MLB / Players

Vern Law

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 195 lb

BornMarch 12, 1930 · Meridian, ID, USA

MLB debutJune 11, 1950

Final gameAugust 20, 1967

Seasons16 (1950–1967)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1950–1951; Pittsburgh Pirates 1954–1967

Percentile snapshot

1966 season — qualified pitchers

13.1

19.7

31.1

80.3

32.8

SHO

78.7

203

45.9

44.3

100

6.6

55.7

177.7

9.8

ERA

4.05

11.5

WHIP

1.278

K/9

4.46

14.8

FIP

3.54

42.6

FIP-

98.4

42.6

ERA+

88.8

14.8

sWAR

1.3

19.7

of 62 qualified 1966 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

100.8

41.3

sWAR

32.3

96.9

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1950	27	44	41	0	3	0	1	0	1	1	14	0	.073	.136	.122	.258	-48.8	-33.1	.129	0.2
1951	28	38	32	5	11	2	1	1	4	3	6	0	.344	.400	.563	.963	152.0	149.2	.426	1.3
1954	50	64	52	10	12	5	0	1	13	5	8	0	.231	.310	.385	.695	78.2	79.7	.315	-0.5
1955	44	69	63	8	16	3	0	1	8	4	16	1	.254	.299	.349	.648	72.0	71.9	.294	2.9
1956	39	65	57	3	10	1	0	1	8	4	16	0	.175	.226	.246	.471	23.7	28.3	.218	0.6
1957	34	69	63	3	12	1	1	0	6	1	11	0	.190	.215	.238	.453	17.5	24.2	.207	3.5
1958	36	80	62	11	12	3	1	2	12	9	10	0	.194	.288	.371	.659	75.0	75.9	.297	2.3
1959	38	106	96	6	16	2	0	1	8	3	20	0	.167	.192	.219	.411	2.6	10.6	.189	5.5
1960	35	104	94	10	17	5	2	1	7	2	19	0	.181	.196	.309	.504	27.4	36.3	.223	5.1
1961	11	24	19	0	5	1	0	0	5	1	4	0	.263	.318	.316	.634	70.9	70.5	.291	0.3
1962	23	55	45	6	14	4	1	0	5	1	7	0	.311	.313	.444	.757	96.2	102.0	.330	1.9
1963	21	24	23	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.217	.217	.217	.435	15.3	26.2	.199	-0.8
1964	36	70	61	9	19	3	0	1	3	3	11	0	.311	.354	.410	.764	120.4	115.9	.349	2.5
1965	34	86	82	9	20	0	0	1	6	0	19	0	.244	.244	.280	.524	41.5	48.0	.238	6.2
1966	34	73	66	11	16	3	0	1	3	3	11	0	.242	.275	.333	.609	67.8	68.9	.277	1.3
1967	26	29	27	3	3	2	0	0	1	1	6	0	.111	.143	.185	.328	-18.2	-6.8	.155	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
1950	27	17	7	9	0	5	1	137	70	49	57	11	128.0	4.92	1.453	4.01	3.92	90.2	88.4	0.2
1951	28	14	6	9	2	2	1	109	57	51	41	9	114.0	4.50	1.404	3.24	4.19	100.2	92.8	1.3
1954	39	18	9	13	3	7	0	201	99	56	57	20	161.7	5.51	1.590	3.17	4.42	107.2	74.7	-0.5
1955	43	24	10	10	1	8	1	221	85	61	82	19	200.7	3.81	1.405	3.68	3.65	90.4	105.9	2.9
1956	39	32	8	16	2	6	0	218	94	49	60	24	195.7	4.32	1.365	2.76	4.06	109.5	85.7	0.6
1957	31	25	10	8	1	9	3	172	55	32	55	18	172.7	2.87	1.181	2.87	3.82	101.8	131.0	3.5
1958	35	29	14	12	3	6	1	235	89	39	56	16	202.3	3.96	1.354	2.49	3.57	93.1	96.9	2.3
1959	34	33	18	9	1	20	2	245	88	53	110	25	266.0	2.98	1.120	3.72	3.64	94.1	129.8	5.5
1960	35	35	20	9	0	18	3	266	93	40	120	25	271.7	3.08	1.126	3.98	3.45	92.1	121.5	5.1
1961	11	10	3	4	0	1	0	72	31	18	20	10	59.3	4.70	1.517	3.03	5.14	128.9	84.8	0.3
1962	23	20	10	7	0	7	2	156	61	27	78	21	139.3	3.94	1.313	5.04	4.16	106.4	99.3	1.9
1963	18	12	4	5	0	1	1	91	42	13	31	11	76.7	4.93	1.357	3.64	4.06	123.8	66.6	-0.8
1964	35	29	12	13	0	7	5	203	77	32	93	18	192.0	3.61	1.224	4.36	3.52	100.2	97.2	2.5
1965	29	28	17	9	0	13	4	182	52	35	101	17	217.3	2.15	.998	4.18	3.25	92.0	163.9	6.2
1966	31	28	12	8	0	8	4	203	80	24	88	19	177.7	4.05	1.278	4.46	3.54	98.4	88.8	1.3
1967	25	10	2	6	0	1	0	122	45	18	43	5	97.0	4.18	1.443	3.99	3.03	89.3	81.3	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

516

1,000

883

191

RBI

179

.2163

OBP

.2540

SLG

.3092

OPS

.5632

Pitching

G (P)

483

489th-most career G (P)

364

194th-most career GS

162

226th-most career W

147

178th-most career L

119

331st-most career CG

SHO

135th-most career SHO

2,672

209th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,092

487th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

597

ERA

3.766

WHIP

1.2837

487th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.68

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	BB	TB
1954-06-11	PIT @ STL Gameday	4	3	3	1	1	0	6
1955-06-26	PIT @ CHC Gameday	4	1	2	1	3	0	5
1958-05-01	PIT @ LAD Gameday	3	2	2	1	3	0	5
1956-04-29	PIT @ LAD Gameday	2	2	2	1	2	0	5
1951-08-11	PIT @ CHC Gameday	2	1	2	1	1	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1955-07-19	ATL @ PIT Gameday	18.0	9	2	1	2	12	1
1962-06-25	NYM @ PIT Gameday	9.0	8	3	2	2	11	0
1955-07-06	LAD @ PIT Gameday	9.0	9	1	1	2	10	0
1955-06-12	ATL @ PIT Gameday	8.1	5	3	2	4	10	1
1965-07-28	PHI @ PIT Gameday	12.0	11	0	0	1	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

1× Cy Young Award1× 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.