Tom Cheney

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb

BornOctober 14, 1934 · Morgan, GA, USA

MLB debutApril 21, 1957

Final gameMay 9, 1966

Seasons8 (1957–1966)

St. Louis Cardinals 1957; St. Louis Cardinals 1959; Pittsburgh Pirates 1960–1961; Washington Senators 1961–1964; Washington Senators 1966

Percentile snapshot

1962 season — qualified pitchers

52.2

4.5

71.6

55.2

7.5

SHO

76.1

134

98.5

14.9

147

65.7

95.5

173.3

4.5

ERA

3.17

76.1

WHIP

1.333

44.8

K/9

7.63

92.5

FIP

3.43

71.6

FIP-

87.0

70.1

ERA+

124.5

77.6

sWAR

2.9

52.2

of 68 qualified 1962 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

4.6

78.4

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
1957	4	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.8	-100.0	.000	0.0
1959	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3
1960	11	19	17	2	3	1	2	1	4	.176	.222	.235	.458	21.8	26.1	.215	0.4
1961	14	9	8	1	4	1	3	0	2	.500	.500	.625	1.125	211.1	201.6	.504	-1.6
1962	37	57	48	1	3	0	1	3	11	.063	.118	.063	.180	-60.5	-49.5	.097	2.9
1963	26	48	46	2	5	0	1	0	10	.109	.109	.109	.217	-60.0	-39.0	.099	2.7
1964	15	16	12	1	3	0	2	0	5	.250	.250	.250	.500	29.4	39.1	.227	0.5
1966	3	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	—	1.000	—	—	404.9	—	.735	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1957	4	3	0	1	0	0	0	6	5	15	10	0	9.0	5.00	2.333	10.00	5.29	134.2	78.8	0.0
1959	11	2	0	1	0	0	0	17	9	11	8	2	11.7	6.94	2.400	6.17	6.82	164.3	59.8	-0.3
1960	11	8	2	2	0	1	1	44	23	33	35	5	52.0	3.98	1.481	6.06	4.46	119.1	94.1	0.4
1961	11	7	1	3	0	0	0	33	33	30	20	9	29.7	10.01	2.124	6.07	8.13	183.4	39.7	-1.6
1962	37	23	7	9	1	4	3	134	61	97	147	12	173.3	3.17	1.333	7.63	3.43	87.0	124.5	2.9
1963	23	21	8	9	0	7	4	99	41	40	97	14	136.3	2.71	1.020	6.40	3.27	89.1	135.7	2.7
1964	15	6	1	3	1	1	0	45	20	13	25	10	48.7	3.70	1.192	4.62	4.91	133.4	99.4	0.5
1966	3	1	0	1	0	0	0	4	3	6	3	1	5.3	5.06	1.875	5.06	7.69	223.8	67.8	0.0

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

121

153

133

RBI

.1353

OBP

.1667

SLG

.1504

OPS

.3171

Pitching

G (P)

115

SHO

466

SO (P)

345

BB allowed

245

ERA

3.766

WHIP

1.3455

K/9

6.66

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
1964-05-04	TEX @ BAL Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	0	2
1961-07-22	TEX @ LAA Gameday	1	1	1	1	2	0	2
1960-07-17	CIN @ PIT Gameday	4	1	1	1	1	0	2
1960-08-20	PIT @ CIN Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	1
1961-07-04	BOS @ TEX Gameday	4	0	1	0	1	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1962-09-12	TEX @ BAL Gameday	16.0	10	1	1	4	21	0
1963-04-26	ATH @ TEX Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	1	12	0
1963-05-01	TEX @ DET Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	3	12	0
1962-09-30	TEX @ BOS Gameday	8.2	8	1	1	4	12	0
1963-05-10	TEX @ BOS Gameday	7.1	3	5	5	5	11	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.