Bobby Witt

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 190 lb

BornMay 11, 1964 · Arlington, VA, USA

MLB debutApril 10, 1986

Final gameOctober 7, 2001

Seasons16 (1986–2001)

Texas Rangers 1986–1991; Oakland Athletics 1992; Texas Rangers 1992; Oakland Athletics 1993–1994; Florida Marlins 1995; Texas Rangers 1995–1997; St. Louis Cardinals 1998; Texas Rangers 1998; Tampa Bay Devil Rays 1999; Cleveland Indians 2000; Arizona Diamondbacks 2001

Percentile snapshot

1999 season — qualified pitchers

28.4

39.8

6.8

3.4

68.2

SHO

87.5

213

117

10.2

6.8

123

37.5

53.4

180.3

21.6

ERA

5.84

4.5

WHIP

1.713

1.1

K/9

6.14

FIP

5.14

14.8

FIP-

104.6

ERA+

84.2

sWAR

0.1

of 89 qualified 1999 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

90.3

6.8

sWAR

11.9

88.7

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1986	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.6
1987	27	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-117.6	-100.0	.000	0.7
1988	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.0
1989	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.8
1990	35	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.7
1991	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.2
1992	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
1993	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.0
1994	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.6
1995	31	38	32	0	2	1	0	2	1	10	.063	.088	.094	.182	-65.8	-51.6	.086	2.0
1996	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.5
1997	35	6	6	1	2	1	1	2	0	1	.333	.333	1.000	1.333	230.8	224.4	.547	2.1
1998	32	13	11	0	2	1	0	1	1	5	.182	.250	.273	.523	35.9	38.8	.243	-1.3
1999	32	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.9	-100.0	.000	0.1
2000	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3
2001	14	13	12	0	3	0	0	0	0	7	.250	.250	.250	.500	19.0	27.7	.224	0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1986	31	31	11	9	0	0	130	96	143	174	18	157.7	5.48	1.732	9.93	4.85	113.5	77.9	-0.6
1987	26	25	8	10	1	0	114	78	140	160	10	143.0	4.91	1.776	10.07	4.55	101.4	91.3	0.7
1988	22	22	8	10	13	2	134	76	101	148	13	174.3	3.92	1.348	7.64	3.85	94.6	103.7	2.0
1989	31	31	12	13	5	1	182	111	114	166	14	194.3	5.14	1.523	7.69	3.87	98.0	76.8	-0.8
1990	33	32	17	10	7	1	197	83	110	221	12	222.0	3.36	1.383	8.96	3.06	77.9	116.7	3.7
1991	17	16	3	7	1	1	84	60	74	82	4	88.7	6.09	1.782	8.32	4.18	103.3	66.5	-1.2
1992	31	31	10	14	0	0	183	92	114	125	16	193.0	4.29	1.539	5.83	4.38	114.1	89.4	0.9
1993	35	33	14	13	5	1	226	103	91	131	16	220.0	4.21	1.441	5.36	4.04	97.7	98.1	2.0
1994	24	24	8	10	5	3	151	76	70	111	22	135.7	5.04	1.629	7.36	5.33	118.0	89.5	0.6
1995	29	29	5	11	2	0	185	79	68	141	12	172.0	4.13	1.471	7.38	3.60	82.4	106.2	2.0
1996	33	32	16	12	2	0	235	120	96	157	28	199.7	5.41	1.658	7.08	4.97	95.9	95.9	1.5
1997	34	32	12	12	3	0	245	112	74	121	33	209.0	4.82	1.526	5.21	5.13	107.8	98.7	2.1
1998	31	18	7	9	0	0	150	85	53	58	21	116.7	6.56	1.740	4.47	5.92	129.4	69.6	-1.3
1999	32	32	7	15	3	2	213	117	96	123	23	180.3	5.84	1.713	6.14	5.14	104.6	84.2	0.1
2000	7	2	0	1	0	0	28	13	6	6	4	15.3	7.63	2.217	3.52	7.01	138.9	66.1	-0.3
2001	14	7	4	1	0	0	36	23	25	31	6	43.3	4.78	1.408	6.44	5.31	116.7	95.3	0.4

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

438

RBI

.1406

OBP

.1642

SLG

.2344

OPS

.3986

Pitching

G (P)

430

397

143rd-most career GS

142

301st-most career W

157

135th-most career L

SHO

2,465

267th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,955

102nd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,375

22nd-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.834

WHIP

1.5692

K/9

7.14

187th-highest career K/9

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
1997-06-30	TEX @ LAD Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	0	4
1995-06-05	MIA @ HOU Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	1	0	2
1997-08-28	TEX @ SF Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	1	0	2
1998-08-02	STL @ ATL Gameday	1	0	1	1	0	1	1	2
1995-04-28	MIA @ SF Gameday	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1994-06-23	KC @ ATH Gameday	9.0	1	0	0	0	14
1986-07-06	DET @ TEX Gameday	8.0	5	4	4	4	14
1991-05-04	TEX @ DET Gameday	7.2	5	5	5	6	13
1995-09-14	TEX @ TOR Gameday	8.0	7	1	1	0	12
1986-06-09	TEX @ MIN Gameday	7.2	5	2	2	2	12

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.