MLB / Players

Gary Peters

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 200 lb

BornApril 21, 1937 · Grove City, PA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1959

Final gameSeptember 23, 1972

Seasons14 (1959–1972)

Chicago White Sox 1959–1969; Boston Red Sox 1970–1972

Percentile snapshot

1971 season — qualified pitchers

30.5

36.6

46.3

62.2

82.9

40.2

SHO

13.4

241

30.5

104

7.3

47.6

100

19.5

15.9

214.0

31.7

ERA

4.37

6.1

WHIP

1.453

8.5

K/9

4.21

15.9

FIP

4.01

15.9

FIP-

109.4

ERA+

83.8

8.5

sWAR

1.2

20.7

of 83 qualified 1971 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

106.0

61.3

sWAR

31.6

96.8

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
1959	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
1960	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
1961	3	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	79.3	81.6	.305	0.4
1962	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
1963	50	89	81	12	21	4	1	3	12	3	19	0	.259	.287	.444	.732	98.6	105.6	.315	6.8
1964	54	126	120	9	25	7	0	4	19	2	29	0	.208	.228	.367	.594	60.2	66.3	.262	6.8
1965	42	75	72	2	13	1	0	1	6	2	15	0	.181	.200	.236	.436	20.8	28.4	.200	1.1
1966	38	84	81	12	19	3	2	1	9	0	19	0	.235	.235	.358	.593	69.1	74.5	.262	5.7
1967	48	107	99	10	21	0	2	2	13	2	23	0	.212	.243	.313	.556	59.9	67.6	.252	5.9
1968	46	79	72	10	15	3	1	2	8	6	13	0	.208	.278	.361	.640	89.4	92.4	.295	0.7
1969	37	81	71	9	12	4	0	2	4	2	15	0	.169	.200	.310	.510	25.6	37.4	.232	0.6
1970	37	92	82	12	20	3	1	1	11	8	11	0	.244	.311	.341	.653	75.9	75.0	.307	2.7
1971	53	107	96	7	26	4	0	3	19	3	20	1	.271	.294	.406	.700	87.9	91.9	.318	1.2
1972	33	32	30	2	6	2	0	0	1	1	7	0	.200	.219	.267	.485	26.7	41.1	.226	-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
1959	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	2	1	0	1.0	0.00	4.000	9.00	6.46	171.7	—	0.1
1960	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	1	4	0	3.3	2.70	1.500	10.80	0.90	23.7	140.9	0.1
1961	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	10	2	2	6	0	10.3	1.74	1.161	5.23	1.92	48.9	225.8	0.4
1962	5	0	0	1	0	0	0	8	4	1	4	0	6.3	5.68	1.421	5.68	2.20	56.3	68.6	-0.1
1963	41	30	19	8	1	13	4	192	63	68	189	9	243.0	2.33	1.070	7.00	2.32	66.3	150.3	6.8
1964	37	36	20	8	0	11	3	217	76	104	205	20	273.7	2.50	1.173	6.74	3.13	90.2	138.8	6.8
1965	33	30	10	12	0	1	0	181	71	63	95	19	176.3	3.62	1.384	4.85	3.86	120.0	88.8	1.1
1966	30	27	12	10	0	11	4	156	45	45	129	11	204.7	1.98	.982	5.67	2.58	80.9	161.0	5.7
1967	38	36	16	11	0	11	3	187	66	91	215	15	260.0	2.28	1.069	7.44	2.69	87.4	134.8	5.9
1968	31	25	4	13	1	6	1	146	68	60	110	7	162.7	3.76	1.266	6.09	2.67	88.8	79.8	0.7
1969	36	32	10	15	0	7	3	238	110	78	140	21	218.7	4.53	1.445	5.76	3.47	90.6	84.6	0.6
1970	34	34	16	11	0	10	4	221	100	83	155	20	221.7	4.06	1.371	6.29	3.42	86.5	97.4	2.7
1971	34	32	14	11	1	9	1	241	104	70	100	25	214.0	4.37	1.453	4.21	4.01	109.4	83.8	1.2
1972	33	4	3	3	1	0	0	91	41	38	67	10	85.3	4.32	1.512	7.07	3.66	114.0	74.4	-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

450

875

807

179

RBI

102

172

.2218

OBP

.2529

SLG

.3482

OPS

.6011

Pitching

G (P)

359

286

397th-most career GS

124

412th-most career W

103

SHO

207th-most career SHO

2,081

409th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,420

270th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

706

381st-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.248

288th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2494

337th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

6.14

343rd-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	HR	RBI	TB
1963-08-11	DET @ CWS Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	1	7
1964-07-26	MIN @ CWS Gameday	5	1	3	0	1	3	6
1967-05-24	CWS @ MIN Gameday	5	2	3	0	1	2	6
1964-07-13	CWS @ ATH Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	3	5
1967-06-10	CWS @ NYY Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	2	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1963-07-15	BAL @ CWS Gameday	9.0	1	0	0	0	13	0
1967-04-21	CWS @ TEX Gameday	8.2	7	4	3	6	12	0
1963-08-21	CWS @ BOS Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	4	11	0
1967-07-02	CWS @ DET Gameday	7.0	3	3	3	2	11	2
1964-07-17	ATH @ CWS Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	4	10	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× Rookie of the Year2× 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.