MLB / Players

Sandy Koufax

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 210 lb

BornDecember 30, 1935 · Brooklyn, NY, USA

MLB debutJune 24, 1955

Final gameOctober 2, 1966

Seasons12 (1955–1966)

Brooklyn Dodgers 1955–1957; Los Angeles Dodgers 1958–1966

Percentile snapshot

1966 season — qualified pitchers

85.2

96.7

100

70.5

100

SHO

90.2

241

14.8

85.2

317

100

55.7

323.0

100

ERA

1.73

100

WHIP

.985

96.7

K/9

8.83

96.7

FIP

2.19

100

FIP-

66.2

98.4

ERA+

191.4

100

sWAR

8.8

98.4

of 62 qualified 1966 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

130.9

96.6

sWAR

44.4

98.4

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1955	12	12	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.7	-100.0	.000	0.7
1956	16	19	17	0	2	0	0	0	2	12	0	.118	.211	.118	.328	-13.8	-10.2	.173	-0.1
1957	34	27	26	1	0	0	0	0	0	18	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-133.9	-100.0	.000	0.9
1958	40	55	49	2	6	1	0	1	1	26	0	.122	.140	.143	.283	-47.2	-26.6	.131	0.8
1959	35	58	54	3	6	3	0	0	2	29	0	.111	.143	.167	.310	-34.8	-19.8	.144	1.6
1960	37	64	57	1	7	0	0	1	3	28	0	.123	.167	.123	.289	-31.7	-20.5	.144	1.5
1961	42	94	77	3	5	0	0	2	9	35	1	.065	.163	.065	.228	-36.5	-36.4	.130	3.6
1962	28	73	69	1	6	0	1	4	2	42	0	.087	.113	.130	.243	-43.1	-33.5	.115	4.2
1963	40	124	110	3	7	0	1	7	6	51	0	.064	.111	.091	.202	-48.6	-38.8	.103	7.3
1964	29	81	74	3	7	0	0	1	3	32	0	.095	.141	.095	.236	-33.3	-29.2	.120	6.2
1965	43	127	113	4	20	2	0	7	10	44	0	.177	.242	.195	.437	31.8	30.1	.214	8.8
1966	41	124	118	5	9	3	0	5	5	57	0	.076	.113	.102	.215	-44.5	-36.9	.105	8.8

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1955	12	5	2	2	0	2	2	33	14	28	30	2	41.7	3.02	1.464	6.48	3.58	87.2	135.8	0.7
1956	16	10	2	4	0	0	0	66	32	29	30	10	58.7	4.91	1.619	4.60	4.91	124.4	80.4	-0.1
1957	34	13	5	4	0	2	0	83	45	51	122	14	104.3	3.88	1.284	10.52	3.44	83.9	105.7	0.9
1958	40	26	11	11	1	5	0	132	79	105	131	19	158.7	4.48	1.494	7.43	4.42	105.8	93.1	0.8
1959	35	23	8	6	2	6	1	136	69	92	173	23	153.3	4.05	1.487	10.15	4.12	98.9	102.7	1.6
1960	37	26	8	13	1	7	2	133	76	100	197	20	175.0	3.91	1.331	10.13	3.62	92.5	100.1	1.5
1961	42	35	18	13	1	15	2	212	100	96	269	27	255.7	3.52	1.205	9.47	3.10	76.2	115.4	3.6
1962	28	26	14	7	1	11	2	134	52	57	216	13	184.3	2.54	1.036	10.55	2.25	59.4	149.4	4.2
1963	40	40	25	5	0	20	11	214	65	58	306	18	311.0	1.88	.875	8.86	1.87	61.0	163.0	7.3
1964	29	28	19	5	1	15	7	154	43	53	223	13	223.0	1.74	.928	9.00	2.22	67.9	188.5	6.2
1965	43	41	26	8	2	27	8	216	76	71	382	26	335.7	2.04	.855	10.24	2.05	62.5	160.7	8.8
1966	41	41	27	9	0	27	5	241	62	77	317	19	323.0	1.73	.985	8.83	2.19	66.2	191.4	8.8

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

397

858

776

RBI

386

.0966

OBP

.1446

SLG

.1160

OPS

.2606

Pitching

G (P)

397

314

314th-most career GS

165

211th-most career W

137

270th-most career CG

SHO

44th-most career SHO

2,324

306th-most career IP

SO (P)

2,396

52nd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

817

237th-most career BB allowed

ERA

2.761

100th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1061

29th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

9.28

28th-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	HR	RBI	TB
1959-05-26	LAD @ SF Gameday	3	1	2	2	0	0	4
1963-07-20	LAD @ ATL Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	3	4
1962-06-13	LAD @ ATL Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	4
1965-06-07	LAD @ PHI Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	2	3
1966-06-05	LAD @ NYM Gameday	5	1	2	1	0	2	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1959-08-31	SF @ LAD Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	2	18	1
1962-04-24	LAD @ CHC Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	4	18	1
1966-07-27	PHI @ LAD Gameday	11.0	4	1	1	3	16	1
1959-06-22	PHI @ LAD Gameday	9.0	10	2	1	3	16	1
1962-05-26	PHI @ LAD Gameday	9.0	5	3	2	2	16	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.

Honors

Hall of Fame, 1972 (BBWAA)

3× Cy Young Award3× Pitching Triple Crown2× World Series MVP1× Most Valuable Player6× 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.