MLB / Players

Ray Culp

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 200 lb

BornAugust 6, 1941 · Elgin, TX, USA

MLB debutApril 10, 1963

Final gameSeptember 3, 1973

Seasons11 (1963–1973)

Philadelphia Phillies 1963–1966; Chicago Cubs 1967; Boston Red Sox 1968–1973

Percentile snapshot

1971 season — qualified pitchers

34.1

52.4

46.3

13.4

57.3

SHO

48.8

236

35.4

20.7

54.9

151

65.9

35.4

242.3

53.7

ERA

3.60

WHIP

1.250

42.7

K/9

5.61

FIP

3.13

64.6

FIP-

85.4

75.6

ERA+

101.7

34.1

sWAR

2.4

37.8

of 83 qualified 1971 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

99.3

35.1

sWAR

16.8

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1963	34	76	66	4	9	1	0	0	4	3	29	0	.136	.174	.152	.325	-13.9	-4.3	.158	2.7
1964	30	46	44	1	5	0	0	0	2	2	24	0	.114	.152	.114	.266	-31.1	-22.9	.132	0.2
1965	33	80	68	7	6	1	0	0	3	4	28	0	.088	.139	.103	.242	-37.7	-29.8	.123	2.4
1966	34	31	26	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	17	0	.077	.077	.077	.154	-76.9	-56.8	.070	-1.1
1967	30	59	51	4	5	0	2	0	5	0	29	0	.098	.098	.176	.275	-45.3	-24.5	.123	0.7
1968	35	81	70	4	8	1	0	0	3	3	38	0	.114	.162	.129	.291	-31.4	-13.3	.147	2.7
1969	32	89	79	9	12	4	0	1	5	4	33	1	.152	.193	.241	.433	6.8	17.9	.204	2.4
1970	33	105	97	3	12	1	0	0	4	3	39	0	.124	.150	.134	.284	-41.5	-23.2	.137	4.9
1971	35	91	68	5	8	0	0	0	5	6	40	0	.118	.189	.118	.307	-24.6	-13.5	.162	2.4
1972	16	38	33	3	7	0	0	0	2	1	15	0	.212	.235	.212	.447	19.1	31.2	.216	-0.7
1973	10	0	0	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
1963	34	30	14	11	0	10	5	148	67	102	176	15	203.3	2.97	1.230	7.79	3.32	102.6	109.1	2.7
1964	30	19	8	7	0	3	1	139	62	56	96	15	135.0	4.13	1.444	6.40	4.13	118.7	84.2	0.2
1965	33	30	14	10	0	11	2	188	73	78	134	14	204.3	3.22	1.302	5.90	3.54	101.7	108.1	2.4
1966	34	12	7	4	1	1	0	106	62	53	100	19	110.7	5.04	1.437	8.13	4.72	131.6	71.2	-1.1
1967	30	22	8	11	0	4	1	138	66	59	111	22	152.7	3.89	1.290	6.54	4.28	121.1	90.7	0.7
1968	35	30	16	6	0	11	6	166	70	82	190	18	216.3	2.91	1.146	7.90	2.81	88.9	108.6	2.7
1969	32	32	17	8	0	9	2	195	96	79	172	25	227.0	3.81	1.207	6.82	3.40	89.1	100.2	2.4
1970	33	33	17	14	0	15	1	211	85	91	197	22	251.3	3.04	1.202	7.05	3.22	81.4	129.9	4.9
1971	35	35	14	16	0	12	3	236	97	67	151	21	242.3	3.60	1.250	5.61	3.13	85.4	101.7	2.4
1972	16	16	5	8	0	4	1	104	52	53	52	8	105.0	4.46	1.495	4.46	3.87	120.4	72.1	-0.7
1973	10	9	2	6	0	0	0	46	25	32	32	9	50.3	4.47	1.550	5.72	5.78	144.3	89.6	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

322

696

602

RBI

292

.1229

OBP

.1606

SLG

.1478

OPS

.3084

Pitching

G (P)

322

268

465th-most career GS

122

435th-most career W

101

SHO

218th-most career SHO

1,898

SO (P)

1,411

276th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

752

306th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.579

WHIP

1.2795

469th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

6.69

253rd-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	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1969-08-09	LAA @ BOS Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	1	1	5
1968-08-08	BOS @ CWS Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	0	1	3
1967-05-09	SF @ CHC Gameday	3	0	1	0	1	0	2	3
1967-06-23	HOU @ CHC Gameday	3	0	1	0	1	0	1	3
1963-08-04	PHI @ STL Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	0	2	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1968-07-29	BAL @ BOS Gameday	10.0	7	2	2	6	12	1
1963-05-26	PHI @ CIN Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	3	12	0
1968-09-17	BAL @ BOS Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	4	12	0
1970-07-29	BOS @ ATH Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	3	12	1
1963-06-22	PHI @ NYM Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	2	11	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

2× 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.