Jeff Russell

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 200 lb

BornSeptember 2, 1961 · Cincinnati, OH, USA

MLB debutAugust 13, 1983

Final gameSeptember 27, 1996

Seasons14 (1983–1996)

Cincinnati Reds 1983–1984; Texas Rangers 1985–1991; Oakland Athletics 1992; Texas Rangers 1992; Boston Red Sox 1993–1994; Cleveland Indians 1994; Texas Rangers 1995–1996

Percentile snapshot

1988 season — qualified pitchers

53.3

7.8

22.2

66.7

46.7

SHO

183

58.9

42.2

18.9

54.4

188.7

23.3

ERA

3.82

32.2

WHIP

1.320

27.8

K/9

4.20

24.4

FIP

4.08

22.2

FIP-

100.3

42.2

ERA+

106.6

55.6

sWAR

2.4

45.6

of 91 qualified 1988 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

110.9

74.1

sWAR

16.0

91.6

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1983	10	24	21	1	3	1	1	3	1	6	.143	.182	.333	.515	28.7	37.9	.233	1.4
1984	34	67	57	2	8	2	0	7	4	27	.140	.194	.175	.369	-5.2	2.7	.182	0.7
1985	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.7
1986	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
1987	52	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.0
1988	35	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.0	-100.0	.000	2.4
1989	71	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.4
1990	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2
1991	68	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.5
1992	59	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.4
1993	51	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.4
1994	42	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3
1995	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
1996	55	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1983	10	10	4	5	0	2	0	58	23	22	40	7	68.3	3.03	1.171	5.27	3.80	100.9	124.4	1.4
1984	33	30	6	18	0	4	2	186	86	65	101	15	181.7	4.26	1.382	5.00	3.89	104.0	87.8	0.7
1985	13	13	3	6	0	0	0	85	52	27	44	10	62.0	7.55	1.806	6.39	4.82	115.2	55.5	-1.7
1986	37	0	5	2	2	0	0	74	31	31	54	11	82.0	3.40	1.280	5.93	4.39	102.8	125.5	1.6
1987	52	2	5	4	3	0	0	109	48	52	56	9	97.3	4.44	1.654	5.18	4.59	102.4	101.0	1.0
1988	34	24	10	9	0	5	0	183	80	66	88	15	188.7	3.82	1.320	4.20	4.08	100.3	106.6	2.4
1989	71	0	6	4	38	0	0	45	16	24	77	4	72.7	1.98	.950	9.54	2.56	64.9	199.2	2.4
1990	27	0	1	5	10	0	0	23	12	16	16	1	25.3	4.26	1.539	5.68	3.95	100.7	92.1	0.2
1991	68	0	6	4	30	0	0	71	29	26	52	11	79.3	3.29	1.223	5.90	4.42	109.2	123.1	1.5
1992	59	0	4	3	30	0	0	55	12	25	48	3	66.3	1.63	1.206	6.51	3.15	82.1	235.6	2.4
1993	51	0	1	4	33	0	0	39	14	14	45	1	46.7	2.70	1.136	8.68	2.32	50.8	168.8	1.4
1994	42	0	1	6	17	0	0	43	23	16	28	5	40.7	5.09	1.451	6.20	4.67	96.0	95.6	0.3
1995	37	0	1	0	20	0	0	36	11	9	21	3	32.7	3.03	1.378	5.79	3.88	80.3	159.2	0.9
1996	55	0	3	3	3	0	0	58	21	22	23	5	56.0	3.38	1.429	3.70	4.98	96.1	153.6	1.6

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

591

RBI

.1392

OBP

.1882

SLG

.2152

OPS

.4034

Pitching

G (P)

589

261st-most career G (P)

186

64th-most career SV

SHO

1,100

SO (P)

693

BB allowed

415

ERA

3.748

WHIP

1.3459

K/9

5.67

456th-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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1983-08-23	CIN @ CHC Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	2	0	4
1984-04-09	WSH @ CIN Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	0	0	2
1984-08-19	CHC @ CIN Gameday	2	1	1	1	0	3	0	2
1983-08-13	SD @ CIN Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	1	1	2
1984-06-01	ATL @ CIN Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	1	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1984-09-03	CIN @ SF Gameday	8.1	8	4	4	2	10
1988-06-15	TEX @ LAA Gameday	10.0	8	3	3	1	8
1984-09-28	HOU @ CIN Gameday	8.0	7	3	2	3	8
1985-09-30	ATH @ TEX Gameday	8.0	6	3	3	3	8
1983-10-02	CIN @ HOU Gameday	7.0	6	3	2	2	8

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

2× 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.