Ray Starr

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 178 lb

BornApril 23, 1906 · Nowata, OK, USA

MLB debutSeptember 11, 1932

Final gameSeptember 26, 1945

Seasons7 (1932–1945)

St. Louis Cardinals 1932; Boston Braves 1933; New York Giants 1933; Cincinnati Reds 1941–1943; Pittsburgh Pirates 1944; Chicago Cubs 1945; Pittsburgh Pirates 1945

Percentile snapshot

1943 season — qualified pitchers

81.4

93.1

56.9

40.2

43.1

SHO

201

23.5

7.8

10.8

21.6

19.6

217.3

76.5

ERA

3.64

33.3

WHIP

1.344

38.2

K/9

1.74

FIP

3.95

24.5

FIP-

120.5

4.9

ERA+

89.9

14.7

sWAR

0.7

20.6

of 103 qualified 1943 pitchers (min 155 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.8

78.9

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1932	3	5	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	25.1	33.8	.227	0.5
1933	15	12	10	1	1	0	0	1	4	.100	.182	.100	.282	-16.2	-13.0	.152	-0.3
1941	7	15	11	1	2	0	1	0	7	.182	.182	.182	.364	-10.6	3.6	.170	0.7
1942	37	105	88	2	8	1	1	5	35	.091	.140	.102	.242	-42.5	-28.0	.126	4.2
1943	36	81	74	3	9	1	6	1	25	.122	.133	.135	.268	-42.4	-21.3	.129	0.7
1944	27	28	22	4	3	1	3	6	9	.136	.321	.182	.503	56.2	41.8	.276	-0.4
1945	13	4	3	1	2	1	1	0	0	.667	.667	1.000	1.667	372.4	357.7	.760	-0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1932	3	2	1	1	0	1	1	19	6	10	6	2	20.0	2.70	1.450	2.70	5.26	133.2	146.3	0.5
1933	15	3	0	2	0	0	0	51	20	19	17	4	41.3	4.35	1.694	3.70	4.53	145.2	71.6	-0.3
1941	7	4	3	2	0	3	2	28	10	6	11	1	34.0	2.65	1.000	2.91	2.92	81.8	134.8	0.7
1942	37	33	15	13	0	17	4	228	82	106	83	10	276.7	2.67	1.207	2.70	3.34	102.4	122.2	4.2
1943	36	33	11	10	1	9	2	201	88	91	42	9	217.3	3.64	1.344	1.74	3.95	120.5	89.9	0.7
1944	27	12	6	5	3	5	0	116	50	36	25	6	89.7	5.02	1.695	2.51	4.08	109.3	74.4	-0.4
1945	13	1	1	2	0	0	0	27	18	11	5	1	20.0	8.10	1.900	2.25	4.44	117.8	46.5	-0.7

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

138

250

212

RBI

.1226

OBP

.1733

SLG

.1415

OPS

.3148

Pitching

G (P)

138

SHO

699

SO (P)

189

BB allowed

279

ERA

3.528

WHIP

1.3577

K/9

2.43

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	RBI	TB
1942-06-05	ATL @ CIN Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	3
1942-08-30	PHI @ CIN Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	2
1944-09-21	PIT @ LAD Gameday	2	1	1	1	3	2
1945-05-13	PIT @ PHI Gameday	1	0	1	1	1	2
1943-07-17	CHC @ CIN Gameday	2	1	1	1	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1942-04-15	PIT @ CIN Gameday	8.1	4	1	1	7	7	1
1942-05-04	SF @ CIN Gameday	9.0	8	4	0	5	6	1
1933-06-25	CHC @ ATL Gameday	6.0	8	5	3	1	6	2
1942-04-24	CIN @ PIT Gameday	5.2	7	5	5	3	6	0
1942-05-10	STL @ CIN Gameday	9.0	9	0	0	3	5	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× 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.