Luis Tiant

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornNovember 23, 1940 · Marianao, La Habana, Cuba

MLB debutJuly 19, 1964

Final gameSeptember 4, 1982

Seasons19 (1964–1982)

Cleveland Indians 1964–1969; Minnesota Twins 1970; Boston Red Sox 1971–1978; New York Yankees 1979–1980; Pittsburgh Pirates 1981; California Angels 1982

Percentile snapshot

1979 season — qualified pitchers

14.1

34.1

44.7

21.2

SHO

27.1

190

77.6

63.5

81.2

104

48.2

30.6

195.7

32.9

ERA

3.91

37.6

WHIP

1.242

70.6

K/9

4.78

56.5

FIP

3.98

44.7

FIP-

96.8

54.1

ERA+

105.1

42.4

sWAR

2.4

37.6

of 86 qualified 1979 pitchers (min 160 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

113.1

sWAR

54.2

99.1

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1964	19	48	45	3	5	0	0	1	3	0	13	0	0	.111	.111	.178	.289	-40.9	-20.8	.127	2.3
1965	41	75	68	2	6	0	0	1	3	3	30	0	0	.088	.127	.132	.259	-39.8	-26.2	.126	1.6
1966	46	45	36	0	4	0	0	0	3	1	12	0	0	.111	.135	.111	.246	-42.3	-27.9	.118	2.6
1967	33	77	71	9	18	3	0	1	10	2	23	0	1	.254	.270	.338	.608	74.3	79.1	.278	4.1
1968	34	98	87	4	7	1	0	0	3	0	14	0	0	.080	.080	.092	.172	-76.4	-47.4	.080	6.7
1969	38	90	81	8	19	2	1	2	9	3	22	0	0	.235	.267	.358	.625	66.8	72.0	.287	3.1
1970	18	36	32	7	13	4	0	0	4	1	6	1	0	.406	.424	.531	.955	170.0	161.8	.434	1.9
1971	21	19	19	0	3	1	0	0	1	0	4	0	0	.158	.158	.211	.368	-20.1	1.1	.168	-0.4
1972	43	61	56	3	6	1	0	0	4	2	18	0	0	.107	.138	.125	.263	-46.4	-22.9	.130	4.7
1973	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.8
1974	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	6.5
1975	35	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-131.4	-100.0	.000	2.7
1976	38	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-137.7	-100.0	.000	5.5
1977	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.7
1978	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.1
1979	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.4
1980	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
1981	9	19	16	0	3	2	0	0	4	1	3	0	0	.188	.235	.313	.548	46.9	52.3	.258	0.4
1982	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1964	19	16	10	4	1	9	3	94	40	47	105	13	127.0	2.83	1.110	7.44	3.29	91.2	127.4	2.3
1965	41	30	11	11	1	10	2	166	77	66	152	20	196.3	3.53	1.182	6.97	3.23	92.9	98.5	1.6
1966	46	16	12	11	8	7	5	121	48	50	145	16	155.0	2.79	1.103	8.42	2.91	85.1	122.8	2.6
1967	33	29	12	9	2	9	1	177	65	67	219	24	213.7	2.74	1.142	9.22	2.78	86.0	118.2	4.1
1968	34	32	21	9	0	19	9	152	46	73	264	16	258.3	1.60	.871	9.20	1.88	63.8	183.8	6.7
1969	38	37	9	20	0	9	1	229	103	129	156	37	249.7	3.71	1.434	5.62	4.68	126.0	100.1	3.1
1970	18	17	7	3	0	2	1	84	35	41	50	12	92.7	3.40	1.349	4.86	4.42	118.2	110.1	1.9
1971	21	10	1	7	0	1	0	73	39	32	59	8	72.3	4.85	1.452	7.34	3.53	96.4	75.5	-0.4
1972	43	19	15	6	3	12	6	128	38	65	123	7	179.0	1.91	1.078	6.18	2.49	77.5	168.3	4.7
1973	35	35	20	13	0	23	0	217	101	78	206	32	272.0	3.34	1.085	6.82	3.53	88.2	119.9	4.8
1974	38	38	22	13	0	25	7	281	101	82	176	21	311.3	2.92	1.166	5.09	3.15	82.3	130.9	6.5
1975	35	35	18	14	0	18	2	262	116	72	142	25	260.0	4.02	1.285	4.92	3.59	88.6	101.0	2.7
1976	38	38	21	12	0	19	3	274	95	64	131	25	279.0	3.06	1.211	4.23	3.56	92.1	126.2	5.5
1977	32	32	12	8	0	3	3	210	95	51	124	26	188.7	4.53	1.383	5.92	4.06	91.4	98.1	1.7
1978	32	31	13	8	0	12	5	185	78	57	114	26	212.3	3.31	1.140	4.83	3.95	96.8	123.3	4.1
1979	30	30	13	8	0	5	1	190	85	53	104	22	195.7	3.91	1.242	4.78	3.98	96.8	105.1	2.4
1980	25	25	8	9	0	3	0	139	74	50	84	10	136.3	4.89	1.386	5.55	3.60	91.4	80.6	-0.1
1981	9	9	2	5	0	1	0	54	25	19	32	3	57.3	3.92	1.273	5.02	3.23	89.4	92.0	0.4
1982	6	5	2	2	0	0	0	39	19	8	30	3	29.7	5.76	1.584	9.10	2.79	68.8	70.4	-0.3

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

573

570

513

RBI

146

.1637

OBP

.1853

SLG

.2242

OPS

.4095

Pitching

G (P)

573

284th-most career G (P)

484

59th-most career GS

229

67th-most career W

172

91st-most career L

187

157th-most career CG

SHO

21st-most career SHO

3,486

74th-most career IP

SO (P)

2,416

49th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,104

75th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.304

313th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1987

166th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

6.24

327th-highest career K/9

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	BB	TB
1970-04-26	DET @ MIN Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	0	4
1969-06-20	BAL @ CLE Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	2	1	4
1969-07-13	CLE @ DET Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	2	0	4
1964-10-04	CLE @ NYY Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	0	4
1965-07-23	NYY @ CLE Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1968-07-03	MIN @ CLE Gameday	10.0	6	0	0	0	19	0
1967-08-22	LAA @ CLE Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	3	16	1
1968-09-09	CLE @ MIN Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	3	16	1
1967-05-31	CLE @ DET Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	4	13	0
1968-06-29	CLE @ BOS Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	2	13	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

3× 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.