Jim Perry

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 190 lb

BornOctober 30, 1935 · Williamston, NC, USA

MLB debutApril 23, 1959

Final gameAugust 5, 1975

Seasons17 (1959–1975)

Cleveland Indians 1959–1963; Minnesota Twins 1963–1972; Detroit Tigers 1973; Cleveland Indians 1974–1975; Oakland Athletics 1975

Percentile snapshot

1974 season — qualified pitchers

36.9

61.9

72.6

48.8

28.6

SHO

60.7

242

39.3

61.9

2.4

88.1

252.0

61.9

ERA

2.96

78.6

WHIP

1.214

K/9

2.54

2.4

FIP

3.40

59.5

FIP-

93.7

60.7

ERA+

122.2

sWAR

4.5

of 85 qualified 1974 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

105.9

60.8

sWAR

43.3

98.3

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1959	44	51	50	5	15	0	1	0	5	0	3	0	.300	.300	.340	.640	75.4	78.8	.290	3.8
1960	42	98	91	7	22	2	0	0	5	1	14	1	.242	.247	.264	.511	32.4	40.5	.234	3.3
1961	35	79	73	4	12	2	0	0	3	1	14	0	.164	.176	.192	.367	-11.5	-0.4	.168	0.2
1962	35	69	60	8	11	1	0	0	0	2	8	0	.183	.210	.200	.410	5.0	12.6	.192	1.4
1963	40	60	53	5	11	2	0	0	4	6	14	0	.208	.288	.245	.533	52.8	51.0	.257	1.7
1964	42	13	13	0	2	0	0	0	1	0	4	0	.154	.154	.154	.308	-32.0	-13.9	.140	0.8
1965	36	59	53	3	9	1	1	0	3	1	16	0	.170	.200	.226	.426	10.0	19.6	.199	3.7
1966	33	68	59	5	13	4	0	1	7	5	18	0	.220	.288	.339	.627	76.2	76.3	.288	4.8
1967	39	42	42	2	8	1	0	1	7	0	6	0	.190	.190	.286	.476	21.5	35.2	.215	2.1
1968	32	48	42	4	6	1	0	2	5	2	12	0	.143	.182	.310	.491	33.3	44.5	.226	3.2
1969	47	101	93	8	16	3	1	0	7	3	24	0	.172	.204	.226	.430	10.4	20.1	.203	5.4
1970	41	109	97	9	24	4	0	1	6	1	14	0	.247	.253	.320	.572	48.7	56.7	.259	5.7
1971	40	103	92	10	17	0	0	0	5	7	18	0	.185	.242	.185	.427	16.9	22.2	.214	0.4
1972	35	80	71	3	11	1	0	0	1	3	14	0	.155	.187	.169	.356	-12.7	4.6	.174	1.7
1973	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.0
1974	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.5
1975	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1959	44	13	12	10	4	8	2	122	45	55	79	10	153.0	2.65	1.157	4.65	3.40	90.9	141.2	3.8
1960	41	36	18	10	1	10	4	257	105	91	120	35	261.3	3.62	1.332	4.13	4.32	114.1	104.6	3.3
1961	35	35	10	17	0	6	1	238	117	87	90	28	223.7	4.71	1.453	3.62	4.57	116.1	83.7	0.2
1962	35	27	12	12	0	7	3	213	89	59	74	21	193.7	4.14	1.404	3.44	4.10	105.7	93.9	1.4
1963	40	25	9	9	1	5	1	179	76	59	72	17	178.7	3.83	1.332	3.63	3.92	106.4	96.0	1.7
1964	42	1	6	3	2	0	0	61	25	23	55	7	65.3	3.44	1.286	7.58	3.27	90.0	105.5	0.8
1965	36	19	12	7	0	4	2	142	49	47	88	18	167.7	2.63	1.127	4.72	3.64	102.2	135.4	3.7
1966	33	25	11	7	0	8	1	149	52	53	122	17	184.3	2.54	1.096	5.96	3.25	90.8	141.1	4.8
1967	37	11	8	7	0	3	2	123	44	50	94	8	130.7	3.03	1.324	6.47	2.99	87.2	113.3	2.1
1968	32	18	8	6	1	3	2	113	35	26	69	8	139.0	2.27	1.000	4.47	2.65	85.8	136.2	3.2
1969	46	36	20	6	0	12	3	244	82	66	153	18	261.7	2.82	1.185	5.26	2.95	80.7	129.5	5.4
1970	40	40	24	12	0	13	4	258	94	57	168	20	278.7	3.04	1.130	5.43	2.87	76.6	123.3	5.7
1971	40	39	17	17	1	8	0	263	127	102	126	39	270.0	4.23	1.352	4.20	4.49	127.9	82.9	0.4
1972	35	35	13	16	0	5	2	191	81	60	85	14	217.7	3.35	1.153	3.51	3.26	102.0	95.5	1.7
1973	35	34	14	13	0	7	1	225	91	55	66	22	203.0	4.03	1.379	2.93	4.21	104.9	99.5	2.0
1974	36	36	17	12	0	8	3	242	83	64	71	11	252.0	2.96	1.214	2.54	3.40	93.7	122.2	4.5
1975	23	17	4	10	0	2	1	107	63	44	44	15	105.3	5.38	1.434	3.76	5.03	135.1	68.9	-1.0

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

635

980

889

177

RBI

179

.1991

OBP

.2282

SLG

.2475

OPS

.4757

Pitching

G (P)

630

197th-most career G (P)

447

89th-most career GS

215

92nd-most career W

174

85th-most career L

109

367th-most career CG

SHO

101st-most career SHO

3,286

97th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,576

209th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

998

120th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.446

402nd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2555

359th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.32

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	TB
1966-08-16	LAA @ MIN Gameday	4	0	3	2	0	0	1	5
1967-06-11	BAL @ MIN Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	1	3	5
1969-06-16	LAA @ MIN Gameday	3	0	3	1	0	0	1	4
1965-07-15	ATH @ MIN Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	0	0	4
1970-08-27	BOS @ MIN Gameday	4	1	2	2	0	0	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1971-06-14	MIN @ CLE Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	1	11
1966-08-16	LAA @ MIN Gameday	9.0	3	1	0	4	10
1967-08-15	MIN @ LAA Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	3	10
1960-10-02	CLE @ CWS Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	2	9
1966-06-26	MIN @ DET Gameday	9.0	3	1	0	3	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.

Honors

1× Cy Young Award3× 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.