Marv Grissom

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 190 lb

BornMarch 31, 1918 · Los Molinos, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1946

Final gameJune 11, 1959

Seasons10 (1946–1959)

New York Giants 1946; Detroit Tigers 1949; Chicago White Sox 1952; Boston Red Sox 1953; New York Giants 1953–1957; San Francisco Giants 1958; St. Louis Cardinals 1959

Percentile snapshot

1952 season — qualified pitchers

8.3

26.7

43.3

53.3

11.7

SHO

156

73.3

98.3

166.0

ERA

3.74

38.3

WHIP

1.416

26.7

K/9

5.26

FIP

3.15

FIP-

86.9

73.3

ERA+

96.8

33.3

sWAR

1.3

of 61 qualified 1952 pitchers (min 156 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

12.1

88.9

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1946	4	5	5	0	1	0	0	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	-8.1	12.8	.189	0.0
1949	27	11	9	2	2	0	0	1	3	.222	.364	.222	.586	69.0	57.7	.313	-0.5
1952	28	62	53	1	8	4	4	1	19	.151	.167	.226	.393	-8.8	9.5	.181	1.3
1953	34	50	45	2	2	1	1	2	11	.044	.085	.067	.152	-78.2	-59.4	.077	1.0
1954	56	36	32	3	5	0	1	2	11	.156	.206	.156	.362	-14.6	-3.1	.177	3.5
1955	55	14	13	0	2	0	0	0	6	.154	.154	.154	.308	-30.0	-17.2	.140	1.9
1956	43	11	11	0	1	1	0	0	5	.091	.091	.182	.273	-47.2	-28.7	.117	2.8
1957	55	13	12	1	2	1	0	1	6	.167	.231	.250	.481	26.5	29.7	.225	2.0
1958	51	11	9	0	0	0	0	1	5	.000	.100	.000	.100	-79.9	-70.2	.074	0.5
1959	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1946	4	3	0	2	0	0	0	17	9	13	9	1	18.7	4.34	1.607	4.34	4.30	124.3	79.8	0.0
1949	27	2	2	4	0	0	0	56	28	34	17	6	39.3	6.41	2.288	3.89	6.28	151.3	64.8	-0.5
1952	28	24	12	10	0	7	1	156	69	79	97	6	166.0	3.74	1.416	5.26	3.15	86.9	96.8	1.3
1953	34	18	6	8	0	4	1	144	68	61	77	11	143.7	4.26	1.427	4.82	3.83	90.4	99.7	1.0
1954	56	3	10	7	19	1	1	100	32	50	64	13	122.3	2.35	1.226	4.71	4.15	102.7	171.7	3.5
1955	55	0	5	4	8	0	0	76	29	41	49	6	89.3	2.92	1.310	4.94	3.66	91.6	136.8	1.9
1956	43	2	1	1	7	0	0	71	14	16	49	3	80.7	1.56	1.079	5.47	2.13	56.9	239.9	2.8
1957	55	0	4	4	14	0	0	74	24	23	51	6	82.7	2.61	1.173	5.55	3.13	80.7	148.4	2.0
1958	51	0	7	5	10	0	0	71	29	26	46	11	65.3	3.99	1.485	6.34	4.71	120.5	97.8	0.5
1959	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	5	0	0	2	2.0	22.50	3.000	0.00	15.62	376.2	18.5	-0.4

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

356

213

189

RBI

.1217

OBP

.1616

SLG

.1587

OPS

.3203

Pitching

G (P)

356

315th-most career SV

SHO

810

SO (P)

459

BB allowed

343

ERA

3.411

WHIP

1.3753

K/9

5.10

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	RBI	BB	TB
1952-06-17	ATH @ CWS Gameday	4	1	2	2	0	0	4
1953-08-31	CHC @ SF Gameday	4	1	1	1	1	1	2
1952-07-27	ATH @ CWS Gameday	1	0	1	1	0	0	2
1952-08-14	CWS @ DET Gameday	4	0	1	1	0	0	2
1956-09-08	SF @ LAD Gameday	3	0	1	1	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1952-09-13	NYY @ CWS Gameday	8.0	12	6	4	1	13	0
1952-05-31	CWS @ BOS Gameday	9.0	5	3	3	4	8	1
1953-07-30	SF @ ATL Gameday	6.2	3	0	0	1	7	0
1952-06-17	ATH @ CWS Gameday	10.0	7	1	1	4	6	0
1952-05-25	DET @ CWS Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	1	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

1× 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.