MLB / Players

Jim Bouton

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb

BornMarch 8, 1939 · Newark, NJ, USA

MLB debutApril 22, 1962

Final gameSeptember 29, 1978

Seasons10 (1962–1978)

New York Yankees 1962–1968; Houston Astros 1969; Seattle Pilots 1969; Houston Astros 1970; Atlanta Braves 1978

Percentile snapshot

1964 season — qualified pitchers

59.7

76.1

28.4

56.7

SHO

77.6

227

26.9

37.3

44.8

125

41.8

271.3

89.6

ERA

3.02

68.7

WHIP

1.058

88.1

K/9

4.15

11.9

FIP

3.80

38.8

FIP-

104.9

38.8

ERA+

120.0

68.7

sWAR

4.3

77.6

of 68 qualified 1964 pitchers (min 164 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

99.0

33.6

sWAR

10.2

87.1

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1962	38	40	32	0	2	0	1	3	10	.063	.139	.063	.201	-46.4	-42.0	.112	0.8
1963	40	95	83	0	6	1	5	1	33	.072	.083	.084	.168	-70.9	-52.1	.078	4.9
1964	38	108	100	3	13	2	7	1	44	.130	.139	.150	.289	-37.4	-19.4	.132	4.3
1965	31	51	43	1	4	0	2	5	24	.093	.204	.093	.297	-9.3	-11.6	.166	-1.2
1966	24	42	38	1	4	0	4	1	23	.105	.128	.105	.233	-44.0	-30.7	.112	2.0
1967	17	9	7	0	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.125	.000	.125	-59.1	-59.3	.093	-0.5
1968	12	8	7	0	0	0	0	1	4	.000	.125	.000	.125	-63.9	-58.7	.093	-0.1
1969	73	13	13	0	0	0	0	0	10	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.1	-100.0	.000	0.5
1970	29	20	17	3	6	0	2	1	6	.353	.421	.353	.774	124.0	114.3	.371	-0.3
1978	5	8	7	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.125	.000	.125	-62.6	-61.8	.094	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1962	36	16	7	7	2	3	1	124	59	59	71	9	133.0	3.99	1.376	4.80	3.66	96.4	95.0	0.8
1963	40	30	21	7	1	12	6	191	70	87	148	18	249.3	2.53	1.115	5.34	3.29	93.1	140.0	4.9
1964	38	37	18	13	0	11	4	227	91	60	125	32	271.3	3.02	1.058	4.15	3.80	104.9	120.0	4.3
1965	30	25	4	15	0	2	0	158	81	60	97	23	151.3	4.82	1.441	5.77	4.38	128.3	70.9	-1.2
1966	24	19	3	8	1	3	0	117	36	38	65	13	120.3	2.69	1.288	4.86	3.73	112.1	123.6	2.0
1967	17	1	1	0	0	0	0	47	23	18	31	5	44.3	4.67	1.466	6.29	3.77	120.7	66.9	-0.5
1968	12	3	1	1	0	1	0	49	18	9	24	5	44.0	3.68	1.318	4.91	3.36	116.3	78.5	-0.1
1969	73	2	2	3	2	1	0	109	54	50	100	13	122.7	3.96	1.296	7.34	3.50	97.0	91.0	0.5
1970	29	6	4	6	0	1	0	84	44	33	49	5	73.3	5.40	1.595	6.01	3.79	97.0	72.4	-0.3
1978	5	5	1	3	0	0	0	25	16	21	10	4	29.0	4.97	1.586	3.10	5.90	167.1	71.1	-0.3

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

307

394

347

RBI

160

.1009

OBP

.1425

SLG

.1095

OPS

.2520

Pitching

G (P)

304

144

SHO

1,239

SO (P)

720

BB allowed

435

ERA

3.575

WHIP

1.2643

405th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

5.23

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	RBI	BB	TB
1970-04-11	ATL @ HOU Gameday	3	1	3	0	1	1	3
1964-06-11	NYY @ BOS Gameday	4	1	2	1	2	0	3
1964-09-30	DET @ NYY Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	0	2
1963-06-01	NYY @ CLE Gameday	4	0	1	1	4	0	2
1964-07-21	TEX @ NYY Gameday	4	0	1	1	2	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1969-08-29	PIT @ HOU Gameday	10.0	9	4	2	4	11	0
1963-09-13	NYY @ MIN Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	3	11	0
1963-07-26	MIN @ NYY Gameday	8.1	8	5	5	2	10	2
1962-08-01	NYY @ TEX Gameday	9.0	7	4	4	2	9	1
1963-07-21	CLE @ NYY Gameday	7.0	4	3	2	4	9	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.