Moe Drabowsky

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 190 lb

BornJuly 21, 1935 · Ozanna, Lwów, Poland

MLB debutAugust 7, 1956

Final gameSeptember 19, 1972

Seasons17 (1956–1972)

Chicago Cubs 1956–1960; Milwaukee Braves 1961; Cincinnati Reds 1962; Kansas City Athletics 1962–1965; Baltimore Orioles 1966–1968; Kansas City Royals 1969; Baltimore Orioles 1970; Kansas City Royals 1970; St. Louis Cardinals 1971; Chicago White Sox 1972; St. Louis Cardinals 1972

Percentile snapshot

1964 season — qualified pitchers

100

4.5

28.4

56.7

SHO

176

77.6

16.4

28.4

119

34.3

23.9

168.3

7.5

ERA

5.29

1.5

WHIP

1.473

K/9

6.36

62.7

FIP

4.33

FIP-

114.2

7.5

ERA+

71.5

sWAR

-1.9

1.5

of 68 qualified 1964 pitchers (min 163 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

100.5

40.4

sWAR

16.9

92.1

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1956	9	18	16	1	4	0	0	0	0	3	.250	.250	.250	.500	28.0	35.6	.226	1.3
1957	36	92	82	3	15	2	1	10	6	32	.183	.236	.244	.480	25.1	29.6	.223	3.5
1958	22	48	45	3	7	1	0	3	0	11	.156	.156	.178	.333	-28.2	-11.3	.150	0.2
1959	31	47	45	2	5	1	0	2	2	20	.111	.149	.133	.282	-34.7	-23.8	.136	1.0
1960	33	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.9	-100.0	.000	-1.2
1961	16	5	4	0	1	0	0	1	1	1	.250	.400	.250	.650	101.1	83.7	.329	0.1
1962	33	26	23	0	1	0	0	0	1	16	.043	.083	.043	.127	-80.2	-65.7	.069	-0.3
1963	26	65	62	4	10	3	2	8	0	21	.161	.161	.306	.468	8.7	23.9	.203	3.6
1964	54	45	43	2	1	0	0	0	1	23	.023	.045	.023	.069	-109.6	-80.5	.037	-1.9
1965	14	11	11	0	1	0	0	0	0	5	.091	.091	.091	.182	-70.0	-48.2	.084	-0.1
1966	44	25	22	3	8	2	0	4	1	6	.364	.417	.455	.871	162.0	153.4	.398	2.0
1967	43	24	20	3	7	0	0	1	1	3	.350	.381	.350	.731	124.6	119.4	.344	3.2
1968	45	7	7	1	2	0	0	0	0	2	.286	.286	.286	.571	69.2	75.1	.266	1.5
1969	52	19	17	2	4	1	0	0	0	6	.235	.235	.294	.529	37.7	47.2	.243	1.9
1970	45	10	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	5	.111	.111	.111	.222	-58.5	-38.3	.103	0.8
1971	51	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	.167	.167	.167	.333	-25.2	-6.5	.155	0.7
1972	37	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-137.0	-100.0	.000	0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1956	9	7	2	4	0	3	0	37	14	39	36	1	51.0	2.47	1.490	6.35	3.49	92.6	152.5	1.3
1957	36	33	13	15	0	12	2	214	94	94	170	22	239.7	3.53	1.285	6.38	3.59	92.3	110.2	3.5
1958	22	20	9	11	0	4	1	118	63	73	77	19	125.7	4.51	1.520	5.51	5.11	130.3	86.9	0.2
1959	31	23	5	10	0	3	1	138	65	75	70	21	141.7	4.13	1.504	4.45	5.21	131.9	95.7	1.0
1960	32	7	3	1	1	0	0	71	36	23	26	3	50.3	6.44	1.868	4.65	3.82	101.3	58.6	-1.2
1961	16	0	0	2	2	0	0	26	13	18	5	4	25.3	4.62	1.737	1.78	6.57	173.1	82.2	0.1
1962	33	13	3	7	1	1	0	113	62	41	75	21	111.0	5.03	1.387	6.08	5.07	125.0	80.6	-0.3
1963	26	22	7	13	0	9	2	135	59	64	109	16	174.3	3.05	1.141	5.63	3.64	94.2	127.0	3.6
1964	53	21	5	13	1	1	0	176	99	72	119	24	168.3	5.29	1.473	6.36	4.33	114.2	71.5	-1.9
1965	14	5	1	5	0	0	0	44	19	18	25	5	38.7	4.42	1.603	5.82	4.42	126.7	78.8	-0.1
1966	44	3	6	0	7	0	0	62	30	29	98	10	96.0	2.81	.948	9.19	2.69	79.6	120.0	2.0
1967	43	0	7	5	12	0	0	66	17	25	96	7	95.3	1.60	.955	9.06	2.21	69.3	198.7	3.2
1968	45	0	4	4	7	0	0	35	13	25	46	3	61.3	1.91	.978	6.75	2.78	94.2	154.5	1.5
1969	52	0	11	9	11	0	0	68	32	30	76	10	98.0	2.94	1.000	6.98	3.12	85.3	124.4	1.9
1970	45	0	5	4	3	0	0	58	27	27	59	10	69.0	3.52	1.232	7.70	3.91	105.8	105.0	0.8
1971	51	0	6	1	8	0	0	45	23	33	49	2	60.3	3.43	1.293	7.31	3.09	86.2	104.5	0.7
1972	37	0	1	1	2	0	0	35	10	16	26	4	35.0	2.57	1.457	6.69	3.93	116.6	130.0	0.7

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

591

457

420

RBI

160

.1619

OBP

.1885

SLG

.2071

OPS

.3956

Pitching

G (P)

589

261st-most career G (P)

154

105

498th-most career L

338th-most career SV

SHO

1,641

SO (P)

1,162

422nd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

702

390th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.707

WHIP

1.3059

K/9

6.37

308th-highest career K/9

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	TB
1957-09-17	PHI @ CHC Gameday	4	1	2	1	1	2	6
1963-07-16	BOS @ ATH Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	3	5
1963-08-20	TEX @ ATH Gameday	4	1	2	2	0	0	4
1963-08-14	DET @ ATH Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	4
1957-04-18	CHC @ STL Gameday	5	0	2	0	0	2	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1957-07-30	LAD @ CHC Gameday	8.0	5	1	1	2	11
1966-10-05	BAL @ LAD Gameday	6.2	1	0	0	2	11
1957-08-04	PIT @ CHC Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	4	10
1964-05-19	ATH @ BAL Gameday	8.0	8	2	2	4	10
1963-06-18	ATH @ LAA Gameday	10.0	8	2	2	6	9

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.