George Culver

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 185 lb

BornJuly 8, 1943 · Salinas, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 7, 1966

Final gameJune 9, 1974

Seasons9 (1966–1974)

Cleveland Indians 1966–1967; Cincinnati Reds 1968–1969; Houston Astros 1970; St. Louis Cardinals 1970; Houston Astros 1971–1972; Los Angeles Dodgers 1973; Philadelphia Phillies 1973–1974

Percentile snapshot

1968 season — qualified pitchers

94.7

77.3

21.3

6.7

90.7

10.7

SHO

25.3

229

21.3

9.3

114

18.7

93.3

226.3

54.7

ERA

3.22

25.3

WHIP

1.383

1.3

K/9

4.53

FIP

3.30

FIP-

104.6

ERA+

97.8

34.7

sWAR

1.9

30.7

of 76 qualified 1968 pitchers (min 163 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

5.8

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1966	5	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.3	-100.0	.000	-0.5
1967	53	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	39.9	48.5	.231	0.0
1968	49	80	66	2	8	1	0	2	3	24	0	.121	.159	.136	.296	-29.9	-12.6	.148	1.9
1969	32	33	31	0	3	0	0	0	0	12	0	.097	.097	.097	.194	-69.8	-46.5	.090	0.2
1970	43	25	21	3	4	0	1	6	0	7	1	.190	.174	.286	.460	4.1	21.0	.194	1.1
1971	59	14	11	0	1	0	0	2	0	4	0	.091	.091	.091	.182	-69.9	-47.5	.085	1.7
1972	45	22	19	3	3	1	0	1	1	10	0	.158	.200	.211	.411	10.6	18.4	.197	1.4
1973	42	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.3	-100.0	.000	0.6
1974	14	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.7	-100.0	.000	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1966	5	1	0	2	0	0	0	15	9	7	6	1	9.7	8.38	2.276	5.59	5.02	146.8	40.8	-0.5
1967	53	1	7	3	3	0	0	71	33	31	41	2	75.0	3.96	1.360	4.92	3.15	97.4	81.7	0.0
1968	42	35	11	16	2	5	2	229	81	84	114	8	226.3	3.22	1.383	4.53	3.30	104.6	97.8	1.9
1969	32	13	5	7	4	0	0	117	48	52	58	8	101.3	4.26	1.668	5.15	4.34	116.1	87.8	0.2
1970	43	7	6	6	3	2	0	108	45	45	54	7	101.7	3.98	1.505	4.78	4.13	102.1	101.1	1.1
1971	59	0	5	8	7	0	0	89	28	38	57	4	95.3	2.64	1.332	5.38	3.15	93.1	128.0	1.7
1972	45	0	6	2	2	0	0	73	33	43	82	7	97.3	3.05	1.192	7.58	3.26	96.2	111.0	1.4
1973	42	0	7	5	2	0	0	71	24	36	30	4	60.7	3.56	1.764	4.45	4.25	119.2	100.3	0.6
1974	14	0	1	0	0	0	0	20	16	16	9	1	21.7	6.65	1.662	3.74	4.71	125.2	56.6	-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

342

187

161

RBI

.1242

OBP

.1437

SLG

.1491

OPS

.2928

Pitching

G (P)

335

SHO

789

SO (P)

451

BB allowed

352

ERA

3.616

WHIP

1.4512

K/9

5.14

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	RBI	TB
1970-04-10	NYM @ STL Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	2	3
1968-05-02	CIN @ SF Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	0	2
1972-05-31	CIN @ HOU Gameday	1	0	1	1	0	0	2
1968-09-11	HOU @ CIN Gameday	2	0	1	0	0	1	1
1970-05-09	STL @ ATL Gameday	2	0	1	0	0	1	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1968-09-15	CIN @ SF Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	2	8	0
1968-05-06	PHI @ CIN Gameday	9.0	10	1	1	5	7	0
1968-06-25	NYM @ CIN Gameday	6.2	7	4	4	2	7	1
1969-05-10	CIN @ WSH Gameday	6.2	2	0	0	3	7	0
1972-06-22	HOU @ CIN Gameday	5.2	5	2	2	3	7	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.