MLB / Players

Jim Dorsey

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 2 in · 190 lb
BornAugust 2, 1955 · Chicago, IL, USA
MLB debutSeptember 2, 1980
Final gameJuly 7, 1985
Seasons3 (1980–1985)

California Angels 1980; Boston Red Sox 1984–1985

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
-1.8
1.8

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19804000000000000-0.8
19842000000000000-0.2
19852000000000000-0.9

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19804412000251688215.79.192.1064.605.12130.042.8-0.8
19842000000632402.710.133.00013.502.0048.241.0-0.2
19852101000121210225.320.254.1253.3812.49292.621.1-0.9

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

G
8
PA
0
AB
0
R
0
H
0
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
0
SO
0
SB
0

Pitching

G (P)
8
GS
5
W
1
L
3
SV
0
CG
0
SHO
0
IP
24
SO (P)
14
BB allowed
20
ERA
11.789
WHIP
2.6620
K/9
5.32

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

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1980-09-20LAA @ TEX Gameday3.2733031
1980-09-07LAA @ NYY Gameday3.1233431
1984-09-20BOS @ BAL Gameday1.2533130
1980-09-12TEX @ LAA Gameday5.01044220
1985-07-07BOS @ LAA Gameday3.2666812

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.