MLB / Players

Wade Blasingame

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb

BornNovember 22, 1943 · Deming, NM, USA

MLB debutSeptember 17, 1963

Final gameSeptember 22, 1972

Seasons10 (1963–1972)

Milwaukee Braves 1963–1965; Atlanta Braves 1966–1967; Houston Astros 1967–1972; New York Yankees 1972

Percentile snapshot

1965 season — qualified pitchers

58.3

73.6

72.2

55.6

58.3

66.7

SHO

19.4

200

44.4

16.7

116

4.2

117

36.1

61.1

224.7

62.5

ERA

3.77

29.2

WHIP

1.407

6.9

K/9

4.69

FIP

4.19

9.7

FIP-

118.2

9.7

ERA+

94.2

29.2

sWAR

2.0

37.5

of 73 qualified 1965 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

-1.2

4.6

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
1963	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3
1964	29	46	40	5	7	2	1	3	6	13	.175	.283	.300	.583	69.3	64.3	.278	0.6
1965	38	86	81	5	15	5	1	3	1	25	.185	.205	.284	.489	29.3	36.4	.221	2.0
1966	18	25	23	1	5	1	0	2	2	3	.217	.280	.261	.541	51.5	50.6	.257	-0.6
1967	26	37	29	2	5	1	0	1	6	16	.172	.314	.207	.521	67.8	53.6	.273	-1.7
1968	22	8	5	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	.000	.375	.000	.375	79.5	21.3	.283	-0.5
1969	27	12	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.6	-100.0	.000	-0.8
1970	13	28	24	0	2	0	0	2	4	10	.083	.214	.083	.298	-5.2	-15.0	.173	1.1
1971	30	59	49	5	10	3	1	9	7	18	.204	.298	.327	.625	82.4	79.6	.298	-0.4
1972	22	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.333	.000	.333	54.3	7.4	.252	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1963	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	4	2	6	0	3.0	12.00	3.000	18.00	0.50	15.3	27.1	-0.3
1964	28	13	9	5	2	3	1	113	55	51	70	15	116.7	4.24	1.406	5.40	4.53	127.4	83.8	0.6
1965	38	36	16	10	1	10	1	200	94	116	117	17	224.7	3.77	1.407	4.69	4.19	118.2	94.2	2.0
1966	16	12	3	7	0	0	0	71	40	25	34	5	67.7	5.32	1.419	4.52	3.82	104.1	69.1	-0.6
1967	25	18	5	7	0	0	0	118	64	48	66	10	102.3	5.63	1.622	5.80	4.13	124.4	59.0	-1.7
1968	22	2	1	2	1	0	0	45	19	10	22	3	36.0	4.75	1.528	5.50	3.24	109.3	62.4	-0.5
1969	26	5	0	5	1	0	0	66	31	33	33	4	52.0	5.37	1.904	5.71	4.41	124.5	66.0	-0.8
1970	13	13	3	3	0	1	0	76	30	23	55	4	77.7	3.48	1.275	6.37	3.07	78.5	112.4	1.1
1971	30	28	9	11	0	2	0	177	81	45	93	11	158.3	4.60	1.402	5.29	3.37	99.6	73.5	-0.4
1972	22	1	0	1	0	0	0	18	16	19	16	6	25.3	5.68	1.461	5.68	6.78	220.1	54.8	-0.6

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

227

305

265

RBI

.1660

OBP

.2525

SLG

.2453

OPS

.4978

Pitching

G (P)

222

128

SHO

864

SO (P)

512

BB allowed

372

ERA

4.523

WHIP

1.4624

K/9

5.34

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	BB	TB
1965-07-16	PIT @ ATL Gameday	4	0	2	2	0	1	0	4
1964-06-26	NYM @ ATL Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	2	0	4
1965-06-30	ATL @ PHI Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	1	4
1971-04-12	HOU @ STL Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	4
1971-08-01	HOU @ WSH Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	2	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1965-05-05	HOU @ ATL Gameday	14.0	5	1	1	6	12	1
1971-07-22	WSH @ HOU Gameday	7.1	5	2	2	3	9	0
1968-06-19	HOU @ NYM Gameday	5.0	4	1	1	0	9	1
1965-05-20	NYM @ ATL Gameday	9.0	1	1	1	2	8	0
1970-08-28	NYM @ HOU Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	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.