Jim Archer
Kansas City Athletics 1961–1962
Percentile snapshot
1961 season — qualified pitchers
of 67 qualified 1961 pitchers (min 162 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 39 | 72 | 63 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 19 | 0 | 0 | .063 | .091 | .079 | .170 | -73.2 | -54.6 | .084 | 3.8 |
| 1962 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 1.000 | 2.000 | 484.5 | 428.4 | .911 | -1.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 39 | 27 | 9 | 15 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 204 | 73 | 60 | 110 | 11 | 205.3 | 3.20 | 1.286 | 4.82 | 3.08 | 74.1 | 129.9 | 3.8 |
| 1962 | 18 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 29 | 10 | 12 | 8 | 27.7 | 9.43 | 1.807 | 3.90 | 6.49 | 155.2 | 44.3 | -1.3 |
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
Pitching
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 | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961-08-15 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1962-05-16 | ATH @ CLE Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1961-05-30 | ATH @ DET Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1961-07-21 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1961-08-02 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961-05-06 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 6.1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 0 |
| 1961-08-02 | ATH @ NYY Gameday | 8.0 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| 1961-06-19 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
| 1961-07-21 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 0 |
| 1961-09-29 | TEX @ ATH Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 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.