MLB / Players

Ray Scarborough

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb
BornJuly 23, 1917 · Mount Gilead, NC, USA
MLB debutJune 26, 1942
Final gameSeptember 25, 1953
Seasons10 (1942–1953)

Washington Senators 1942–1943; Washington Senators 1946–1949; Chicago White Sox 1950; Washington Senators 1950; Boston Red Sox 1951–1952; New York Yankees 1952; Detroit Tigers 1953; New York Yankees 1953

Percentile snapshot

1951 season — qualified pitchers

G
37
50
GS
22
11.5
W
12
42.3
L
9
69.2
SV
0
0
CG
8
15.4
SHO
0
0
H
201
63.5
ER
104
7.7
BB
61
86.5
SO
71
28.8
HR
21
13.5
IP
184.0
19.2
ERA
5.09
0
WHIP
1.424
21.2
K/9
3.47
36.5
FIP
4.51
3.8
FIP-
100.7
25
ERA+
88.1
3.8
sWAR
0.3
3.8

of 53 qualified 1951 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+
96.5
23.9
sWAR
11.1
88.1

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19421723211400011100.190.227.190.4189.617.8.2060.3
19432428241800022400.333.385.333.718116.2112.8.3501.5
194632545017100101000.140.140.160.300-37.0-14.3.1380.0
19473354502610031900.120.137.140.277-43.4-22.4.1331.8
194831706471431090800.219.219.297.51623.137.2.2364.8
1949347867413200441500.194.239.224.46313.823.2.2281.0
1950357466310100441100.152.200.167.367-11.2-4.0.1820.8
19513775681013100441600.191.236.206.4424.615.3.2160.3
19523734322910042500.281.324.313.63673.877.0.3030.7
19533815141100130200.071.071.286.357-28.5-4.8.1480.0

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19421752101168293216263.34.121.5792.273.97108.189.20.3
19432464432093274643286.02.831.6164.503.26100.7114.51.5
194632207111611767074468155.74.051.6062.663.97119.082.40.0
194733186130821656167635161.03.411.4413.523.3190.4107.51.8
1948312615819016658727610185.32.821.2843.693.8490.6150.64.8
1949342713110111204102888110199.74.601.4623.653.7689.990.91.0
1950353113181123222114849411207.74.941.4744.073.8085.390.10.8
19513722129080201104617121184.05.091.4243.474.51100.788.10.3
195237126642110652504212110.74.231.4103.424.51120.888.60.7
19533812420086393732775.34.661.6333.824.68121.082.80.0

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

G
318
PA
505
AB
456
R
32
H
85
2B
10
3B
1
HR
1
RBI
35
BB
18
SO
81
SB
0
BA
.1864
OBP
.2173
SLG
.2193
OPS
.4366

Pitching

G (P)
318
GS
168
W
80
L
85
SV
12
CG
59
SHO
9
IP
1,429
SO (P)
564
BB allowed
611
ERA
4.133
WHIP
1.4685
K/9
3.55

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
1953-05-29NYY @ ATH Gameday411001304
1948-07-15CWS @ MIN Gameday311010003
1951-07-15BOS @ BAL Gameday412000202
1948-05-18MIN @ CWS Gameday202000102
1948-06-20MIN @ CWS Gameday302000102

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1950-07-02BAL @ CWS Gameday9.0522490
1947-07-10MIN @ CWS Gameday9.01022180
1950-06-16MIN @ CWS Gameday9.05111080
1949-06-15BAL @ MIN Gameday9.0200170
1949-09-28BOS @ MIN Gameday9.0411070

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

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.