Tim McCarver

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 183 lb

BornOctober 16, 1941 · Memphis, TN, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1959

Final gameOctober 5, 1980

Seasons21 (1959–1980)

St. Louis Cardinals 1959–1961; St. Louis Cardinals 1963–1969; Philadelphia Phillies 1970–1971; Montreal Expos 1972; Philadelphia Phillies 1972; St. Louis Cardinals 1973; Boston Red Sox 1974; St. Louis Cardinals 1974; Boston Red Sox 1975; Philadelphia Phillies 1975–1980

Percentile snapshot

1971 season — qualified batters

134

16.1

525

9.8

474

14.3

132

26.8

35.7

65.2

29.5

RBI

25.9

34.8

96.4

45.5

55.4

.278

63.4

OBP

.337

45.5

SLG

.392

38.4

OPS

.730

41.1

wRC+

107.2

41.1

OPS+

107.5

wOBA

.335

39.3

sWAR

3.4

of 113 qualified 1971 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

101.2

43.8

OPS+

103.0

48.2

sWAR

33.5

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1959	8	26	24	3	4	1	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	.167	.231	.208	.439	10.8	15.5	.212	-0.2
1960	10	10	10	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	-7.5	6.8	.183	-0.1
1961	22	68	67	5	16	2	1	1	6	0	5	0	0	.239	.239	.343	.582	39.8	47.3	.256	-0.1
1963	127	443	405	39	117	12	7	4	51	27	43	5	2	.289	.333	.383	.716	98.3	99.2	.324	2.6
1964	143	515	465	53	134	19	3	9	52	40	44	2	0	.288	.343	.400	.743	97.3	102.0	.328	2.8
1965	113	444	409	48	113	17	2	11	48	31	26	5	1	.276	.327	.408	.735	96.7	101.4	.324	2.3
1966	150	586	543	50	149	19	13	12	68	36	38	9	6	.274	.319	.424	.743	100.6	103.6	.326	3.4
1967	138	540	471	68	139	26	3	14	69	54	32	8	8	.295	.369	.452	.822	134.7	137.6	.366	5.2
1968	128	467	434	35	110	15	6	5	48	26	31	4	3	.253	.295	.350	.645	91.3	96.0	.296	2.2
1969	138	576	515	46	134	27	3	7	51	49	26	4	9	.260	.323	.365	.688	91.0	93.5	.316	2.5
1970	44	180	164	16	47	11	1	4	14	14	10	2	2	.287	.346	.439	.785	107.1	109.8	.350	1.1
1971	134	525	474	51	132	20	5	8	46	43	26	5	3	.278	.337	.392	.730	107.2	107.5	.335	3.4
1972	122	432	391	33	96	13	1	7	34	36	29	5	6	.246	.313	.338	.650	82.2	83.3	.303	1.3
1973	130	382	331	30	88	16	4	3	49	38	31	2	0	.266	.339	.366	.704	96.2	97.0	.324	0.5
1974	85	170	134	16	30	1	1	0	12	26	7	1	1	.224	.351	.246	.597	79.2	70.7	.302	0.3
1975	59	95	80	7	23	4	1	1	10	15	10	0	0	.288	.400	.400	.800	120.0	118.2	.369	0.7
1976	90	194	155	26	43	11	2	3	29	35	14	2	1	.277	.409	.432	.842	146.4	138.2	.398	2.1
1977	93	205	169	28	54	13	2	6	30	28	11	3	5	.320	.410	.527	.936	150.1	147.5	.415	2.3
1978	90	180	146	18	36	9	1	1	14	28	24	2	2	.247	.367	.342	.709	99.9	100.2	.330	0.8
1979	79	161	137	13	33	5	1	1	12	19	12	2	0	.241	.333	.314	.647	72.6	76.6	.297	0.3
1980	6	7	5	2	1	1	0	0	2	1	0	0	0	.200	.333	.400	.733	108.7	101.0	.347	0.0

Career totals

1,909

322nd-most career G

6,206

5,529

590

1,501

242

RBI

645

548

422

.2715

OBP

.3369

SLG

.3885

OPS

.7254

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	BB	TB
1977-08-12	PHI @ CHC Gameday	4	3	4	0	2	2	0	10
1969-06-25	STL @ WSH Gameday	4	2	4	1	1	3	1	8
1966-09-14	CIN @ STL Gameday	3	2	2	0	2	3	1	8
1965-05-23	NYM @ STL Gameday	6	1	3	1	1	2	0	7
1971-06-16	SF @ PHI Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	2	0	7

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

2× 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.