John Curtis

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 175 lb

BornMarch 9, 1948 · Newton, MA, USA

MLB debutAugust 13, 1970

Final gameSeptember 28, 1984

Seasons15 (1970–1984)

Boston Red Sox 1970–1973; St. Louis Cardinals 1974–1976; San Francisco Giants 1977–1979; San Diego Padres 1980–1981; California Angels 1982; San Diego Padres 1982; California Angels 1983–1984

Percentile snapshot

1980 season — qualified pitchers

6.8

14.8

18.2

85.2

34.1

SHO

184

84.1

45.5

94.3

187.0

20.5

ERA

3.51

64.8

WHIP

1.342

45.5

K/9

3.42

12.5

FIP

3.72

54.5

FIP-

107.5

23.9

ERA+

98.5

35.2

sWAR

1.8

29.5

of 89 qualified 1980 pitchers (min 163 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

91.5

8.7

sWAR

9.7

86.6

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1970	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
1971	5	9	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	5	.111	.111	.111	.222	-66.6	-38.4	.104	0.4
1972	27	58	53	2	5	0	0	1	2	23	.094	.127	.094	.222	-59.7	-34.6	.113	0.1
1973	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.3
1974	34	73	63	7	10	1	0	2	4	30	.159	.209	.175	.384	5.1	9.3	.193	1.4
1975	39	48	38	6	8	0	0	1	5	16	.211	.302	.211	.513	47.7	42.8	.264	2.2
1976	38	42	35	3	7	1	1	0	2	13	.200	.243	.286	.529	45.7	49.9	.252	-0.1
1977	44	17	13	4	3	0	1	0	1	8	.231	.286	.385	.670	79.1	79.1	.305	-0.6
1978	46	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.4	-100.0	.000	0.4
1979	29	43	34	3	5	1	0	3	2	9	.147	.216	.176	.393	12.0	12.1	.197	0.3
1980	31	69	62	2	12	1	0	2	2	31	.194	.219	.210	.428	17.2	23.2	.204	1.8
1981	28	16	13	1	1	0	0	2	0	6	.077	.067	.077	.144	-82.4	-58.0	.063	-1.0
1982	34	41	37	1	11	0	1	5	0	15	.297	.297	.351	.649	83.3	85.2	.299	0.4
1983	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.1
1984	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1970	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	3	1	1	1	2.3	11.57	2.143	3.86	8.43	213.2	34.2	-0.2
1971	5	3	2	2	0	1	0	30	9	6	19	3	26.0	3.12	1.385	6.58	3.09	84.3	117.6	0.4
1972	26	21	11	8	0	8	3	161	64	50	106	8	154.3	3.73	1.367	6.18	2.54	79.1	86.2	0.1
1973	35	30	13	13	0	10	4	225	88	83	101	24	221.3	3.58	1.392	4.11	4.23	105.6	111.9	3.3
1974	33	29	10	14	1	5	2	199	82	83	89	15	195.0	3.78	1.446	4.11	3.98	111.2	94.6	1.4
1975	39	18	8	9	1	4	0	151	56	65	67	13	146.7	3.44	1.473	4.11	4.23	113.1	108.8	2.2
1976	37	15	6	11	1	3	1	139	67	65	52	11	134.0	4.50	1.522	3.49	4.39	124.7	78.3	-0.1
1977	43	9	3	3	1	1	1	95	47	48	47	5	77.0	5.49	1.857	5.49	4.27	109.7	70.8	-0.6
1978	46	0	4	3	1	0	0	60	26	29	38	1	63.0	3.71	1.413	5.43	3.00	86.8	93.1	0.4
1979	27	18	10	9	0	3	2	121	56	42	85	15	120.7	4.18	1.351	6.34	3.94	111.7	84.5	0.3
1980	30	27	10	8	0	6	0	184	73	67	71	9	187.0	3.51	1.342	3.42	3.72	107.5	98.5	1.8
1981	28	8	2	6	0	0	0	70	38	30	31	11	66.7	5.13	1.500	4.19	5.28	160.0	64.3	-1.0
1982	34	18	8	7	1	1	1	137	61	49	64	15	128.3	4.28	1.449	4.49	4.43	127.2	82.3	0.4
1983	37	3	1	2	5	0	0	89	38	40	36	5	90.0	3.80	1.433	3.60	4.15	102.8	106.2	1.1
1984	17	0	1	2	0	0	0	30	14	11	18	4	28.7	4.40	1.430	5.65	4.46	112.3	90.3	0.1

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

445

419

359

RBI

157

.1755

OBP

.2158

SLG

.2033

OPS

.4191

Pitching

G (P)

438

199

SHO

436th-most career SHO

1,641

SO (P)

825

BB allowed

669

434th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.960

WHIP

1.4406

K/9

4.52

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	RBI	TB
1977-05-08	NYM @ SF Gameday	3	3	3	1	0	5
1976-09-24	PIT @ STL Gameday	1	1	1	1	0	3
1982-05-07	SD @ PHI Gameday	3	0	1	1	0	3
1979-08-08	SD @ SF Gameday	5	0	2	0	3	2
1974-08-18	SF @ STL Gameday	4	0	2	0	2	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1972-06-10	LAA @ BOS Gameday	6.1	9	5	5	0	10	0
1979-08-25	CHC @ SF Gameday	7.0	7	2	2	0	9	2
1979-09-04	SF @ SD Gameday	8.0	4	1	1	3	8	0
1972-07-07	BOS @ LAA Gameday	7.1	9	2	2	1	8	1
1973-07-20	MIN @ BOS Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	5	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.