Ryne Duren

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 190 lb

BornFebruary 22, 1929 · Cazenovia, WI, USA

MLB debutSeptember 25, 1954

Final gameAugust 18, 1965

Seasons10 (1954–1965)

Baltimore Orioles 1954; Kansas City Athletics 1957; New York Yankees 1958–1960; Los Angeles Angels 1961; New York Yankees 1961; Los Angeles Angels 1962; Philadelphia Phillies 1963; Cincinnati Reds 1964; Philadelphia Phillies 1964–1965; Washington Senators 1965

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

sWAR

4.7

78.5

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
1954	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
1957	14	14	14	0	1	0	1	0	7	.071	.071	.071	.143	-90.2	-61.3	.066	-0.4
1958	44	21	13	0	1	0	1	3	8	.077	.294	.077	.371	33.6	11.0	.229	2.2
1959	41	20	14	0	0	0	0	2	8	.000	.176	.000	.176	-30.9	-45.7	.131	2.3
1960	42	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.8	-100.0	.000	-0.3
1961	44	29	25	2	1	0	3	3	15	.040	.143	.040	.183	-56.1	-49.4	.112	-0.3
1962	42	16	15	1	1	1	0	0	9	.067	.067	.133	.200	-70.4	-48.0	.086	0.3
1963	34	24	21	4	3	0	0	1	11	.143	.250	.143	.393	22.3	17.7	.207	0.9
1964	28	6	5	1	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.167	.000	.167	-41.2	-48.7	.123	0.7
1965	22	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-124.0	-100.0	.000	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1954	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	1	2	0	2.0	9.00	2.000	9.00	1.88	51.3	40.7	-0.1
1957	14	6	0	3	1	0	0	37	25	30	37	4	42.7	5.27	1.570	7.80	4.13	105.9	74.0	-0.4
1958	44	1	6	4	20	0	0	40	17	43	87	4	75.7	2.02	1.097	10.35	2.81	78.3	177.8	2.2
1959	41	0	3	6	14	0	0	49	16	43	96	6	76.7	1.88	1.200	11.27	2.78	75.0	197.2	2.3
1960	42	1	3	4	9	0	0	27	27	49	67	3	49.0	4.96	1.551	12.31	3.89	106.5	73.7	-0.3
1961	44	14	6	13	2	1	1	89	60	79	115	15	104.0	5.19	1.615	9.95	4.53	108.1	81.1	-0.3
1962	42	3	2	9	8	0	0	53	35	57	74	1	71.3	4.42	1.542	9.34	3.27	81.1	91.4	0.3
1963	33	7	6	2	2	1	0	65	32	52	84	6	87.3	3.30	1.340	8.66	3.43	105.9	98.1	0.9
1964	28	0	0	2	1	0	0	46	16	16	44	1	46.7	3.09	1.329	8.49	2.43	67.1	117.3	0.7
1965	22	0	1	1	0	0	0	34	21	22	24	0	34.0	5.56	1.647	6.35	3.36	96.9	62.3	-0.6

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

312

138

114

RBI

.0614

OBP

.1641

SLG

.0702

OPS

.2343

Pitching

G (P)

311

321st-most career SV

SHO

589

SO (P)

630

BB allowed

392

ERA

3.833

WHIP

1.4169

K/9

9.62

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
1962-05-18	LAA @ BOS Gameday	2	1	1	1	0	0	2
1961-06-28	NYY @ LAA Gameday	3	1	1	0	2	1	1
1957-05-02	NYY @ ATH Gameday	2	0	1	0	1	0	1
1958-07-13	CWS @ NYY Gameday	1	0	1	0	0	0	1
1963-06-17	PHI @ CIN Gameday	3	0	1	0	0	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1961-06-28	NYY @ LAA Gameday	8.0	3	3	3	4	12	1
1961-06-09	LAA @ BOS Gameday	6.2	5	1	1	4	11	0
1963-06-28	CHC @ PHI Gameday	9.0	7	3	3	1	9	0
1957-05-21	ATH @ MIN Gameday	6.1	5	2	2	2	9	1
1957-05-02	NYY @ ATH Gameday	7.0	6	3	2	3	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.

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.