Jim Kern

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 185 lb

BornMarch 15, 1949 · Gladwin, MI, USA

MLB debutSeptember 6, 1974

Final gameMay 30, 1986

Seasons13 (1974–1986)

Cleveland Indians 1974–1978; Texas Rangers 1979–1981; Chicago White Sox 1982; Cincinnati Reds 1982; Chicago White Sox 1983; Milwaukee Brewers 1984; Philadelphia Phillies 1984; Milwaukee Brewers 1985; Cleveland Indians 1986

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

12.5

89.3

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	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1974	4	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1975	13	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.7
1976	50	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.8
1977	60	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.5
1978	58	1	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.5	-100.0	.000	1.8
1979	71	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	5.6
1980	38	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1981	23	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.6
1982	63	8	7	1	5	.000	.125	.000	.125	-63.1	-62.3	.094	1.4
1983	1	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1984	14	1	1	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.8	-100.0	.000	-0.7
1985	5	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
1986	16	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.9

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1974	4	3	0	1	0	1	16	8	14	11	1	15.3	4.70	1.957	6.46	4.72	130.4	77.2	0.0
1975	13	7	1	2	0	0	60	30	45	55	5	71.7	3.77	1.465	6.91	4.02	106.1	100.6	0.7
1976	50	2	10	7	15	0	91	31	50	111	2	117.7	2.37	1.198	8.49	2.35	67.4	147.4	2.8
1977	60	0	8	10	18	0	85	35	47	91	3	92.0	3.42	1.435	8.90	2.92	73.5	115.9	1.5
1978	58	0	10	10	13	0	77	34	58	95	4	99.3	3.08	1.359	8.61	3.01	79.9	122.0	1.8
1979	71	0	13	5	29	0	99	25	62	136	5	143.0	1.57	1.126	8.56	2.66	63.7	265.4	5.6
1980	38	1	3	11	2	0	65	34	45	40	4	63.3	4.83	1.737	5.68	4.54	114.8	81.9	0.0
1981	23	0	1	2	6	0	21	9	22	20	0	30.0	2.70	1.433	6.00	3.51	99.5	130.5	0.6
1982	63	1	5	6	5	0	81	40	60	66	6	104.0	3.46	1.356	5.71	4.00	106.3	109.2	1.4
1983	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0.7	0.00	1.500	0.00	2.83	67.9	—	0.0
1984	14	0	1	1	0	0	26	15	13	12	3	18.0	7.50	2.167	6.00	5.78	157.6	49.3	-0.7
1985	5	0	0	1	0	0	14	8	5	3	1	11.0	6.55	1.727	2.45	4.74	114.5	63.3	-0.2
1986	16	0	1	1	0	0	34	24	23	11	1	27.3	7.90	2.085	3.62	5.32	127.4	52.8	-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

416

RBI

.0000

OBP

.1000

SLG

.0000

OPS

.1000

Pitching

G (P)

416

206th-most career SV

SHO

793

SO (P)

651

BB allowed

444

ERA

3.324

WHIP

1.4042

K/9

7.39

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
1978-07-01	CLE @ TOR Gameday	0
1978-07-28	ATH @ CLE Gameday	1
1978-08-22	CLE @ MIL Gameday	0
1979-08-08	TEX @ DET Gameday	0
1982-04-05	CHC @ CIN Gameday	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1975-05-16	CLE @ CWS Gameday	8.0	3	1	1	6	9	0
1979-07-04	BAL @ TEX Gameday	4.0	2	0	0	3	9	0
1975-05-11	CWS @ CLE Gameday	9.0	8	2	2	7	8	0
1975-06-24	CLE @ BOS Gameday	7.1	9	6	5	3	7	1
1976-05-13	BOS @ CLE Gameday	5.0	6	4	4	2	7	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

3× 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.