MLB / Players

Johnny Kucks

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 170 lb

BornJuly 27, 1932 · Hoboken, NJ, USA

MLB debutApril 17, 1955

Final gameSeptember 25, 1960

Seasons6 (1955–1960)

New York Yankees 1955–1958; Kansas City Athletics 1959; New York Yankees 1959; Kansas City Athletics 1960

Percentile snapshot

1959 season — qualified pitchers

87.5

12.5

3.6

33.9

48.2

10.7

SHO

12.5

184

69.6

58.9

76.8

168.0

8.9

ERA

4.34

8.9

WHIP

1.399

10.7

K/9

3.21

3.6

FIP

4.04

19.6

FIP-

102.7

23.2

ERA+

91.1

16.1

sWAR

0.6

8.9

of 57 qualified 1959 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

5.1

79.6

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1955	29	42	40	0	2	1	0	0	10	.050	.050	.075	.125	-88.5	-66.1	.057	1.5
1956	34	91	77	7	11	1	1	7	25	.143	.224	.156	.379	4.9	4.8	.196	2.3
1957	37	71	55	4	6	0	2	5	18	.109	.183	.109	.292	-22.1	-16.5	.155	1.8
1958	34	49	40	2	5	2	2	3	9	.125	.186	.175	.361	-2.9	2.8	.176	0.7
1959	42	55	49	4	4	1	0	3	24	.082	.135	.102	.237	-44.8	-34.7	.121	0.6
1960	31	34	30	4	4	0	1	1	9	.133	.161	.133	.295	-34.3	-20.1	.143	-1.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1955	29	13	8	7	0	3	1	122	48	44	49	8	126.7	3.41	1.311	3.48	3.57	93.1	112.3	1.5
1956	34	31	18	9	0	12	3	223	96	72	67	19	224.3	3.85	1.315	2.69	4.11	103.8	102.7	2.3
1957	37	23	8	10	2	4	1	169	71	59	78	13	179.3	3.56	1.271	3.91	3.59	98.0	102.9	1.8
1958	34	15	8	8	4	4	1	132	55	39	46	14	126.0	3.93	1.357	3.29	4.23	117.7	91.5	0.7
1959	42	24	8	12	1	6	1	184	81	51	60	15	168.0	4.34	1.399	3.21	4.04	102.7	91.1	0.6
1960	31	17	4	10	0	1	0	140	76	43	38	22	114.0	6.00	1.605	3.00	5.40	135.9	66.2	-1.7

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

207

342

291

RBI

.1100

OBP

.1672

SLG

.1271

OPS

.2943

Pitching

G (P)

207

123

SHO

938

SO (P)

338

BB allowed

308

ERA

4.096

WHIP

1.3620

K/9

3.24

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	RBI	TB
1957-06-26	CLE @ NYY Gameday	4	0	3	0	0	3
1956-08-09	NYY @ MIN Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	2
1956-08-14	BOS @ NYY Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2
1956-07-12	CLE @ NYY Gameday	4	1	1	1	1	2
1958-05-20	NYY @ CWS Gameday	4	0	1	1	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1957-06-06	NYY @ CLE Gameday	9.0	5	5	4	7	7	1
1957-04-23	NYY @ MIN Gameday	8.2	5	3	3	2	6	1
1957-07-16	NYY @ DET Gameday	8.1	7	4	4	3	6	0
1956-05-14	NYY @ CLE Gameday	8.0	6	3	3	1	6	1
1955-07-24	NYY @ ATH Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	2	5	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× 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.