MLB / Players

Frank Lary

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb

BornApril 10, 1930 · Northport, AL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 14, 1954

Final gameSeptember 21, 1965

Seasons12 (1954–1965)

Detroit Tigers 1954–1964; Milwaukee Braves 1964; New York Mets 1964; Chicago White Sox 1965; New York Mets 1965

Percentile snapshot

1961 season — qualified pitchers

48.5

90.9

98.5

74.2

100

SHO

90.9

252

6.1

30.3

146

69.7

34.8

275.3

98.5

ERA

3.24

75.8

WHIP

1.155

92.4

K/9

4.77

43.9

FIP

3.36

81.8

FIP-

82.5

83.3

ERA+

125.8

81.8

sWAR

5.7

98.5

of 67 qualified 1961 pitchers (min 163 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

112.9

78.5

sWAR

33.1

96.9

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1954	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
1955	36	91	82	4	16	2	0	0	2	4	29	0	.195	.233	.220	.452	17.8	24.0	.219	4.5
1956	41	119	103	14	19	2	0	1	12	8	25	0	.184	.239	.233	.472	20.9	26.1	.227	6.1
1957	40	84	73	4	9	0	1	0	4	2	22	0	.123	.147	.151	.297	-35.9	-18.7	.141	1.6
1958	39	100	88	6	15	1	1	1	6	3	20	2	.170	.198	.239	.436	3.6	16.4	.201	5.9
1959	32	92	80	7	10	1	1	1	2	4	26	0	.125	.167	.200	.367	-12.1	-1.7	.172	3.3
1960	39	108	93	11	17	4	1	2	13	7	32	0	.183	.240	.312	.552	42.1	47.1	.255	4.5
1961	42	115	108	13	25	2	0	1	5	3	27	0	.231	.259	.278	.537	37.8	43.2	.247	5.7
1962	22	26	24	3	4	0	1	0	1	2	9	0	.167	.231	.250	.481	24.0	28.4	.226	-0.7
1963	16	38	35	2	8	0	1	0	6	1	10	0	.229	.250	.286	.536	41.7	48.1	.244	1.8
1964	24	33	27	1	2	0	0	0	1	5	7	0	.074	.219	.074	.293	-6.1	-12.5	.173	-0.7
1965	28	22	21	3	5	0	0	0	2	0	4	0	.238	.238	.238	.476	29.1	37.0	.218	1.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1954	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	3	5	0	3.7	2.45	1.909	12.27	2.11	56.8	151.1	0.1
1955	36	31	14	15	1	16	2	232	81	89	98	10	235.0	3.10	1.366	3.75	3.36	86.7	125.0	4.5
1956	41	38	21	13	1	20	3	289	103	116	165	20	294.0	3.15	1.378	5.05	3.57	86.7	130.7	6.1
1957	40	35	11	16	3	12	2	250	105	72	107	23	237.7	3.98	1.355	4.05	3.82	99.7	96.3	1.6
1958	39	34	16	15	1	19	3	249	84	68	131	20	260.3	2.90	1.218	4.53	3.36	84.0	137.7	5.9
1959	32	32	17	10	0	11	3	225	88	46	137	23	223.0	3.55	1.215	5.53	3.34	82.8	113.7	3.3
1960	38	36	15	15	1	15	2	262	107	62	149	25	274.3	3.51	1.181	4.89	3.39	85.8	112.5	4.5
1961	36	36	23	9	0	22	4	252	99	66	146	24	275.3	3.24	1.155	4.77	3.36	82.5	125.8	5.7
1962	17	14	2	6	0	2	1	98	51	21	41	17	80.0	5.74	1.488	4.61	5.19	127.9	70.7	-0.7
1963	16	14	4	9	0	6	0	90	39	26	46	15	107.3	3.27	1.081	3.86	4.29	114.8	114.2	1.8
1964	24	14	3	5	1	3	1	101	49	24	37	14	87.7	5.03	1.426	3.80	4.98	138.9	71.2	-0.7
1965	28	8	2	3	3	0	0	71	31	23	37	6	84.0	3.32	1.119	3.96	3.54	104.5	102.6	1.0

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

362

828

734

130

RBI

211

.1771

OBP

.2191

SLG

.2343

OPS

.4534

Pitching

G (P)

350

292

381st-most career GS

128

390th-most career W

116

380th-most career L

126

308th-most career CG

SHO

232nd-most career SHO

2,162

364th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,099

484th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

616

ERA

3.488

436th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2667

410th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.57

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
1958-08-30	DET @ CWS Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	1	0	6
1960-06-12	DET @ MIN Gameday	3	2	2	1	0	1	4	1	6
1961-05-12	DET @ NYY Gameday	4	2	2	1	0	1	1	0	6
1960-09-03	DET @ CWS Gameday	2	1	2	0	0	1	1	1	5
1957-06-05	MIN @ DET Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	0	0	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1961-07-09	LAA @ DET Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	2	10	0
1956-08-28	DET @ BOS Gameday	9.0	5	3	3	4	9	2
1959-05-20	DET @ NYY Gameday	9.0	10	6	6	3	9	3
1959-07-18	DET @ BAL Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	1	9	0
1960-09-20	DET @ CLE Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	1	9	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× Gold Glove2× 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.