Ray Sadecki

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 180 lb

BornDecember 26, 1940 · Kansas City, KS, USA

MLB debutMay 19, 1960

Final gameApril 23, 1977

Seasons18 (1960–1977)

St. Louis Cardinals 1960–1965; San Francisco Giants 1966; St. Louis Cardinals 1966; San Francisco Giants 1967–1969; New York Mets 1970–1974; Atlanta Braves 1975; Kansas City Royals 1975; St. Louis Cardinals 1975; Kansas City Royals 1976; Milwaukee Brewers 1976; New York Mets 1977

Percentile snapshot

1971 season — qualified pitchers

30.5

1.2

7.3

93.9

13.4

SHO

30.5

139

100

98.8

95.1

120

35.4

91.5

163.3

2.4

ERA

2.92

WHIP

1.120

82.9

K/9

6.61

84.1

FIP

2.75

85.4

FIP-

81.0

84.1

ERA+

116.3

64.6

sWAR

2.7

43.9

of 83 qualified 1971 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

96.5

sWAR

22.8

94.6

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
1960	29	60	57	5	12	0	0	0	2	1	6	0	.211	.224	.211	.435	5.6	16.4	.202	2.0
1961	36	90	87	6	22	4	0	0	12	1	7	0	.253	.261	.299	.560	37.5	43.6	.253	4.0
1962	24	39	37	4	3	0	0	1	1	0	6	0	.081	.081	.162	.243	-60.5	-38.6	.105	-0.7
1963	39	73	64	6	9	0	1	0	3	1	11	1	.141	.152	.172	.323	-29.5	-10.0	.148	0.4
1964	39	87	75	7	12	6	1	0	6	2	14	0	.160	.192	.267	.459	14.5	23.7	.209	2.7
1965	36	60	55	6	11	2	1	0	4	2	11	0	.200	.228	.273	.501	31.1	37.6	.230	-1.2
1966	32	45	41	7	14	1	1	3	7	1	7	0	.341	.357	.634	.991	175.1	167.8	.432	0.3
1967	37	75	73	2	18	3	0	0	5	1	15	0	.247	.257	.288	.544	53.9	57.7	.253	3.6
1968	43	95	85	1	8	2	0	0	0	6	34	0	.094	.154	.118	.271	-28.5	-17.0	.141	2.5
1969	30	51	40	6	5	0	0	1	5	7	13	0	.125	.255	.200	.455	37.3	30.6	.237	0.4
1970	28	49	39	2	8	0	0	0	3	2	10	0	.205	.244	.205	.449	21.0	22.8	.217	1.6
1971	34	57	50	2	10	0	0	0	2	2	12	0	.200	.231	.200	.431	18.0	24.8	.208	2.7
1972	34	14	13	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	5	0	.154	.154	.154	.308	-27.1	-10.6	.143	1.0
1973	31	33	31	3	7	2	0	0	1	0	5	0	.226	.226	.290	.516	36.5	43.9	.236	1.6
1974	34	28	27	1	7	0	0	0	2	1	1	0	.259	.286	.259	.545	54.0	55.5	.264	1.3
1975	38	16	15	0	3	1	0	0	2	0	4	0	.200	.200	.267	.467	14.2	27.3	.215	0.5
1976	39	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2
1977	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1960	26	26	9	9	0	7	1	148	66	86	95	15	157.3	3.78	1.487	5.43	4.34	108.1	106.4	2.0
1961	31	31	14	10	0	13	0	196	92	102	114	28	222.7	3.72	1.338	4.61	4.69	108.4	116.4	4.0
1962	22	17	6	8	1	4	1	121	63	43	50	13	102.3	5.54	1.603	4.40	4.74	112.0	76.4	-0.7
1963	36	28	10	10	1	4	1	198	88	78	136	25	193.3	4.10	1.428	6.33	4.04	114.7	86.1	0.4
1964	37	32	20	11	1	9	2	232	90	60	119	16	220.0	3.68	1.327	4.87	3.45	90.9	103.0	2.7
1965	36	28	6	15	1	4	0	192	100	64	122	26	172.7	5.21	1.483	6.36	4.29	115.7	71.2	-1.2
1966	31	22	5	8	0	4	1	141	69	48	83	22	129.3	4.80	1.461	5.78	4.81	131.8	76.0	0.3
1967	35	24	12	6	0	10	2	165	58	58	145	8	188.0	2.78	1.186	6.94	2.66	80.4	119.1	3.6
1968	38	36	12	18	0	13	6	225	82	70	206	14	254.0	2.91	1.161	7.30	2.50	84.4	102.0	2.5
1969	29	17	5	8	0	4	3	137	65	53	104	18	138.3	4.23	1.373	6.77	4.04	114.1	83.7	0.4
1970	28	19	8	4	0	4	0	134	60	52	89	18	138.7	3.89	1.341	5.78	4.38	109.3	102.9	1.6
1971	34	20	7	7	0	5	2	139	53	44	120	10	163.3	2.92	1.120	6.61	2.75	81.0	116.3	2.7
1972	34	2	2	1	0	0	0	73	26	31	38	3	75.7	3.09	1.374	4.52	3.35	99.9	108.3	1.0
1973	31	11	5	4	1	1	0	109	44	41	87	11	116.7	3.39	1.286	6.71	3.37	93.5	106.0	1.6
1974	34	10	8	8	0	3	1	107	39	35	46	7	103.0	3.41	1.379	4.02	3.65	102.8	104.3	1.3
1975	38	5	4	3	1	0	0	91	36	31	32	3	80.3	4.03	1.519	3.59	3.61	96.5	92.7	0.5
1976	39	0	2	0	1	0	0	45	18	23	28	2	42.0	3.86	1.619	6.00	3.76	107.6	90.6	0.2
1977	4	0	0	1	0	0	0	3	2	3	0	1	3.0	6.00	2.000	0.00	10.07	268.8	62.4	0.0

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

587

872

789

151

RBI

161

.1914

OBP

.2188

SLG

.2471

OPS

.4659

Pitching

G (P)

563

304th-most career G (P)

328

270th-most career GS

135

339th-most career W

131

269th-most career L

SHO

246th-most career SHO

2,501

256th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,614

193rd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

922

148th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.783

WHIP

1.3508

K/9

5.81

414th-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	BB	TB
1966-04-24	PIT @ STL Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	1	2	0	5
1964-08-18	STL @ HOU Gameday	3	1	2	1	1	0	0	0	5
1966-07-30	SF @ ATL Gameday	2	0	2	0	1	0	1	0	4
1968-05-08	SF @ HOU Gameday	3	1	2	2	0	0	0	1	4
1966-07-21	NYM @ SF Gameday	1	1	1	0	0	1	2	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1968-08-11	NYM @ SF Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	0	13	0
1965-09-08	PIT @ STL Gameday	7.0	7	2	2	0	13	0
1967-09-12	SF @ LAD Gameday	9.0	4	2	2	0	12	1
1968-08-03	PIT @ SF Gameday	9.0	9	0	0	1	12	0
1970-09-09	PHI @ NYM Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	3	12	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.