MLB / Players

John Hiller

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left
Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb
BornApril 8, 1943 · Toronto, ON, CAN
MLB debutSeptember 6, 1965
Final gameMay 27, 1980
Seasons15 (1965–1980)

Detroit Tigers 1965–1970; Detroit Tigers 1972–1980

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

ERA+
132.6
97.4
sWAR
25.8
95.6

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
196550000000000000.3
19661000000000000-0.1
19672317150200021500.133.188.133.321-13.0-4.3.1621.2
196839373713000201400.081.081.081.162-82.4-51.0.0762.1
19694124211610001300.286.318.333.65280.180.5.3060.9
19704725230000001900.000.042.000.042-109.1-87.5.0311.7
197224440000000300.000.000.000.000-143.0-100.0.0001.0
1973650000000000005.0
1974590000000000003.5
1975360000000000002.2
197656110000000000.000.000.000.000-132.0-100.0.0003.1
1977450000000000002.2
1978510000000000002.6
1979430000000000000.0
1980110000000000000.2

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19655000100501406.00.001.0006.001.5744.80.3
19661000000222102.09.002.0004.504.44126.738.9-0.1
1967236433225719949465.02.631.0156.782.1364.7125.11.2
1968391296241923451789128.02.391.1175.483.11102.9126.62.1
196940844411974444741399.33.991.4196.703.93105.493.60.9
1970475663118235468912104.03.031.2317.703.6096.5123.31.7
19722431231039101326444.32.031.1735.283.35107.7153.31.0
197365010538008920391247125.31.441.0218.902.2656.4279.45.0
197459017141300127446213410150.02.641.2608.042.9578.6142.33.5
197536023140052173687670.72.171.24511.082.7368.6183.52.2
197656112813119332671177121.02.381.3228.703.1585.8154.13.1
1977458814730120496111515124.03.561.4608.353.9693.1119.62.2
197851094150064243574692.32.341.0727.212.9376.2164.52.6
197943047900834655461479.35.221.7395.225.98138.482.80.0
19801101000038151418330.74.401.6965.284.23103.592.80.2

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
546
PA
108
AB
101
R
2
H
11
2B
1
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
4
BB
3
SO
34
SB
0
BA
.1089
OBP
.1346
SLG
.1188
OPS
.2534

Pitching

G (P)
545
345th-most career G (P)
GS
43
W
87
L
76
SV
125
126th-most career SV
CG
13
SHO
6
IP
1,242
SO (P)
1,036
BB allowed
535
ERA
2.833
117th-lowest career ERA
WHIP
1.2681
421st-lowest career WHIP
K/9
7.51
139th-highest career K/9

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1969-09-01DET @ KC Gameday202100003
1969-06-17DET @ NYY Gameday412000002
1967-07-23NYY @ DET Gameday201000201
1968-06-02NYY @ DET Gameday411000101
1968-08-20CWS @ DET Gameday301000101

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1977-06-14TOR @ DET Gameday9.04223122
1970-10-01CLE @ DET Gameday9.02002110
1973-07-22DET @ TEX Gameday8.15113100
1977-05-31ATH @ DET Gameday8.0922191
1977-06-08DET @ SEA Gameday7.2633392

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

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.