Fred Norman

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 155 lb

BornAugust 20, 1942 · San Antonio, TX, USA

MLB debutSeptember 21, 1962

Final gameSeptember 25, 1980

Seasons16 (1962–1980)

Kansas City Athletics 1962–1963; Chicago Cubs 1964; Chicago Cubs 1966–1967; Los Angeles Dodgers 1970; St. Louis Cardinals 1970; San Diego Padres 1971; St. Louis Cardinals 1971; San Diego Padres 1972; Cincinnati Reds 1973; San Diego Padres 1973; Cincinnati Reds 1974–1979; Montreal Expos 1980

Percentile snapshot

1979 season — qualified pitchers

48.2

44.7

24.7

22.4

21.2

SHO

193

72.9

71.8

32.9

195.3

31.8

ERA

3.64

54.1

WHIP

1.280

56.5

K/9

4.38

42.4

FIP

3.53

77.6

FIP-

94.1

ERA+

103.0

36.5

sWAR

2.2

30.6

of 86 qualified 1979 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

98.7

32.1

sWAR

16.7

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
1962	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
1963	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-135.7	-100.0	.000	-0.5
1964	8	11	11	1	1	0	0	0	5	.091	.091	.091	.182	-70.5	-49.4	.083	-0.9
1966	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1967	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
1970	31	11	7	1	1	0	0	2	4	.143	.333	.143	.476	59.0	36.4	.270	-0.2
1971	29	44	38	1	9	1	0	3	12	.237	.293	.263	.556	64.5	63.0	.269	1.1
1972	43	77	64	5	8	1	3	8	14	.125	.222	.141	.363	10.2	8.3	.193	1.7
1973	36	91	80	4	6	0	2	4	22	.075	.119	.075	.194	-51.4	-43.4	.102	1.6
1974	35	70	61	3	8	0	6	2	20	.131	.159	.131	.290	-26.7	-16.9	.144	2.5
1975	34	72	60	3	7	1	4	3	19	.117	.159	.133	.292	-29.9	-18.1	.147	1.5
1976	33	59	50	1	7	0	1	1	9	.140	.154	.140	.294	-31.8	-16.3	.141	2.6
1977	35	84	73	4	8	1	2	5	26	.110	.167	.123	.290	-28.5	-20.9	.147	3.4
1978	36	61	50	3	7	0	3	3	19	.140	.189	.140	.329	-13.7	-6.3	.166	1.4
1979	34	71	59	2	9	0	6	6	22	.153	.231	.153	.383	6.8	7.1	.198	2.2
1980	48	22	20	1	1	0	0	0	4	.050	.050	.050	.100	-96.3	-71.8	.047	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1962	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	1	2	0	4.0	2.25	1.250	4.50	2.26	54.1	185.8	0.1
1963	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	9	8	7	6	1	6.3	11.37	2.526	8.53	5.93	153.5	34.0	-0.5
1964	8	5	0	4	0	0	0	34	23	21	20	9	31.7	6.54	1.737	5.68	7.27	197.8	56.2	-0.9
1966	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	2	2	6	0	4.0	4.50	1.750	13.50	1.17	31.8	81.8	0.0
1967	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	1.0	0.00	.000	27.00	-3.34	-94.7	—	0.1
1970	31	0	2	0	1	0	0	66	36	33	47	8	63.0	5.14	1.571	6.71	4.67	121.0	75.1	-0.2
1971	24	18	3	12	0	5	0	121	52	63	81	8	131.0	3.57	1.405	5.56	3.59	108.0	92.6	1.1
1972	42	28	9	11	2	10	6	195	81	88	167	18	211.7	3.44	1.337	7.10	3.33	101.4	95.4	1.7
1973	36	35	13	13	0	8	3	208	96	101	161	27	240.3	3.60	1.286	6.03	3.96	113.6	96.9	1.6
1974	35	26	13	12	0	8	2	170	65	68	141	15	186.3	3.14	1.277	6.81	3.25	91.7	112.8	2.5
1975	34	26	12	4	0	2	0	163	78	84	119	23	188.0	3.73	1.314	5.70	4.28	117.4	97.7	1.5
1976	33	24	12	7	0	8	3	153	62	70	126	10	180.3	3.09	1.237	6.29	3.19	89.9	114.6	2.6
1977	35	34	14	13	0	8	1	200	83	98	160	28	221.3	3.38	1.346	6.51	4.30	108.6	117.3	3.4
1978	36	31	11	9	1	0	0	173	73	82	111	19	177.3	3.70	1.438	5.63	4.20	117.7	96.4	1.4
1979	34	31	11	13	0	5	0	193	79	57	95	14	195.3	3.64	1.280	4.38	3.53	94.1	103.0	2.2
1980	48	8	4	4	4	2	0	96	45	40	58	8	98.0	4.13	1.388	5.33	3.94	109.9	86.7	0.1

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

409

674

574

RBI

177

.1254

OBP

.1781

SLG

.1324

OPS

.3105

Pitching

G (P)

403

268

465th-most career GS

104

103

SHO

396th-most career SHO

1,940

486th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,303

326th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

815

242nd-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.638

WHIP

1.3430

K/9

6.05

362nd-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	RBI	TB
1978-04-18	CIN @ LAD Gameday	3	1	3	1	3
1975-08-15	PIT @ CIN Gameday	4	0	2	2	2
1979-07-19	CIN @ STL Gameday	4	0	2	2	2
1974-09-09	SD @ CIN Gameday	2	1	2	1	2
1971-08-08	SD @ HOU Gameday	3	0	2	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1972-09-15	SD @ CIN Gameday	9.0	7	0	0	5	15	0
1974-05-07	STL @ CIN Gameday	9.0	6	1	0	1	13	0
1972-09-07	CIN @ SD Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	3	11	1
1976-08-21	CHC @ CIN Gameday	8.0	5	3	1	2	11	0
1976-08-16	ATL @ CIN Gameday	8.0	5	4	2	5	10	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.