Roy Face

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 155 lb

BornFebruary 20, 1928 · Stephentown, NY, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1953

Final gameAugust 15, 1969

Seasons16 (1953–1969)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1953; Pittsburgh Pirates 1955–1967; Detroit Tigers 1968; Pittsburgh Pirates 1968; Montreal Expos 1969

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

108.3

67.7

sWAR

17.9

92.6

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1953	43	34	30	1	4	1	2	0	10	.133	.133	.167	.300	-41.9	-23.3	.132	-1.8
1955	43	30	26	1	3	1	1	1	4	.115	.148	.154	.302	-29.4	-19.3	.142	1.7
1956	69	27	26	2	5	0	1	0	5	.192	.192	.192	.385	-6.4	5.1	.174	1.6
1957	59	17	16	1	2	0	1	0	4	.125	.125	.125	.250	-47.1	-31.2	.113	1.6
1958	57	9	7	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.8	-100.0	.000	1.7
1959	58	14	13	0	3	0	0	0	0	.231	.231	.231	.462	17.1	25.2	.210	2.2
1960	68	19	17	3	7	1	0	0	4	.412	.412	.471	.882	148.6	142.3	.399	2.5
1961	62	11	11	0	3	0	1	0	2	.273	.273	.273	.545	42.6	46.7	.248	1.1
1962	63	13	12	1	1	0	0	0	2	.083	.083	.083	.167	-71.3	-54.8	.076	2.9
1963	56	8	8	0	2	0	1	0	4	.250	.250	.250	.500	37.1	45.1	.229	0.8
1964	55	5	4	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.200	.000	.200	-20.6	-37.4	.148	-0.9
1965	16	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.5	-100.0	.000	0.4
1966	54	12	11	0	0	0	0	0	6	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.4	-100.0	.000	1.3
1967	61	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.7	-100.0	.000	1.6
1968	45	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-136.5	-100.0	.000	0.8
1969	44	3	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	193.1	179.8	.466	0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1953	41	13	6	8	0	2	145	87	30	56	19	119.0	6.58	1.471	4.24	4.56	103.9	66.7	-1.8
1955	42	10	5	7	5	4	128	50	40	84	10	125.7	3.58	1.337	6.02	2.96	73.3	112.7	1.7
1956	68	3	12	13	6	0	131	53	42	96	16	135.3	3.52	1.278	6.38	3.30	89.1	105.2	1.6
1957	59	1	4	6	10	0	97	32	24	53	9	93.7	3.07	1.292	5.09	3.43	91.4	122.1	1.6
1958	57	0	5	2	20	0	77	27	22	47	6	84.0	2.89	1.179	5.04	3.10	80.8	132.7	1.7
1959	57	0	18	1	10	0	91	28	25	69	5	93.3	2.70	1.243	6.65	2.68	69.2	143.2	2.2
1960	68	0	10	8	24	0	93	37	29	72	11	114.7	2.90	1.064	5.65	3.40	90.8	128.9	2.5
1961	62	0	6	12	17	0	94	39	10	55	12	92.0	3.82	1.130	5.38	3.53	88.3	104.6	1.1
1962	63	0	8	7	28	0	74	19	18	45	7	91.0	1.88	1.011	4.45	3.36	85.8	208.2	2.9
1963	56	0	3	9	16	0	75	25	19	41	6	69.7	3.23	1.349	5.30	3.39	103.2	101.6	0.8
1964	55	0	3	3	4	0	82	46	27	63	11	79.7	5.20	1.368	7.12	4.02	114.6	67.5	-0.9
1965	16	0	5	2	0	0	20	6	7	19	1	20.3	2.66	1.328	8.41	2.44	69.1	132.9	0.4
1966	54	0	6	6	18	0	68	21	24	67	9	70.0	2.70	1.314	8.61	3.50	97.2	133.3	1.3
1967	61	0	7	5	17	0	62	20	22	41	5	74.3	2.42	1.130	4.96	3.32	97.8	140.1	1.6
1968	45	0	2	4	13	0	48	15	8	35	3	53.0	2.55	1.057	5.94	2.52	85.3	116.0	0.8
1969	44	0	4	2	5	0	62	26	15	34	11	59.3	3.94	1.298	5.16	4.68	128.2	92.5	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

853

214

194

RBI

.1598

OBP

.1684

SLG

.1753

OPS

.3437

Pitching

G (P)

848

44th-most career G (P)

104

193

56th-most career SV

SHO

1,375

SO (P)

877

BB allowed

362

ERA

3.476

429th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2429

305th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

5.74

431st-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	RBI	TB
1956-05-30	SF @ PIT Gameday	2	0	2	0	0	2
1953-06-24	PIT @ ATL Gameday	5	1	1	1	2	2
1955-07-27	PIT @ STL Gameday	3	0	1	1	0	2
1960-08-30	PIT @ LAD Gameday	1	1	1	1	0	2
1955-08-17	PHI @ PIT Gameday	4	0	1	0	1	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1955-08-25	CHC @ PIT Gameday	9.0	8	1	0	3	9	0
1956-06-03	PIT @ ATL Gameday	8.1	7	1	0	1	7	0
1957-07-26	PIT @ STL Gameday	8.0	7	3	3	0	6	2
1956-07-12	PIT @ CHC Gameday	7.0	5	0	0	1	6	0
1956-06-18	ATL @ PIT Gameday	6.0	5	0	0	4	6	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

3× 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.