Luis Tiant

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 150 lb

BornAugust 27, 1906 · Havana, La Habana, Cuba

Seasons11 (1930–1947)

Cuban Stars West 1930; Pollock's Cuban Stars 1932; New York Cubans 1935–1936; New York Cubans 1939–1940; New York Cubans 1943–1947

Percentile snapshot

1947 season — qualified pitchers

6.6

9.2

31.6

100

10.5

SHO

18.4

90.8

98.7

100

13.2

93.4

79.7

7.9

ERA

2.60

94.7

WHIP

1.192

90.8

K/9

6.10

92.1

FIP

3.05

96.1

FIP-

73.8

97.4

ERA+

159.3

96.1

sWAR

1.9

35.5

of 77 qualified 1947 pitchers (min 62 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

9.9

86.8

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1930	20	47	41	0	2	1	4	1	.049	.133	.049	.182	-29.9	-49.5	.108	1.5
1932	11	32	26	2	5	2	4	2	.192	.300	.192	.492	51.6	37.2	.261	1.6
1935	12	27	22	0	3	1	2	0	.136	.208	.136	.345	4.5	-11.1	.178	1.3
1936	8	3	1	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.667	.000	.667	174.4	83.5	.506	0.2
1939	8	18	18	1	3	1	0	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	-2.2	-11.4	.155	0.4
1940	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-84.7	-100.0	.000	0.0
1943	3	5	4	0	1	2	1	0	.250	.400	.250	.650	92.6	75.3	.346	-0.1
1944	9	16	15	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-89.3	-100.0	.000	0.5
1945	9	18	14	0	0	2	1	1	.000	.063	.000	.063	-65.5	-81.7	.048	0.6
1946	14	24	20	0	2	0	3	0	.100	.217	.100	.317	11.8	-10.2	.183	1.9
1947	14	32	28	1	2	2	2	0	.071	.133	.071	.205	-31.9	-43.1	.114	1.9

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1930	19	16	4	11	0	11	1	126	50	42	80	4	116.3	3.87	1.444	6.19	4.07	89.2	117.8	1.5
1932	11	10	5	3	0	7	1	65	23	33	42	1	71.7	2.89	1.367	5.27	4.10	98.1	144.6	1.6
1935	12	9	5	3	2	3	3	64	32	30	64	4	71.7	4.02	1.312	8.04	4.37	85.8	126.9	1.3
1936	8	2	0	1	0	0	0	24	11	9	16	0	18.7	5.30	1.768	7.71	3.75	73.4	96.3	0.2
1939	8	6	2	4	0	3	1	48	24	15	42	2	46.0	4.70	1.370	8.22	3.56	73.5	103.2	0.4
1943	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	14	8	5	13	0	10.3	6.97	1.839	11.32	3.06	63.7	69.0	-0.1
1944	9	6	3	3	0	3	0	44	18	13	37	2	43.3	3.74	1.315	7.68	3.53	81.8	115.4	0.5
1945	9	6	4	1	1	3	1	51	18	15	45	0	46.7	3.47	1.414	8.68	2.76	66.9	118.8	0.6
1946	14	6	4	3	1	3	1	73	21	37	42	1	70.0	2.70	1.571	5.40	4.26	96.6	163.5	1.9
1947	14	11	9	0	0	6	1	78	23	17	54	1	79.7	2.60	1.192	6.10	3.05	73.8	159.3	1.9

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

109

223

190

RBI

.0947

OBP

.1762

SLG

.0947

OPS

.2709

Pitching

G (P)

107

SHO

574

SO (P)

435

BB allowed

216

ERA

3.573

WHIP

1.3981

K/9

6.82

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	BB	TB
1932-05-24	CUP @ BBS Gameday	4	1	3	2	1	3
1939-06-27	HSL @ NYC Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	2
1930-08-08	CUB @ KCM Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	1
1935-06-02	NE @ NYC Gameday	4	0	1	1	0	1
1943-09-02	IC @ NYC Gameday	3	0	1	1	1	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1939-06-27	HSL @ NYC Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	2	14	0
1944-05-31	PHS @ NYC Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	4	14	1
1939-08-28	NBY @ NYC Gameday	8.0	10	5	5	2	13	0
1935-06-16	BEG @ NYC Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	3	11	0
1944-08-29	NYC @ BBB Gameday	9.0	13	3	2	0	10	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.