MLB / Players

Luis Arroyo

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 178 lb

BornFebruary 18, 1927 · Penuelas, P.R.

MLB debutApril 20, 1955

Final gameMay 28, 1963

Seasons8 (1955–1963)

St. Louis Cardinals 1955; Pittsburgh Pirates 1956–1957; Cincinnati Redlegs 1959; New York Yankees 1960–1963

Percentile snapshot

1955 season — qualified pitchers

51.9

21.2

26.9

76.9

40.4

SHO

11.5

162

84.6

69.2

61.5

3.8

32.7

159.0

9.6

ERA

4.19

21.2

WHIP

1.415

23.1

K/9

3.85

28.8

FIP

4.48

7.7

FIP-

109.6

15.4

ERA+

97.6

28.8

sWAR

1.4

21.2

of 53 qualified 1955 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

5.0

79.3

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
1955	35	61	56	2	13	0	1	6	0	13	.232	.228	.286	.514	25.8	35.0	.227	1.4
1956	18	6	4	0	2	0	0	1	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	185.7	173.4	.453	0.0
1957	56	34	32	1	5	0	0	0	1	9	.156	.182	.156	.338	-15.3	-6.1	.160	-0.2
1959	10	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.2	-100.0	.000	0.1
1960	29	6	5	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	.000	.167	.000	.167	-38.4	-49.1	.125	0.7
1961	65	28	25	2	7	2	0	0	0	4	.280	.280	.360	.640	70.6	75.5	.286	3.5
1962	27	4	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	185.9	177.4	.456	0.0
1963	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1955	35	24	11	8	0	9	1	162	74	63	68	22	159.0	4.19	1.415	3.85	4.48	109.6	97.6	1.4
1956	18	2	3	3	0	1	0	36	15	12	17	5	28.7	4.71	1.674	5.34	4.57	123.3	78.7	0.0
1957	54	10	3	11	1	0	0	151	68	31	101	19	130.7	4.68	1.393	6.96	3.73	99.3	80.2	-0.2
1959	10	0	1	0	0	0	0	17	6	11	8	0	13.7	3.95	2.049	5.27	3.87	95.4	102.6	0.1
1960	29	0	5	1	7	0	0	30	13	22	29	2	40.7	2.88	1.279	6.42	3.24	88.7	127.0	0.7
1961	65	0	15	5	29	0	0	83	29	49	87	5	119.0	2.19	1.109	6.58	2.90	76.5	172.8	3.5
1962	27	0	1	3	7	0	0	33	18	17	21	5	33.7	4.81	1.485	5.61	4.80	126.6	78.8	0.0
1963	6	0	1	1	0	0	0	12	9	3	5	0	6.0	13.50	2.500	7.50	2.29	64.8	26.2	-0.7

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

246

142

128

RBI

.2266

OBP

.2366

SLG

.2656

OPS

.5022

Pitching

G (P)

244

415th-most career SV

SHO

531

SO (P)

336

BB allowed

208

ERA

3.930

WHIP

1.3777

K/9

5.69

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
1955-08-27	STL @ PHI Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	1	5
1961-07-22	NYY @ BOS Gameday	2	1	2	1	0	0	3
1955-06-01	STL @ PIT Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	1	2
1957-06-12	CIN @ PIT Gameday	2	1	2	0	0	0	2
1962-07-02	ATH @ NYY Gameday	2	0	2	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1955-05-10	PHI @ STL Gameday	10.0	5	3	3	3	9	1
1957-05-14	PIT @ CHC Gameday	5.0	5	3	3	1	9	2
1957-06-12	CIN @ PIT Gameday	7.0	9	3	3	1	6	0
1957-05-19	PIT @ CIN Gameday	6.2	11	6	6	0	6	1
1961-07-30	BAL @ NYY Gameday	6.2	5	0	0	5	6	0

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

2× 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.