Jim Merritt
Minnesota Twins 1965–1968; Cincinnati Reds 1969–1972; Texas Rangers 1973–1975
Percentile snapshot
1970 season — qualified pitchers
of 79 qualified 1970 pitchers (min 162 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 | 16 | 26 | 22 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .136 | .240 | .136 | .376 | 10.4 | 8.8 | .199 | 1.2 |
| 1966 | 31 | 46 | 39 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .103 | .182 | .128 | .310 | -17.8 | -10.6 | .159 | 1.7 |
| 1967 | 37 | 84 | 74 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 33 | 0 | 0 | .135 | .210 | .176 | .386 | 5.7 | 11.9 | .193 | 5.0 |
| 1968 | 38 | 80 | 71 | 1 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 22 | 0 | 1 | .141 | .197 | .169 | .366 | -0.9 | 10.3 | .183 | 1.9 |
| 1969 | 42 | 99 | 77 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 37 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .190 | .195 | .385 | -3.6 | 6.3 | .186 | 0.6 |
| 1970 | 35 | 93 | 83 | 7 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 42 | 0 | 0 | .169 | .207 | .277 | .484 | 24.1 | 29.1 | .223 | 2.5 |
| 1971 | 29 | 32 | 29 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .138 | .167 | .241 | .408 | 4.9 | 16.1 | .189 | -0.3 |
| 1972 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -127.5 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1973 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.0 |
| 1974 | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.1 |
| 1975 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 68 | 27 | 20 | 61 | 11 | 76.7 | 3.17 | 1.148 | 7.16 | 3.46 | 97.0 | 112.3 | 1.2 |
| 1966 | 31 | 18 | 7 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 112 | 54 | 33 | 124 | 17 | 144.0 | 3.38 | 1.007 | 7.75 | 2.94 | 81.9 | 106.2 | 1.7 |
| 1967 | 37 | 28 | 13 | 7 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 196 | 64 | 30 | 161 | 21 | 227.7 | 2.53 | .993 | 6.36 | 2.69 | 78.4 | 135.7 | 5.0 |
| 1968 | 38 | 34 | 12 | 16 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 207 | 86 | 52 | 181 | 21 | 238.3 | 3.25 | 1.087 | 6.83 | 2.59 | 84.0 | 95.0 | 1.9 |
| 1969 | 42 | 36 | 17 | 9 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 269 | 122 | 61 | 144 | 33 | 251.0 | 4.37 | 1.315 | 5.16 | 4.01 | 107.1 | 85.6 | 0.6 |
| 1970 | 35 | 35 | 20 | 12 | 0 | 12 | 1 | 248 | 106 | 53 | 136 | 21 | 234.0 | 4.08 | 1.286 | 5.23 | 3.55 | 87.8 | 99.1 | 2.5 |
| 1971 | 28 | 11 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 115 | 52 | 31 | 38 | 14 | 107.0 | 4.37 | 1.364 | 3.20 | 4.49 | 132.7 | 77.3 | -0.3 |
| 1972 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8.0 | 4.50 | 1.875 | 4.50 | 3.90 | 119.6 | 72.5 | -0.1 |
| 1973 | 35 | 19 | 5 | 13 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 191 | 72 | 34 | 65 | 18 | 160.0 | 4.05 | 1.406 | 3.66 | 3.89 | 103.8 | 92.5 | 1.0 |
| 1974 | 26 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 46 | 15 | 6 | 18 | 3 | 32.7 | 4.13 | 1.592 | 4.96 | 3.21 | 89.7 | 86.7 | 0.1 |
| 1975 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3.7 | 0.00 | .818 | 0.00 | 3.38 | 89.6 | — | 0.2 |
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
Pitching
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 | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970-07-10 | CIN @ ATL Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1969-07-24 | CIN @ NYM Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1970-08-04 | CIN @ SD Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1970-08-17 | PHI @ CIN Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1967-06-04 | LAA @ MIN Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970-08-13 | NYM @ CIN Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 0 |
| 1966-07-21 | MIN @ TEX Gameday | 9.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 0 |
| 1967-05-30 | MIN @ NYY Gameday | 9.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 |
| 1968-08-10 | MIN @ NYY Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 2 |
| 1966-09-16 | MIN @ NYY Gameday | 8.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.