Ed Farmer

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 200 lb

BornOctober 18, 1949 · Evergreen Park, IL, USA

MLB debutJune 9, 1971

Final gameOctober 2, 1983

Seasons11 (1971–1983)

Cleveland Indians 1971–1973; Detroit Tigers 1973; Philadelphia Phillies 1974; Baltimore Orioles 1977; Milwaukee Brewers 1978; Chicago White Sox 1979; Texas Rangers 1979; Chicago White Sox 1980–1981; Philadelphia Phillies 1982; Oakland Athletics 1983; Philadelphia Phillies 1983

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

sWAR

1.9

69.3

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	H	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1971	43	16	14	1	0	1	6	.071	.133	.071	.205	-62.1	-42.5	.112	0.1
1972	46	8	7	1	0	0	3	.143	.143	.143	.286	-41.9	-15.9	.134	-0.4
1973	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
1974	14	9	9	1	1	0	5	.111	.111	.111	.222	-59.4	-38.6	.105	-1.5
1977	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
1978	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.5
1979	53	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.7
1980	64	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.8
1981	42	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
1982	47	13	11	0	0	0	6	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.4	-100.0	.000	-0.5
1983	17	7	6	1	0	0	2	.167	.167	.167	.333	-19.7	-6.4	.155	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1971	43	4	5	4	4	77	38	41	48	9	78.7	4.35	1.500	5.49	4.30	115.5	85.7	0.1
1972	46	1	2	5	7	51	30	27	33	10	61.3	4.40	1.272	4.84	4.68	147.6	72.1	-0.4
1973	40	0	3	2	3	77	34	32	38	7	62.3	4.91	1.749	5.49	4.46	112.4	81.0	-0.1
1974	14	3	2	1	0	41	29	27	20	5	31.0	8.42	2.194	5.81	6.01	159.6	44.7	-1.5
1977	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0.0	—	—	—	—	—	0.0	-0.1
1978	3	0	1	0	1	7	1	4	6	1	11.0	0.82	1.000	4.91	3.73	98.9	461.4	0.5
1979	53	5	5	7	14	96	38	53	73	4	114.3	2.99	1.303	5.75	3.41	80.9	141.2	2.7
1980	64	0	7	9	30	92	37	56	54	6	99.7	3.34	1.485	4.88	4.17	103.6	120.6	1.8
1981	42	0	3	3	10	53	27	34	42	5	52.7	4.61	1.652	7.18	4.17	116.3	77.7	-0.1
1982	47	4	2	6	6	66	41	50	58	2	76.0	4.86	1.526	6.87	3.54	97.6	74.7	-0.5
1983	17	4	0	6	0	50	22	20	23	3	37.0	5.35	1.892	5.59	4.23	116.0	68.8	-0.4

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

370

RBI

.0851

OBP

.1042

SLG

.0851

OPS

.1893

Pitching

G (P)

370

245th-most career SV

SHO

624

SO (P)

395

BB allowed

345

ERA

4.298

WHIP

1.5321

K/9

5.70

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
1974-04-17	STL @ PHI Gameday	2	1	1	1
1971-08-31	CLE @ DET Gameday	2	1	0	1
1972-06-04	LAA @ CLE Gameday	1	1	0	1
1983-06-21	PHI @ WSH Gameday	2	1	0	1
1971-06-09	CWS @ CLE Gameday	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1979-06-24	MIN @ CWS Gameday	7.2	9	7	6	3	6	0
1979-06-14	MIL @ TEX Gameday	5.2	5	2	2	2	5	1
1982-06-25	NYM @ PHI Gameday	5.1	4	3	3	3	5	0
1979-05-04	CWS @ TEX Gameday	5.0	2	0	0	1	5	0
1972-09-10	BOS @ CLE Gameday	4.1	3	3	3	3	5	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× 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.