MLB / Players

Pete Vuckovich

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 4 in · 215 lb
BornOctober 27, 1952 · Johnstown, PA, USA
MLB debutAugust 3, 1975
Final gameOctober 2, 1986
Seasons11 (1975–1986)

Chicago White Sox 1975–1976; Toronto Blue Jays 1977; St. Louis Cardinals 1978–1980; Milwaukee Brewers 1981–1983; Milwaukee Brewers 1985–1986

Percentile snapshot

1982 season — qualified pitchers

G
30
9
GS
30
32.6
W
18
92.1
L
6
94.4
SV
0
0
CG
9
71.9
SHO
1
27
H
234
21.3
ER
83
59.6
BB
102
3.4
SO
105
46.1
HR
14
69.7
IP
223.7
59.6
ERA
3.34
76.4
WHIP
1.502
7.9
K/9
4.23
29.2
FIP
4.00
36
FIP-
103.4
33.7
ERA+
115.8
79.8
sWAR
3.6
77.5

of 90 qualified 1982 pitchers (min 163 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+
105.0
57.2
sWAR
17.4
92.3

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19754000000000000-1.0
197633000000000000-0.4
1977530000000000002.6
197845665848100312200.138.153.155.308-38.8-17.9.1465.3
1979349079712000311400.152.159.152.310-30.0-15.0.1452.6
1980328171413600711310.183.194.268.46215.226.4.2123.2
1981240000000000001.4
1982300000000000003.6
198330000000000000.0
198522000000000000-0.6
198660000000000000.8

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19754201000171575010.313.062.3234.353.6293.829.6-1.0
1976337740101225760623110.34.651.6505.063.59100.876.6-0.4
197753877831143575912313148.03.471.3657.483.5284.6120.02.6
19784523121216218756591499198.32.541.2406.762.6366.3156.45.3
197934321510090229936414522233.03.591.2585.603.5493.6105.22.6
19803230129173203846813218222.33.401.2195.343.5595.7109.23.2
198124231440211375957849149.73.551.2965.053.4297.898.61.4
198230301860912348310210514223.73.341.5024.234.00103.4115.83.6
198333020001581010014.74.911.7056.143.7197.177.90.0
1985222261001013469485516112.75.511.6154.395.08122.675.1-0.6
1986662400033111112332.33.061.3613.344.46103.9140.30.8

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
286
PA
237
AB
208
R
15
H
33
2B
7
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
13
BB
3
SO
49
SB
1
BA
.1587
OBP
.1690
SLG
.1923
OPS
.3613

Pitching

G (P)
286
GS
186
W
93
L
69
SV
10
CG
38
SHO
8
IP
1,455
SO (P)
882
BB allowed
545
ERA
3.661
WHIP
1.3736
K/9
5.45
500th-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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1980-08-14CHC @ STL Gameday402100203
1978-08-13STL @ NYM Gameday412100103
1979-04-28STL @ CIN Gameday422000002
1979-09-04STL @ CHC Gameday412000002
1980-04-15PHI @ STL Gameday401100202

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1977-06-26TOR @ BAL Gameday9.06001120
1979-06-03LAD @ STL Gameday9.07441122
1980-04-10PIT @ STL Gameday9.0300290
1977-06-22CLE @ TOR Gameday8.11053191
1980-04-30CHC @ STL Gameday7.1521191

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

Cy Young Award

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.