MLB / Players

Jim Lonborg

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 200 lb

BornApril 16, 1942 · Santa Maria, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 23, 1965

Final gameJune 10, 1979

Seasons15 (1965–1979)

Boston Red Sox 1965–1971; Milwaukee Brewers 1972; Philadelphia Phillies 1973–1979

Percentile snapshot

1976 season — qualified pitchers

33.3

44.8

86.2

62.1

75.9

35.6

SHO

11.5

210

51.7

58.6

87.4

118

59.8

18.4

222.0

52.9

ERA

3.08

66.7

WHIP

1.171

78.2

K/9

4.78

56.3

FIP

3.38

50.6

FIP-

95.1

ERA+

115.4

72.4

sWAR

3.6

70.1

of 88 qualified 1976 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

93.9

sWAR

16.8

92.1

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1965	32	69	59	4	8	3	0	0	4	5	22	0	0	.136	.203	.186	.390	0.3	8.0	.191	0.1
1966	46	62	54	5	5	2	1	0	0	2	23	0	0	.093	.125	.167	.292	-40.4	-20.7	.136	1.4
1967	39	109	99	7	14	1	1	0	8	4	52	1	1	.141	.175	.172	.346	-15.7	-0.7	.166	3.7
1968	23	44	39	4	11	2	0	1	2	0	14	0	0	.282	.282	.410	.692	100.4	102.2	.316	-0.2
1969	29	52	41	1	4	1	0	0	2	5	22	0	0	.098	.191	.122	.313	-18.6	-12.6	.168	0.1
1970	9	9	9	2	4	1	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	.444	.444	.889	1.333	268.2	248.8	.584	0.9
1971	27	59	53	2	9	0	0	0	3	4	19	0	0	.170	.228	.170	.398	2.9	11.5	.200	0.7
1972	33	82	69	1	10	0	0	0	3	4	29	0	0	.145	.192	.145	.337	-9.8	2.3	.170	2.8
1973	38	69	59	2	8	2	0	0	3	6	29	0	0	.136	.215	.169	.385	4.9	7.0	.196	-0.7
1974	39	111	94	3	9	2	0	1	8	5	44	0	0	.096	.140	.149	.289	-33.4	-20.3	.143	4.2
1975	27	56	44	2	1	0	0	0	1	6	17	0	0	.023	.140	.023	.163	-57.7	-53.1	.110	0.5
1976	33	79	67	5	11	1	0	0	4	6	20	0	0	.164	.233	.179	.412	15.6	17.8	.210	3.6
1977	25	59	48	1	5	0	0	0	1	2	22	0	0	.104	.140	.104	.244	-46.2	-33.7	.122	1.1
1978	22	41	34	2	6	2	0	0	3	2	14	0	1	.176	.243	.235	.479	33.6	34.9	.234	-1.1
1979	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.4	-100.0	.000	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1965	32	31	9	17	0	7	1	193	92	65	113	20	185.3	4.47	1.392	5.49	3.68	99.2	83.1	0.1
1966	45	23	10	10	2	3	1	173	78	55	131	18	181.7	3.86	1.255	6.49	3.30	87.3	98.0	1.4
1967	39	39	22	9	0	15	2	228	96	83	246	23	273.3	3.16	1.138	8.10	2.83	81.4	110.1	3.7
1968	23	17	6	10	0	4	1	89	54	59	73	11	113.3	4.29	1.306	5.80	4.05	128.1	73.7	-0.2
1969	29	23	7	11	0	4	0	148	72	65	100	15	143.7	4.51	1.483	6.26	3.83	100.4	84.6	0.1
1970	9	4	4	1	0	0	0	33	12	9	21	3	34.0	3.18	1.235	5.56	3.13	79.3	124.4	0.9
1971	27	26	10	7	0	5	1	167	77	67	100	15	167.7	4.13	1.396	5.37	3.78	103.1	88.7	0.7
1972	33	30	14	12	1	11	2	197	70	76	143	17	223.0	2.83	1.224	5.77	3.15	104.0	107.2	2.8
1973	38	30	13	16	0	6	0	218	108	80	106	25	199.3	4.88	1.495	4.79	4.46	118.2	77.3	-0.7
1974	39	39	17	13	0	16	3	280	101	70	121	22	283.0	3.21	1.237	3.85	3.55	94.3	117.1	4.2
1975	27	26	8	6	0	6	2	161	73	45	72	12	159.3	4.12	1.293	4.07	3.63	97.3	90.6	0.5
1976	33	32	18	10	1	8	1	210	76	50	118	18	222.0	3.08	1.171	4.78	3.38	95.1	115.4	3.6
1977	25	25	11	4	0	4	1	157	72	50	76	15	157.7	4.11	1.313	4.34	4.05	101.5	97.2	1.1
1978	22	22	8	10	0	1	0	132	66	45	48	16	113.7	5.23	1.557	3.80	4.85	135.6	68.4	-1.1
1979	4	1	0	1	0	0	0	14	9	4	7	3	7.3	11.05	2.455	8.59	8.15	213.6	34.5	-0.6

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

426

902

770

105

RBI

330

.1364

OBP

.1905

SLG

.1753

OPS

.3658

Pitching

G (P)

425

368

185th-most career GS

157

241st-most career W

137

231st-most career L

478th-most career CG

SHO

396th-most career SHO

2,464

268th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,475

250th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

823

233rd-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.857

WHIP

1.3079

K/9

5.39

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	R	H	2B	HR	RBI	TB
1974-06-24	PHI @ WSH Gameday	4	1	1	0	1	4	4
1968-07-16	BOS @ MIN Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	1	4
1970-04-15	NYY @ BOS Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	4
1972-08-02	MIL @ DET Gameday	5	1	3	0	0	1	3
1967-09-07	NYY @ BOS Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	1	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1967-04-28	ATH @ BOS Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	0	13	0
1967-05-19	CLE @ BOS Gameday	9.0	4	2	2	2	12	1
1967-05-24	BOS @ DET Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	4	11	0
1967-07-18	BOS @ BAL Gameday	9.0	5	2	2	1	11	1
1967-07-23	BOS @ CLE Gameday	9.0	7	5	5	2	11	2

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× Cy Young Award1× 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.