MLB / Players

Jeff Newman

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 215 lb

BornSeptember 11, 1948 · Fort Worth, TX, USA

MLB debutJune 30, 1976

Final gameSeptember 7, 1984

Seasons9 (1976–1984)

Oakland Athletics 1976–1982; Boston Red Sox 1983–1984

Percentile snapshot

1979 season — qualified batters

143

30.2

552

23.7

516

36.7

7.2

119

5.8

11.5

22.3

74.8

RBI

48.2

9.4

20.1

12.2

88.5

.231

2.2

OBP

.267

1.4

SLG

.399

34.5

OPS

.666

11.5

wRC+

77.9

9.4

OPS+

81.8

11.5

wOBA

.294

5.8

sWAR

0.6

10.1

of 140 qualified 1979 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

1.8

69.2

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1976	43	86	77	5	15	4	0	0	4	4	12	0	0	.195	.235	.247	.481	40.8	44.5	.232	0.1
1977	94	172	162	17	36	9	0	4	15	4	24	2	0	.222	.244	.352	.596	55.1	61.9	.262	0.5
1978	105	291	268	25	64	7	1	9	32	18	40	0	3	.239	.288	.373	.661	85.6	89.0	.300	0.7
1979	143	552	516	53	119	17	2	22	71	27	88	2	1	.231	.267	.399	.666	77.9	81.8	.294	0.6
1980	127	474	438	37	102	19	1	15	56	25	81	3	4	.233	.273	.384	.656	76.5	84.1	.288	0.1
1981	68	229	216	17	50	12	0	3	15	9	28	0	2	.231	.260	.329	.589	67.4	72.9	.269	0.0
1982	72	268	251	19	50	11	0	6	30	14	49	0	1	.199	.240	.315	.554	48.9	53.9	.249	-0.2
1983	59	147	132	11	25	4	0	3	7	10	31	0	1	.189	.255	.288	.543	41.0	45.6	.249	-0.2
1984	24	71	63	5	14	2	0	1	3	5	16	0	0	.222	.275	.302	.577	55.1	57.3	.267	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
1977	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	1.0	0.00	1.000	0.00	5.74	143.0	—	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

735

2,290

2,123

189

475

RBI

233

116

369

.2237

OBP

.2637

SLG

.3566

OPS

.6203

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

.000

WHIP

1.0000

K/9

0.00

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	HR	RBI	TB
1979-07-19	ATH @ NYY Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	2	9
1979-08-11	ATH @ MIN Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	4	7
1978-05-29	ATH @ MIL Gameday	4	1	3	1	1	2	7
1981-08-24	CLE @ ATH Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	1	7
1977-06-26	KC @ ATH Gameday	4	1	4	2	0	3	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1977-09-14	ATH @ KC Gameday	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	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.