Max Surkont

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 195 lb

BornJune 16, 1922 · Central Falls, RI, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1949

Final gameMay 1, 1957

Seasons9 (1949–1957)

Chicago White Sox 1949; Boston Braves 1950–1952; Milwaukee Braves 1953; Pittsburgh Pirates 1954–1955; New York Giants 1956; Pittsburgh Pirates 1956; St. Louis Cardinals 1956; New York Giants 1957

Percentile snapshot

1955 season — qualified pitchers

51.9

9.6

3.8

17.3

76.9

3.8

SHO

194

44.2

103

3.8

36.5

32.7

166.3

19.2

ERA

5.57

WHIP

1.635

K/9

4.55

63.5

FIP

4.56

1.9

FIP-

112.9

1.9

ERA+

72.4

sWAR

-1.4

of 53 qualified 1955 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

88.7

4.7

sWAR

5.8

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1949	44	26	22	1	1	0	0	0	2	4	12	.045	.192	.045	.238	-31.0	-34.7	.155	0.1
1950	9	24	23	4	10	2	0	1	5	1	3	.435	.458	.652	1.111	198.6	197.0	.487	1.5
1951	37	88	73	2	11	1	0	0	4	7	17	.151	.225	.164	.389	7.3	10.0	.195	1.6
1952	31	73	63	2	7	3	0	0	3	3	16	.111	.152	.159	.310	-24.5	-11.8	.149	1.5
1953	28	66	56	10	16	5	1	0	6	5	7	.286	.344	.411	.755	102.2	102.8	.339	2.0
1954	33	76	60	3	10	1	0	0	5	6	19	.167	.239	.183	.422	4.3	11.8	.207	1.4
1955	35	59	50	5	7	1	0	0	2	4	13	.140	.218	.160	.378	2.1	2.9	.189	-1.4
1956	14	13	10	1	1	0	0	0	1	1	3	.100	.182	.100	.282	-24.8	-20.6	.149	-0.4
1957	5	0	0	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
1949	44	2	3	5	4	0	0	92	51	60	38	9	96.0	4.78	1.583	3.56	4.89	119.0	85.9	0.1
1950	9	6	5	2	0	2	0	63	20	20	21	5	55.7	3.23	1.491	3.40	4.05	103.9	120.7	1.5
1951	37	33	12	16	1	11	2	230	105	89	110	21	237.0	3.99	1.346	4.18	3.82	102.9	93.1	1.6
1952	31	29	12	13	0	12	3	201	90	76	125	19	215.0	3.77	1.288	5.23	3.51	98.5	94.5	1.5
1953	28	24	11	5	0	11	2	168	79	64	83	22	170.0	4.18	1.365	4.39	4.45	111.4	95.5	2.0
1954	33	29	9	18	0	11	0	216	102	78	78	25	208.3	4.41	1.411	3.37	4.41	107.1	93.4	1.4
1955	35	22	7	14	2	5	0	194	103	78	84	23	166.3	5.57	1.635	4.55	4.56	112.9	72.4	-1.4
1956	14	4	2	2	1	1	0	36	24	14	24	8	39.7	5.45	1.261	5.45	4.70	125.3	68.9	-0.4
1957	5	0	0	1	0	0	0	9	7	2	8	2	6.3	9.95	1.737	11.37	5.04	129.9	39.0	-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

236

425

357

RBI

.1765

OBP

.2436

SLG

.2269

OPS

.4705

Pitching

G (P)

236

149

SHO

1,194

SO (P)

571

BB allowed

481

ERA

4.378

WHIP

1.4150

K/9

4.30

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
1950-09-15	PIT @ ATL Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	3	0	4
1950-09-25	PHI @ ATL Gameday	3	1	3	0	0	1	1	3
1950-09-29	ATL @ LAD Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	1	0	3
1952-09-04	LAD @ ATL Gameday	5	0	2	1	0	1	0	3
1953-07-19	ATL @ SF Gameday	2	0	2	1	0	1	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1953-05-25	CIN @ ATL Gameday	9.0	5	3	3	2	13	1
1952-06-02	ATL @ CIN Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	2	11	1
1951-08-27	STL @ ATL Gameday	9.0	2	2	0	4	9	0
1952-06-15	CHC @ ATL Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	1	9	0
1952-06-25	PIT @ ATL Gameday	9.0	5	2	2	1	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.