Harvey Haddix

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 9 in · 170 lb

BornSeptember 18, 1925 · Medway, OH, USA

MLB debutAugust 20, 1952

Final gameAugust 28, 1965

Seasons14 (1952–1965)

St. Louis Cardinals 1952–1955; Philadelphia Phillies 1956; St. Louis Cardinals 1956; Philadelphia Phillies 1957; Cincinnati Redlegs 1958; Pittsburgh Pirates 1959–1963; Baltimore Orioles 1964–1965

Percentile snapshot

1961 season — qualified pitchers

7.6

6.1

18.2

92.4

6.1

SHO

42.4

159

89.4

84.8

95.5

30.3

83.3

156.0

ERA

4.10

24.2

WHIP

1.282

59.1

K/9

5.71

66.7

FIP

3.47

77.3

FIP-

87.1

72.7

ERA+

97.4

21.2

sWAR

1.4

19.7

of 67 qualified 1961 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

108.4

67.7

sWAR

33.5

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	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1952	9	15	14	3	3	0	0	0	2	1	5	1	.214	.267	.214	.481	30.1	35.1	.233	0.9
1953	48	107	97	21	28	3	3	1	11	5	19	0	.289	.337	.412	.749	92.4	93.7	.334	6.9
1954	61	99	93	16	18	4	2	0	4	5	11	2	.194	.232	.280	.512	21.0	32.3	.232	4.5
1955	37	78	73	10	12	2	2	1	7	4	15	0	.164	.208	.288	.495	23.7	29.4	.224	1.2
1956	51	109	102	7	24	5	0	0	11	7	13	0	.235	.284	.284	.569	55.1	55.3	.264	3.0
1957	41	74	68	6	21	3	1	0	6	3	12	1	.309	.333	.382	.716	94.3	94.2	.321	1.8
1958	42	75	61	11	11	4	0	1	1	8	18	0	.180	.275	.295	.570	47.5	47.9	.269	3.5
1959	31	87	83	3	12	4	0	0	5	3	17	0	.145	.174	.193	.367	-9.7	-1.0	.170	4.2
1960	29	71	67	7	17	4	0	0	7	3	15	0	.254	.282	.313	.595	61.0	63.7	.272	1.7
1961	31	67	56	2	8	3	0	0	3	6	14	0	.143	.226	.196	.422	15.8	14.4	.207	1.4
1962	28	54	52	9	13	3	1	1	5	1	11	0	.250	.259	.404	.663	70.1	76.2	.291	1.4
1963	50	12	11	0	2	2	0	0	2	0	1	0	.182	.167	.364	.530	29.4	48.7	.219	0.7
1964	49	21	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.3	-100.0	.000	2.0
1965	24	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.4	-100.0	.000	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
1952	7	6	2	2	0	3	0	31	13	10	31	4	42.0	2.79	.976	6.64	3.04	81.7	133.4	0.9
1953	36	33	20	9	1	19	6	220	86	69	163	24	253.0	3.06	1.142	5.80	3.43	79.8	140.4	6.9
1954	43	35	18	13	4	13	3	247	103	77	184	26	259.7	3.57	1.248	6.38	3.23	78.1	115.7	4.5
1955	37	30	12	16	1	9	2	216	103	62	150	27	208.0	4.46	1.337	6.49	3.52	86.1	91.7	1.2
1956	35	30	13	8	2	12	3	224	94	65	170	26	230.3	3.67	1.255	6.64	3.15	84.6	101.3	3.0
1957	27	25	10	13	0	8	1	176	77	39	136	18	170.7	4.06	1.260	7.17	2.99	78.6	93.8	1.8
1958	29	26	8	7	0	8	1	191	72	43	110	28	184.0	3.52	1.272	5.38	4.10	98.7	118.0	3.5
1959	31	29	12	12	0	14	2	189	78	49	149	26	224.3	3.13	1.061	5.98	3.48	90.1	123.5	4.2
1960	29	28	11	10	1	4	0	189	76	38	101	13	172.3	3.97	1.317	5.27	3.14	83.8	94.3	1.7
1961	29	22	10	6	0	5	2	159	71	41	99	15	156.0	4.10	1.282	5.71	3.47	87.1	97.4	1.4
1962	28	20	9	6	0	4	0	146	66	42	101	17	141.3	4.20	1.330	6.43	3.79	96.8	93.1	1.4
1963	49	1	3	4	1	0	0	67	26	20	70	7	70.0	3.34	1.243	9.00	2.83	86.1	98.2	0.7
1964	49	0	5	5	10	0	0	68	23	23	90	4	89.7	2.31	1.015	9.03	1.87	52.4	154.5	2.0
1965	24	0	3	2	1	0	0	31	13	23	21	5	33.7	3.48	1.604	5.61	5.31	152.7	100.0	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

531

871

798

169

RBI

162

.2118

OBP

.2550

SLG

.2957

OPS

.5507

Pitching

G (P)

453

285

401st-most career GS

136

335th-most career W

113

408th-most career L

420th-most career CG

SHO

246th-most career SHO

2,235

334th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,575

210th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

601

ERA

3.628

WHIP

1.2327

266th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

6.34

315th-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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1960-06-15	PIT @ SF Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	0	2	0	5
1962-05-28	STL @ PIT Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	0	0	0	5
1962-09-04	NYM @ PIT Gameday	3	2	3	2	0	0	0	0	5
1953-06-23	SF @ STL Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	3	1	5
1955-06-21	PHI @ STL Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	1	3	0	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1954-04-29	PIT @ STL Gameday	8.2	9	4	4	5	13	0
1964-06-15	CWS @ BAL Gameday	8.2	8	2	2	0	11	0
1952-09-28	CHC @ STL Gameday	8.0	7	3	2	1	11	1
1955-05-13	SF @ STL Gameday	10.0	9	4	4	4	10	1
1953-05-31	CHC @ STL Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	0	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

3× Gold Glove3× 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.