	.167	5.6
1972	33	86	76	5	8	0	1	0	2	2	35	.105	.128	.132	.260	-41.3	-25.0	.125	4.0
1973	37	86	79	4	14	4	0	0	5	1	32	.177	.188	.228	.415	5.4	15.3	.192	3.7
1974	33	75	63	6	13	5	0	0	5	0	19	.206	.227	.286	.513	39.2	45.9	.240	3.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1966	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	5	2	1	7	1	6.0	3.00	1.000	10.50	3.01	87.2	114.9	0.2
1967	31	28	10	9	0	7	3	141	57	69	159	10	184.0	2.79	1.141	7.78	2.88	86.8	118.8	2.8
1968	33	30	13	16	0	9	3	187	76	70	175	9	208.7	3.28	1.232	7.55	2.49	84.1	90.4	1.6
1969	34	34	16	12	0	13	1	210	100	97	235	16	225.0	4.00	1.364	9.40	2.91	82.1	88.5	0.8
1970	29	27	11	6	0	3	0	188	80	66	94	15	184.3	3.91	1.378	4.59	4.08	104.3	100.1	1.6
1971	35	34	16	10	0	18	3	195	73	79	180	15	268.0	2.45	1.022	6.04	2.89	85.4	138.1	5.6
1972	33	33	15	10	0	13	3	196	68	66	172	16	228.3	2.68	1.147	6.78	2.83	83.4	126.4	4.0
1973	37	32	11	16	2	10	3	187	85	92	149	21	239.3	3.20	1.166	5.60	3.69	101.1	114.1	3.7
1974	33	27	11	13	0	5	4	170	70	100	112	16	204.7	3.08	1.319	4.93	4.03	115.1	113.8	3.3

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

268

664

597

RBI

230

.1457

OBP

.1752

SLG

.1843

OPS

.3595

Pitching

G (P)

266

245

104

SHO

246th-most career SHO

1,748

SO (P)

1,283

335th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

640

479th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.145

232nd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2120

197th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

6.60

266th-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	BB	TB
1974-08-05	HOU @ SF Gameday	3	1	3	1	0	0	0	0	4
1968-08-31	HOU @ CHC Gameday	3	2	1	0	0	1	1	0	4
1969-07-07	HOU @ SF Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	0	1	1	3
1974-06-07	NYM @ HOU Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	0	0	0	3
1972-09-07	HOU @ SF Gameday	6	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1968-07-14	HOU @ CIN Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	2	18	0
1968-09-10	HOU @ CIN Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	2	16	1
1967-06-18	ATL @ HOU Gameday	9.0	0	0	0	3	15	0
1969-07-07	HOU @ SF Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	3	14	0
1972-08-20	HOU @ PHI Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	3	14	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

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.