Vern Law Career Stats and Season Totals

Debut: 1950
Cy Young: 1960

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Career regular season

GP: 483
W: 162
L: 147
ERA: 3.77
IP: 2672.0
K: 1,092
BB: 597
WHIP: 1.28

Ranked among MLB players who qualify (W, IP, K: 10+ games; ERA, WHIP: 100+ IP) that season; only the top 50 are shown. How each stat qualifies: glossary.

Standard by season

1950	PIT	27	7	9	4.92	128.0	57	49	1.45
1951	PIT	28	6	9	4.50	114.0	41	51	1.40
1954	PIT	39	9	13	5.51	161.2	57	56	1.59
1955	PIT	43	10	10	3.81	200.2	82	61	1.41
1956	PIT	39	8	16	4.32	195.2	60	49	1.36
1957	PIT	31	10	8	2.87	172.2	55	32	1.18
1958	PIT	35	14	12	3.96	202.1	56	39	1.35
1959	PIT	34	18	9	2.98	266.0	110	53	1.12
1960	PIT	35	20	9	3.08	271.2	120	40	1.13
1961	PIT	11	3	4	4.70	59.1	20	18	1.52
1962	PIT	23	10	7	3.94	139.1	78	27	1.31
1963	PIT	18	4	5	4.93	76.2	31	13	1.36
1964	PIT	35	12	13	3.61	192.0	93	32	1.22
1965	PIT	29	17	9	2.15	217.1	101	35	1.00
1966	PIT	31	12	8	4.05	177.2	88	24	1.28
1967	PIT	25	2	6	4.18	97.0	43	18	1.44

What the columns mean: W · L · ERA · IP · K · BB · WHIP

Career Postseason

GP: 3
W: 2
L: 0
ERA: 3.50
IP: 18.0
K: 8
BB: 3
WHIP: 1.39

Career regular season

QS: 0
CG: 119
SHO: 28
K/9: 3.7
GB: 0
FB: 0
G/F: 0.00
WP: 0

Ranked among MLB players who qualify (QS, CG, SHO: 10+ GS; K/9: 100+ IP) that season; only the top 50 are shown. How each stat qualifies: glossary.

Expanded by season

1950	PIT	5	1	4.0
1951	PIT	2	1	3.2
1954	PIT	7	0	3.2
1955	PIT	8	1	3.7
1956	PIT	6	0	2.8
1957	PIT	9	3	2.9
1958	PIT	6	1	2.5
1959	PIT	20	2	3.7
1960	PIT	18	3	4.0
1961	PIT	1	0	3.0
1962	PIT	7	2	5.0
1963	PIT	1	1	3.6
1964	PIT	7	5	4.4
1965	PIT	13	4	4.2
1966	PIT	8	4	4.5
1967	PIT	1	0	4.0

What the columns mean: QS · CG · SHO · K/9 · WP

What were Vern Law's career stats?

Vern Law played 16 seasons for the Pirates. He had 162 wins and 1,092 strikeouts with a 3.77 ERA over 2,672.0 innings. His best season was 1960: 20 wins, a 3.08 ERA and 120 strikeouts.

League leaderboards and awards

16 seasons, 1 postseason, 1950 to 1967

Vern Law finished top 10 in a stat 2 times.

Championships

1960 World Series with the Pittsburgh Pirates

Awards

MLB Cy Young: 1960

All-time career rank

215th in wins (pitching) (162)

Among the 8,948 MLB players with a career line on file, regular season. A place deeper than 300th is not listed.

Season top 10 finishes

ERA: 1965 (6th)
WHIP: 1965 (6th)

Among qualified MLB players each season, as the glossary defines each stat. All-time places are among players on file.

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