MLB / Players

Jim Colborn

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 190 lb

BornMay 22, 1946 · Santa Paula, CA, USA

MLB debutJuly 13, 1969

Final gameOctober 1, 1978

Seasons10 (1969–1978)

Chicago Cubs 1969–1971; Milwaukee Brewers 1972–1976; Kansas City Royals 1977–1978; Seattle Mariners 1978

Percentile snapshot

1977 season — qualified pitchers

62.5

83.8

22.5

SHO

21.3

233

27.5

32.5

22.5

103

32.5

38.8

239.0

73.8

ERA

3.62

WHIP

1.314

51.3

K/9

3.88

17.5

FIP

4.26

23.8

FIP-

104.9

ERA+

112.3

67.5

sWAR

3.6

of 81 qualified 1977 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

98.1

30.3

sWAR

13.9

90.3

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	H	3B	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1969	6	3	3	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-138.7	-100.0	.000	0.3
1970	34	17	15	1	0	1	1	11	.067	.125	.067	.192	-63.0	-49.2	.105	1.3
1971	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3
1972	39	40	37	3	1	0	1	17	.081	.105	.135	.240	-51.5	-28.1	.116	1.1
1973	43	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	5.3
1974	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.0
1975	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
1976	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
1977	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.6
1978	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1969	6	2	1	0	0	0	0	15	5	9	4	2	14.7	3.07	1.636	2.45	5.93	149.2	129.5	0.3
1970	34	5	3	1	4	0	0	88	29	23	50	3	72.7	3.59	1.528	6.19	3.00	67.6	123.5	1.3
1971	14	0	0	1	0	0	0	18	8	3	2	1	10.3	6.97	2.032	1.74	4.28	110.7	55.5	-0.3
1972	39	12	7	7	0	4	1	135	51	43	97	14	147.7	3.11	1.205	5.91	3.10	102.4	97.4	1.1
1973	43	36	20	12	1	22	4	297	111	87	135	21	314.3	3.18	1.222	3.87	3.45	91.5	118.6	5.3
1974	33	31	10	13	0	10	1	230	101	60	83	27	224.0	4.06	1.295	3.33	4.28	118.1	89.3	1.0
1975	36	29	11	13	2	8	1	215	98	65	79	18	206.3	4.27	1.357	3.45	3.94	103.1	89.5	0.9
1976	32	32	9	15	0	7	0	232	93	54	101	20	225.7	3.71	1.267	4.03	3.62	103.6	94.2	1.6
1977	36	35	18	14	0	6	1	233	96	81	103	22	239.0	3.62	1.314	3.88	4.26	104.9	112.3	3.6
1978	28	22	4	12	0	3	0	156	83	50	34	25	142.7	5.24	1.444	2.14	5.57	146.1	72.9	-1.0

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

302

RBI

.0727

OBP

.1053

SLG

.1091

OPS

.2144

Pitching

G (P)

301

204

SHO

1,597

SO (P)

688

BB allowed

475

ERA

3.803

WHIP

1.3109

K/9

3.88

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	H	3B	RBI	TB
1972-05-12	MIL @ MIN Gameday	3	1	1	0	3
1970-08-14	LAD @ CHC Gameday	1	1	0	1	1
1972-08-03	MIL @ DET Gameday	4	1	0	0	1
1972-08-13	MIL @ NYY Gameday	3	1	0	0	1
1969-07-13	PHI @ CHC Gameday	2	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1974-09-27	MIL @ BAL Gameday	13.0	8	0	0	6	9	0
1977-04-24	KC @ SEA Gameday	8.0	5	1	1	2	9	1
1972-07-29	DET @ MIL Gameday	9.0	8	3	3	2	7	2
1973-05-26	LAA @ MIL Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	4	7	0
1975-08-15	MIL @ ATH Gameday	9.0	8	4	4	3	7	1

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.