MLB / Players

Luke Walker

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 190 lb

BornSeptember 2, 1943 · DeKalb, TX, USA

MLB debutSeptember 7, 1965

Final gameOctober 1, 1974

Seasons9 (1965–1974)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1965–1966; Pittsburgh Pirates 1968–1973; Detroit Tigers 1974

Percentile snapshot

1970 season — qualified pitchers

93.6

64.1

97.4

96.2

15.4

SHO

74.4

129

98.7

24.4

124

35.9

100

163.0

2.6

ERA

3.04

85.9

WHIP

1.337

34.6

K/9

6.85

80.8

FIP

3.46

67.9

FIP-

88.2

71.8

ERA+

129.2

87.2

sWAR

3.2

60.3

of 79 qualified 1970 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

5.9

81.2

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
1965	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3
1966	10	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.4	-100.0	.000	0.0
1968	39	9	8	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	-136.5	-100.0	.000	1.3
1969	31	37	32	3	0	1	2	19	.000	.059	.000	.059	-94.7	-81.9	.044	0.7
1970	42	57	46	0	6	5	3	26	.130	.184	.130	.314	-14.8	-12.5	.159	3.2
1971	28	54	46	1	1	0	6	30	.022	.135	.022	.156	-56.3	-52.6	.105	1.0
1972	26	26	24	0	2	0	1	12	.083	.120	.083	.203	-55.3	-40.2	.105	0.7
1973	37	33	30	0	2	1	0	14	.067	.067	.067	.133	-81.1	-62.2	.062	-0.6
1974	28	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
1965	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	5	0	5.0	0.00	.600	9.00	1.24	35.0	—	0.3
1966	10	1	0	1	0	0	0	8	5	15	7	0	10.0	4.50	2.300	6.30	6.07	168.7	80.0	0.0
1968	39	2	0	3	3	0	0	42	14	39	66	1	61.7	2.04	1.314	9.63	2.56	86.7	144.5	1.3
1969	31	15	4	6	0	3	1	98	48	57	96	5	118.7	3.64	1.306	7.28	3.08	88.0	96.1	0.7
1970	42	19	15	6	3	5	3	129	55	89	124	6	163.0	3.04	1.337	6.85	3.46	88.2	129.2	3.2
1971	28	24	10	8	0	4	2	157	63	53	86	9	159.7	3.55	1.315	4.85	3.23	94.8	96.0	1.0
1972	26	12	4	6	2	2	0	98	35	34	48	4	92.7	3.40	1.424	4.66	3.15	93.8	98.9	0.7
1973	37	18	7	12	1	2	1	129	63	66	74	9	122.0	4.65	1.598	5.46	3.94	110.8	76.6	-0.6
1974	28	9	5	5	0	0	0	100	51	54	52	9	92.0	4.99	1.674	5.09	4.54	120.8	75.3	-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

243

218

188

RBI

107

.0585

OBP

.1150

SLG

.0585

OPS

.1735

Pitching

G (P)

243

100

SHO

825

SO (P)

558

BB allowed

408

ERA

3.645

WHIP

1.4200

K/9

6.09

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	H	RBI	TB
1970-08-14	SD @ PIT Gameday	4	2	3	2
1970-04-23	ATL @ PIT Gameday	3	1	1	1
1973-05-29	ATL @ PIT Gameday	3	1	1	1
1970-06-19	WSH @ PIT Gameday	1	1	0	1
1970-09-06	PHI @ PIT Gameday	4	1	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1971-04-18	PIT @ NYM Gameday	7.0	3	3	3	3	12	1
1969-08-19	HOU @ PIT Gameday	7.0	3	0	0	6	11	0
1970-08-14	SD @ PIT Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	1	9	0
1970-09-10	STL @ PIT Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	1	9	0
1973-06-21	NYM @ PIT Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	2	9	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.