MLB / Players

Eric Show

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb

BornMay 19, 1956 · Riverside, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 2, 1981

Final gameSeptember 30, 1991

Seasons11 (1981–1991)

San Diego Padres 1981–1990; Oakland Athletics 1991

Percentile snapshot

1988 season — qualified pitchers

26.7

44.4

76.7

43.3

94.4

SHO

27.8

201

46.7

68.9

144

64.4

14.4

234.7

75.6

ERA

3.26

WHIP

1.082

87.8

K/9

5.52

47.8

FIP

3.45

62.2

FIP-

101.7

38.9

ERA+

104.2

46.7

sWAR

2.7

52.2

of 91 qualified 1988 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

98.4

31.1

sWAR

15.5

91.3

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1981	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3
1982	47	43	41	2	6	0	0	0	0	14	.146	.146	.146	.293	-28.2	-15.9	.137	2.9
1983	35	71	64	3	11	1	0	2	1	23	.172	.197	.188	.384	2.0	9.2	.184	0.4
1984	32	76	69	7	17	3	3	10	0	23	.246	.257	.420	.677	84.9	88.8	.305	3.2
1985	35	87	79	3	10	0	1	6	0	30	.127	.138	.165	.302	-28.7	-14.9	.140	3.4
1986	24	47	43	2	7	2	0	1	1	14	.163	.182	.209	.391	-0.8	8.9	.182	2.5
1987	34	78	70	5	5	1	0	2	0	28	.071	.070	.086	.156	-75.0	-58.2	.070	1.9
1988	32	87	81	5	12	1	0	4	1	27	.148	.159	.160	.319	-19.5	-7.0	.150	2.7
1989	17	39	34	3	8	1	0	1	1	12	.235	.257	.265	.522	46.7	50.2	.245	0.2
1990	39	26	25	3	5	1	0	2	0	8	.200	.200	.240	.440	10.6	20.7	.200	-1.3
1991	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1981	15	0	1	3	3	0	0	17	8	9	22	2	23.0	3.13	1.130	8.61	3.19	96.7	105.4	0.3
1982	47	14	10	6	3	2	2	117	44	48	88	10	150.0	2.64	1.100	5.28	3.50	101.0	131.3	2.9
1983	35	33	15	12	0	4	2	201	93	74	120	25	200.7	4.17	1.370	5.38	4.29	121.9	84.4	0.4
1984	32	32	15	9	0	3	1	175	78	88	104	18	206.7	3.40	1.273	4.53	4.25	119.2	105.0	3.2
1985	35	35	12	11	0	5	2	212	80	87	141	27	233.0	3.09	1.283	5.45	4.10	115.7	114.7	3.4
1986	24	22	9	5	0	2	0	109	45	69	94	11	136.3	2.97	1.306	6.21	4.02	109.8	123.4	2.5
1987	34	34	8	16	0	5	3	188	88	85	117	26	206.3	3.84	1.323	5.10	4.74	119.3	103.5	1.9
1988	32	32	16	11	0	13	1	201	85	53	144	22	234.7	3.26	1.082	5.52	3.45	101.7	104.2	2.7
1989	16	16	8	6	0	1	0	113	50	39	66	9	106.3	4.23	1.429	5.59	3.68	105.2	82.6	0.2
1990	39	12	6	8	1	0	0	131	68	41	55	16	106.3	5.76	1.618	4.66	5.00	131.1	66.3	-1.3
1991	23	5	1	2	0	0	0	62	34	17	20	5	51.7	5.92	1.529	3.48	4.38	112.9	65.5	-0.7

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

333

554

506

RBI

179

.1601

OBP

.1712

SLG

.2036

OPS

.3748

Pitching

G (P)

332

235

101

SHO

1,655

SO (P)

971

BB allowed

610

ERA

3.660

WHIP

1.2906

K/9

5.28

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
1985-09-27	SD @ ATL Gameday	5	1	2	0	1	4	5
1984-09-06	CIN @ SD Gameday	2	2	2	0	1	2	5
1984-06-24	SD @ CIN Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	4
1984-07-22	SD @ PIT Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	4
1988-06-24	SD @ ATL Gameday	2	0	2	1	0	2	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1986-04-26	SF @ SD Gameday	10.0	6	3	3	2	13	2
1986-05-20	PHI @ SD Gameday	8.1	6	3	3	4	12	0
1985-04-10	SD @ SF Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	0	11	0
1988-09-05	SD @ SF Gameday	9.0	6	4	4	1	9	0
1988-09-27	LAD @ SD Gameday	9.0	6	4	4	3	9	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.