Paul LaPalme

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 175 lb

BornDecember 14, 1923 · Springfield, MA, USA

MLB debutMay 28, 1951

Final gameAugust 28, 1957

Seasons7 (1951–1957)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1951–1954; St. Louis Cardinals 1955; Chicago White Sox 1956; Cincinnati Redlegs 1956; St. Louis Cardinals 1956; Chicago White Sox 1957

Percentile snapshot

1953 season — qualified pitchers

53.4

22.4

13.8

6.9

65.5

17.2

SHO

24.1

191

56.9

39.7

48.3

51.7

34.5

176.3

36.2

ERA

4.59

WHIP

1.446

K/9

4.39

58.6

FIP

4.20

43.1

FIP-

95.8

60.3

ERA+

95.5

29.3

sWAR

0.9

17.2

of 59 qualified 1953 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

3.8

76.3

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1951	22	12	10	2	1	0	0	0	2	2	.100	.250	.100	.350	-1.4	-4.7	.200	-0.8
1952	31	11	10	1	1	1	0	0	0	2	.100	.100	.200	.300	-47.5	-20.9	.130	0.6
1953	35	63	59	6	5	0	0	1	1	13	.085	.100	.085	.185	-71.3	-51.8	.087	0.9
1954	33	39	35	2	5	1	1	1	0	6	.143	.167	.229	.395	-16.3	1.7	.177	-0.8
1955	56	20	19	1	4	1	0	2	1	1	.211	.250	.263	.513	32.7	36.1	.237	2.3
1956	41	13	10	1	2	1	0	1	0	4	.200	.200	.300	.500	17.3	29.1	.219	0.8
1957	36	7	4	0	2	0	0	1	1	1	.500	.667	.500	1.167	255.8	226.3	.558	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
1951	22	8	1	5	0	1	1	79	38	31	24	6	54.3	6.29	2.025	3.98	4.70	112.5	66.4	-0.8
1952	31	2	1	2	0	0	0	56	26	37	25	6	59.7	3.92	1.559	3.77	4.80	121.9	100.4	0.6
1953	35	24	8	16	2	7	1	191	90	64	86	20	176.3	4.59	1.446	4.39	4.20	95.8	95.5	0.9
1954	33	15	4	10	0	2	0	147	74	54	57	15	120.7	5.52	1.666	4.25	4.43	107.6	74.6	-0.8
1955	56	0	4	3	3	0	0	76	28	34	39	10	91.7	2.75	1.200	3.83	4.02	98.4	148.6	2.3
1956	41	2	5	5	2	0	0	61	32	33	27	9	73.3	3.93	1.282	3.31	4.61	114.2	103.4	0.8
1957	35	0	1	4	7	0	0	35	15	19	19	5	40.3	3.35	1.339	4.24	4.56	121.4	112.1	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

254

165

147

RBI

.1361

OBP

.1753

SLG

.1769

OPS

.3522

Pitching

G (P)

253

SHO

616

SO (P)

277

BB allowed

272

ERA

4.425

WHIP

1.4878

K/9

4.04

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	3B	RBI	BB	TB
1954-05-12	STL @ PIT Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	0	3
1955-06-12	STL @ SF Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	1	1	2
1952-07-12	ATL @ PIT Gameday	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	2
1954-09-23	PIT @ PHI Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	0	0	2
1956-05-30	CIN @ STL Gameday	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1953-06-08	STL @ PIT Gameday	11.0	8	3	2	4	11	2
1953-06-03	CHC @ PIT Gameday	9.0	7	0	0	2	6	0
1953-09-07	PIT @ SF Gameday	9.0	9	3	2	1	6	1
1953-07-01	PIT @ SF Gameday	8.1	5	1	1	2	6	1
1953-07-22	CIN @ PIT Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	2	5	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.