Kent Tekulve

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 180 lb

BornMarch 5, 1947 · Cincinnati, OH, USA

MLB debutMay 20, 1974

Final gameJuly 16, 1989

Seasons16 (1974–1989)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1974–1984; Philadelphia Phillies 1985; Pittsburgh Pirates 1985; Philadelphia Phillies 1986–1988; Cincinnati Reds 1989

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

131.0

96.7

sWAR

28.7

96.3

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1974	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
1975	34	12	11	1	1	1	1	7	.091	.167	.091	.258	-31.1	-25.9	.142	1.4
1976	64	10	9	0	0	0	0	6	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.2	-100.0	.000	2.2
1977	72	12	12	0	3	0	0	4	.250	.250	.250	.500	27.2	34.5	.230	2.1
1978	91	22	21	1	2	0	1	9	.095	.136	.095	.232	-49.4	-34.8	.119	3.5
1979	94	17	15	3	2	1	1	8	.133	.188	.133	.321	-20.0	-12.0	.163	3.1
1980	78	10	9	0	0	0	1	7	.000	.100	.000	.100	-78.6	-69.8	.075	1.1
1981	45	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-135.7	-100.0	.000	1.5
1982	85	15	14	0	1	0	0	6	.071	.071	.071	.143	-83.4	-60.4	.067	2.5
1983	76	9	8	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.3	-100.0	.000	3.4
1984	72	7	7	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.3	-100.0	.000	1.8
1985	61	3	3	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.1	-100.0	.000	0.8
1986	73	6	5	1	0	0	1	1	.000	.167	.000	.167	-44.8	-50.5	.125	2.8
1987	90	3	1	1	0	0	1	0	.000	.500	.000	.500	118.3	45.3	.371	2.4
1988	70	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.9	-100.0	.000	0.7
1989	37	2	2	1	1	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	199.0	184.6	.465	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1974	8	1	1	0	12	6	5	6	1	9.0	6.00	1.889	6.00	4.70	134.2	58.3	-0.2
1975	34	1	2	5	43	14	23	28	2	56.0	2.25	1.179	4.50	3.37	94.6	158.2	1.4
1976	64	5	3	9	91	28	25	68	3	102.7	2.45	1.130	5.96	2.43	70.0	141.5	2.2
1977	72	10	1	7	89	35	33	59	5	103.0	3.06	1.184	5.16	3.21	81.3	129.1	2.1
1978	91	8	7	31	115	35	55	77	5	135.3	2.33	1.256	5.12	3.23	87.7	158.1	3.5
1979	94	10	8	31	109	41	49	75	5	134.3	2.75	1.176	5.02	3.20	82.8	140.7	3.1
1980	78	8	12	21	96	35	40	47	6	93.0	3.39	1.462	4.55	3.90	106.3	108.2	1.1
1981	45	5	5	3	61	18	17	34	1	65.0	2.49	1.200	4.71	2.65	73.5	144.9	1.5
1982	85	12	8	20	113	41	46	66	7	128.7	2.87	1.236	4.62	3.57	95.9	129.9	2.5
1983	76	7	5	18	78	18	36	52	1	99.0	1.64	1.152	4.73	2.85	76.9	226.2	3.4
1984	72	3	9	13	86	26	33	36	4	88.0	2.66	1.352	3.68	3.72	103.8	134.9	1.8
1985	61	4	10	14	74	30	30	40	5	75.7	3.57	1.374	4.76	3.69	100.3	103.2	0.8
1986	73	11	5	4	99	31	25	57	2	110.0	2.54	1.127	4.66	2.63	68.4	151.4	2.8
1987	90	6	4	3	96	36	29	60	8	105.0	3.09	1.190	5.14	3.54	84.0	136.7	2.4
1988	70	3	7	4	87	32	22	43	3	80.0	3.60	1.363	4.84	3.02	85.1	98.5	0.7
1989	37	0	3	1	56	29	23	31	5	52.0	5.02	1.519	5.37	4.05	113.0	71.4	-0.4

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

1,050

132

121

RBI

.0826

OBP

.1260

SLG

.0826

OPS

.2086

Pitching

G (P)

1,050

9th-most career G (P)

184

65th-most career SV

SHO

1,437

SO (P)

779

BB allowed

491

ERA

2.850

124th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2501

340th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.88

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	RBI	TB
1979-05-09	PIT @ ATL Gameday	1	1	1	1	1
1975-09-05	PIT @ WSH Gameday	1	1	1	0	1
1977-05-10	ATL @ PIT Gameday	2	0	1	0	1
1977-05-15	PIT @ HOU Gameday	1	0	1	0	1
1977-08-24	LAD @ PIT Gameday	1	0	1	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1977-06-11	SD @ PIT Gameday	3.0	1	0	0	1	6
1975-07-29	PHI @ PIT Gameday	4.1	4	1	1	0	4
1977-07-24	ATL @ PIT Gameday	4.0	2	1	0	2	4
1978-07-09	PIT @ STL Gameday	3.0	2	0	0	2	4
1979-10-16	PIT @ BAL Gameday	3.0	1	0	0	0	4

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.