MLB / Players

Juan Marichal

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb

BornOctober 20, 1937 · Laguna Verde, Monte Cristi, D.R.

MLB debutJuly 19, 1960

Final gameApril 16, 1975

Seasons16 (1960–1975)

San Francisco Giants 1960–1973; Boston Red Sox 1974; Los Angeles Dodgers 1975

Percentile snapshot

1973 season — qualified pitchers

18.6

38.4

20.9

23.3

41.9

SHO

33.7

231

40.7

53.5

100

9.3

207.3

32.6

ERA

3.82

32.6

WHIP

1.293

48.8

K/9

3.78

12.8

FIP

3.64

FIP-

95.6

52.3

ERA+

99.7

34.9

sWAR

2.2

32.6

of 87 qualified 1973 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

122.6

92.2

sWAR

64.0

99.5

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1960	11	36	31	3	4	0	0	0	1	3	7	0	1	.129	.229	.129	.358	9.3	4.5	.189	1.7
1961	30	68	59	3	7	0	0	0	3	3	15	1	0	.119	.159	.119	.277	-27.9	-23.1	.136	1.5
1962	38	101	89	13	21	1	0	0	10	4	19	0	0	.236	.266	.247	.513	38.2	40.6	.240	4.5
1963	42	119	112	6	20	2	0	1	4	3	26	0	2	.179	.200	.223	.423	14.2	23.1	.196	6.9
1964	33	107	97	4	14	0	0	0	3	4	25	1	2	.144	.178	.144	.323	-16.2	-7.9	.156	6.2
1965	39	109	98	2	17	1	1	0	9	1	16	0	0	.173	.180	.204	.384	-3.9	7.8	.175	8.2
1966	37	119	112	10	28	5	0	1	15	2	24	0	0	.250	.263	.321	.585	57.4	61.2	.264	9.0
1967	26	83	79	5	14	6	0	0	3	2	10	0	0	.177	.198	.253	.451	22.8	29.8	.209	3.7
1968	38	136	123	8	20	4	0	0	5	2	35	0	0	.163	.181	.195	.376	0.2	13.7	.179	5.7
1969	38	117	109	3	15	1	1	0	3	4	22	0	0	.138	.167	.165	.332	-16.1	-5.7	.160	8.1
1970	34	93	85	5	5	0	0	0	3	2	21	0	0	.059	.080	.059	.138	-75.4	-62.0	.070	1.4
1971	37	114	105	4	14	5	0	2	9	2	28	0	0	.133	.150	.238	.388	-5.4	9.1	.177	4.5
1972	25	53	51	3	10	2	0	0	0	1	10	0	0	.196	.212	.235	.447	15.6	26.4	.209	1.3
1973	34	82	69	4	13	2	0	0	7	5	10	0	0	.188	.240	.217	.457	21.5	25.7	.222	2.2
1974	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
1975	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.3	-100.0	.000	-0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1960	11	11	6	2	0	6	1	59	24	28	58	5	81.3	2.66	1.070	6.42	3.06	86.2	133.6	1.7
1961	29	27	13	10	0	9	3	183	80	48	124	24	185.0	3.89	1.249	6.03	3.82	98.7	99.6	1.5
1962	37	36	18	11	1	18	3	233	98	90	153	34	262.7	3.36	1.230	5.24	4.30	111.3	115.1	4.5
1963	41	40	25	8	0	18	5	259	86	61	248	27	321.3	2.41	.996	6.95	2.63	81.4	134.4	6.9
1964	33	33	21	8	0	22	4	241	74	52	206	18	269.0	2.48	1.089	6.89	2.68	75.3	143.8	6.2
1965	39	37	22	13	1	24	10	224	70	46	240	27	295.3	2.13	.914	7.31	2.71	75.7	167.5	8.2
1966	37	36	25	6	0	25	4	228	76	36	222	32	307.3	2.23	.859	6.50	2.98	81.8	163.8	9.0
1967	26	26	14	10	0	18	2	195	62	42	166	20	202.3	2.76	1.171	7.38	2.94	88.9	119.9	3.7
1968	38	38	26	9	0	30	5	295	88	46	218	21	326.0	2.43	1.046	6.02	2.52	85.2	122.0	5.7
1969	37	36	21	11	0	27	8	244	70	54	205	15	299.7	2.10	.994	6.16	2.54	71.8	168.3	8.1
1970	34	33	12	10	0	14	1	269	111	48	123	28	242.7	4.12	1.306	4.56	3.94	98.3	97.4	1.4
1971	37	37	18	11	0	18	4	244	91	56	159	27	279.0	2.94	1.075	5.13	3.30	96.0	116.9	4.5
1972	25	24	6	16	0	6	0	176	68	46	72	15	165.0	3.71	1.345	3.93	3.73	106.4	94.5	1.3
1973	34	32	11	15	0	9	2	231	88	37	87	22	207.3	3.82	1.293	3.78	3.64	95.6	99.7	2.2
1974	11	9	5	1	0	0	0	61	31	14	21	3	57.3	4.87	1.308	3.30	3.36	87.8	78.5	-0.2
1975	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	11	9	5	1	2	6.0	13.50	2.667	1.50	9.12	265.1	25.5	-0.7

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

475

1,339

1,221

202

RBI

269

.1654

OBP

.1909

SLG

.2023

OPS

.3932

Pitching

G (P)

471

457

84th-most career GS

243

57th-most career W

142

205th-most career L

244

88th-most career CG

SHO

18th-most career SHO

3,507

72nd-most career IP

SO (P)

2,303

57th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

709

378th-most career BB allowed

ERA

2.889

140th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1011

24th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

5.91

399th-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	TB
1965-09-13	SF @ HOU Gameday	4	0	2	0	1	0	2	4
1967-05-16	CHC @ SF Gameday	3	0	2	2	0	0	0	4
1971-05-25	SF @ LAD Gameday	4	1	1	0	0	1	3	4
1971-06-23	CHC @ SF Gameday	4	1	1	0	0	1	2	4
1963-09-12	SF @ NYM Gameday	4	1	1	0	0	1	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1965-08-04	SF @ CIN Gameday	10.0	12	3	3	3	14	0
1969-08-19	SF @ NYM Gameday	13.1	6	1	1	1	13	1
1962-07-06	LAD @ SF Gameday	9.0	5	3	3	4	13	1
1963-09-12	SF @ NYM Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	1	13	0
1964-04-24	SF @ CIN Gameday	9.0	13	5	5	3	13	1

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

Hall of Fame, 1983 (BBWAA)

1× All-Star Game MVP9× 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.