Jack Sanford

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 190 lb

BornMay 18, 1929 · Wellesley Hills, MA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 16, 1956

Final gameAugust 6, 1967

Seasons12 (1956–1967)

Philadelphia Phillies 1956–1958; San Francisco Giants 1959–1964; California Angels 1965; San Francisco Giants 1965; California Angels 1966–1967; Kansas City Athletics 1967

Percentile snapshot

1963 season — qualified pitchers

98.6

73.2

59.2

SHO

273

1.4

111

1.4

25.4

158

70.4

36.6

284.3

94.4

ERA

3.51

35.2

WHIP

1.227

45.1

K/9

5.00

29.6

FIP

3.20

FIP-

98.9

49.3

ERA+

92.1

18.3

sWAR

2.1

33.8

of 72 qualified 1963 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

98.7

32.4

sWAR

19.8

93.5

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1956	3	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	81.5	82.1	.302	0.5
1957	33	93	89	3	15	4	0	0	6	0	30	0	.169	.169	.213	.382	-9.8	3.1	.170	4.2
1958	38	67	59	3	10	4	0	0	2	5	17	0	.169	.234	.237	.472	22.1	26.2	.223	0.9
1959	36	85	72	6	8	0	0	0	3	6	31	0	.111	.200	.111	.311	-10.4	-11.7	.165	3.7
1960	37	84	74	8	13	1	0	0	5	5	26	0	.176	.228	.189	.417	18.3	19.6	.202	1.5
1961	39	85	74	13	16	2	0	3	6	5	22	0	.216	.263	.365	.627	66.4	68.1	.280	1.8
1962	39	108	98	5	15	3	0	0	4	4	34	0	.153	.183	.184	.366	-7.1	0.0	.172	3.9
1963	45	113	94	9	13	2	1	0	5	11	35	1	.138	.226	.181	.407	20.1	20.2	.204	2.1
1964	19	36	30	3	4	1	0	0	4	3	12	0	.133	.212	.167	.379	7.5	8.3	.190	1.5
1965	32	36	32	0	4	0	0	0	0	2	9	0	.125	.176	.125	.301	-19.5	-12.9	.151	0.2
1966	50	26	22	1	3	2	0	0	1	2	12	0	.136	.200	.227	.427	18.7	24.5	.200	0.5
1967	22	22	18	0	3	0	1	0	1	2	11	0	.167	.250	.278	.528	59.0	55.2	.253	-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
1956	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	7	2	13	6	0	13.0	1.38	1.538	4.15	4.54	122.3	268.1	0.5
1957	33	33	19	8	0	15	3	194	81	94	188	22	236.7	3.08	1.217	7.15	3.36	88.3	123.6	4.2
1958	38	27	10	13	0	7	2	197	92	81	106	15	186.3	4.44	1.492	5.12	3.77	96.0	88.4	0.9
1959	36	31	15	12	1	10	0	198	78	70	132	22	222.3	3.16	1.205	5.34	3.76	100.2	118.8	3.7
1960	37	34	12	14	0	11	6	199	93	99	125	11	219.0	3.82	1.361	5.14	3.55	100.0	92.8	1.5
1961	38	33	13	9	0	6	0	203	102	87	112	22	217.3	4.22	1.334	4.64	4.22	108.9	91.7	1.8
1962	39	38	24	7	0	13	2	233	101	92	147	23	265.3	3.43	1.225	4.99	3.81	98.7	112.8	3.9
1963	42	42	16	13	0	11	0	273	111	76	158	21	284.3	3.51	1.227	5.00	3.20	98.9	92.1	2.1
1964	18	17	5	7	1	3	1	91	39	37	64	7	106.3	3.30	1.204	5.42	3.56	100.0	107.9	1.5
1965	32	21	5	7	3	0	0	127	55	40	56	13	120.3	4.11	1.388	4.19	4.22	120.2	85.2	0.2
1966	50	6	13	7	5	0	0	108	46	27	54	11	108.0	3.83	1.250	4.50	3.62	108.0	87.4	0.5
1967	22	10	4	4	1	0	0	77	40	21	34	7	70.3	5.12	1.393	4.35	3.73	118.2	61.6	-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

393

758

665

105

RBI

240

.1579

OBP

.2120

SLG

.2060

OPS

.4180

Pitching

G (P)

388

293

379th-most career GS

137

331st-most career W

101

SHO

436th-most career SHO

2,049

430th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,182

402nd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

737

328th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.689

WHIP

1.2902

K/9

5.19

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	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1963-04-09	SF @ HOU Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	3	4
1961-08-08	CHC @ SF Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	2	4
1961-06-02	SF @ LAD Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	4
1961-06-16	CHC @ SF Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	1	4
1959-05-11	PIT @ SF Gameday	5	1	3	0	0	2	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1957-06-07	CHC @ PHI Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	4	13	0
1957-06-01	LAD @ PHI Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	1	11	0
1960-05-12	PHI @ SF Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	3	11	0
1957-05-04	CHC @ PHI Gameday	9.0	4	2	2	5	10	1
1957-05-10	PHI @ PIT Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	5	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 Year1× 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.