Jim Otten
Chicago White Sox 1974–1976; St. Louis Cardinals 1980–1981
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.2 |
| 1975 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.1 |
| 1976 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
| 1980 | 31 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | -2.4 | 10.8 | .186 | -0.7 |
| 1981 | 24 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -134.6 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.4 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 10 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 16.3 | 5.51 | 2.082 | 6.06 | 3.61 | 97.4 | 67.3 | -0.2 |
| 1975 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 5.3 | 6.75 | 2.063 | 5.06 | 7.81 | 202.2 | 57.2 | -0.1 |
| 1976 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6.0 | 4.50 | 1.833 | 4.50 | 2.62 | 73.5 | 79.1 | 0.0 |
| 1980 | 31 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 71 | 34 | 26 | 38 | 3 | 55.3 | 5.53 | 1.753 | 6.18 | 3.59 | 96.8 | 67.1 | -0.7 |
| 1981 | 24 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 44 | 21 | 20 | 20 | 3 | 35.7 | 5.30 | 1.794 | 5.05 | 4.32 | 121.1 | 67.4 | -0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980-06-28 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1980-05-27 | NYM @ STL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980-05-28 | NYM @ STL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980-05-30 | WSH @ STL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1980-06-07 | STL @ WSH Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974-09-17 | MIN @ CWS Gameday | 8.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 0 |
| 1980-06-28 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 7.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1980-06-16 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 3.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 1980-09-10 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 3.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1980-06-21 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 6.0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 |
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.