Mike Cuellar

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 165 lb

BornMay 8, 1937 · Las Villas, Cuba

MLB debutApril 18, 1959

Final gameMay 3, 1977

Seasons15 (1959–1977)

Cincinnati Redlegs 1959; St. Louis Cardinals 1964; Houston Astros 1965–1968; Baltimore Orioles 1969–1976; California Angels 1977

Percentile snapshot

1975 season — qualified pitchers

58.5

75.6

46.3

52.4

85.4

SHO

229

104

17.1

34.1

105

37.8

48.8

256.0

74.4

ERA

3.66

53.7

WHIP

1.223

K/9

3.69

14.6

FIP

3.60

53.7

FIP-

101.2

46.3

ERA+

97.1

36.6

sWAR

2.2

42.7

of 83 qualified 1975 pitchers (min 159 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

109.9

72.2

sWAR

36.9

97.6

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
1959	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.2	-100.0	.000	-0.5
1964	32	18	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	8	.000	.000	.000	.000	-132.1	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1965	25	14	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	.000	.077	.000	.077	-81.3	-75.5	.057	0.3
1966	38	77	71	4	8	1	0	1	1	2	37	.113	.137	.169	.306	-23.1	-13.3	.141	5.5
1967	38	98	93	6	13	3	2	0	5	2	42	.140	.158	.215	.373	-3.3	7.1	.173	3.4
1968	28	61	57	3	11	1	0	1	3	0	25	.193	.207	.263	.470	31.6	41.3	.220	2.4
1969	39	113	103	6	12	1	2	0	5	0	43	.117	.114	.165	.279	-41.7	-22.0	.125	6.7
1970	41	123	112	6	10	1	0	2	7	2	48	.089	.105	.152	.257	-47.4	-29.4	.118	3.2
1971	38	117	107	7	11	1	0	1	5	2	54	.103	.119	.140	.259	-44.2	-25.3	.123	3.5
1972	35	94	87	5	11	0	0	2	7	0	38	.126	.126	.195	.322	-29.4	-5.3	.147	4.0
1973	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.1
1974	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.8
1975	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.2
1976	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.1
1977	2	0	0	0	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
1959	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	7	4	5	1	4.0	15.75	2.750	11.25	6.37	157.2	25.7	-0.5
1964	32	7	5	5	4	1	0	80	36	33	56	8	72.0	4.50	1.569	7.00	4.06	107.0	84.3	-0.1
1965	25	4	1	4	2	0	0	55	22	21	46	3	56.0	3.54	1.357	7.39	2.87	84.8	95.6	0.3
1966	38	28	12	10	2	11	1	193	56	52	175	10	227.3	2.22	1.078	6.93	2.39	69.4	155.4	5.5
1967	36	32	16	11	1	16	3	233	83	63	203	16	246.3	3.03	1.202	7.42	2.63	79.5	109.2	3.4
1968	28	24	8	11	1	11	2	152	52	45	133	8	170.7	2.74	1.154	7.01	2.40	81.2	108.1	2.4
1969	39	39	23	11	0	18	5	213	77	79	182	18	290.7	2.38	1.005	5.64	2.74	76.5	150.2	6.7
1970	40	40	24	8	0	21	4	273	115	69	190	34	297.7	3.48	1.149	5.74	3.34	90.8	105.8	3.2
1971	38	38	20	9	0	21	4	250	100	78	124	30	292.3	3.08	1.122	3.82	3.66	108.8	109.1	3.5
1972	35	35	18	12	0	17	4	197	71	71	132	21	248.3	2.57	1.079	4.78	3.16	102.3	120.2	4.0
1973	38	38	18	13	0	17	2	265	97	84	140	29	267.0	3.27	1.307	4.72	3.89	104.0	114.4	4.1
1974	38	38	22	10	0	20	5	253	93	86	106	17	269.3	3.11	1.259	3.54	3.58	103.2	111.7	3.8
1975	36	36	14	12	0	17	5	229	104	84	105	17	256.0	3.66	1.223	3.69	3.60	101.2	97.1	2.2
1976	26	19	4	13	1	2	1	129	59	50	32	8	107.0	4.96	1.673	2.69	4.45	134.6	66.6	-1.1
1977	2	1	0	1	0	0	0	9	7	3	3	2	3.3	18.90	3.600	8.10	11.44	291.2	20.8	-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

456

716

661

RBI

304

.1150

OBP

.1278

SLG

.1710

OPS

.2988

Pitching

G (P)

453

379

169th-most career GS

185

159th-most career W

130

277th-most career L

172

185th-most career CG

SHO

63rd-most career SHO

2,808

175th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,632

184th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

822

234th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.138

229th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1966

161st-lowest career WHIP

K/9

5.23

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	HR	RBI	TB
1970-07-11	BAL @ DET Gameday	4	1	3	1	2	6
1972-07-15	CWS @ BAL Gameday	4	1	2	1	2	5
1968-06-16	HOU @ PIT Gameday	3	1	2	1	1	5
1970-10-03	BAL @ MIN Gameday	2	1	1	1	4	4
1970-04-24	BAL @ KC Gameday	2	1	1	1	2	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1966-06-25	STL @ HOU Gameday	9.0	7	2	1	3	15	0
1967-06-06	HOU @ STL Gameday	9.0	6	2	1	0	13	1
1972-08-11	BOS @ BAL Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	3	13	0
1967-07-24	PHI @ HOU Gameday	11.0	2	1	0	2	12	0
1967-09-27	PHI @ HOU Gameday	11.0	6	0	0	5	12	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× Cy Young Award4× 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.