Mike McCormick

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 195 lb

BornSeptember 29, 1938 · Pasadena, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 3, 1956

Final gameMay 22, 1971

Seasons16 (1956–1971)

New York Giants 1956–1957; San Francisco Giants 1958–1962; Baltimore Orioles 1963–1964; Washington Senators 1965–1966; San Francisco Giants 1967–1969; New York Yankees 1970; San Francisco Giants 1970; Kansas City Royals 1971

Percentile snapshot

1969 season — qualified pitchers

7.7

15.4

20.5

80.8

46.2

SHO

175

79.5

80.8

51.3

2.6

39.7

196.7

23.1

ERA

3.34

WHIP

1.281

43.6

K/9

3.48

2.6

FIP

4.40

3.8

FIP-

124.2

3.8

ERA+

105.9

47.4

sWAR

2.5

43.6

of 79 qualified 1969 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

95.8

21.5

sWAR

19.8

93.5

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1956	3	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.6	-100.0	.000	-0.4
1957	24	24	22	1	6	0	0	0	3	0	8	0	.273	.261	.273	.534	34.3	44.2	.236	0.6
1958	42	59	54	4	12	1	0	0	3	2	21	0	.222	.250	.241	.491	25.7	31.9	.228	0.5
1959	47	82	66	3	7	1	0	0	3	4	22	1	.106	.155	.121	.276	-29.4	-23.0	.137	1.5
1960	40	95	88	4	16	4	0	0	3	2	35	0	.182	.200	.227	.427	14.1	20.6	.196	5.1
1961	40	89	80	3	15	2	0	0	4	4	25	0	.188	.226	.213	.439	18.2	20.1	.206	4.4
1962	29	30	28	3	3	0	0	1	1	2	11	0	.107	.167	.214	.381	-2.2	2.8	.179	-0.7
1963	25	51	46	5	8	0	0	1	1	2	16	1	.174	.208	.239	.447	22.1	28.3	.206	0.1
1964	4	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.167	.167	.167	.333	-21.8	-5.8	.152	-0.2
1965	45	51	41	2	3	0	0	0	1	6	15	0	.073	.191	.073	.265	-19.5	-21.2	.153	1.7
1966	41	74	66	5	14	0	0	2	5	3	23	0	.212	.246	.303	.549	53.7	57.5	.251	2.5
1967	41	95	84	8	10	2	0	1	5	4	32	0	.119	.157	.179	.336	-11.6	-2.8	.161	4.1
1968	38	72	58	4	6	0	1	1	6	6	25	0	.103	.194	.190	.384	11.6	16.4	.194	0.4
1969	32	75	66	6	9	1	0	1	4	4	31	0	.136	.186	.197	.383	1.9	8.5	.186	2.5
1970	32	33	30	6	5	1	0	0	0	1	9	0	.167	.194	.200	.394	0.8	7.4	.186	-1.6
1971	4	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-134.1	-100.0	.000	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1956	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	7	7	10	4	1	6.7	9.45	2.550	5.40	7.48	199.7	39.7	-0.4
1957	24	5	3	1	0	1	0	79	34	32	50	7	74.7	4.10	1.487	6.03	3.80	97.9	94.6	0.6
1958	42	28	11	8	1	8	2	192	91	60	82	19	178.3	4.59	1.413	4.14	4.03	103.2	85.1	0.5
1959	47	31	12	16	4	7	3	213	100	86	151	24	225.7	3.99	1.325	6.02	3.82	101.9	94.1	1.5
1960	40	34	15	12	3	15	4	228	76	65	154	15	253.0	2.70	1.158	5.48	2.99	84.2	131.2	5.1
1961	40	35	13	16	0	13	3	235	89	75	163	33	250.0	3.20	1.240	5.87	4.00	103.3	120.9	4.4
1962	28	15	5	5	0	1	0	112	59	45	42	18	98.7	5.38	1.591	3.83	5.64	145.9	71.8	-0.7
1963	25	21	6	8	0	2	0	132	65	66	75	18	136.0	4.30	1.456	4.96	4.53	130.6	80.7	0.1
1964	4	2	0	2	0	0	0	21	10	8	13	1	17.3	5.19	1.673	6.75	3.09	86.8	68.7	-0.2
1965	44	21	8	8	1	3	1	158	59	36	88	17	158.0	3.36	1.228	5.01	3.37	97.3	103.0	1.7
1966	41	32	11	14	0	8	3	193	83	51	101	23	216.0	3.46	1.130	4.21	3.62	105.4	99.3	2.5
1967	40	35	22	10	0	14	5	220	83	81	150	25	262.3	2.85	1.147	5.15	3.74	113.0	116.2	4.1
1968	38	28	12	14	1	9	2	196	79	49	121	17	198.3	3.58	1.235	5.49	3.21	108.3	82.7	0.4
1969	32	28	11	9	0	9	0	175	73	77	76	20	196.7	3.34	1.281	3.48	4.40	124.2	105.9	2.5
1970	32	15	5	4	2	1	0	106	68	49	49	17	99.0	6.18	1.566	4.45	5.58	142.2	63.3	-1.6
1971	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	14	10	5	2	0	9.7	9.31	1.966	1.86	3.50	102.5	36.7	-0.6

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

487

839

738

115

RBI

275

.1558

OBP

.1990

SLG

.2033

OPS

.4023

Pitching

G (P)

484

482nd-most career G (P)

333

246th-most career GS

134

343rd-most career W

128

286th-most career L

470th-most career CG

SHO

207th-most career SHO

2,380

287th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,321

317th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

795

262nd-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.728

WHIP

1.2923

K/9

4.99

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	BB	TB
1967-06-23	SF @ LAD Gameday	4	1	2	1	2	0	5
1968-08-11	NYM @ SF Gameday	4	1	1	1	2	0	4
1962-05-09	SF @ STL Gameday	1	1	1	1	1	0	4
1963-06-17	BAL @ BOS Gameday	3	2	1	1	1	0	4
1966-05-19	TEX @ CLE Gameday	3	1	1	1	1	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1960-09-13	SF @ PIT Gameday	9.0	10	3	3	3	13	1
1961-08-04	ATL @ SF Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	4	12	2
1959-05-30	CHC @ SF Gameday	9.0	5	2	2	3	11	0
1961-05-10	SF @ PIT Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	3	10	0
1968-06-09	NYM @ SF Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	3	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

1× Cy Young Award2× 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.