MLB / Players

Les Cain

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 200 lb

BornJanuary 13, 1948 · San Luis Obispo, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 28, 1968

Final gameMay 28, 1972

Seasons4 (1968–1972)

Detroit Tigers 1968; Detroit Tigers 1970–1972

Percentile snapshot

1970 season — qualified pitchers

6.4

23.1

38.5

92.3

15.4

SHO

167

80.8

14.1

156

65.4

80.8

180.7

11.5

ERA

3.84

38.5

WHIP

1.467

6.4

K/9

7.77

92.3

FIP

3.52

62.8

FIP-

94.4

52.6

ERA+

97.3

24.4

sWAR

1.6

19.2

of 79 qualified 1970 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

1.7

68.6

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1968	8	7	7	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	.143	.143	.286	.429	8.4	26.6	.192	0.3
1970	29	72	68	2	11	1	1	9	1	18	.162	.174	.221	.395	-5.4	8.2	.181	1.6
1971	27	58	55	7	8	1	1	2	1	23	.145	.161	.218	.379	-11.0	6.0	.175	-0.1
1972	5	8	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	.143	.143	.143	.286	-40.0	-15.1	.134	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1968	8	4	1	0	0	0	25	8	20	13	1	24.0	3.00	1.875	4.88	4.18	138.2	100.9	0.3
1970	29	29	12	7	5	0	167	77	98	156	15	180.7	3.84	1.467	7.77	3.52	94.4	97.3	1.6
1971	26	26	10	9	3	1	121	70	91	118	14	144.7	4.35	1.465	7.34	4.00	113.5	80.9	-0.1
1972	5	5	0	3	0	0	18	10	16	16	2	23.7	3.80	1.437	6.08	4.04	130.0	81.8	0.0

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

145

137

RBI

.1533

OBP

.1655

SLG

.2190

OPS

.3845

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

373

SO (P)

303

BB allowed

225

ERA

3.981

WHIP

1.4906

K/9

7.31

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	HR	RBI	TB
1971-08-28	CWS @ DET Gameday	2	2	2	0	1	1	5
1970-06-30	NYY @ DET Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	4
1970-08-12	DET @ MIL Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	2	2
1971-06-09	MIL @ DET Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	0	2
1970-08-29	ATH @ DET Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1971-08-23	MIN @ DET Gameday	9.0	5	2	2	5	13	0
1970-08-16	DET @ LAA Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	3	10	0
1971-07-28	KC @ DET Gameday	7.0	7	5	4	3	10	1
1970-09-06	DET @ TEX Gameday	6.0	9	6	6	2	10	2
1970-08-21	MIL @ DET Gameday	9.0	6	4	3	5	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.