MLB / Players

Don Carman

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 195 lb

BornAugust 14, 1959 · Oklahoma City, OK, USA

MLB debutOctober 1, 1983

Final gameJuly 18, 1992

Seasons10 (1983–1992)

Philadelphia Phillies 1983–1990; Cincinnati Reds 1991; Texas Rangers 1992

Percentile snapshot

1988 season — qualified pitchers

83.3

44.4

22.2

17.8

SHO

211

32.2

16.7

35.6

116

35.6

24.4

201.3

ERA

4.29

12.2

WHIP

1.396

12.2

K/9

5.19

38.9

FIP

3.95

27.8

FIP-

111.3

11.1

ERA+

82.7

6.7

sWAR

-0.4

2.2

of 91 qualified 1988 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

3.8

76.3

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	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1983	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
1984	11	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.8	-100.0	.000	-0.2
1985	71	4	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.1	-100.0	.000	2.5
1986	50	33	31	0	0	0	0	11	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.6	-100.0	.000	2.0
1987	35	73	61	2	5	4	2	23	1	.082	.111	.082	.193	-63.6	-48.5	.096	1.8
1988	36	71	63	1	3	0	0	19	0	.048	.048	.048	.095	-99.3	-72.8	.044	-0.4
1989	49	41	34	0	1	0	0	13	0	.029	.029	.029	.059	-108.3	-83.2	.027	-2.0
1990	59	11	11	0	3	0	0	4	0	.273	.273	.273	.545	45.8	50.8	.252	0.6
1991	28	5	5	0	0	1	0	3	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.7	-100.0	.000	-0.3
1992	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-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
1983	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.0	0.00	.000	0.00	2.67	74.4	—	0.1
1984	11	0	0	1	0	0	0	14	8	6	16	2	13.3	5.40	1.500	10.80	3.69	101.5	67.4	-0.2
1985	71	0	9	4	7	0	0	52	20	38	87	6	86.3	2.08	1.042	9.07	2.90	78.5	176.9	2.5
1986	50	14	10	5	1	2	1	113	48	52	98	11	134.3	3.22	1.228	6.57	3.58	93.2	119.4	2.0
1987	35	35	13	11	0	3	2	194	99	69	125	34	211.0	4.22	1.246	5.33	4.83	114.5	99.9	1.8
1988	36	32	10	14	0	2	0	211	96	70	116	20	201.3	4.29	1.396	5.19	3.95	111.3	82.7	-0.4
1989	49	20	5	15	0	0	0	152	87	86	81	21	149.3	5.24	1.594	4.88	5.19	146.6	67.5	-2.0
1990	59	1	6	2	1	0	0	69	40	38	58	13	86.7	4.15	1.235	6.02	4.87	127.8	91.8	0.6
1991	28	0	0	2	1	0	0	40	21	19	15	8	36.0	5.25	1.639	3.75	6.51	172.0	72.1	-0.3
1992	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	2	0	2	0	2.3	7.71	1.714	7.71	1.08	28.0	49.9	-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

342

239

209

RBI

.0574

OBP

.0664

SLG

.0574

OPS

.1238

Pitching

G (P)

342

102

SHO

922

SO (P)

598

BB allowed

378

ERA

4.111

WHIP

1.3313

K/9

5.84

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	H	RBI	TB
1987-05-27	PHI @ SD Gameday	2	1	1	1
1987-07-11	PHI @ ATL Gameday	2	1	1	1
1987-07-23	ATL @ PHI Gameday	2	1	1	1
1987-05-16	SD @ PHI Gameday	3	1	0	1
1987-08-28	PHI @ SD Gameday	3	1	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1986-08-20	PHI @ SF Gameday	9.0	1	0	0	1	9	0
1986-08-30	SF @ PHI Gameday	8.2	6	3	3	4	9	0
1987-09-25	WSH @ PHI Gameday	7.2	5	2	2	1	8	1
1987-08-13	PHI @ STL Gameday	9.0	3	2	0	4	7	0
1988-08-10	STL @ PHI Gameday	8.0	4	1	1	1	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.