Jim Slaton

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb

BornJune 19, 1950 · Long Beach, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 14, 1971

Final gameSeptember 28, 1986

Seasons16 (1971–1986)

Milwaukee Brewers 1971–1977; Detroit Tigers 1978; Milwaukee Brewers 1979–1983; California Angels 1984–1986; Detroit Tigers 1986

Percentile snapshot

1984 season — qualified pitchers

25.8

2.2

4.3

62.4

44.1

SHO

192

66.7

35.5

66.7

7.5

25.8

163.0

1.1

ERA

4.97

4.3

WHIP

1.521

9.7

K/9

3.70

15.1

FIP

4.75

2.2

FIP-

119.7

5.4

ERA+

79.8

7.5

sWAR

-0.3

7.5

of 94 qualified 1984 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

94.4

16.4

sWAR

18.9

93.1

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	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1971	26	54	46	3	5	4	18	.109	.180	.109	.289	-23.8	-15.7	.154	0.7
1972	9	14	11	1	1	0	5	.091	.091	.091	.182	-74.7	-45.2	.086	-1.1
1973	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.9
1974	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
1975	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4
1976	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.1
1977	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.4
1978	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
1979	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.5
1980	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
1981	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
1982	39	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.9
1983	46	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.5
1984	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3
1985	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.0
1986	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1971	26	23	10	8	0	5	4	140	62	71	63	16	147.7	3.78	1.429	3.84	4.38	127.7	90.7	0.7
1972	9	8	1	6	0	0	0	50	27	21	17	3	44.0	5.52	1.614	3.48	3.88	128.2	54.8	-1.1
1973	38	38	13	15	0	13	3	266	114	99	134	30	276.3	3.71	1.321	4.36	4.11	108.9	101.6	2.9
1974	40	35	13	16	0	10	3	255	109	102	126	22	250.0	3.92	1.428	4.54	3.97	109.4	92.4	1.6
1975	37	33	11	18	0	10	3	238	109	90	119	28	217.0	4.52	1.512	4.94	4.41	115.3	84.6	0.4
1976	38	38	14	15	0	12	2	287	112	94	138	14	292.7	3.44	1.302	4.24	3.32	95.1	101.4	3.1
1977	32	31	10	14	0	7	1	223	88	77	104	25	221.0	3.58	1.357	4.24	4.47	109.7	113.6	3.4
1978	35	34	17	11	0	11	2	235	107	85	92	27	233.7	4.12	1.369	3.54	4.46	115.9	93.4	1.6
1979	32	31	15	9	0	12	3	229	86	54	80	15	213.0	3.63	1.329	3.38	3.72	88.6	115.6	3.5
1980	3	3	1	1	0	0	0	17	8	5	4	3	16.3	4.41	1.347	2.20	5.58	141.9	89.1	0.1
1981	24	21	5	7	0	0	0	120	57	50	47	10	117.3	4.37	1.449	3.61	4.18	119.4	80.0	-0.1
1982	39	7	10	6	6	0	0	117	43	41	59	14	117.7	3.29	1.343	4.51	4.30	111.3	117.6	1.9
1983	46	0	14	6	5	0	0	112	54	56	38	12	112.3	4.33	1.496	3.04	5.11	133.7	88.4	0.5
1984	32	22	7	10	0	5	1	192	90	56	67	22	163.0	4.97	1.521	3.70	4.75	119.7	79.8	-0.3
1985	29	24	6	10	1	1	0	162	72	63	60	22	148.3	4.37	1.517	3.64	5.18	126.1	94.0	1.0
1986	36	12	4	6	2	0	0	130	64	40	43	14	113.3	5.08	1.500	3.41	4.78	115.7	81.2	-0.1

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

496

RBI

.1053

OBP

.1639

SLG

.1053

OPS

.2692

Pitching

G (P)

496

454th-most career G (P)

360

202nd-most career GS

151

258th-most career W

158

130th-most career L

SHO

218th-most career SHO

2,684

205th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,191

396th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,004

114th-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.031

WHIP

1.4074

K/9

3.99

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	TB
1971-07-28	BOS @ MIL Gameday	3	1	2	2
1971-06-24	LAA @ MIL Gameday	3	0	1	1
1971-09-13	CWS @ MIL Gameday	2	0	1	1
1971-09-29	MIL @ CWS Gameday	1	0	1	1
1972-05-13	MIL @ MIN Gameday	1	0	1	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1971-09-24	MIL @ ATH Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	0	10	0
1976-07-11	TEX @ MIL Gameday	9.0	4	3	3	4	10	1
1974-09-29	MIL @ BAL Gameday	8.1	7	4	4	8	10	0
1973-06-02	CWS @ MIL Gameday	10.1	9	2	2	3	9	1
1975-04-30	DET @ MIL Gameday	7.1	5	2	2	6	9	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

1× 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.