MLB / Players

Lance McCullers

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 202 lb

BornOctober 2, 1993 · Tampa, FL, USA

MLB debutMay 18, 2015

Final gameOctober 3, 2022

Seasons8 (2015–2025)

Houston Astros 2015–2018; Houston Astros 2020–2022; Houston Astros 2025

Percentile snapshot

2021 season — qualified pitchers

55.3

89.5

SHO

122

97.4

86.8

185

42.1

97.4

162.3

2.6

ERA

3.16

71.1

WHIP

1.220

36.8

K/9

10.26

68.4

FIP

3.56

55.3

FIP-

83.9

ERA+

134.4

73.7

sWAR

3.6

of 39 qualified 2021 pitchers (min 162 IP) · 1 stat not shown: every qualified player held the same value, so a percentile there carries no information

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

11.3

88.2

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	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
2015	22	2	2	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.5	-100.0	.000	2.2
2016	14	3	3	1	1	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	85.7	87.8	.293	1.5
2017	22	3	3	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-116.7	-100.0	.000	1.0
2018	25	2	2	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.9	-100.0	.000	1.7
2020	11	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
2021	30	4	4	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-113.2	-100.0	.000	3.6
2022	8	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.4
2025	16	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
2015	22	22	6	7	1	106	45	43	129	10	125.7	3.22	1.186	9.24	3.23	83.5	120.1	2.2
2016	14	14	6	5	0	80	29	45	106	5	81.0	3.22	1.543	11.78	2.96	74.7	122.9	1.5
2017	22	22	7	4	0	114	56	40	132	8	118.7	4.25	1.298	10.01	3.08	74.4	97.5	1.0
2018	25	22	10	6	0	100	55	50	142	12	128.3	3.86	1.169	9.96	3.53	84.3	108.6	1.7
2020	11	11	3	3	0	44	24	20	56	5	55.0	3.93	1.164	9.16	3.67	83.5	112.1	0.9
2021	28	28	13	5	0	122	57	76	185	13	162.3	3.16	1.220	10.26	3.56	83.9	134.4	3.6
2022	8	8	4	2	0	37	12	22	50	4	47.7	2.27	1.238	9.44	3.43	89.0	170.0	1.4
2025	16	13	2	5	0	61	40	39	61	10	55.3	6.51	1.807	9.92	5.69	141.4	61.9	-1.0
2026	10	8	2	3	0	41	32	27	48	7	44.0	6.55	1.545	9.82	—	—	—	—

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.

Greyed rows are the current season, sourced from our own game log rather than the archived record book: wRC+, OPS+, wOBA, FIP and sWAR land when the season is archived, and are never approximated before then.

Career totals

Batting

148

RBI

.0714

OBP

.0714

SLG

.0714

OPS

.1428

Pitching

G (P)

146

140

SHO

774

SO (P)

861

BB allowed

335

ERA

3.698

WHIP

1.2907

K/9

10.01

Totals run through the last archived season (2025), so the current season in the table above is not in them yet. 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
2016-05-31	HOU @ AZ Gameday	3	1	1	0	1
2017-11-01	HOU @ LAD Gameday	1	0	0	1	0
2015-10-04	HOU @ AZ Gameday	2	0	0	0	0
2017-05-17	HOU @ MIA Gameday	3	0	0	0	0
2018-08-04	HOU @ LAD Gameday	2	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
2018-07-06	CWS @ HOU Gameday	7.0	3	1	1	0	12	0
2025-05-28	ATH @ HOU Gameday	6.0	5	3	3	1	12	1
2015-06-03	BAL @ HOU Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	0	11	0
2018-04-17	HOU @ SEA Gameday	7.0	1	1	1	1	11	1
2020-10-12	HOU @ TB Gameday	7.0	4	4	1	0	11	2

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.