Juan Pizarro

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb

BornFebruary 7, 1937 · Santurce, P.R.

MLB debutMay 4, 1957

Final gameSeptember 26, 1974

Seasons18 (1957–1974)

Milwaukee Braves 1957–1960; Chicago White Sox 1961–1966; Pittsburgh Pirates 1967; Boston Red Sox 1968; Pittsburgh Pirates 1968; Boston Red Sox 1969; Cleveland Indians 1969; Oakland Athletics 1969; Chicago Cubs 1970–1973; Houston Astros 1973; Pittsburgh Pirates 1974

Percentile snapshot

1964 season — qualified pitchers

20.9

58.2

83.6

68.7

56.7

SHO

77.6

193

64.2

71.6

62.7

162

68.7

28.4

239.0

70.1

ERA

2.56

88.1

WHIP

1.038

K/9

6.10

58.2

FIP

3.08

74.6

FIP-

88.9

64.2

ERA+

135.4

86.6

sWAR

5.5

85.1

of 68 qualified 1964 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

104.5

sWAR

26.5

95.8

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
1957	25	38	36	5	9	1	0	1	2	1	10	0	0	.250	.263	.361	.624	67.8	73.2	.274	0.0
1958	16	36	32	4	8	2	0	0	6	3	9	0	0	.250	.306	.313	.618	63.3	72.4	.271	2.2
1959	29	46	41	2	5	2	0	0	5	2	14	0	0	.122	.159	.171	.330	-14.3	-7.9	.154	1.1
1960	23	41	40	4	11	1	1	0	2	0	11	0	0	.275	.275	.350	.625	73.4	76.7	.280	0.0
1961	40	77	69	10	17	3	1	0	5	5	19	1	0	.246	.303	.319	.621	68.2	68.8	.288	4.4
1962	37	77	69	10	11	1	0	0	5	4	17	0	1	.159	.203	.174	.377	-3.0	3.8	.181	2.2
1963	32	79	73	10	13	2	0	2	10	3	26	0	0	.178	.211	.288	.498	34.6	40.9	.225	5.3
1964	33	94	90	6	19	1	0	3	15	1	34	0	0	.211	.217	.322	.540	42.6	51.6	.238	5.5
1965	19	37	34	5	8	0	0	1	4	2	10	0	0	.235	.278	.324	.601	76.5	77.1	.278	1.0
1966	34	31	26	2	4	1	0	0	2	1	5	0	0	.154	.179	.192	.371	2.4	11.1	.171	0.3
1967	50	28	27	1	7	1	0	0	3	1	5	0	0	.259	.286	.296	.582	66.3	67.0	.274	0.5
1968	33	41	33	5	5	2	0	0	3	3	9	0	0	.152	.216	.212	.428	17.4	27.2	.209	0.6
1969	57	23	20	3	5	0	0	0	2	1	4	0	0	.250	.273	.250	.523	38.7	45.1	.246	1.5
1970	12	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	.000	.250	.000	.250	-8.7	-29.7	.188	0.1
1971	16	39	34	3	6	1	0	1	2	2	11	0	0	.176	.216	.294	.510	23.5	36.1	.235	1.6
1972	16	22	21	2	3	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	0	.143	.182	.143	.325	-25.7	-10.0	.161	0.4
1973	17	6	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.000	.200	.000	.200	-24.2	-39.5	.151	-0.9
1974	7	6	6	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	90.4	91.1	.315	0.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1957	24	10	5	6	0	3	0	99	51	51	68	16	99.3	4.62	1.510	6.16	4.81	134.7	77.2	0.0
1958	16	10	6	4	1	7	1	75	29	47	84	12	96.7	2.70	1.262	7.82	3.97	109.9	133.6	2.2
1959	29	14	6	2	0	6	2	117	56	70	126	13	133.7	3.77	1.399	8.48	3.75	103.6	96.0	1.1
1960	21	17	6	7	0	3	0	105	58	72	88	13	114.7	4.55	1.544	6.91	4.58	130.9	76.8	0.0
1961	39	25	14	7	2	12	1	164	66	89	188	17	194.7	3.05	1.300	8.69	3.14	79.8	128.9	4.4
1962	36	32	12	14	1	9	1	182	86	97	173	16	203.3	3.81	1.372	7.66	3.28	84.1	102.5	2.2
1963	32	28	16	8	1	10	3	177	57	63	163	14	214.7	2.39	1.118	6.83	2.71	77.3	146.8	5.3
1964	33	33	19	9	0	11	4	193	68	55	162	23	239.0	2.56	1.038	6.10	3.08	88.9	135.4	5.5
1965	18	18	6	3	0	2	1	96	37	37	65	9	97.0	3.43	1.371	6.03	3.44	106.9	93.8	1.0
1966	34	9	8	6	3	1	0	91	37	39	42	9	88.7	3.76	1.466	4.26	4.16	130.6	84.8	0.3
1967	50	9	8	10	9	1	1	99	47	52	96	10	107.0	3.95	1.411	8.07	3.59	105.9	85.8	0.5
1968	31	12	7	9	2	6	0	111	47	54	90	17	118.7	3.56	1.390	6.83	3.99	127.6	88.2	0.6
1969	57	4	4	5	7	1	0	84	37	58	52	9	99.3	3.35	1.430	4.71	4.30	116.0	110.6	1.5
1970	12	0	0	0	1	0	0	16	8	9	14	2	15.7	4.60	1.596	8.04	4.64	104.5	96.5	0.1
1971	16	14	7	6	0	6	3	78	39	40	67	10	101.3	3.46	1.164	5.95	3.75	96.8	111.7	1.6
1972	16	7	4	5	1	1	0	66	26	32	24	7	59.3	3.94	1.652	3.64	4.92	131.4	95.0	0.4
1973	17	1	2	3	0	0	0	34	22	12	13	2	27.3	7.24	1.683	4.28	4.09	110.6	50.8	-0.9
1974	7	2	1	1	0	0	0	20	5	11	7	2	24.0	1.88	1.292	2.63	4.46	127.5	186.6	0.8

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

496

725

658

133

RBI

191

.2021

OBP

.2368

SLG

.2720

OPS

.5088

Pitching

G (P)

488

475th-most career G (P)

245

131

369th-most career W

105

498th-most career L

SHO

317th-most career SHO

2,034

439th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,522

224th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

888

174th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.433

391st-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3248

K/9

6.73

245th-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
1961-06-27	CWS @ DET Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	0	1	1	5
1963-05-10	LAA @ CWS Gameday	2	1	2	0	0	1	2	0	5
1957-05-10	ATL @ STL Gameday	4	3	2	0	0	1	1	0	5
1964-07-24	MIN @ CWS Gameday	2	1	2	0	0	1	1	0	5
1963-08-20	CWS @ BOS Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	0	3	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1964-07-31	CWS @ TEX Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	1	14	0
1965-08-23	BAL @ CWS Gameday	10.0	7	1	0	3	13	0
1961-08-25	CLE @ CWS Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	6	13	1
1961-09-29	CWS @ BAL Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	0	13	0
1964-05-22	TEX @ CWS Gameday	9.0	4	1	0	0	13	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

2× 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.