MLB / Players

Jim Umbarger

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left
Listed at6 ft 6 in · 200 lb
BornFebruary 17, 1953 · Burbank, CA, USA
MLB debutApril 8, 1975
Final gameSeptember 28, 1978
Seasons4 (1975–1978)

Texas Rangers 1975–1976; Oakland Athletics 1977; Texas Rangers 1977–1978

Percentile snapshot

1976 season — qualified pitchers

G
30
6.9
GS
30
33.3
W
10
19.5
L
12
36.8
SV
0
0
CG
10
56.3
SHO
3
49.4
H
208
56.3
ER
69
80.5
BB
54
78.2
SO
105
42.5
HR
12
64.4
IP
197.3
25.3
ERA
3.15
59.8
WHIP
1.328
24.1
K/9
4.79
57.5
FIP
3.20
65.5
FIP-
89.4
74.7
ERA+
113.6
66.7
sWAR
3.0
55.2

of 88 qualified 1976 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
2.5
72

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
1975560000000000000.8
1976300000000000003.0
197715000000000000-0.9
197832000000000000-0.3

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
197556128723213460595011131.04.121.4733.444.28113.691.40.8
1976303010120103208695410512197.33.151.3284.793.2089.4113.63.0
197715102601076403229557.06.321.8954.584.76118.163.8-0.9
197832958110116533660997.74.881.5565.533.6998.276.9-0.3

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

G
133
PA
0
AB
0
R
0
H
0
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
0
SO
0
SB
0

Pitching

G (P)
133
GS
61
W
25
L
33
SV
3
CG
15
SHO
5
IP
483
SO (P)
244
BB allowed
181
ERA
4.137
WHIP
1.4803
K/9
4.55

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

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1976-06-28ATH @ TEX Gameday8.26221102
1976-07-29TEX @ MIN Gameday8.0822180
1976-04-30BOS @ TEX Gameday8.11043470
1978-04-11DET @ TEX Gameday4.1100170
1976-06-02TEX @ CWS Gameday10.1411460

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.