Floyd Bannister

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 190 lb

BornJune 10, 1955 · Pierre, SD, USA

MLB debutApril 19, 1977

Final gameAugust 10, 1992

Seasons15 (1977–1992)

Houston Astros 1977–1978; Seattle Mariners 1979–1982; Chicago White Sox 1983–1987; Kansas City Royals 1988–1989; California Angels 1991; Texas Rangers 1992

Percentile snapshot

1988 season — qualified pitchers

17.8

33.3

32.2

24.4

SHO

182

74.4

28.9

38.9

113

33.3

14.4

189.3

24.4

ERA

4.33

8.9

WHIP

1.320

27.8

K/9

5.37

42.2

FIP

4.30

11.1

FIP-

108.1

17.8

ERA+

91.8

18.9

sWAR

1.1

16.7

of 91 qualified 1988 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

101.0

42.5

sWAR

24.3

95.1

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
1977	24	55	48	4	9	0	1	1	14	.188	.204	.188	.392	5.1	10.6	.184	0.7
1978	28	37	31	2	5	1	0	1	12	.161	.188	.194	.381	3.9	11.0	.182	-0.9
1979	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.4
1980	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.7
1981	21	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2
1982	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.6
1983	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.2
1984	34	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.7	-100.0	.000	0.3
1985	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.6
1986	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.0
1987	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.7
1988	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.1
1989	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1991	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3
1992	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1977	24	23	8	9	4	1	138	64	68	112	11	142.7	4.04	1.444	7.07	3.68	101.8	89.5	0.7
1978	28	16	3	9	2	2	120	59	63	94	13	110.3	4.81	1.659	7.67	4.19	125.7	69.3	-0.9
1979	30	30	10	15	6	2	185	82	68	115	25	182.3	4.05	1.388	5.68	4.47	103.0	107.3	2.4
1980	32	32	9	13	8	0	200	84	66	155	24	217.7	3.47	1.222	6.41	3.71	90.1	118.4	3.7
1981	21	20	9	9	5	2	128	60	39	85	14	121.3	4.45	1.376	6.30	3.68	96.5	85.6	0.2
1982	35	35	12	13	5	3	225	94	77	209	32	247.0	3.43	1.223	7.62	3.65	87.0	122.5	4.6
1983	34	34	16	10	5	2	191	81	71	193	19	217.3	3.35	1.206	7.99	3.19	76.7	124.1	4.2
1984	34	33	14	11	4	0	211	117	80	152	30	218.0	4.83	1.335	6.28	4.33	105.1	85.2	0.3
1985	34	34	10	14	4	1	211	114	100	198	30	210.7	4.87	1.476	8.46	4.19	98.4	87.5	0.6
1986	28	27	10	14	6	1	162	65	48	92	17	165.3	3.54	1.270	5.01	3.92	91.8	120.8	3.0
1987	34	34	16	11	11	2	216	91	49	124	38	228.7	3.58	1.159	4.88	4.59	100.9	127.1	4.7
1988	31	31	12	13	2	0	182	91	68	113	22	189.3	4.33	1.320	5.37	4.30	108.1	91.8	1.1
1989	14	14	4	1	0	0	87	39	18	35	8	75.3	4.66	1.394	4.18	4.06	105.2	82.8	0.0
1991	16	0	0	0	0	0	25	11	10	16	5	25.0	3.96	1.400	5.76	5.43	133.2	102.9	0.3
1992	36	0	1	1	0	0	39	26	21	30	3	37.0	6.32	1.622	7.30	4.17	108.4	60.8	-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

431

RBI

.1750

OBP

.1951

SLG

.1875

OPS

.3826

Pitching

G (P)

431

363

197th-most career GS

134

343rd-most career W

143

195th-most career L

SHO

354th-most career SHO

2,388

285th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,723

150th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

846

210th-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.063

WHIP

1.3258

K/9

6.49

285th-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	RBI	TB
1978-07-16	HOU @ WSH Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	2
1977-04-23	SD @ HOU Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1
1977-06-02	HOU @ CIN Gameday	2	0	1	0	0	1
1977-06-07	HOU @ PHI Gameday	2	0	1	0	0	1
1977-06-12	NYM @ HOU Gameday	2	0	1	0	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1983-09-16	SEA @ CWS Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	2	12	0
1980-09-22	KC @ SEA Gameday	10.0	6	4	3	3	11	2
1980-05-25	CWS @ SEA Gameday	9.0	6	3	2	2	11	0
1984-08-03	CWS @ MIL Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	0	11	0
1985-05-12	DET @ CWS Gameday	9.0	7	0	0	1	11	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.

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.