Vinegar Bend Mizell
St. Louis Cardinals 1952–1953; St. Louis Cardinals 1956–1959; Pittsburgh Pirates 1960; St. Louis Cardinals 1960; Pittsburgh Pirates 1961; New York Mets 1962; Pittsburgh Pirates 1962
Percentile snapshot
1960 season — qualified pitchers
of 55 qualified 1960 pitchers (min 155 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 30 | 72 | 68 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 0 | .044 | .044 | .088 | .132 | -92.3 | -64.1 | .058 | 1.5 |
| 1953 | 33 | 89 | 83 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 42 | 0 | 0 | .084 | .116 | .157 | .273 | -44.8 | -29.8 | .125 | 3.8 |
| 1956 | 33 | 85 | 75 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .107 | .163 | .120 | .283 | -31.3 | -22.3 | .141 | 2.2 |
| 1957 | 33 | 49 | 45 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 0 | 0 | .089 | .146 | .133 | .279 | -35.5 | -24.6 | .137 | 1.6 |
| 1958 | 30 | 67 | 61 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 25 | 0 | 0 | .115 | .129 | .131 | .260 | -52.3 | -31.7 | .121 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 31 | 83 | 75 | 7 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 29 | 0 | 1 | .187 | .218 | .227 | .445 | 7.3 | 16.1 | .206 | 2.0 |
| 1960 | 32 | 79 | 69 | 3 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 24 | 0 | 0 | .130 | .189 | .145 | .334 | -13.4 | -7.2 | .166 | 2.7 |
| 1961 | 25 | 31 | 23 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .130 | .192 | .130 | .323 | -14.0 | -11.4 | .162 | -0.3 |
| 1962 | 21 | 15 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .200 | .143 | .343 | -10.9 | -9.5 | .172 | -1.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | 30 | 30 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 171 | 77 | 103 | 146 | 12 | 190.0 | 3.65 | 1.442 | 6.92 | 3.34 | 90.0 | 101.9 | 1.5 |
| 1953 | 33 | 33 | 13 | 11 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 193 | 87 | 114 | 173 | 12 | 224.3 | 3.49 | 1.368 | 6.94 | 3.35 | 77.9 | 123.0 | 3.8 |
| 1956 | 33 | 33 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 172 | 84 | 92 | 153 | 20 | 208.7 | 3.62 | 1.265 | 6.60 | 3.44 | 90.7 | 104.5 | 2.2 |
| 1957 | 33 | 21 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 136 | 62 | 51 | 87 | 18 | 149.3 | 3.74 | 1.252 | 5.24 | 3.96 | 100.4 | 105.5 | 1.6 |
| 1958 | 30 | 29 | 10 | 14 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 178 | 72 | 91 | 80 | 17 | 189.7 | 3.42 | 1.418 | 3.80 | 4.30 | 105.3 | 119.5 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 31 | 30 | 13 | 10 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 196 | 94 | 89 | 108 | 21 | 201.3 | 4.20 | 1.416 | 4.83 | 4.35 | 104.8 | 98.8 | 2.0 |
| 1960 | 32 | 32 | 14 | 8 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 205 | 82 | 74 | 113 | 14 | 211.0 | 3.50 | 1.322 | 4.82 | 3.54 | 92.4 | 109.1 | 2.7 |
| 1961 | 25 | 17 | 7 | 10 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 120 | 56 | 31 | 37 | 16 | 100.0 | 5.04 | 1.510 | 3.33 | 4.94 | 123.7 | 79.2 | -0.3 |
| 1962 | 21 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 63 | 40 | 35 | 21 | 13 | 54.3 | 6.63 | 1.804 | 3.48 | 7.10 | 175.2 | 61.1 | -1.1 |
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
Pitching
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 | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953-05-26 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1959-05-20 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 1956-09-30 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 1959-05-15 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1952-07-16 | SF @ STL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953-08-14 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 10.1 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 11 | 0 |
| 1952-06-21 | STL @ ATL Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 11 | 0 |
| 1952-09-05 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 0 |
| 1957-08-30 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 0 |
| 1956-05-27 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.