MLB / Players

Ken McBride

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 190 lb

BornAugust 12, 1935 · Huntsville, AL, USA

MLB debutAugust 4, 1959

Final gameAugust 15, 1965

Seasons7 (1959–1965)

Chicago White Sox 1959–1960; Los Angeles Angels 1961–1964; California Angels 1965

Percentile snapshot

1963 season — qualified pitchers

43.7

84.5

45.1

59.2

SHO

33.8

198

49.3

18.3

16.9

147

63.4

35.2

251.0

80.3

ERA

3.26

43.7

WHIP

1.116

74.6

K/9

5.27

FIP

3.58

46.5

FIP-

103.9

33.8

ERA+

105.5

47.9

sWAR

3.2

of 72 qualified 1963 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

7.6

83.8

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1959	11	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	.167	.167	.167	.333	-18.0	-6.7	.153	0.4
1960	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1961	45	92	83	5	7	3	0	0	2	3	35	.084	.116	.120	.237	-55.3	-37.9	.114	3.5
1962	24	55	55	6	9	2	0	1	2	0	23	.164	.164	.255	.418	-4.4	10.0	.184	2.4
1963	38	96	87	9	15	6	1	0	6	1	32	.172	.176	.264	.440	12.7	25.1	.192	3.2
1964	29	37	28	0	6	0	0	0	2	6	7	.214	.371	.214	.586	91.9	74.7	.303	-1.2
1965	8	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	3	.000	.167	.000	.167	-35.9	-46.7	.124	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1959	11	2	0	1	1	0	0	20	8	17	12	1	22.7	3.18	1.632	4.76	4.23	112.3	118.5	0.4
1960	5	0	0	1	0	0	0	6	2	3	4	0	4.7	3.86	1.929	7.71	3.26	85.7	98.6	0.0
1961	38	36	12	15	1	11	1	229	98	102	180	28	241.7	3.65	1.370	6.70	3.87	91.5	116.0	3.5
1962	24	23	11	5	0	6	4	136	58	70	83	9	149.3	3.50	1.379	5.00	3.77	93.5	115.4	2.4
1963	36	36	13	12	0	11	2	198	91	82	147	22	251.0	3.26	1.116	5.27	3.58	103.9	105.5	3.2
1964	29	21	4	13	1	0	0	104	68	75	66	14	116.3	5.26	1.539	5.11	5.24	155.1	64.2	-1.2
1965	8	4	0	3	0	0	0	24	15	14	11	1	22.0	6.14	1.727	4.50	4.17	126.7	53.7	-0.6

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

160

292

264

RBI

102

.1439

OBP

.1792

SLG

.2045

OPS

.3837

Pitching

G (P)

151

122

SHO

808

SO (P)

503

BB allowed

363

ERA

3.789

WHIP

1.3372

K/9

5.61

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
1962-06-10	ATH @ LAA Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	0	1	4
1962-06-19	LAA @ ATH Gameday	3	1	1	0	0	1	1	4
1963-05-28	DET @ LAA Gameday	2	0	2	1	0	0	0	3
1963-07-20	DET @ LAA Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	0	0	3
1963-05-15	LAA @ BOS Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1961-07-18	MIN @ LAA Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	5	11	0
1961-07-25	DET @ LAA Gameday	8.2	9	4	3	3	11	1
1963-05-19	LAA @ NYY Gameday	9.0	7	2	1	1	9	0
1961-08-26	BOS @ LAA Gameday	8.0	8	2	2	1	9	0
1963-04-26	LAA @ BAL Gameday	6.2	3	1	1	3	9	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

3× 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.