MLB / Players

Ray Washburn

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 205 lb

BornMay 31, 1938 · Pasco, WA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 20, 1961

Final gameOctober 1, 1970

Seasons10 (1961–1970)

St. Louis Cardinals 1961–1969; Cincinnati Reds 1970

Percentile snapshot

1968 season — qualified pitchers

6.7

61.3

SHO

191

86.7

85.3

124

85.3

215.0

41.3

ERA

2.26

82.7

WHIP

1.107

K/9

5.19

26.7

FIP

2.61

69.3

FIP-

89.5

61.3

ERA+

128.9

82.7

sWAR

4.0

of 76 qualified 1968 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

101.4

43.6

sWAR

12.1

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1961	3	8	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	.125	.125	.125	.250	-54.0	-35.5	.114	0.7
1962	34	66	56	8	10	2	0	0	7	4	21	.179	.242	.214	.456	15.4	19.7	.220	2.1
1963	11	24	19	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	11	.053	.100	.053	.153	-77.2	-56.1	.083	0.9
1964	15	18	15	2	2	1	0	0	1	0	7	.133	.133	.200	.333	-28.4	-10.5	.148	0.4
1965	28	38	33	3	5	1	0	0	1	2	19	.152	.200	.182	.382	-1.1	6.3	.184	1.3
1966	27	61	54	2	5	1	0	1	6	2	25	.093	.123	.167	.289	-34.7	-20.7	.133	1.3
1967	27	71	66	0	6	1	1	0	3	1	41	.091	.104	.136	.241	-45.6	-30.5	.113	1.0
1968	31	79	60	5	5	0	1	0	5	8	38	.083	.191	.117	.308	-5.0	-4.4	.170	4.0
1969	28	39	37	0	3	0	0	0	0	1	25	.081	.105	.081	.186	-63.2	-46.9	.094	1.9
1970	35	16	13	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	10	.000	.067	.000	.067	-88.9	-80.3	.050	-1.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1961	3	2	1	1	0	1	0	10	4	7	12	1	20.3	1.77	.836	5.31	3.31	76.4	244.4	0.7
1962	34	25	12	9	0	2	1	187	80	58	109	25	175.7	4.10	1.395	5.58	4.37	103.2	103.3	2.1
1963	11	11	5	3	0	4	2	50	22	14	47	5	64.3	3.08	.995	6.58	2.75	77.9	114.6	0.9
1964	15	10	3	4	2	0	0	60	27	17	28	7	60.0	4.05	1.283	4.20	4.43	116.9	93.6	0.4
1965	28	16	9	11	2	1	1	114	48	28	67	15	119.3	3.62	1.190	5.05	3.88	104.5	102.5	1.3
1966	27	26	11	9	0	4	1	183	71	44	98	15	170.0	3.76	1.335	5.19	3.46	94.7	97.2	1.3
1967	27	27	10	7	0	3	1	190	73	42	98	14	186.3	3.53	1.245	4.73	3.32	100.9	93.4	1.0
1968	31	30	14	8	0	8	4	191	54	47	124	9	215.0	2.26	1.107	5.19	2.61	89.5	128.9	4.0
1969	28	16	3	8	1	2	0	133	45	49	80	9	132.3	3.06	1.375	5.44	3.47	96.7	117.1	1.9
1970	35	3	4	4	0	0	0	90	51	48	37	7	66.3	6.92	2.080	5.02	5.28	130.6	58.4	-1.6

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

239

420

361

RBI

201

.1053

OBP

.1532

SLG

.1413

OPS

.2945

Pitching

G (P)

239

166

SHO

1,210

SO (P)

700

BB allowed

354

ERA

3.534

473rd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2913

K/9

5.21

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
1966-07-27	STL @ ATL Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	1	2	6
1962-06-10	SF @ STL Gameday	4	2	2	1	0	0	1	3
1967-05-16	PHI @ STL Gameday	2	0	1	0	1	0	1	3
1968-07-29	STL @ NYM Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	0	1	3
1962-04-19	STL @ NYM Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1963-05-02	CHC @ STL Gameday	8.2	5	3	3	2	10	1
1963-04-27	STL @ LAD Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	1	9	0
1969-04-27	STL @ PHI Gameday	8.0	7	1	1	2	9	0
1966-04-22	PIT @ STL Gameday	6.0	7	4	4	2	9	1
1962-08-04	HOU @ STL Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	1	8	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.