Buster Narum
Baltimore Orioles 1963; Washington Senators 1964–1967
Percentile snapshot
1965 season — qualified pitchers
of 73 qualified 1965 pitchers (min 162 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 4.000 | 5.000 | 1347.6 | 1255.7 | 2.066 | 0.3 |
| 1964 | 38 | 71 | 66 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 0 | 0 | .061 | .061 | .106 | .167 | -81.4 | -54.9 | .073 | 0.0 |
| 1965 | 46 | 54 | 46 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 27 | 0 | 0 | .043 | .083 | .109 | .192 | -62.0 | -45.7 | .094 | -0.7 |
| 1966 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.7 |
| 1967 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -128.9 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 9.0 | 3.00 | 1.444 | 5.00 | 3.02 | 86.9 | 115.7 | 0.3 |
| 1964 | 38 | 32 | 9 | 15 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 195 | 95 | 73 | 121 | 31 | 199.0 | 4.30 | 1.347 | 5.47 | 4.44 | 120.9 | 85.6 | 0.0 |
| 1965 | 46 | 24 | 4 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 176 | 86 | 91 | 86 | 16 | 173.7 | 4.46 | 1.537 | 4.46 | 4.30 | 124.2 | 77.6 | -0.7 |
| 1966 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 3.3 | 21.60 | 4.500 | 0.00 | 13.84 | 402.8 | 15.9 | -0.7 |
| 1967 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 1 | 11.7 | 3.09 | 1.029 | 6.17 | 3.19 | 101.0 | 102.4 | 0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963-05-03 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1964-09-25 | NYY @ TEX Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1965-04-14 | BOS @ TEX Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1965-09-23 | TEX @ ATH Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1964-06-17 | LAA @ TEX Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964-07-29 | CLE @ TEX Gameday | 11.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 0 |
| 1965-06-29 | NYY @ TEX Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
| 1964-09-30 | TEX @ BAL Gameday | 5.2 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 8 | 3 |
| 1965-06-25 | TEX @ BOS Gameday | 4.2 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 8 | 1 |
| 1965-07-21 | LAA @ TEX Gameday | 10.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 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.