MLB / Players

Don Robinson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 225 lb

BornJune 8, 1957 · Ashland, KY, USA

MLB debutApril 10, 1978

Final gameJuly 12, 1992

Seasons15 (1978–1992)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1978–1987; San Francisco Giants 1987–1991; California Angels 1992; Philadelphia Phillies 1992

Percentile snapshot

1989 season — qualified pitchers

66.2

40.3

28.6

40.3

SHO

24.7

184

68.8

97.4

22.1

197.0

29.9

ERA

3.43

46.8

WHIP

1.122

85.7

K/9

4.39

20.8

FIP

3.73

36.4

FIP-

109.3

18.2

ERA+

99.7

32.5

sWAR

2.3

37.7

of 78 qualified 1989 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

96.3

23.4

sWAR

20.3

93.7

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1978	35	89	85	2	20	2	0	3	0	22	0	.235	.235	.259	.494	27.2	36.6	.229	3.1
1979	29	56	49	4	10	0	0	3	3	9	0	.204	.250	.204	.454	20.0	23.9	.222	1.7
1980	30	57	57	4	19	4	1	8	0	12	1	.333	.333	.456	.789	119.4	117.4	.359	1.7
1981	17	13	12	1	3	0	0	1	1	4	0	.250	.308	.250	.558	59.3	57.7	.275	-0.6
1982	43	92	85	10	24	5	2	16	3	22	0	.282	.311	.412	.723	98.1	98.2	.331	1.7
1983	10	13	13	1	2	0	1	3	0	4	0	.154	.154	.385	.538	31.4	43.8	.234	0.1
1984	53	35	31	6	9	0	1	5	4	9	0	.290	.371	.387	.759	114.1	114.4	.349	2.5
1985	44	22	21	2	5	2	1	4	0	11	0	.238	.273	.476	.749	105.3	106.7	.335	0.9
1986	50	6	6	1	4	1	0	1	0	1	0	.667	.667	.833	1.500	338.7	307.6	.683	1.3
1987	69	19	18	2	4	1	1	2	1	4	0	.222	.263	.444	.708	83.8	82.9	.311	2.0
1988	52	56	52	2	9	2	1	4	2	12	0	.173	.204	.269	.473	32.6	38.1	.220	3.9
1989	40	82	81	7	15	1	3	7	1	23	0	.185	.195	.309	.504	36.7	44.2	.228	2.3
1990	31	66	63	4	9	1	2	7	0	17	0	.143	.143	.254	.397	-3.1	8.8	.175	0.0
1991	35	41	40	1	6	1	0	4	1	13	0	.150	.171	.175	.346	-9.8	-1.0	.163	0.0
1992	13	18	18	0	7	3	0	1	0	5	0	.389	.389	.556	.944	173.8	164.5	.427	-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
1978	35	32	14	6	1	9	1	203	88	57	135	20	228.3	3.47	1.139	5.32	3.37	91.5	106.1	3.1
1979	29	25	8	8	0	4	0	171	69	52	96	12	160.7	3.87	1.388	5.38	3.51	90.9	100.0	1.7
1980	29	24	7	10	1	3	2	157	71	45	103	14	160.3	3.99	1.260	5.78	3.53	96.3	92.0	1.7
1981	16	2	0	3	2	0	0	47	25	23	17	4	38.3	5.87	1.826	3.99	4.94	136.8	61.5	-0.6
1982	38	30	15	13	0	6	0	213	108	103	165	26	227.0	4.28	1.392	6.54	4.18	112.3	87.0	1.7
1983	9	6	2	2	0	0	0	43	18	21	28	5	36.3	4.46	1.761	6.94	4.66	125.8	83.0	0.1
1984	51	1	5	6	10	0	0	99	41	49	110	6	122.0	3.02	1.213	8.11	2.83	79.0	118.6	2.5
1985	44	6	5	11	3	0	0	95	41	42	65	6	95.3	3.87	1.437	6.14	3.46	96.6	92.4	0.9
1986	50	0	3	4	14	0	0	61	26	27	53	5	69.3	3.38	1.269	6.88	3.41	89.3	113.1	1.3
1987	67	0	11	7	19	0	0	105	41	40	79	7	108.0	3.42	1.343	6.58	3.36	83.2	118.0	2.0
1988	51	19	10	5	6	3	2	152	48	49	122	11	176.7	2.45	1.138	6.22	3.02	91.1	135.5	3.9
1989	34	32	12	11	0	5	1	184	75	37	96	22	197.0	3.43	1.122	4.39	3.73	109.3	99.7	2.3
1990	26	25	10	7	0	4	0	173	80	41	78	18	157.7	4.57	1.357	4.45	4.10	111.4	80.7	0.0
1991	34	16	5	9	1	0	0	123	59	50	78	12	121.3	4.38	1.426	5.79	4.05	112.7	82.2	0.0
1992	11	11	2	4	0	0	0	68	34	7	26	7	60.0	5.10	1.250	3.90	3.83	105.9	71.5	-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

551

665

631

146

RBI

168

.2314

OBP

.2523

SLG

.3296

OPS

.5819

Pitching

G (P)

524

390th-most career G (P)

229

109

106

484th-most career L

321st-most career SV

SHO

1,958

475th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,251

363rd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

643

474th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.787

WHIP

1.2955

K/9

5.75

429th-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	TB
1989-05-07	STL @ SF Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	2	5
1982-05-29	SF @ PIT Gameday	3	0	3	1	0	3	4
1985-09-12	CHC @ PIT Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	4	4
1980-07-13	PIT @ PHI Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	2	4
1982-06-25	PIT @ WSH Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	2	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1982-06-14	NYM @ PIT Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	3	10	1
1988-08-20	PHI @ SF Gameday	8.0	5	3	2	2	10	0
1978-09-06	PIT @ STL Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	0	9	0
1979-04-12	STL @ PIT Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	0	9	1
1984-06-04	NYM @ PIT Gameday	7.0	8	4	4	3	9	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

3× Silver Slugger

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.