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Jeff Montgomery

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb

BornJanuary 7, 1962 · Wellston, OH, USA

MLB debutAugust 1, 1987

Final gameOctober 2, 1999

Seasons13 (1987–1999)

Cincinnati Reds 1987; Kansas City Royals 1988–1999

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

19.3

93.3

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	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1987	14	2	2	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.0	-100.0	.000	-0.3
1988	45	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.0
1989	63	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.6
1990	73	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.6
1991	67	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.1
1992	65	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.6
1993	69	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.0
1994	42	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.8
1995	54	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.5
1996	48	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.1
1997	55	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.3
1998	56	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4
1999	49	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1987	14	1	2	2	0	25	14	9	13	2	19.3	6.52	1.759	6.05	4.26	101.1	64.7	-0.3
1988	45	0	7	2	1	54	24	30	47	6	62.7	3.45	1.340	6.75	4.10	103.2	115.2	1.0
1989	63	0	7	3	18	66	14	25	94	3	92.0	1.37	.989	9.20	2.11	54.7	281.7	3.6
1990	73	0	6	5	24	81	25	34	94	6	94.3	2.39	1.219	8.97	2.88	74.7	161.7	2.6
1991	67	0	4	4	33	83	29	28	77	6	90.0	2.90	1.233	7.70	3.07	74.5	141.8	2.1
1992	65	0	1	6	39	61	20	27	69	5	82.7	2.18	1.065	7.51	3.00	74.6	184.5	2.6
1993	69	0	7	5	45	65	22	23	66	3	87.3	2.27	1.008	6.80	2.80	62.1	198.5	3.0
1994	42	0	2	3	27	48	20	15	50	5	44.7	4.03	1.410	10.07	3.49	71.1	121.7	0.8
1995	54	0	2	3	31	60	25	25	49	7	65.7	3.43	1.294	6.72	4.27	90.6	137.5	1.5
1996	48	0	4	6	24	59	30	19	45	14	63.3	4.26	1.232	6.39	5.74	115.3	116.9	1.1
1997	55	0	1	4	14	53	23	18	48	9	59.3	3.49	1.197	7.28	4.41	94.6	133.6	1.3
1998	56	0	2	5	36	58	31	22	54	8	56.0	4.98	1.429	8.68	4.44	93.1	95.6	0.4
1999	49	0	1	4	12	72	39	21	27	7	51.3	6.84	1.812	4.73	5.27	106.1	72.6	-0.5

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

700

RBI

.0000

OBP

.0000

SLG

.0000

OPS

.0000

Pitching

G (P)

700

120th-most career G (P)

304

28th-most career SV

SHO

869

SO (P)

733

BB allowed

296

ERA

3.274

WHIP

1.2444

K/9

7.59

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
1987-08-01	SF @ CIN Gameday	0
1987-08-02	SF @ CIN Gameday	0
1987-08-08	CIN @ SF Gameday	0
1987-08-11	CIN @ LAD Gameday	2
1987-08-14	CIN @ SD Gameday	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1990-05-07	KC @ CLE Gameday	4.0	0	1	0	1	5	0
1989-05-05	KC @ MIL Gameday	3.2	1	1	1	0	5	1
1987-08-11	CIN @ LAD Gameday	5.0	8	5	5	3	4	0
1991-06-06	TEX @ KC Gameday	4.0	4	0	0	2	4	0
1989-06-25	NYY @ KC Gameday	3.1	2	0	0	0	4	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

3× 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.