MLB / Players

Burt Hooton

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 210 lb

BornFebruary 7, 1950 · Greenville, TX, USA

MLB debutJune 17, 1971

Final gameSeptember 6, 1985

Seasons15 (1971–1985)

Chicago Cubs 1971–1975; Los Angeles Dodgers 1975–1984; Texas Rangers 1985

Percentile snapshot

1981 season — qualified pitchers

42.5

63.2

70.1

71.3

52.9

SHO

93.1

124

72.4

94.3

83.9

44.8

95.4

142.3

ERA

2.28

97.7

WHIP

1.103

89.7

K/9

4.68

55.2

FIP

2.64

93.1

FIP-

78.8

88.5

ERA+

147.3

93.1

sWAR

3.5

88.5

of 88 qualified 1981 pitchers (min 110 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

107.7

66.6

sWAR

33.7

97.1

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1971	3	8	7	0	0	0	0	0	1	6	0	.000	.125	.000	.125	-77.2	-63.7	.094	0.6
1972	33	81	72	4	9	1	1	6	4	37	0	.125	.171	.181	.352	-18.7	-3.6	.171	4.6
1973	42	85	70	4	9	0	0	3	10	24	1	.129	.238	.129	.366	3.5	1.6	.199	3.0
1974	48	60	50	1	3	1	0	1	2	22	0	.060	.113	.080	.193	-60.7	-46.2	.104	-0.8
1975	34	90	73	6	9	3	1	7	4	27	0	.123	.169	.205	.374	-1.6	6.9	.181	3.4
1976	33	81	62	2	6	1	0	4	3	28	0	.097	.147	.113	.260	-32.6	-23.9	.134	2.4
1977	32	83	67	1	11	2	0	3	2	15	0	.164	.188	.194	.382	-3.7	4.3	.179	5.3
1978	32	92	67	4	10	1	0	2	7	15	0	.149	.230	.164	.394	13.1	13.0	.203	4.9
1979	30	84	75	5	11	3	0	5	1	18	0	.147	.158	.187	.345	-17.2	-5.1	.159	3.8
1980	34	81	64	4	4	0	1	6	3	15	0	.063	.104	.109	.214	-52.8	-39.4	.107	1.4
1981	23	53	42	3	8	3	0	3	4	13	0	.190	.261	.262	.523	52.9	52.3	.256	3.5
1982	21	41	35	3	3	1	1	1	0	5	0	.086	.086	.200	.286	-36.7	-20.8	.125	0.3
1983	33	57	50	5	8	2	0	7	3	15	0	.160	.208	.200	.408	9.9	14.8	.198	0.4
1984	54	17	14	0	1	0	0	1	0	3	0	.071	.071	.071	.143	-78.4	-59.1	.067	1.1
1985	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-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
1971	3	3	2	0	0	2	1	8	5	10	22	2	21.3	2.11	.844	9.28	3.11	80.3	183.4	0.6
1972	33	31	11	14	0	9	3	201	68	81	132	13	218.3	2.80	1.292	5.44	3.22	86.0	133.6	4.6
1973	42	34	14	17	0	9	2	248	98	73	134	12	239.7	3.68	1.339	5.03	3.05	78.3	105.7	3.0
1974	48	21	7	11	1	3	1	214	94	51	94	16	176.3	4.80	1.503	4.80	3.62	95.4	79.0	-0.8
1975	34	33	18	9	0	12	4	190	80	68	153	18	234.7	3.07	1.099	5.87	3.18	91.8	112.6	3.4
1976	33	33	11	15	0	8	4	203	82	60	116	16	226.7	3.26	1.160	4.61	3.35	98.8	104.1	2.4
1977	32	31	12	7	1	6	2	184	65	60	153	14	223.3	2.62	1.093	6.17	3.02	78.9	146.3	5.3
1978	32	32	19	10	0	10	3	196	71	61	104	17	236.0	2.71	1.089	3.97	3.45	97.7	130.5	4.9
1979	29	29	11	10	0	12	1	191	70	63	129	11	212.0	2.97	1.198	5.48	3.07	83.6	123.6	3.8
1980	34	33	14	8	1	4	2	194	84	64	118	22	206.7	3.66	1.248	5.14	3.92	110.7	96.7	1.4
1981	23	23	11	6	0	5	4	124	36	33	74	3	142.3	2.28	1.103	4.68	2.64	78.8	147.3	3.5
1982	21	21	4	7	0	2	2	130	54	33	51	5	120.7	4.03	1.351	3.80	3.31	94.7	86.8	0.3
1983	33	27	9	8	0	2	0	156	75	59	87	21	160.0	4.22	1.344	4.89	4.44	123.9	84.9	0.4
1984	54	6	3	6	4	0	0	109	42	43	62	5	110.0	3.44	1.382	5.07	3.43	97.5	102.3	1.1
1985	29	20	5	8	0	2	0	149	72	40	62	18	124.0	5.23	1.524	4.50	4.60	109.8	80.1	-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

481

913

748

RBI

243

.1230

OBP

.1734

SLG

.1631

OPS

.3365

Pitching

G (P)

480

377

172nd-most career GS

151

258th-most career W

136

238th-most career L

SHO

125th-most career SHO

2,652

214th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,491

240th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

799

258th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.380

361st-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2428

304th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

5.06

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	TB
1979-06-03	LAD @ STL Gameday	3	1	3	2	0	0	5
1972-09-16	NYM @ CHC Gameday	3	2	2	0	1	4	5
1980-07-29	PIT @ LAD Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	4	4
1975-09-20	LAD @ HOU Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	4
1982-09-10	LAD @ HOU Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1971-09-15	CHC @ NYM Gameday	9.0	3	2	2	2	15	1
1975-09-15	SD @ LAD Gameday	9.0	7	4	4	3	12	1
1975-09-10	CIN @ LAD Gameday	9.0	4	2	2	4	11	0
1977-05-03	NYM @ LAD Gameday	9.0	4	1	0	2	11	0
1975-05-22	CHC @ LAD Gameday	7.2	8	3	3	0	11	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

1× NLCS MVP1× 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.