MLB / Players

Paul Giel

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 11 in · 185 lb
BornSeptember 29, 1932 · Winona, MN, USA
MLB debutJuly 10, 1954
Final gameJune 2, 1961
Seasons6 (1954–1961)

New York Giants 1954–1955; San Francisco Giants 1958; Pittsburgh Pirates 1959–1960; Kansas City Athletics 1961; Minnesota Twins 1961

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
-2.1
1.4

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19546000000000000-0.2
19553420192110000600.053.053.105.158-78.1-59.1.0681.2
19582933270200011800.074.138.074.212-52.6-41.2.114-0.1
19594000000000000-0.8
196016870000000200.000.000.000.000-126.2-100.0.000-0.5
196116220100000100.500.500.5001.000174.7164.4.457-1.6

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19546000000842404.38.312.3088.311.9648.448.7-0.2
19553424400070315047882.33.391.4575.144.32108.2117.91.2
195829945000894855551292.04.701.5655.384.87124.583.2-0.1
1959400000017126307.714.093.0003.524.19108.327.4-0.8
19601602000035211521333.05.731.5155.733.92104.865.4-0.5
19611301000030282015721.012.002.3816.438.27198.134.8-1.6

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

G
105
PA
63
AB
55
R
2
H
4
2B
1
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
1
BB
1
SO
17
SB
0
BA
.0727
OBP
.1053
SLG
.0909
OPS
.1962

Pitching

G (P)
102
GS
11
W
11
L
9
SV
0
CG
0
SHO
0
IP
240
SO (P)
145
BB allowed
148
ERA
5.393
WHIP
1.6519
K/9
5.43

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1955-06-15SF @ CHC Gameday211100002
1958-07-27SF @ PIT Gameday301000101
1958-07-03CHC @ SF Gameday201000001
1961-04-24MIN @ ATH Gameday101000001
1954-07-03SF @ PIT Gameday000000000

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1955-07-28SF @ CHC Gameday7.0311590
1958-08-29LAD @ SF Gameday5.2744582
1955-06-07ATL @ SF Gameday5.1622181
1958-06-18SF @ PIT Gameday9.0411360
1958-07-03CHC @ SF Gameday8.0743442

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.