Jim Bibby

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 235 lb

BornOctober 29, 1944 · Franklinton, NC, USA

MLB debutSeptember 4, 1972

Final gameMay 26, 1984

Seasons12 (1972–1984)

St. Louis Cardinals 1972–1973; Texas Rangers 1973–1974; Cleveland Indians 1975; Texas Rangers 1975; Cleveland Indians 1976–1977; Pittsburgh Pirates 1978–1981; Pittsburgh Pirates 1983; Texas Rangers 1984

Percentile snapshot

1980 season — qualified pitchers

59.1

73.9

89.8

96.6

34.1

SHO

21.6

210

53.4

9.1

144

27.3

238.3

77.3

ERA

3.32

73.9

WHIP

1.250

65.9

K/9

5.44

76.1

FIP

3.81

45.5

FIP-

104.0

31.8

ERA+

110.3

69.3

sWAR

3.6

77.3

of 89 qualified 1980 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

98.7

32.2

sWAR

16.5

91.9

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
1972	6	12	8	0	1	0	0	0	2	3	.125	.300	.125	.425	43.3	26.3	.244	0.5
1973	33	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.333	.000	.333	46.3	1.2	.251	1.9
1974	41	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.1
1975	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
1976	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.2
1977	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.0
1978	34	34	31	1	4	0	1	2	3	9	.129	.206	.226	.432	14.9	19.4	.212	1.3
1979	34	52	45	3	8	1	2	5	0	25	.178	.196	.333	.529	30.3	39.7	.237	3.3
1980	35	95	77	6	12	3	1	7	6	32	.156	.224	.234	.457	23.4	27.3	.222	3.6
1981	14	34	28	4	4	2	1	3	1	11	.143	.200	.321	.521	36.4	44.0	.243	2.4
1983	29	20	18	0	2	0	0	0	0	6	.111	.111	.111	.222	-58.3	-38.5	.104	-2.1
1984	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	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
1972	6	6	1	3	0	0	0	29	15	19	28	4	40.3	3.35	1.190	6.25	3.92	115.0	101.7	0.5
1973	32	26	9	12	1	11	2	140	82	123	167	16	196.3	3.76	1.340	7.66	3.94	105.6	99.4	1.9
1974	41	41	19	19	0	11	5	255	139	113	149	25	264.0	4.74	1.394	5.08	4.06	113.3	75.6	-1.1
1975	36	24	7	15	1	6	1	172	78	78	93	9	181.0	3.88	1.381	4.62	3.50	92.6	97.5	1.6
1976	34	21	13	7	1	4	3	162	58	56	84	6	163.3	3.20	1.335	4.63	3.11	89.1	109.3	2.2
1977	37	30	12	13	2	9	2	197	82	73	141	17	206.7	3.57	1.306	6.14	3.57	89.9	111.1	3.0
1978	34	14	8	7	1	3	2	100	42	39	72	10	107.0	3.53	1.299	6.06	3.64	98.9	104.2	1.3
1979	34	17	12	4	0	4	1	110	43	47	103	9	137.7	2.81	1.140	6.73	3.16	81.7	137.5	3.3
1980	35	34	19	6	0	6	1	210	88	88	144	20	238.3	3.32	1.250	5.44	3.81	104.0	110.3	3.6
1981	14	14	6	3	0	2	2	79	26	26	48	4	93.7	2.50	1.121	4.61	3.10	85.7	144.6	2.4
1983	29	12	5	12	2	0	0	92	58	51	44	10	78.0	6.69	1.833	5.08	5.21	140.8	55.3	-2.1
1984	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	19	8	10	6	1	16.3	4.41	1.776	3.31	4.65	113.3	93.0	0.1

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

341

250

209

RBI

.1483

OBP

.2080

SLG

.2488

OPS

.4568

Pitching

G (P)

340

239

111

101

SHO

274th-most career SHO

1,723

SO (P)

1,079

498th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

723

354th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.756

WHIP

1.3282

K/9

5.64

466th-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	TB
1979-08-27	PIT @ LAD Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	1	5
1981-05-19	ATL @ PIT Gameday	3	1	2	2	0	1	4
1979-07-22	ATL @ PIT Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	2	4
1981-05-24	PHI @ PIT Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	2	4
1978-08-18	HOU @ PIT Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1973-08-30	MIN @ TEX Gameday	10.2	7	5	5	6	15	0
1973-07-13	TEX @ BOS Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	2	13	1
1973-07-30	TEX @ ATH Gameday	9.0	0	0	0	6	13	0
1973-07-18	MIL @ TEX Gameday	9.0	5	3	3	4	11	1
1979-09-28	CHC @ PIT Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	4	11	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.