MLB / Players

Tug McGraw

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb

BornAugust 30, 1944 · Martinez, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 18, 1965

Final gameSeptember 25, 1984

Seasons19 (1965–1984)

New York Mets 1965–1967; New York Mets 1969–1974; Philadelphia Phillies 1975–1984

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

ERA+

115.6

83.8

sWAR

24.5

95.2

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1965	38	23	23	0	3	0	0	0	0	10	.130	.130	.130	.261	-40.7	-25.6	.120	1.1
1966	15	20	17	3	4	0	0	0	1	1	.235	.278	.235	.513	44.7	45.3	.244	-0.6
1967	4	5	4	1	1	1	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.500	.750	110.0	111.1	.333	-0.8
1969	43	25	24	1	4	1	0	3	1	6	.167	.200	.208	.408	6.5	14.7	.195	2.7
1970	57	14	13	1	4	1	0	5	0	2	.308	.286	.385	.670	69.7	79.4	.292	1.8
1971	51	20	18	3	4	2	1	2	0	5	.222	.222	.500	.722	96.4	101.9	.318	3.6
1972	54	24	20	1	2	0	0	0	2	4	.100	.182	.100	.282	-20.1	-16.3	.153	3.2
1973	60	30	24	0	4	0	0	2	2	9	.167	.259	.167	.426	27.0	22.1	.222	0.8
1974	41	17	14	2	1	1	0	3	2	5	.071	.188	.143	.330	-3.0	-5.3	.180	0.2
1975	56	14	13	0	2	0	0	0	0	4	.154	.154	.154	.308	-33.9	-15.3	.145	1.9
1976	58	7	7	1	1	1	0	0	0	2	.143	.143	.286	.429	3.1	18.9	.192	2.2
1977	45	12	10	1	4	0	0	1	2	3	.400	.500	.400	.900	160.7	143.4	.431	2.2
1978	55	6	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.6	-100.0	.000	1.2
1979	65	7	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	2	.167	.167	.167	.333	-24.3	-9.3	.155	-0.5
1980	57	11	8	0	2	0	0	1	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500	29.4	38.1	.233	3.5
1981	34	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-134.8	-100.0	.000	0.9
1982	34	2	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.4	-100.0	.000	0.0
1983	34	5	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	86.8	87.2	.311	0.6
1984	25	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	86.8	87.4	.311	0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1965	37	9	2	7	1	2	0	88	36	48	57	8	97.7	3.32	1.392	5.25	4.10	117.2	105.4	1.1
1966	15	12	2	9	0	1	0	72	37	25	34	11	62.3	5.34	1.556	4.91	5.08	141.6	67.2	-0.6
1967	4	4	0	3	0	0	0	13	15	13	18	3	17.3	7.79	1.500	9.35	5.08	152.1	42.9	-0.8
1969	42	4	9	3	12	1	0	89	25	47	92	6	100.3	2.24	1.355	8.25	3.01	83.2	161.1	2.7
1970	57	0	4	6	10	0	0	77	33	49	81	6	90.7	3.28	1.390	8.04	3.58	89.3	122.3	1.8
1971	51	1	11	4	8	0	0	73	21	41	109	4	111.0	1.70	1.027	8.84	2.24	65.9	199.4	3.6
1972	54	0	8	6	27	0	0	71	20	40	92	3	106.0	1.70	1.047	7.81	2.38	70.9	197.3	3.2
1973	60	2	5	6	25	0	0	106	51	55	81	11	118.7	3.87	1.357	6.14	3.86	107.2	93.0	0.8
1974	41	4	6	11	3	1	1	96	41	32	54	12	88.7	4.16	1.444	5.48	4.21	118.4	85.4	0.2
1975	56	0	9	6	14	0	0	84	34	36	55	6	102.7	2.98	1.169	4.82	3.44	92.2	125.3	1.9
1976	58	0	7	6	11	0	0	81	27	42	76	4	97.3	2.50	1.264	7.03	2.91	81.9	142.5	2.2
1977	45	0	7	3	9	0	0	62	23	24	58	6	79.0	2.62	1.089	6.61	3.20	80.2	152.4	2.2
1978	55	1	8	7	9	0	0	82	32	23	63	6	89.7	3.21	1.171	6.32	2.86	79.9	111.3	1.2
1979	65	1	4	3	16	0	0	83	48	29	57	9	83.7	5.16	1.339	6.13	3.84	100.7	73.9	-0.5
1980	57	0	5	4	20	0	0	62	15	23	75	3	92.3	1.46	.921	7.31	2.36	63.0	255.7	3.5
1981	34	0	2	4	10	0	0	35	13	14	26	2	44.0	2.66	1.114	5.32	3.03	84.8	134.6	0.9
1982	34	0	3	3	5	0	0	50	19	12	25	3	39.7	4.31	1.563	5.67	3.45	95.3	84.1	0.0
1983	34	1	2	1	0	0	0	58	22	19	30	4	55.7	3.56	1.383	4.85	3.55	98.9	101.0	0.6
1984	25	0	2	0	0	0	0	36	16	10	26	1	38.0	3.79	1.211	6.16	2.56	70.2	96.0	0.3

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

826

247

214

RBI

.1822

OBP

.2212

SLG

.2290

OPS

.4502

Pitching

G (P)

824

52nd-most career G (P)

180

69th-most career SV

SHO

1,515

SO (P)

1,109

474th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

582

ERA

3.137

228th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2544

353rd-lowest career WHIP

K/9

6.59

270th-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
1971-09-08	NYM @ WSH Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	1	4
1973-09-07	NYM @ WSH Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	2	2
1974-08-05	NYM @ WSH Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	3	2
1969-05-11	HOU @ NYM Gameday	3	1	1	1	0	1	2
1970-08-31	NYM @ STL Gameday	1	1	1	1	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1967-09-22	HOU @ NYM Gameday	6.0	3	4	4	4	10	1
1971-09-15	CHC @ NYM Gameday	6.0	6	2	2	1	9	0
1971-08-10	NYM @ SD Gameday	4.0	2	1	1	1	9	1
1969-05-04	NYM @ CHC Gameday	9.0	9	2	2	2	8	0
1969-07-02	NYM @ STL Gameday	6.0	7	0	0	4	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

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.