Jim Bunning

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 190 lb

BornOctober 23, 1931 · Southgate, KY, USA

MLB debutJuly 20, 1955

Final gameSeptember 3, 1971

Seasons17 (1955–1971)

Detroit Tigers 1955–1963; Philadelphia Phillies 1964–1967; Pittsburgh Pirates 1968; Los Angeles Dodgers 1969; Pittsburgh Pirates 1969; Philadelphia Phillies 1970–1971

Percentile snapshot

1970 season — qualified pitchers

21.8

39.7

17.9

14.1

SHO

233

37.2

100

34.6

85.9

147

56.4

67.9

219.0

48.7

ERA

4.11

21.8

WHIP

1.320

K/9

6.04

60.3

FIP

3.51

64.1

FIP-

86.8

78.2

ERA+

98.5

33.3

sWAR

1.8

25.6

of 79 qualified 1970 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

114.0

80.3

sWAR

57.3

99.3

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1955	15	17	15	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	-3.0	9.5	.187	-1.0
1956	15	20	18	4	6	2	0	0	1	0	5	0	.333	.333	.444	.778	102.7	105.3	.352	0.9
1957	45	104	94	10	20	2	1	1	4	5	29	0	.213	.253	.287	.540	41.0	46.9	.252	6.5
1958	36	84	75	7	14	2	0	0	3	3	24	0	.187	.218	.213	.431	5.0	16.2	.203	3.4
1959	40	102	89	7	17	0	1	1	7	5	25	0	.191	.234	.247	.481	24.1	29.8	.226	3.0
1960	38	93	81	2	13	1	0	0	4	3	22	2	.160	.188	.173	.361	-14.1	-2.2	.172	5.7
1961	38	104	100	6	13	1	0	0	4	2	30	0	.130	.147	.140	.287	-37.1	-23.0	.135	4.9
1962	43	102	95	9	23	2	1	1	5	1	19	0	.242	.255	.316	.571	44.2	51.5	.256	4.4
1963	41	94	84	4	13	1	1	0	5	4	15	0	.155	.193	.190	.384	-3.2	6.9	.181	2.0
1964	41	109	99	4	12	2	0	0	8	0	29	0	.121	.120	.141	.261	-40.9	-25.8	.118	5.5
1965	39	108	103	6	22	1	0	1	4	1	25	0	.214	.221	.252	.474	27.7	34.7	.216	6.4
1966	43	114	106	10	19	3	0	0	5	3	39	0	.179	.200	.208	.408	5.8	14.2	.188	7.7
1967	40	112	104	8	17	3	0	2	12	1	33	0	.163	.171	.250	.421	7.9	19.0	.192	7.5
1968	27	53	51	0	5	1	0	0	3	0	17	0	.098	.098	.118	.216	-59.6	-34.9	.100	-0.7
1969	34	78	65	3	4	0	0	0	2	3	18	0	.062	.103	.062	.164	-63.4	-52.0	.088	1.1
1970	35	77	71	1	9	0	0	0	6	2	18	0	.127	.149	.127	.275	-35.1	-25.1	.133	1.8
1971	31	30	25	1	3	0	0	1	2	1	9	0	.120	.148	.240	.388	-6.5	9.0	.176	-1.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1955	15	8	3	5	1	0	0	59	36	32	37	8	51.0	6.35	1.784	6.53	5.08	131.0	61.0	-1.0
1956	15	3	5	1	1	0	0	55	22	28	34	6	53.3	3.71	1.556	5.74	4.27	103.5	111.0	0.9
1957	45	30	20	8	1	14	1	214	80	72	182	33	267.3	2.69	1.070	6.13	3.57	93.3	142.2	6.5
1958	35	34	14	12	0	10	3	188	86	79	177	28	219.7	3.52	1.215	7.25	3.70	92.6	113.5	3.4
1959	40	35	17	13	1	14	1	220	108	75	201	37	249.7	3.89	1.182	7.25	3.81	94.4	103.7	3.0
1960	36	34	11	14	0	10	3	217	78	64	201	20	252.0	2.79	1.115	7.18	2.73	69.2	141.7	5.7
1961	38	37	17	11	1	12	4	232	95	71	194	25	268.0	3.19	1.131	6.51	3.16	77.7	127.6	4.9
1962	41	35	19	10	6	12	2	262	103	74	184	28	258.0	3.59	1.302	6.42	3.51	86.5	112.9	4.4
1963	39	35	12	13	1	6	2	245	107	69	196	38	248.3	3.88	1.264	7.10	3.77	100.8	96.3	2.0
1964	41	39	19	8	2	13	5	248	83	46	219	23	284.3	2.63	1.034	6.93	2.90	83.2	132.4	5.5
1965	39	39	19	9	0	15	7	253	84	62	268	23	291.0	2.60	1.082	8.29	2.58	74.3	133.8	6.4
1966	43	41	19	14	1	16	5	260	84	55	252	26	314.0	2.41	1.003	7.22	2.85	79.4	149.0	7.7
1967	40	40	17	15	0	16	6	241	77	73	253	18	302.3	2.29	1.039	7.53	2.61	76.8	148.5	7.5
1968	27	26	4	14	0	3	1	168	69	48	95	14	160.0	3.88	1.350	5.34	3.55	120.1	76.1	-0.7
1969	34	34	13	10	0	5	0	212	87	59	157	15	212.3	3.69	1.276	6.65	3.03	87.6	93.8	1.1
1970	34	33	10	15	0	4	0	233	100	56	147	19	219.0	4.11	1.320	6.04	3.51	86.8	98.5	1.8
1971	29	16	5	12	1	1	0	126	67	37	58	11	110.0	5.48	1.482	4.75	3.96	115.1	62.8	-1.7

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

601

1,401

1,275

213

RBI

362

.1671

OBP

.1884

SLG

.2063

OPS

.3947

Pitching

G (P)

591

256th-most career G (P)

519

44th-most career GS

224

72nd-most career W

184

63rd-most career L

151

225th-most career CG

SHO

44th-most career SHO

3,760

54th-most career IP

SO (P)

2,855

22nd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,000

118th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.269

296th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1789

120th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

6.83

231st-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	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1959-05-18	DET @ BOS Gameday	4	2	4	0	1	1	5	9
1962-08-26	TEX @ DET Gameday	3	0	3	1	0	0	0	4
1957-09-06	CLE @ DET Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	0	1	4
1958-04-15	DET @ CWS Gameday	4	2	2	2	0	0	0	4
1971-05-17	PHI @ CIN Gameday	2	1	1	0	0	1	2	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1958-06-20	NYY @ DET Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	2	14	1
1966-06-07	CIN @ PHI Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	0	14	1
1960-05-06	DET @ BOS Gameday	8.2	11	3	1	2	13	0
1960-06-14	BOS @ DET Gameday	7.0	4	1	1	3	13	1
1967-07-21	CIN @ PHI Gameday	7.0	6	2	2	0	13	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

Hall of Fame, 1996 (Veterans)

7× 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.