Ralph Terry

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 195 lb

BornJanuary 9, 1936 · Big Cabin, OK, USA

MLB debutAugust 6, 1956

Final gameApril 22, 1967

Seasons12 (1956–1967)

New York Yankees 1956; Kansas City Athletics 1957; New York Yankees 1957; Kansas City Athletics 1958–1959; New York Yankees 1959–1964; Cleveland Indians 1965; Kansas City Athletics 1966; New York Mets 1966–1967

Percentile snapshot

1965 season — qualified pitchers

1.4

11.1

30.6

95.8

27.8

SHO

45.8

154

90.3

77.8

100

2.8

26.4

165.7

4.2

ERA

3.69

33.3

WHIP

1.068

91.7

K/9

4.56

18.1

FIP

3.55

36.1

FIP-

102.0

29.2

ERA+

94.1

27.8

sWAR

1.4

26.4

of 73 qualified 1965 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

102.3

47.8

sWAR

19.2

93.2

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	3	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	.167	.167	.167	.333	-21.9	-9.2	.155	-0.7
1957	29	49	46	1	7	0	0	1	1	8	.152	.170	.152	.322	-28.6	-11.1	.154	2.3
1958	40	76	71	3	14	1	0	4	2	14	.197	.219	.211	.430	7.1	17.8	.201	1.2
1959	33	62	58	0	7	0	0	0	1	10	.121	.136	.121	.256	-39.6	-28.4	.121	1.2
1960	35	57	49	1	6	1	0	1	1	18	.122	.140	.143	.283	-32.7	-20.7	.133	1.9
1961	31	73	66	3	15	2	0	5	1	16	.227	.235	.258	.493	29.0	36.2	.224	3.4
1962	43	121	106	6	20	0	0	7	2	27	.189	.218	.189	.407	7.9	13.7	.193	5.0
1963	40	99	87	2	7	0	0	3	2	17	.080	.100	.080	.180	-64.6	-47.8	.087	3.0
1964	27	42	35	2	7	1	0	0	3	10	.200	.263	.229	.492	36.9	38.8	.236	0.0
1965	30	64	49	2	7	2	1	4	4	21	.143	.222	.245	.467	30.6	32.7	.224	1.4
1966	26	23	20	2	4	1	0	1	2	9	.200	.273	.250	.523	52.8	52.9	.250	0.3
1967	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1956	3	3	1	2	0	0	0	17	14	11	8	2	13.3	9.45	2.100	5.40	5.73	144.9	41.9	-0.7
1957	28	21	5	12	0	4	2	137	56	55	87	16	151.3	3.33	1.269	5.17	3.79	98.0	116.2	2.3
1958	40	33	11	13	2	8	3	217	102	61	134	29	216.7	4.24	1.283	5.57	3.82	98.5	91.6	1.2
1959	33	23	5	11	0	7	1	186	75	49	90	16	173.7	3.89	1.353	4.66	3.52	92.7	97.2	1.2
1960	35	23	10	8	1	7	3	149	63	52	92	15	166.7	3.40	1.206	4.97	3.48	95.2	107.4	1.9
1961	31	27	16	3	0	9	2	162	66	42	86	19	188.3	3.15	1.083	4.11	3.59	94.6	120.2	3.4
1962	43	39	23	12	2	14	3	257	106	57	176	40	298.7	3.19	1.051	5.30	3.68	97.0	118.8	5.0
1963	40	37	17	15	1	18	3	246	96	39	114	29	268.0	3.22	1.063	3.83	3.50	98.8	109.8	3.0
1964	27	14	7	11	4	2	1	130	58	31	77	20	115.0	4.54	1.400	6.03	4.22	116.4	79.8	0.0
1965	30	26	11	6	0	6	2	154	68	23	84	22	165.7	3.69	1.068	4.56	3.55	102.0	94.1	1.4
1966	26	11	1	6	1	0	0	92	40	26	47	8	88.7	4.06	1.331	4.77	3.53	102.5	84.8	0.3
1967	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	5	0	3.3	0.00	.300	13.50	-0.34	-10.2	—	0.2

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

339

672

593

RBI

151

.1602

OBP

.1896

SLG

.1788

OPS

.3684

Pitching

G (P)

338

257

107

SHO

246th-most career SHO

1,849

SO (P)

1,000

BB allowed

446

ERA

3.621

WHIP

1.1864

135th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.87

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
1965-08-06	CLE @ CWS Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	1	4
1962-09-01	ATH @ NYY Gameday	3	0	3	0	0	1	3
1960-09-25	NYY @ BOS Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	1	3
1962-08-07	MIN @ NYY Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	2	2
1962-09-26	TEX @ NYY Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	2	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1965-04-30	TEX @ CLE Gameday	9.0	4	2	2	2	11	1
1962-04-19	NYY @ BAL Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	1	10	0
1962-06-06	CLE @ NYY Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	1	10	0
1962-07-17	NYY @ BOS Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	3	9	0
1962-08-27	CLE @ NYY Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	0	9	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

1× World Series MVP1× 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.