Turk Farrell

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 215 lb

BornApril 8, 1934 · Boston, MA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 21, 1956

Final gameSeptember 19, 1969

Seasons14 (1956–1969)

Philadelphia Phillies 1956–1960; Los Angeles Dodgers 1961; Philadelphia Phillies 1961; Houston Colt .45's 1962–1964; Houston Astros 1965–1967; Philadelphia Phillies 1967–1969

Percentile snapshot

1965 season — qualified pitchers

11.1

26.4

30.6

44.4

58.3

47.2

SHO

69.4

202

43.1

52.8

95.8

122

41.7

208.3

47.2

ERA

3.50

40.3

WHIP

1.138

73.6

K/9

5.27

48.6

FIP

3.13

72.2

FIP-

92.7

70.8

ERA+

96.6

33.3

sWAR

1.6

29.2

of 73 qualified 1965 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

102.3

47.9

sWAR

17.9

92.6

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
1956	1	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.7	-100.0	.000	-0.4
1957	52	9	9	1	1	0	1	1	0	5	.111	.111	.444	.556	29.2	41.7	.226	2.2
1958	54	25	24	1	5	0	0	1	1	11	.208	.240	.208	.448	14.0	21.0	.211	1.6
1959	38	7	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	3	.167	.167	.167	.333	-26.3	-11.5	.152	0.1
1960	59	18	15	0	3	1	0	2	1	3	.200	.250	.267	.517	39.0	41.5	.242	2.4
1961	55	23	20	1	1	0	0	0	0	6	.050	.050	.050	.100	-92.0	-73.2	.045	-0.5
1962	43	82	78	3	14	1	2	3	0	28	.179	.190	.269	.459	18.5	25.4	.206	4.6
1963	34	70	63	6	9	3	0	2	4	24	.143	.194	.190	.385	9.7	14.6	.185	2.4
1964	32	73	69	1	5	0	0	0	2	28	.072	.099	.072	.171	-59.2	-49.2	.085	1.7
1965	33	77	74	2	10	1	0	4	1	27	.135	.147	.149	.295	-24.9	-14.3	.137	1.6
1966	32	49	48	2	7	0	1	3	0	16	.146	.146	.208	.354	-12.0	-0.4	.157	-0.7
1967	57	22	20	2	2	1	0	2	1	10	.100	.143	.150	.293	-26.7	-16.0	.144	2.4
1968	54	6	6	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	.167	.167	.167	.333	-18.2	0.3	.157	0.3
1969	46	5	3	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.250	.000	.250	3.7	-23.6	.188	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
1956	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	6	6	3	0	0	4.3	12.46	2.077	0.00	5.00	134.7	29.8	-0.4
1957	52	0	10	2	10	0	0	74	22	36	54	2	83.3	2.38	1.320	5.83	2.90	76.1	160.3	2.2
1958	54	0	8	9	11	0	0	84	35	40	73	7	94.0	3.35	1.319	6.99	3.20	81.5	117.2	1.6
1959	38	0	1	6	6	0	0	61	30	25	31	9	57.0	4.74	1.509	4.89	4.90	121.7	85.0	0.1
1960	59	0	10	6	11	0	0	88	31	29	70	3	103.3	2.70	1.132	6.10	2.63	69.4	140.5	2.4
1961	55	0	8	7	10	0	0	117	57	49	90	15	98.7	5.20	1.682	8.21	4.37	107.8	78.0	-0.5
1962	43	29	10	20	4	11	2	210	81	55	203	21	241.7	3.02	1.097	7.56	2.91	78.1	123.7	4.6
1963	34	26	14	13	1	12	0	161	68	35	141	12	202.3	3.02	.969	6.27	2.42	77.7	103.1	2.4
1964	32	27	11	10	0	7	0	196	72	52	117	21	198.3	3.27	1.250	5.31	3.78	113.7	101.8	1.7
1965	33	29	11	11	1	8	3	202	81	35	122	18	208.3	3.50	1.138	5.27	3.13	92.7	96.6	1.6
1966	32	21	6	10	2	3	0	167	78	28	101	23	152.7	4.60	1.277	5.95	3.86	111.9	74.9	-0.7
1967	57	1	10	6	12	0	0	87	27	22	78	6	103.7	2.34	1.051	6.77	2.60	76.7	144.7	2.4
1968	54	0	4	6	12	0	0	83	32	32	57	7	83.0	3.47	1.386	6.18	3.50	116.4	86.6	0.3
1969	46	0	3	4	3	0	0	92	33	27	40	8	74.3	4.00	1.601	4.84	4.11	115.9	88.7	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

590

468

436

RBI

165

.1353

OBP

.1585

SLG

.1789

OPS

.3374

Pitching

G (P)

590

259th-most career G (P)

134

106

111

436th-most career L

221st-most career SV

SHO

1,705

SO (P)

1,177

406th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

468

ERA

3.447

404th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2293

253rd-lowest career WHIP

K/9

6.21

331st-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	HR	RBI	TB
1966-07-19	PHI @ HOU Gameday	4	2	3	1	3	6
1962-09-08	NYM @ HOU Gameday	4	1	2	1	1	5
1957-06-02	LAD @ PHI Gameday	2	1	1	1	1	4
1962-05-11	SF @ HOU Gameday	3	1	1	1	1	4
1963-07-26	NYM @ HOU Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1963-05-10	CHC @ HOU Gameday	9.0	2	1	1	0	13
1962-07-20	STL @ HOU Gameday	9.0	7	3	2	0	12
1963-04-12	LAD @ HOU Gameday	12.0	4	1	1	2	11
1962-05-06	HOU @ ATL Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	2	11
1962-08-02	HOU @ ATL Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	0	11

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

4× 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.