Eric Rasmussen

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 205 lb

BornMarch 22, 1952 · Racine, WI, USA

MLB debutJuly 21, 1975

Final gameOctober 2, 1983

Seasons8 (1975–1983)

St. Louis Cardinals 1975–1977; San Diego Padres 1978; St. Louis Cardinals 1978; San Diego Padres 1979–1980; St. Louis Cardinals 1982; Kansas City Royals 1983; St. Louis Cardinals 1983

Percentile snapshot

1978 season — qualified pitchers

67.8

54.4

6.7

15.6

SHO

68.9

215

24.4

27.8

25.6

206.7

41.1

ERA

4.09

17.8

WHIP

1.345

32.2

K/9

3.96

27.8

FIP

3.93

21.1

FIP-

112.5

11.1

ERA+

86.3

7.8

sWAR

0.4

6.7

of 91 qualified 1978 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

94.8

17.5

sWAR

6.8

82.7

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1975	14	28	26	1	4	0	3	1	8	.154	.185	.154	.339	-18.3	-6.1	.168	0.7
1976	43	44	38	0	4	1	2	2	15	.105	.150	.132	.282	-30.6	-19.5	.142	1.3
1977	34	83	72	4	10	5	3	5	27	.139	.195	.208	.403	4.9	9.5	.193	3.3
1978	37	74	64	1	9	0	2	0	18	.141	.141	.141	.281	-36.7	-19.7	.131	0.4
1979	46	45	36	1	2	0	0	3	7	.056	.128	.056	.184	-50.7	-46.4	.105	1.9
1980	40	27	21	0	2	2	0	0	8	.095	.095	.190	.286	-37.2	-20.2	.126	-0.2
1982	8	5	3	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.250	.000	.250	3.0	-24.1	.188	0.0
1983	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1975	14	13	5	5	0	2	1	86	34	20	59	8	81.0	3.78	1.309	6.56	3.18	85.2	98.9	0.7
1976	43	17	6	12	0	2	1	139	59	54	76	10	150.3	3.53	1.284	4.55	3.62	102.7	99.8	1.3
1977	34	34	11	17	0	11	3	223	90	63	120	24	233.0	3.48	1.227	4.64	3.92	101.7	110.8	3.3
1978	37	34	14	15	0	5	3	215	94	63	91	20	206.7	4.09	1.345	3.96	3.93	112.5	86.3	0.4
1979	45	20	6	9	3	5	3	142	57	42	54	9	156.7	3.27	1.174	3.10	3.55	100.1	108.4	1.9
1980	40	14	4	11	1	0	0	130	54	33	50	9	111.3	4.37	1.464	4.04	3.87	111.8	79.2	-0.2
1982	8	3	1	2	0	0	0	21	9	8	15	2	18.3	4.42	1.582	7.36	3.84	105.8	82.1	0.0
1983	17	9	3	6	1	2	1	77	38	26	24	5	60.3	5.67	1.707	3.58	4.38	109.2	70.9	-0.6

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

239

306

260

RBI

.1192

OBP

.1581

SLG

.1500

OPS

.3081

Pitching

G (P)

238

144

SHO

1,018

SO (P)

489

BB allowed

309

ERA

3.847

WHIP

1.3187

K/9

4.32

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	RBI	BB	TB
1977-07-17	STL @ WSH Gameday	4	2	2	2	1	0	4
1977-05-01	ATL @ STL Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	0	3
1977-05-28	WSH @ STL Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	1	2
1978-06-25	HOU @ SD Gameday	2	0	2	0	0	0	2
1977-08-20	SD @ STL Gameday	3	0	1	1	2	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1977-07-17	STL @ WSH Gameday	8.0	10	6	6	2	8	1
1975-08-15	STL @ ATL Gameday	6.2	3	1	1	1	8	0
1975-09-24	STL @ WSH Gameday	5.1	7	6	4	2	8	1
1975-07-21	STL @ SD Gameday	9.0	7	0	0	1	7	0
1977-06-18	STL @ SD Gameday	4.1	6	4	4	4	7	2

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.