Roger Craig

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 190 lb

BornFebruary 17, 1930 · Durham, NC, USA

MLB debutJuly 17, 1955

Final gameJuly 10, 1966

Seasons12 (1955–1966)

Brooklyn Dodgers 1955–1957; Los Angeles Dodgers 1958–1961; New York Mets 1962–1963; St. Louis Cardinals 1964; Cincinnati Reds 1965; Philadelphia Phillies 1966

Percentile snapshot

1964 season — qualified pitchers

67.2

1.5

7.5

68.7

4.5

SHO

180

70.1

89.6

10.4

71.6

166.0

ERA

3.25

59.7

WHIP

1.295

32.8

K/9

4.55

19.4

FIP

3.70

44.8

FIP-

97.5

55.2

ERA+

116.6

64.2

sWAR

3.0

55.2

of 68 qualified 1964 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

102.1

46.7

sWAR

14.4

90.6

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	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1955	21	28	26	2	2	0	0	1	10	0	.077	.111	.077	.188	-62.7	-49.1	.095	2.0
1956	35	73	61	1	1	0	1	6	33	0	.016	.103	.016	.119	-79.0	-65.7	.078	1.9
1957	32	32	29	0	4	0	0	1	14	0	.138	.167	.138	.305	-34.0	-18.9	.145	0.3
1958	9	10	9	0	0	0	0	1	3	0	.000	.100	.000	.100	-86.6	-71.2	.074	0.1
1959	29	57	52	1	3	0	3	1	28	0	.058	.075	.058	.133	-87.8	-64.7	.066	4.8
1960	21	43	36	2	2	0	2	4	16	0	.056	.150	.056	.206	-48.1	-41.8	.120	1.8
1961	40	33	27	3	4	1	0	3	12	0	.148	.233	.185	.419	14.4	13.0	.208	-1.5
1962	42	85	76	1	4	0	2	4	33	0	.053	.111	.053	.164	-66.4	-55.1	.091	0.7
1963	46	77	69	0	6	0	0	5	39	2	.087	.149	.087	.236	-42.2	-30.9	.124	0.9
1964	39	54	48	4	10	1	3	5	24	0	.208	.283	.229	.512	42.8	41.7	.250	3.0
1965	40	13	11	1	2	0	1	0	3	0	.182	.182	.182	.364	-14.4	0.4	.167	0.7
1966	14	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.0	-100.0	.000	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1955	21	10	5	3	2	3	0	81	28	43	48	8	90.7	2.78	1.368	4.76	3.85	93.8	147.7	2.0
1956	35	32	12	11	1	8	2	169	82	87	109	25	199.0	3.71	1.286	4.93	4.14	105.0	106.4	1.9
1957	32	13	6	9	0	1	0	102	57	47	69	18	111.3	4.61	1.338	5.58	4.70	114.5	89.0	0.3
1958	9	2	2	1	0	1	0	30	16	12	16	3	32.0	4.50	1.313	4.50	3.85	92.2	92.8	0.1
1959	29	17	11	5	0	7	4	122	35	45	76	13	152.7	2.06	1.094	4.48	3.64	87.4	201.6	4.8
1960	21	15	8	3	0	6	1	99	42	43	69	8	115.7	3.27	1.228	5.37	3.55	90.8	119.7	1.8
1961	40	14	5	6	2	2	0	130	77	52	63	22	112.7	6.15	1.615	5.03	5.58	137.3	66.0	-1.5
1962	42	33	10	24	3	13	0	261	117	70	118	35	233.3	4.51	1.419	4.55	4.65	113.2	91.0	0.7
1963	46	31	5	22	2	14	0	249	99	58	108	28	236.0	3.78	1.301	4.12	3.94	116.9	89.3	0.9
1964	39	19	7	9	5	3	0	180	60	35	84	16	166.0	3.25	1.295	4.55	3.70	97.5	116.6	3.0
1965	40	0	1	4	3	0	0	74	26	25	30	6	64.3	3.64	1.539	4.20	4.22	112.9	102.8	0.7
1966	14	0	2	1	1	0	0	31	14	5	13	4	22.7	5.56	1.588	5.16	4.48	124.9	64.5	-0.4

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

368

509

448

RBI

219

.0848

OBP

.1455

SLG

.0893

OPS

.2348

Pitching

G (P)

368

186

SHO

1,536

SO (P)

803

BB allowed

522

ERA

3.825

WHIP

1.3343

K/9

4.70

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
1964-06-30	ATL @ STL Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	2
1964-04-17	STL @ SF Gameday	3	1	1	1	2	2
1961-09-08	LAD @ SF Gameday	1	1	1	1	0	2
1959-09-27	LAD @ CHC Gameday	3	0	1	0	2	1
1962-06-27	NYM @ PIT Gameday	4	0	1	0	2	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1955-07-28	LAD @ CIN Gameday	9.0	5	2	1	6	11	1
1956-07-01	PHI @ LAD Gameday	9.0	5	1	0	4	9	0
1956-04-20	LAD @ PIT Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	1	8	0
1956-05-11	SF @ LAD Gameday	9.0	6	4	3	4	8	1
1963-08-09	CHC @ NYM Gameday	9.0	8	3	3	1	8	2

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.