Jim Sundberg

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 190 lb

BornMay 18, 1951 · Galesburg, IL, USA

MLB debutApril 4, 1974

Final gameSeptember 24, 1989

Seasons16 (1974–1989)

Texas Rangers 1974–1983; Milwaukee Brewers 1984; Kansas City Royals 1985–1986; Chicago Cubs 1987–1988; Texas Rangers 1988–1989

Percentile snapshot

1982 season — qualified batters

139

22.9

530

10.7

470

7.1

118

26.4

61.4

RBI

12.9

45.7

72.9

14.3

40.7

.251

OBP

.322

27.1

SLG

.383

31.4

OPS

.705

26.4

wRC+

99.0

30.7

OPS+

97.6

28.6

wOBA

.320

24.3

sWAR

2.9

53.6

of 141 qualified 1982 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

91.5

25.5

OPS+

89.2

21.9

sWAR

33.5

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
1974	132	449	368	45	91	13	3	3	36	62	61	2	4	.247	.354	.323	.678	106.5	97.9	.330	3.1
1975	155	540	472	45	94	9	0	6	36	51	77	3	1	.199	.283	.256	.539	57.5	54.3	.265	0.5
1976	140	496	448	33	102	24	2	3	34	37	61	0	0	.228	.285	.310	.596	73.6	73.8	.285	1.5
1977	149	533	453	61	132	20	3	6	65	53	77	2	3	.291	.365	.389	.753	110.6	106.1	.346	3.7
1978	149	592	518	54	144	23	6	6	58	64	70	2	5	.278	.358	.380	.739	111.5	109.3	.342	4.2
1979	150	561	495	50	136	23	4	5	64	51	51	3	3	.275	.345	.368	.713	95.7	94.6	.326	2.9
1980	151	581	505	59	138	24	1	10	63	64	67	2	2	.273	.353	.384	.737	108.1	105.0	.340	3.8
1981	102	396	339	42	94	17	2	3	28	50	48	2	5	.277	.369	.366	.735	120.1	117.4	.344	3.2
1982	139	530	470	37	118	22	5	10	47	49	57	2	6	.251	.322	.383	.705	99.0	97.6	.320	2.9
1983	131	423	378	30	76	14	0	2	28	35	64	0	4	.201	.272	.254	.526	49.6	47.7	.251	0.0
1984	110	395	348	43	91	19	4	7	43	38	63	1	1	.261	.332	.399	.731	106.4	105.4	.331	2.6
1985	115	407	367	38	90	12	4	10	35	33	67	0	2	.245	.308	.381	.689	87.6	88.6	.308	1.7
1986	140	491	429	41	91	9	1	12	42	57	91	1	1	.212	.303	.322	.624	72.4	70.2	.290	1.2
1987	61	161	139	9	28	2	0	4	15	19	40	0	0	.201	.306	.302	.608	58.2	59.3	.282	0.2
1988	62	165	145	21	39	5	0	6	22	13	32	0	0	.269	.327	.428	.755	111.7	108.7	.344	1.3
1989	76	178	147	13	29	7	1	2	8	23	37	0	0	.197	.304	.299	.603	75.3	70.2	.292	0.7

Career totals

1,962

289th-most career G

6,898

484th-most career PA

6,021

621

1,493

243

RBI

624

699

382nd-most career BB

963

431st-most career SO

.2480

OBP

.3265

SLG

.3476

OPS

.6741

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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1981-06-10	TEX @ MIL Gameday	5	2	3	1	1	3	0	8
1984-07-27	KC @ MIL Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	5	0	8
1986-08-10	KC @ NYY Gameday	4	3	2	0	2	4	1	8
1986-09-11	SEA @ KC Gameday	5	1	4	0	1	4	0	7
1987-04-10	CHC @ PHI Gameday	4	1	4	0	1	1	0	7

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

6× Gold Glove3× 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.