MLB / Players

Earl Wilson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 216 lb

BornOctober 2, 1934 · Ponchatoula, LA, USA

MLB debutJuly 28, 1959

Final gameSeptember 22, 1970

Seasons11 (1959–1970)

Boston Red Sox 1959–1960; Boston Red Sox 1962–1966; Detroit Tigers 1966–1970; San Diego Padres 1970

Percentile snapshot

1969 season — qualified pitchers

24.4

55.1

28.2

70.5

16.7

SHO

16.7

209

53.8

64.1

67.9

150

46.2

24.4

214.7

33.3

ERA

3.31

52.6

WHIP

1.295

39.7

K/9

6.29

FIP

3.38

51.3

FIP-

90.5

53.8

ERA+

112.6

61.5

sWAR

3.2

56.4

of 79 qualified 1969 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

98.8

32.7

sWAR

26.2

95.7

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
1959	9	8	8	0	4	2	0	0	4	0	1	.500	.500	.750	1.250	245.0	231.1	.554	-0.1
1960	15	24	23	3	4	1	0	0	2	1	7	.174	.208	.217	.426	3.1	13.3	.200	0.1
1962	35	75	69	8	12	2	0	3	8	5	19	.174	.230	.333	.563	41.7	47.5	.254	2.7
1963	38	82	72	5	15	0	3	1	7	7	18	.208	.288	.333	.621	71.7	70.7	.287	2.7
1964	54	83	73	19	15	4	0	5	13	9	22	.205	.293	.466	.758	102.8	101.6	.336	1.4
1965	47	96	79	13	14	0	0	6	12	13	29	.177	.301	.405	.706	96.5	92.4	.326	2.6
1966	45	113	96	20	23	0	2	7	22	8	36	.240	.299	.500	.799	120.3	120.4	.349	5.9
1967	52	121	108	8	20	2	0	4	15	8	39	.185	.248	.315	.563	62.1	64.2	.264	3.5
1968	40	92	88	9	20	0	1	7	17	2	35	.227	.253	.489	.741	118.8	119.3	.333	4.0
1969	37	89	76	6	10	0	0	0	6	10	37	.132	.230	.132	.361	1.8	2.3	.194	3.2
1970	33	55	48	4	7	1	0	2	5	4	28	.146	.208	.292	.499	29.2	35.6	.230	0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1959	9	4	1	1	0	0	21	16	31	17	2	23.7	6.08	2.197	6.46	6.06	149.3	66.7	-0.1
1960	13	9	3	2	2	0	61	34	48	40	4	65.0	4.71	1.677	5.54	4.19	103.7	85.8	0.1
1962	31	28	12	8	4	1	163	83	111	137	21	191.3	3.90	1.432	6.44	4.34	105.9	105.0	2.7
1963	37	34	11	16	6	3	184	88	105	123	18	210.7	3.76	1.372	5.25	3.91	103.8	100.3	2.7
1964	33	31	11	12	5	0	213	101	73	166	37	202.3	4.49	1.414	7.38	4.31	112.0	85.6	1.4
1965	36	36	13	14	8	1	221	102	77	164	27	230.7	3.98	1.292	6.40	3.55	95.7	93.3	2.6
1966	38	37	18	11	13	3	214	90	74	200	30	264.0	3.07	1.091	6.82	3.31	91.1	117.6	5.9
1967	39	38	22	11	12	0	216	96	92	184	34	264.0	3.27	1.167	6.27	3.78	114.9	100.5	3.5
1968	34	33	13	12	10	3	192	71	65	168	20	224.3	2.85	1.146	6.74	2.75	91.0	106.3	4.0
1969	35	35	12	10	5	1	209	79	69	150	23	214.7	3.31	1.295	6.29	3.38	90.5	112.6	3.2
1970	33	25	5	12	4	1	169	82	51	103	20	161.0	4.58	1.366	5.76	3.96	103.7	83.4	0.4

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

405

838

740

144

RBI

111

271

.1946

OBP

.2647

SLG

.3689

OPS

.6336

Pitching

G (P)

338

310

322nd-most career GS

121

440th-most career W

109

450th-most career L

SHO

478th-most career SHO

2,052

427th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,452

259th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

796

261st-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.694

WHIP

1.2960

K/9

6.37

308th-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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1965-08-16	CWS @ BOS Gameday	3	2	2	0	2	2	0	8
1966-08-13	DET @ BOS Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	5	1	6
1966-06-28	DET @ LAA Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	0	5
1968-08-30	BAL @ DET Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	4	0	5
1963-08-02	BOS @ TEX Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	3	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1965-08-25	TEX @ BOS Gameday	9.0	7	3	3	4	13	3
1962-09-10	BOS @ BAL Gameday	11.0	7	2	2	5	11	0
1964-07-04	LAA @ BOS Gameday	9.0	10	5	4	3	11	2
1964-07-26	BOS @ CLE Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	1	11	0
1965-07-09	BOS @ TEX Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	1	11	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.