Milt Pappas

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 190 lb

BornMay 11, 1939 · Detroit, MI, USA

MLB debutAugust 10, 1957

Final gameSeptember 18, 1973

Seasons17 (1957–1973)

Baltimore Orioles 1957–1965; Cincinnati Reds 1966–1967; Atlanta Braves 1968; Cincinnati Reds 1968; Atlanta Braves 1969–1970; Chicago Cubs 1970–1973

Percentile snapshot

1973 season — qualified pitchers

4.7

22.1

3.5

52.3

1.2

SHO

16.3

192

77.9

80.2

98.8

162.0

ERA

4.28

WHIP

1.432

15.1

K/9

2.67

1.2

FIP

4.38

5.8

FIP-

112.5

10.5

ERA+

90.9

sWAR

0.6

11.6

of 87 qualified 1973 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

109.0

69.9

sWAR

41.7

98.1

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	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1957	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.8	-100.0	.000	0.3
1958	32	45	42	2	6	2	0	1	3	0	21	0	.143	.143	.262	.405	-1.4	12.4	.177	0.5
1959	33	81	79	4	11	1	0	0	2	1	35	0	.139	.150	.152	.302	-25.7	-15.2	.140	2.9
1960	30	79	70	4	3	0	0	1	3	4	34	0	.043	.095	.086	.180	-62.8	-50.0	.093	2.5
1961	26	70	66	6	9	2	0	3	6	0	29	0	.136	.134	.303	.437	1.9	16.2	.185	3.4
1962	35	75	69	5	6	1	0	4	8	1	41	0	.087	.097	.275	.373	-15.9	-0.6	.155	1.2
1963	36	80	71	6	9	0	0	2	5	2	35	0	.127	.151	.211	.362	-8.0	2.7	.164	3.2
1964	37	100	93	4	12	1	0	0	4	4	46	0	.129	.173	.140	.313	-20.9	-10.5	.153	4.1
1965	34	78	70	3	5	1	1	0	4	1	36	0	.071	.085	.114	.199	-63.9	-44.0	.092	4.2
1966	36	82	75	6	8	0	1	1	4	2	38	0	.107	.139	.173	.313	-32.4	-16.5	.145	0.8
1967	34	77	72	2	7	0	0	1	3	3	33	0	.097	.133	.139	.272	-43.8	-25.5	.133	3.0
1968	38	63	53	6	7	0	0	1	4	3	29	0	.132	.193	.189	.382	6.2	15.9	.190	0.8
1969	26	51	45	4	7	0	0	2	4	5	21	0	.156	.240	.289	.529	46.8	47.7	.254	1.7
1970	32	65	60	7	12	2	1	2	5	2	20	0	.200	.234	.367	.601	44.8	53.0	.269	4.3
1971	35	99	91	6	14	2	0	0	2	4	30	1	.154	.206	.176	.382	-9.1	3.7	.189	3.7
1972	29	76	68	5	13	1	0	1	8	2	33	0	.191	.236	.250	.486	25.2	33.3	.232	4.5
1973	30	52	48	2	3	0	0	1	2	2	28	0	.063	.100	.125	.225	-57.5	-39.6	.110	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
1957	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	1	3	3	0	9.0	1.00	1.000	3.00	2.73	76.9	355.4	0.3
1958	31	21	10	10	0	3	0	135	61	48	72	8	135.3	4.06	1.352	4.79	3.26	91.7	87.5	0.5
1959	33	27	15	9	3	15	4	175	76	75	120	8	209.3	3.27	1.194	5.16	2.95	78.9	114.3	2.9
1960	30	27	15	11	0	11	3	184	77	83	126	15	205.7	3.37	1.298	5.51	3.42	90.7	112.1	2.5
1961	26	23	13	9	1	11	4	134	60	78	89	16	177.7	3.04	1.193	4.51	4.11	107.0	126.2	3.4
1962	35	32	12	10	0	9	1	200	92	75	130	31	205.3	4.03	1.339	5.70	4.34	116.7	92.2	1.2
1963	34	32	16	9	0	11	4	186	73	69	120	21	216.7	3.03	1.177	4.98	3.64	104.8	114.5	3.2
1964	37	36	16	7	0	13	7	225	83	48	157	21	251.7	2.97	1.085	5.61	2.95	82.8	120.1	4.1
1965	34	34	13	9	0	9	3	192	64	52	127	22	221.3	2.60	1.102	5.16	3.29	94.6	133.6	4.2
1966	33	32	12	11	0	6	2	224	100	39	133	23	209.7	4.29	1.254	5.71	3.43	88.6	90.2	0.8
1967	34	32	16	13	0	5	3	218	81	38	129	19	217.7	3.35	1.176	5.33	3.20	85.9	111.2	3.0
1968	37	30	12	13	0	3	1	181	71	32	118	17	184.0	3.47	1.158	5.77	3.07	100.4	87.8	0.8
1969	26	24	6	10	0	1	0	149	58	44	72	14	144.0	3.63	1.340	4.50	3.92	108.5	99.7	1.7
1970	32	23	12	10	0	7	2	179	67	43	105	20	180.3	3.34	1.231	5.24	3.87	88.2	131.6	4.3
1971	35	35	17	14	0	14	5	279	102	62	99	25	261.3	3.51	1.305	3.41	3.80	98.2	110.2	3.7
1972	29	28	17	7	0	10	3	187	60	29	80	18	195.0	2.77	1.108	3.69	3.48	92.8	135.2	4.5
1973	30	29	7	12	0	1	1	192	77	40	48	20	162.0	4.28	1.432	2.67	4.38	112.5	90.9	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

527

1,174

1,073

132

RBI

510

.1230

OBP

.1569

SLG

.1966

OPS

.3535

Pitching

G (P)

520

396th-most career G (P)

465

77th-most career GS

209

103rd-most career W

164

110th-most career L

129

295th-most career CG

SHO

37th-most career SHO

3,186

113th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,728

146th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

858

193rd-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.398

370th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2254

238th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.88

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
1961-08-27	BAL @ MIN Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	2	0	8
1972-08-11	NYM @ CHC Gameday	3	1	3	1	1	5	1	7
1970-08-13	SF @ CHC Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	2	0	6
1958-07-24	BAL @ CWS Gameday	4	2	2	1	1	1	0	6
1970-09-02	PHI @ CHC Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	1	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1962-05-09	ATH @ BAL Gameday	9.0	5	3	2	3	13	0
1961-08-27	BAL @ MIN Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	3	11	0
1966-10-01	ATL @ CIN Gameday	7.0	9	5	5	2	11	0
1962-05-15	LAA @ BAL Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	2	10	1
1964-09-02	BAL @ MIN Gameday	9.0	1	0	0	1	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

2× 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.