MLB / Players

Fritz Peterson

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Left
Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb
BornFebruary 8, 1942 · Chicago, IL, USA
MLB debutApril 15, 1966
Final gameJune 19, 1976
Seasons11 (1966–1976)

New York Yankees 1966–1973; Cleveland Indians 1974; New York Yankees 1974; Cleveland Indians 1975–1976; Texas Rangers 1976

Percentile snapshot

1973 season — qualified pitchers

G
31
7
GS
31
32.6
W
8
7
L
15
23.3
SV
0
0
CG
6
17.4
SHO
0
0
H
207
62.8
ER
81
68.6
BB
49
95.3
SO
59
2.3
HR
18
59.3
IP
184.3
15.1
ERA
3.95
25.6
WHIP
1.389
19.8
K/9
2.88
3.5
FIP
4.12
16.3
FIP-
111.9
11.6
ERA+
93.2
17.4
sWAR
1.2
17.4

of 87 qualified 1973 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+
102.3
47.7
sWAR
24.6
95.2

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
1966347767415500021900.224.246.299.54554.558.8.2482.6
196736564827100151900.146.226.167.39320.120.2.2001.1
196836716325110412400.079.106.127.233-49.4-28.3.1122.6
196937958089300282200.113.193.150.343-2.6-0.4.1775.7
1970399990720302702400.222.228.322.55045.854.3.2475.1
1971371058527100852200.082.132.094.226-50.1-34.5.1183.6
19723510082619100931400.232.259.244.50346.753.0.2422.0
1973310000000000001.2
1974320000000000000.1
1975250000000000001.2
197613000000000000-0.6

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
196634321211011219679409615215.03.311.0984.023.0591.6100.62.6
19673630814061179704310211181.33.471.2245.062.8491.089.91.1
196836271211062187622911513212.32.631.0174.872.4083.1110.02.6
1969373717160164228774315015272.02.55.9964.962.4871.5136.35.7
197039372011082247844012724260.32.901.1024.393.1588.9121.95.1
1971373515131164269934213925274.03.051.1354.573.0388.2112.63.6
1972353517150123270904410017250.33.241.2543.602.9498.792.12.0
1973313181506020781495918184.33.951.3892.884.12111.993.21.2
1974323091403020078395717160.34.381.4913.204.04111.782.70.1
1975252514806215464404715146.33.941.3262.894.19110.596.31.2
197613111300080351723362.05.081.5653.343.3394.769.2-0.6

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

G
355
PA
603
AB
515
R
31
H
82
2B
15
3B
1
HR
2
RBI
31
BB
24
SO
144
SB
0
BA
.1592
OBP
.1985
SLG
.2039
OPS
.4024

Pitching

G (P)
355
GS
330
263rd-most career GS
W
133
353rd-most career W
L
131
269th-most career L
SV
1
CG
90
478th-most career CG
SHO
20
246th-most career SHO
IP
2,218
344th-most career IP
SO (P)
1,015
BB allowed
426
ERA
3.298
307th-lowest career ERA
WHIP
1.1914
146th-lowest career WHIP
K/9
4.12

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1970-04-28LAA @ NYY Gameday322001305
1970-05-18BAL @ NYY Gameday411001204
1972-06-10NYY @ KC Gameday413000203
1972-08-04NYY @ MIL Gameday413000203
1967-07-29ATH @ NYY Gameday302100103

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1966-06-07NYY @ CLE Gameday9.0522191
1969-05-06NYY @ LAA Gameday9.0511290
1968-04-22NYY @ ATH Gameday7.2611090
1968-06-29ATH @ NYY Gameday7.0842190
1969-06-29NYY @ CLE Gameday7.0744191

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

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.