Bruce Sutter
Chicago Cubs 1976–1980; St. Louis Cardinals 1981–1984; Atlanta Braves 1985–1986; Atlanta Braves 1988
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 52 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .111 | .000 | .111 | -78.5 | -67.5 | .084 | 1.9 |
| 1977 | 62 | 22 | 20 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .150 | .227 | .150 | .377 | -6.2 | -0.7 | .193 | 4.7 |
| 1978 | 64 | 19 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .077 | .200 | .077 | .277 | -26.6 | -23.3 | .163 | 1.9 |
| 1979 | 62 | 15 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 0 | .250 | .308 | .250 | .558 | 48.7 | 48.4 | .272 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 60 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .111 | .111 | .222 | -64.6 | -39.7 | .104 | 2.5 |
| 1981 | 48 | 10 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .100 | .000 | .100 | -80.8 | -69.8 | .076 | 1.7 |
| 1982 | 70 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .125 | .111 | .125 | .236 | -55.3 | -34.0 | .104 | 1.9 |
| 1983 | 60 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -127.2 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.1 |
| 1984 | 71 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -123.9 | -100.0 | .000 | 4.0 |
| 1985 | 58 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -133.1 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.1 |
| 1986 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -133.3 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.1 |
| 1988 | 38 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .500 | .000 | .500 | 133.2 | 52.0 | .374 | -0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 52 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 63 | 25 | 26 | 73 | 4 | 83.3 | 2.70 | 1.068 | 7.88 | 2.46 | 64.7 | 140.6 | 1.9 |
| 1977 | 62 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 31 | 0 | 0 | 69 | 16 | 23 | 129 | 5 | 107.3 | 1.34 | .857 | 10.82 | 1.61 | 37.4 | 320.4 | 4.7 |
| 1978 | 64 | 0 | 8 | 10 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 82 | 35 | 34 | 106 | 10 | 98.7 | 3.19 | 1.176 | 9.67 | 2.86 | 72.3 | 123.8 | 1.9 |
| 1979 | 62 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 37 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 25 | 32 | 110 | 3 | 101.3 | 2.22 | .977 | 9.77 | 1.85 | 45.6 | 183.0 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 60 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 30 | 34 | 76 | 5 | 102.3 | 2.64 | 1.212 | 6.68 | 2.92 | 75.5 | 146.7 | 2.5 |
| 1981 | 48 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 64 | 24 | 24 | 57 | 5 | 82.3 | 2.62 | 1.069 | 6.23 | 2.99 | 83.6 | 136.1 | 1.7 |
| 1982 | 70 | 0 | 9 | 8 | 36 | 0 | 0 | 88 | 33 | 34 | 61 | 8 | 102.3 | 2.90 | 1.192 | 5.36 | 3.66 | 100.8 | 125.0 | 1.9 |
| 1983 | 60 | 0 | 9 | 10 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 90 | 42 | 30 | 64 | 8 | 89.3 | 4.23 | 1.343 | 6.45 | 3.45 | 95.0 | 85.7 | 0.1 |
| 1984 | 71 | 0 | 5 | 7 | 45 | 0 | 0 | 109 | 21 | 23 | 77 | 9 | 122.7 | 1.54 | 1.076 | 5.65 | 3.08 | 87.9 | 227.2 | 4.0 |
| 1985 | 58 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 91 | 44 | 29 | 52 | 13 | 88.3 | 4.48 | 1.358 | 5.30 | 4.44 | 116.9 | 84.7 | 0.1 |
| 1986 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 9 | 9 | 16 | 3 | 18.7 | 4.34 | 1.393 | 7.71 | 4.57 | 115.8 | 90.9 | 0.1 |
| 1988 | 38 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 24 | 11 | 40 | 4 | 45.3 | 4.76 | 1.324 | 7.94 | 2.88 | 79.0 | 76.6 | -0.2 |
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
Pitching
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 | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-07-12 | CHC @ CIN Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1979-08-11 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1980-07-12 | CHC @ WSH Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1977-07-03 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1977-07-28 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977-06-01 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 5.0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 0 |
| 1979-05-10 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 5.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 |
| 1977-07-28 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 1977-09-08 | WSH @ CHC Gameday | 3.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 1976-07-09 | SF @ CHC Gameday | 4.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.