MLB / Players

Jim Northrup

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 190 lb

BornNovember 24, 1939 · Breckenridge, MI, USA

MLB debutSeptember 30, 1964

Final gameSeptember 27, 1975

Seasons12 (1964–1975)

Detroit Tigers 1964–1973; Baltimore Orioles 1974; Detroit Tigers 1974; Montreal Expos 1974; Baltimore Orioles 1975

Percentile snapshot

1971 season — qualified batters

136

20.5

524

8.9

459

9.8

49.1

124

17.9

80.4

19.6

59.8

RBI

58.9

61.6

85.7

56.3

.270

51.8

OBP

.355

66.1

SLG

.442

68.8

OPS

.797

wRC+

124.5

63.4

OPS+

123.7

64.3

wOBA

.363

63.4

sWAR

2.7

42.9

of 113 qualified 1971 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

117.0

74.8

OPS+

116.6

73.8

sWAR

23.1

94.7

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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
1964	5	12	12	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	3	1	0	.083	.083	.167	.250	-56.0	-32.7	.108	-0.2
1965	80	233	219	20	45	12	3	2	16	12	50	1	1	.205	.253	.315	.568	56.0	60.2	.260	-0.7
1966	123	461	419	53	111	24	6	16	58	33	52	4	7	.265	.322	.465	.788	122.2	121.9	.348	2.2
1967	144	542	495	63	134	18	6	10	61	43	83	7	1	.271	.332	.392	.724	112.7	111.9	.332	2.2
1968	154	643	580	76	153	29	7	21	90	50	87	4	5	.264	.324	.447	.770	133.4	130.4	.352	4.1
1969	148	602	543	79	160	31	5	25	66	52	83	4	2	.295	.358	.508	.866	140.1	137.3	.393	4.7
1970	139	576	504	71	132	21	3	24	80	58	68	3	6	.262	.343	.458	.802	119.2	119.3	.360	2.7
1971	136	524	459	72	124	27	2	16	71	60	43	7	4	.270	.355	.442	.797	124.5	123.7	.363	2.7
1972	134	469	426	40	111	15	2	8	42	38	47	4	7	.261	.324	.362	.686	103.3	103.0	.321	1.1
1973	119	447	404	55	124	14	7	12	44	38	41	4	4	.307	.366	.465	.832	128.3	128.0	.376	2.3
1974	126	485	437	46	106	13	1	14	53	43	56	0	0	.243	.308	.373	.681	88.7	91.8	.313	0.4
1975	84	221	194	27	53	13	0	5	29	22	22	0	1	.273	.348	.418	.766	123.8	123.5	.354	1.5

Career totals

1,392

5,215

4,692

603

1,254

218

153

RBI

610

449

635

.2673

OBP

.3333

SLG

.4295

OPS

.7628

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
1969-08-28	ATH @ DET Gameday	6	2	6	0	0	2	3	0	12
1971-09-07	DET @ TEX Gameday	5	3	5	1	0	2	2	0	12
1968-07-04	LAA @ DET Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	2	5	0	11
1973-08-05	NYY @ DET Gameday	4	3	4	0	1	1	1	0	9
1973-07-11	TEX @ DET Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	8	1	9

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.