MLB / Players

Jack Armstrong

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 220 lb

BornMarch 7, 1965 · Englewood, NJ, USA

MLB debutJune 21, 1988

Final gameApril 17, 1994

Seasons7 (1988–1994)

Cincinnati Reds 1988–1991; Cleveland Indians 1992; Florida Marlins 1993; Texas Rangers 1994

Percentile snapshot

1993 season — qualified pitchers

8.1

2.3

SHO

210

39.5

19.8

23.3

118

4.7

196.3

39.5

ERA

4.49

20.9

WHIP

1.467

16.3

K/9

5.41

FIP

4.99

5.8

FIP-

119.2

ERA+

93.2

25.6

sWAR

1.1

19.8

of 87 qualified 1993 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

0.9

62.5

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
1988	14	22	21	0	2	0	0	0	10	.095	.095	.095	.190	-68.3	-45.8	.089	-1.3
1989	10	12	8	0	0	0	0	1	5	.000	.111	.000	.111	-70.1	-65.8	.083	-0.2
1990	29	62	47	2	5	0	3	0	21	.106	.143	.106	.249	-43.9	-31.1	.125	2.5
1991	27	49	43	3	4	1	2	1	18	.093	.114	.116	.230	-51.7	-35.8	.110	-1.7
1992	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2
1993	36	70	66	3	10	1	3	0	29	.152	.152	.167	.318	-30.0	-16.0	.144	1.1
1994	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1988	14	13	4	7	0	0	63	42	38	45	8	65.3	5.79	1.546	6.20	4.67	130.8	61.6	-1.3
1989	9	8	2	3	0	0	40	22	21	23	5	42.7	4.64	1.430	4.85	4.58	127.9	77.2	-0.2
1990	29	27	12	9	2	1	151	63	59	110	9	166.0	3.42	1.265	5.96	3.36	85.7	114.9	2.5
1991	27	24	7	13	1	0	158	85	54	93	25	139.7	5.48	1.518	5.99	4.99	131.8	69.1	-1.7
1992	35	23	6	15	1	0	176	86	67	114	23	166.7	4.64	1.458	6.16	4.48	115.0	83.8	0.2
1993	36	33	9	17	0	0	210	98	78	118	29	196.3	4.49	1.467	5.41	4.99	119.2	93.2	1.1
1994	2	2	0	1	0	0	9	4	2	7	3	10.0	3.60	1.100	6.30	6.30	132.3	132.2	0.2

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

153

215

185

RBI

.1135

OBP

.1323

SLG

.1243

OPS

.2566

Pitching

G (P)

152

130

SHO

787

SO (P)

510

BB allowed

319

ERA

4.576

WHIP

1.4314

K/9

5.83

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
1993-05-23	CHC @ MIA Gameday	3	1	2	0	2	2
1990-06-25	SF @ CIN Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	2
1993-05-08	MIA @ NYM Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	2
1991-10-05	CIN @ SD Gameday	2	1	1	1	1	2
1993-07-22	CIN @ MIA Gameday	1	0	1	1	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1993-04-11	SD @ MIA Gameday	7.0	9	4	4	1	10	0
1992-06-26	TOR @ CLE Gameday	8.0	8	5	5	4	9	3
1992-06-21	CLE @ MIL Gameday	7.2	6	4	3	2	9	0
1992-09-02	CLE @ LAA Gameday	7.0	9	2	2	1	9	0
1990-06-10	CIN @ HOU Gameday	6.1	6	4	2	2	9	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.