Larry McWilliams

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 180 lb

BornFebruary 10, 1954 · Wichita, KS, USA

MLB debutJuly 17, 1978

Final gameMay 12, 1990

Seasons13 (1978–1990)

Atlanta Braves 1978–1982; Pittsburgh Pirates 1982–1986; Atlanta Braves 1987; St. Louis Cardinals 1988; Kansas City Royals 1989; Philadelphia Phillies 1989; Kansas City Royals 1990

Percentile snapshot

1984 season — qualified pitchers

47.3

31.2

48.4

94.6

62.4

SHO

62.4

226

21.5

80.6

31.2

149

82.8

45.2

227.3

74.2

ERA

2.93

89.2

WHIP

1.337

36.6

K/9

5.90

69.9

FIP

3.57

61.3

FIP-

99.4

47.3

ERA+

122.4

82.8

sWAR

3.7

of 94 qualified 1984 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

92.0

10.1

sWAR

8.6

85.2

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1978	15	36	32	1	2	0	1	0	0	19	0	0	.063	.063	.125	.188	-70.3	-48.2	.083	1.7
1979	13	28	24	4	5	2	0	1	1	14	0	0	.208	.231	.292	.522	27.0	37.5	.237	-0.5
1980	30	60	51	3	8	0	0	1	5	24	0	0	.157	.232	.157	.389	6.6	9.1	.200	-0.8
1981	6	12	10	0	1	0	0	0	1	7	0	0	.100	.182	.100	.282	-25.6	-19.0	.154	0.6
1982	47	49	38	1	7	0	0	0	1	17	0	0	.184	.205	.184	.389	-0.9	8.2	.187	1.3
1983	35	90	79	5	9	1	0	4	1	32	1	1	.114	.125	.127	.252	-47.5	-30.5	.119	3.3
1984	36	86	74	1	9	0	0	4	0	22	0	1	.122	.122	.122	.243	-48.0	-31.1	.114	3.7
1985	32	45	40	2	5	1	0	2	1	19	0	0	.125	.146	.150	.296	-29.1	-16.4	.141	-0.6
1986	50	34	29	2	4	1	0	0	2	11	0	0	.138	.194	.172	.366	-6.0	0.9	.181	-0.7
1987	9	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	-8.6	4.0	.183	-0.1
1988	45	40	37	6	6	1	0	3	0	12	0	0	.162	.205	.189	.394	8.4	14.3	.192	0.7
1989	49	30	27	1	3	0	1	0	0	14	0	0	.111	.111	.185	.296	-33.9	-16.9	.133	0.5
1990	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1978	15	15	9	3	0	3	1	84	31	35	42	11	99.3	2.81	1.198	3.81	4.33	122.8	125.7	1.7
1979	13	13	3	2	0	1	0	69	41	22	32	4	66.3	5.56	1.372	4.34	3.69	92.2	71.9	-0.5
1980	30	30	9	14	0	4	1	188	90	39	77	27	163.7	4.95	1.387	4.23	4.79	128.2	75.5	-0.8
1981	6	5	2	1	0	2	1	31	13	8	23	2	37.7	3.11	1.035	5.50	2.78	77.4	115.4	0.6
1982	46	20	8	8	1	2	2	158	68	44	118	12	159.3	3.84	1.268	6.67	3.19	85.4	97.1	1.3
1983	35	35	15	8	0	8	4	205	86	87	199	19	238.0	3.25	1.227	7.53	3.17	85.7	113.8	3.3
1984	34	32	12	11	1	7	2	226	74	78	149	18	227.3	2.93	1.337	5.90	3.57	99.4	122.4	3.7
1985	30	19	7	9	0	2	0	139	66	62	52	9	126.3	4.70	1.591	3.70	4.36	121.9	76.1	-0.6
1986	49	15	3	11	0	0	0	129	70	49	80	16	122.3	5.15	1.455	5.89	4.51	118.2	74.1	-0.7
1987	9	2	0	1	0	0	0	25	13	7	13	2	20.3	5.75	1.574	5.75	4.20	97.4	74.9	-0.1
1988	42	17	6	9	1	2	1	130	59	45	70	10	136.0	3.90	1.287	4.63	3.72	107.4	88.6	0.7
1989	48	21	4	13	0	3	1	154	70	57	78	5	153.3	4.11	1.376	4.58	3.36	93.3	87.8	0.5
1990	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	10	9	9	7	2	8.3	9.72	2.280	7.56	7.85	203.4	39.7	-0.5

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

380

515

446

RBI

193

.1345

OBP

.1605

SLG

.1570

OPS

.3175

Pitching

G (P)

370

224

SHO

478th-most career SHO

1,558

SO (P)

940

BB allowed

542

ERA

3.985

WHIP

1.3412

K/9

5.43

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	RBI	TB
1979-09-24	HOU @ ATL Gameday	2	1	2	1	0	0	3
1978-09-04	SD @ ATL Gameday	2	0	1	0	1	0	3
1989-08-01	CHC @ PHI Gameday	2	0	1	0	1	0	3
1984-08-22	ATL @ PIT Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	2	2
1980-04-27	WSH @ ATL Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1983-09-20	PIT @ NYM Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	0	11	0
1984-05-24	CIN @ PIT Gameday	9.0	8	1	0	2	10	0
1982-07-27	PHI @ PIT Gameday	7.0	3	0	0	2	10	0
1983-07-09	PIT @ LAD Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	1	9	0
1983-09-15	CHC @ PIT Gameday	9.0	8	4	4	1	9	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.