Greg Swindell

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 225 lb

BornJanuary 2, 1965 · Fort Worth, TX, USA

MLB debutAugust 21, 1986

Final gameSeptember 23, 2002

Seasons17 (1986–2002)

Cleveland Indians 1986–1991; Cincinnati Reds 1992; Houston Astros 1993–1995; Cleveland Indians 1996; Houston Astros 1996; Minnesota Twins 1997; Boston Red Sox 1998; Minnesota Twins 1998; Arizona Diamondbacks 1999–2002

Percentile snapshot

1995 season — qualified pitchers

90.5

10.8

21.6

9.5

SHO

37.8

180

56.8

62.2

93.2

12.2

153.0

5.4

ERA

4.47

31.1

WHIP

1.431

28.4

K/9

5.65

FIP

4.40

31.1

FIP-

111.7

6.8

ERA+

88.1

6.8

sWAR

0.9

10.8

of 75 qualified 1995 pitchers (min 144 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

106.9

64.3

sWAR

29.4

96.4

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
1986	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.6
1987	16	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4
1988	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.9
1989	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.1
1990	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
1991	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.1
1992	31	87	80	2	10	2	4	1	15	.125	.134	.150	.284	-42.4	-20.5	.132	4.4
1993	31	70	60	3	11	1	4	0	16	.183	.183	.200	.383	-3.5	4.8	.174	1.3
1994	24	56	44	1	11	3	0	0	14	.250	.250	.318	.568	46.0	51.1	.252	1.1
1995	34	59	50	4	12	3	5	3	9	.240	.283	.300	.583	59.4	59.2	.269	0.9
1996	21	6	6	0	2	1	0	0	1	.333	.333	.500	.833	123.4	124.1	.365	-0.9
1997	65	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.4
1998	81	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.0
1999	63	6	4	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-124.2	-100.0	.000	2.0
2000	64	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-124.4	-100.0	.000	1.9
2001	64	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.5
2002	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1986	9	9	5	2	0	1	0	57	29	15	46	9	61.7	4.23	1.168	6.71	3.98	95.3	98.6	0.6
1987	16	15	3	8	0	4	1	112	58	37	97	18	102.3	5.10	1.456	8.53	4.38	96.7	88.8	0.4
1988	33	33	18	14	0	12	4	234	86	45	180	18	242.0	3.20	1.153	6.69	2.87	70.3	127.7	4.9
1989	28	28	13	6	0	5	2	170	69	51	129	16	184.3	3.37	1.199	6.30	3.41	86.5	117.1	3.1
1990	34	34	12	9	0	3	0	245	105	47	135	27	214.7	4.40	1.360	5.66	3.86	98.6	88.8	0.9
1991	33	33	9	16	0	7	0	241	92	31	169	21	238.0	3.48	1.143	6.39	3.07	74.1	118.9	4.1
1992	31	30	12	8	0	5	3	210	64	41	138	14	213.7	2.70	1.175	5.81	2.94	81.4	133.9	4.4
1993	31	30	12	13	0	1	1	215	88	40	124	24	190.3	4.16	1.340	5.86	3.96	101.4	93.8	1.3
1994	24	24	8	9	0	1	0	175	72	26	74	20	148.3	4.37	1.355	4.49	4.37	108.9	91.8	1.1
1995	33	26	10	9	0	1	1	180	76	39	96	21	153.0	4.47	1.431	5.65	4.40	111.7	88.1	0.9
1996	21	6	1	4	0	0	0	66	41	19	36	13	51.7	7.14	1.645	6.27	6.22	139.9	62.9	-0.9
1997	65	1	7	4	1	0	0	102	46	25	75	12	115.7	3.58	1.098	5.84	3.90	84.1	129.5	2.4
1998	81	0	5	6	2	0	0	92	36	31	63	13	90.3	3.59	1.362	6.28	4.83	102.6	131.2	2.0
1999	63	0	4	0	1	0	0	54	18	21	51	8	64.7	2.51	1.160	7.10	4.13	90.0	183.1	2.0
2000	64	0	2	6	1	0	0	71	27	20	64	7	76.0	3.20	1.197	7.58	3.40	72.2	147.1	1.9
2001	64	0	2	6	2	0	0	51	27	8	42	12	53.7	4.53	1.099	7.04	4.80	105.3	100.6	0.5
2002	34	0	0	2	0	0	0	38	23	5	23	9	33.0	6.27	1.303	6.27	5.48	125.3	69.7	-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

665

286

245

RBI

.1878

OBP

.2000

SLG

.2286

OPS

.4286

Pitching

G (P)

664

162nd-most career G (P)

269

461st-most career GS

123

424th-most career W

122

324th-most career L

SHO

2,233

335th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,542

218th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

501

ERA

3.857

WHIP

1.2600

385th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

6.21

331st-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
1994-04-24	HOU @ STL Gameday	2	1	2	2	0	4
1992-05-23	CIN @ PHI Gameday	4	0	2	1	2	3
1993-04-16	MIA @ HOU Gameday	4	1	2	1	1	3
1992-05-12	CIN @ STL Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	3
1996-04-02	LAD @ HOU Gameday	2	0	2	1	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1987-05-10	KC @ CLE Gameday	9.0	11	2	2	2	15	0
1991-04-24	KC @ CLE Gameday	8.0	4	1	1	0	12	0
1989-07-15	TEX @ CLE Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	1	10	0
1993-10-01	HOU @ CIN Gameday	9.0	8	0	0	1	10	0
1987-05-05	CLE @ TEX Gameday	8.1	5	2	2	2	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.

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.