Jim Norris
Cleveland Indians 1977–1979; Texas Rangers 1980
Percentile snapshot
1977 season — qualified batters
of 147 qualified 1977 batters (min 499 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 133 | 517 | 440 | 59 | 119 | 23 | 6 | 2 | 37 | 64 | 57 | 26 | 17 | .270 | .360 | .364 | .724 | 105.0 | 101.5 | .334 | 1.9 |
| 1978 | 113 | 365 | 315 | 41 | 89 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 27 | 42 | 20 | 12 | 7 | .283 | .364 | .378 | .742 | 112.6 | 110.3 | .344 | 1.2 |
| 1979 | 124 | 406 | 353 | 50 | 87 | 15 | 6 | 3 | 30 | 44 | 35 | 15 | 10 | .246 | .328 | .348 | .676 | 85.3 | 82.4 | .313 | 0.2 |
| 1980 | 119 | 205 | 174 | 23 | 43 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 23 | 16 | 6 | 3 | .247 | .327 | .276 | .603 | 71.1 | 69.5 | .286 | -0.4 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-05-19 | DET @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 9 |
| 1977-04-10 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1978-07-21 | SEA @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 1978-08-10 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 1979-06-30 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 4 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
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.