Rudy May

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 205 lb

BornJuly 18, 1944 · Coffeyville, KS, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1965

Final gameSeptember 21, 1983

Seasons16 (1965–1983)

California Angels 1965; California Angels 1969–1974; New York Yankees 1974–1975; Baltimore Orioles 1976; New York Yankees 1976; Baltimore Orioles 1977; Montreal Expos 1978–1979; New York Yankees 1980–1983

Percentile snapshot

1981 season — qualified pitchers

37.9

12.6

6.9

93.1

43.7

SHO

137

49.4

5.7

57.5

60.9

39.1

147.7

63.2

ERA

4.14

13.8

WHIP

1.205

65.5

K/9

4.81

59.8

FIP

3.22

72.4

FIP-

89.9

73.6

ERA+

86.5

13.8

sWAR

0.5

19.5

of 88 qualified 1981 pitchers (min 107 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

102.3

48.1

sWAR

27.8

96.1

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1965	30	37	30	2	6	3	1	4	15	.200	.314	.300	.614	88.0	80.5	.297	0.6
1969	44	54	49	1	4	0	0	4	22	.082	.151	.082	.233	-37.5	-31.7	.127	1.6
1970	38	76	69	0	6	2	2	4	31	.087	.135	.116	.251	-39.5	-28.6	.126	0.7
1971	32	74	68	2	10	1	4	4	40	.147	.194	.162	.356	-1.0	6.1	.177	2.6
1972	35	67	62	3	7	1	1	3	29	.113	.154	.129	.283	-27.4	-12.7	.143	1.8
1973	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
1974	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.0
1975	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.7
1976	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.2
1977	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.1
1978	27	52	42	2	6	2	3	3	19	.143	.200	.190	.390	6.0	11.0	.193	0.8
1979	33	23	21	2	3	0	3	0	8	.143	.182	.143	.325	-16.7	-9.1	.161	2.4
1980	41	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.7
1981	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.5
1982	41	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.4
1983	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-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
1965	30	19	4	9	0	2	1	111	54	78	76	7	124.0	3.92	1.524	5.52	3.89	118.1	84.0	0.6
1969	43	25	10	13	2	4	0	142	69	66	133	20	180.3	3.44	1.153	6.64	3.48	100.0	101.0	1.6
1970	38	34	7	13	0	2	2	190	93	81	164	20	208.7	4.01	1.299	7.07	3.31	92.3	89.4	0.7
1971	32	31	11	12	0	7	2	160	70	87	156	12	208.3	3.02	1.186	6.74	2.89	89.8	106.5	2.6
1972	35	30	12	11	1	10	3	162	67	82	169	15	205.3	2.94	1.188	7.41	2.77	95.0	99.3	1.8
1973	34	28	7	17	0	10	4	177	90	80	134	20	185.0	4.38	1.389	6.52	3.88	108.5	81.8	0.1
1974	35	18	8	5	2	8	2	104	50	58	102	7	141.3	3.18	1.146	6.50	3.11	88.0	111.2	2.0
1975	32	31	14	12	0	13	1	179	72	99	145	9	212.0	3.06	1.311	6.16	3.17	85.5	121.4	3.7
1976	35	32	15	10	0	7	2	205	91	70	109	16	220.3	3.72	1.248	4.45	3.54	105.4	90.3	1.2
1977	37	37	18	14	0	11	4	243	101	78	105	25	251.7	3.61	1.275	3.75	4.19	109.3	106.1	3.1
1978	27	23	8	10	0	4	1	141	62	42	87	15	144.0	3.88	1.271	5.44	3.77	107.0	90.9	0.8
1979	33	7	10	3	0	2	1	88	24	31	67	4	93.7	2.31	1.270	6.44	2.94	79.8	159.7	2.4
1980	41	17	15	5	3	3	1	144	48	39	133	14	175.3	2.46	1.044	6.83	2.95	74.8	159.9	4.7
1981	27	22	6	11	1	4	0	137	68	41	79	10	147.7	4.14	1.205	4.81	3.22	89.9	86.5	0.5
1982	41	6	6	6	3	0	0	109	34	14	85	4	106.0	2.89	1.160	7.22	2.00	50.0	138.6	2.4
1983	15	0	1	5	0	0	0	22	14	12	16	1	18.3	6.87	1.855	7.85	3.92	99.5	57.3	-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

536

383

341

RBI

164

.1232

OBP

.1803

SLG

.1496

OPS

.3299

Pitching

G (P)

535

366th-most career G (P)

360

202nd-most career GS

152

253rd-most career W

156

142nd-most career L

SHO

189th-most career SHO

2,622

223rd-most career IP

SO (P)

1,760

136th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

958

131st-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.457

410th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2479

331st-lowest career WHIP

K/9

6.04

367th-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	BB	TB
1971-07-28	LAA @ CLE Gameday	4	0	2	1	1	1	3
1978-05-27	WSH @ PIT Gameday	5	2	2	1	1	0	3
1965-07-27	LAA @ BAL Gameday	2	1	2	1	0	1	3
1972-07-29	TEX @ LAA Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	0	3
1971-05-17	MIN @ LAA Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1972-08-10	MIN @ LAA Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	4	16	1
1971-07-09	LAA @ ATH Gameday	12.0	3	0	0	6	13	0
1971-04-21	ATH @ LAA Gameday	9.0	4	2	2	3	13	2
1974-09-29	NYY @ CLE Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	2	13	0
1972-06-17	DET @ LAA Gameday	7.0	6	2	2	2	12	1

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.