MLB / Players

Wilbur Wood

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornOctober 22, 1941 · Cambridge, MA, USA

MLB debutJune 30, 1961

Final gameAugust 22, 1978

Seasons17 (1961–1978)

Boston Red Sox 1961–1964; Pittsburgh Pirates 1964–1965; Chicago White Sox 1967–1978

Percentile snapshot

1978 season — qualified pitchers

13.3

24.4

65.6

8.9

SHO

187

71.1

17.8

36.7

6.7

13.3

168.0

5.6

ERA

5.20

WHIP

1.554

K/9

3.70

21.1

FIP

4.89

FIP-

128.1

1.1

ERA+

73.4

sWAR

-1.1

of 91 qualified 1978 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

111.9

76.1

sWAR

38.5

97.8

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1961	6	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.6	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1962	1	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.2	-100.0	.000	0.1
1963	25	13	12	0	0	0	0	0	6	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-133.0	-100.0	.000	0.5
1964	7	7	6	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.4	-100.0	.000	-0.8
1965	34	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.5	-100.0	.000	0.7
1967	51	17	16	0	1	1	1	1	11	0	.063	.118	.125	.243	-36.3	-26.3	.122	1.7
1968	88	26	22	0	2	0	2	2	17	0	.091	.167	.091	.258	-31.4	-20.2	.140	4.0
1969	76	18	15	0	0	0	0	0	8	0	.000	.063	.000	.063	-103.0	-81.6	.047	2.2
1970	77	20	18	2	2	1	3	0	11	0	.111	.111	.167	.278	-48.4	-25.8	.124	2.7
1971	44	124	96	1	5	0	0	11	57	1	.052	.150	.052	.202	-50.8	-41.2	.121	9.7
1972	49	144	125	8	17	0	7	6	65	0	.136	.176	.136	.312	-22.8	-6.7	.157	6.5
1973	49	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	5.5
1974	42	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.6
1975	43	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.0
1976	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.5
1977	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1978	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-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
1961	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	14	8	7	7	2	13.0	5.54	1.615	4.85	5.04	121.7	74.8	-0.1
1962	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	6	3	3	3	0	7.7	3.52	1.174	3.52	2.91	70.8	116.4	0.1
1963	25	6	0	5	0	0	0	67	27	13	28	10	64.7	3.76	1.237	3.90	4.35	115.3	100.3	0.5
1964	7	2	0	2	0	1	0	29	18	14	12	1	23.0	7.04	1.870	4.70	4.29	119.4	51.0	-0.8
1965	34	1	1	1	0	0	0	44	18	16	29	3	51.3	3.16	1.169	5.08	3.26	92.3	111.8	0.7
1967	51	8	4	2	4	0	0	95	26	28	47	2	95.3	2.45	1.290	4.44	2.62	85.0	125.5	1.7
1968	88	2	13	12	16	0	0	127	33	33	74	8	159.0	1.87	1.006	4.19	2.63	87.5	160.7	4.0
1969	76	0	10	11	15	0	0	113	40	40	73	13	119.7	3.01	1.279	5.49	3.63	94.8	127.3	2.2
1970	77	0	9	13	21	0	0	118	38	36	85	7	121.7	2.81	1.266	6.29	2.72	70.0	137.9	2.7
1971	44	42	22	13	1	22	7	272	71	62	210	21	334.0	1.91	1.000	5.66	2.54	71.5	185.5	9.7
1972	49	49	24	17	0	20	8	325	105	74	193	28	376.7	2.51	1.059	4.61	2.86	91.9	124.0	6.5
1973	49	48	24	20	0	21	4	381	138	91	199	25	359.3	3.46	1.314	4.98	3.20	81.4	113.6	5.5
1974	42	42	20	19	0	22	1	305	128	80	169	27	320.3	3.60	1.202	4.75	3.44	92.9	103.1	3.6
1975	43	43	16	20	0	14	2	309	133	92	140	26	291.3	4.11	1.376	4.32	3.75	97.2	94.0	2.0
1976	7	7	4	3	0	5	1	51	14	11	31	3	56.3	2.24	1.101	4.95	2.80	78.5	159.2	1.5
1977	24	18	7	8	0	5	1	139	68	50	42	10	122.7	4.99	1.541	3.08	4.59	112.0	82.1	0.0
1978	28	27	10	10	0	4	0	187	97	74	69	23	168.0	5.20	1.554	3.70	4.89	128.1	73.4	-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

651

381

322

RBI

189

.0839

OBP

.1399

SLG

.0901

OPS

.2300

Pitching

G (P)

651

172nd-most career G (P)

297

366th-most career GS

164

215th-most career W

156

142nd-most career L

321st-most career SV

114

349th-most career CG

SHO

189th-most career SHO

2,684

204th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,411

276th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

724

350th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.236

278th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2317

262nd-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.73

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	RBI	TB
1972-08-06	TEX @ CWS Gameday	4	1	2	0	2	2
1972-05-19	LAA @ CWS Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	2
1972-06-02	NYY @ CWS Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	2
1972-07-12	CWS @ CLE Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	2
1967-07-16	ATH @ CWS Gameday	3	0	1	1	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1974-05-07	CWS @ DET Gameday	11.0	2	0	0	4	10	0
1971-07-28	NYY @ CWS Gameday	9.0	6	4	3	2	10	1
1971-09-29	MIL @ CWS Gameday	9.0	5	1	0	1	10	0
1973-05-17	CWS @ MIN Gameday	7.2	8	4	3	3	10	1
1971-06-30	CWS @ MIL Gameday	9.0	8	3	1	1	9	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

3× 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.