Alan Foster

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornDecember 8, 1946 · Pasadena, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 25, 1967

Final gameAugust 13, 1976

Seasons10 (1967–1976)

Los Angeles Dodgers 1967–1970; Cleveland Indians 1971; California Angels 1972; St. Louis Cardinals 1973–1974; San Diego Padres 1975–1976

Percentile snapshot

1974 season — qualified pitchers

10.7

1.2

8.3

SHO

13.1

167

91.7

84.5

82.1

57.1

162.3

ERA

3.88

27.4

WHIP

1.405

21.4

K/9

4.32

27.4

FIP

4.09

11.9

FIP-

114.2

ERA+

92.3

22.6

sWAR

0.9

14.3

of 85 qualified 1974 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

96.0

22.5

sWAR

7.4

83.5

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1967	4	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-120.1	-100.0	.000	0.3
1968	3	5	4	0	1	0	1	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500	49.3	56.5	.235	0.4
1969	24	33	27	1	2	0	1	3	16	.074	.167	.074	.241	-26.3	-27.7	.138	-0.4
1970	33	78	64	4	7	0	6	5	13	.109	.171	.109	.281	-21.7	-20.8	.146	0.9
1971	37	60	51	2	2	1	3	1	18	.039	.057	.059	.115	-102.1	-68.3	.057	0.3
1972	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
1973	35	75	68	4	13	1	2	2	17	.191	.214	.206	.420	11.4	18.1	.200	3.3
1974	33	57	48	4	8	0	2	2	7	.167	.200	.167	.367	-2.3	4.5	.182	0.9
1975	19	11	11	1	1	0	2	0	3	.091	.091	.091	.182	-68.0	-48.2	.086	0.9
1976	29	24	18	1	1	0	0	3	6	.056	.190	.056	.246	-16.4	-25.1	.153	0.9

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1967	4	2	0	1	0	0	10	4	3	15	0	16.7	2.16	.780	8.10	1.40	45.0	143.7	0.3
1968	3	3	1	1	0	0	11	3	2	10	1	15.7	1.72	.830	5.74	2.48	89.3	161.3	0.4
1969	24	15	3	9	2	2	119	50	29	59	11	102.7	4.38	1.442	5.17	3.86	115.2	76.5	-0.4
1970	33	33	10	13	7	1	200	94	81	83	22	198.7	4.26	1.414	3.76	4.71	121.9	90.6	0.9
1971	36	26	8	12	3	0	158	84	82	97	19	181.7	4.16	1.321	4.81	4.07	109.2	89.6	0.3
1972	8	0	0	1	0	0	12	7	6	11	3	12.7	4.97	1.421	7.82	5.51	188.8	58.7	-0.2
1973	35	29	13	9	6	2	195	71	63	106	17	203.7	3.14	1.267	4.68	3.60	99.2	115.6	3.3
1974	31	25	7	10	5	1	167	70	61	78	16	162.3	3.88	1.405	4.32	4.09	114.2	92.3	0.9
1975	17	4	3	1	1	0	41	12	21	20	1	44.7	2.42	1.388	4.03	3.42	98.0	144.5	0.9
1976	26	11	3	6	2	0	75	31	35	22	9	86.7	3.22	1.269	2.28	4.74	143.4	102.6	0.9

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

225

347

295

RBI

.1186

OBP

.1629

SLG

.1254

OPS

.2883

Pitching

G (P)

217

148

SHO

1,025

SO (P)

501

BB allowed

383

ERA

3.739

WHIP

1.3371

K/9

4.40

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
1974-04-20	WSH @ STL Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	3
1974-06-30	STL @ NYM Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	3
1973-08-19	SD @ STL Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	3
1973-05-11	WSH @ STL Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2
1971-04-11	BOS @ CLE Gameday	4	1	1	1	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1971-07-07	BOS @ CLE Gameday	8.0	5	3	3	1	10	1
1969-06-03	LAD @ NYM Gameday	7.0	5	4	4	1	9	2
1967-09-27	PIT @ LAD Gameday	7.0	4	1	1	1	8	0
1969-06-17	SD @ LAD Gameday	9.0	7	0	0	1	7	0
1970-08-09	CIN @ LAD Gameday	9.0	6	3	3	3	7	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.