MLB / Players

LaMarr Hoyt

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 195 lb

BornJanuary 1, 1955 · Columbia, SC, USA

MLB debutSeptember 14, 1979

Final gameOctober 3, 1986

Seasons8 (1979–1986)

Chicago White Sox 1979–1984; San Diego Padres 1985–1986

Percentile snapshot

1985 season — qualified pitchers

12.8

24.4

70.5

75.6

65.4

SHO

79.5

210

51.3

60.3

98.7

10.3

210.3

37.2

ERA

3.47

56.4

WHIP

1.094

89.7

K/9

3.55

6.4

FIP

3.38

78.2

FIP-

95.4

51.3

ERA+

102.2

sWAR

1.8

30.8

of 79 qualified 1985 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

98.2

30.9

sWAR

11.2

88.1

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	2B	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1979	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2
1980	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.4
1981	43	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
1982	39	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.8
1983	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.1
1984	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.4
1985	31	77	64	4	4	0	2	1	21	.063	.077	.063	.139	-78.4	-60.1	.069	1.8
1986	35	50	46	3	6	1	1	1	18	.130	.149	.152	.301	-28.0	-15.8	.143	-1.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1979	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	3.0	0.00	.667	0.00	2.77	65.2	—	0.2
1980	24	13	9	3	0	3	1	123	57	41	55	8	112.3	4.57	1.460	4.41	3.85	95.6	88.2	0.4
1981	43	1	9	3	10	0	0	80	36	28	60	10	90.7	3.57	1.191	5.96	3.68	102.5	100.4	0.9
1982	39	32	19	15	0	14	2	248	94	48	124	17	239.7	3.53	1.235	4.66	3.20	78.9	115.0	3.8
1983	36	36	24	10	0	11	1	236	106	31	148	27	260.7	3.66	1.024	5.11	3.40	81.8	113.7	4.1
1984	34	34	13	18	0	11	1	244	117	43	126	31	235.7	4.47	1.218	4.81	4.00	97.2	92.1	1.4
1985	31	31	16	8	0	8	3	210	81	20	83	20	210.3	3.47	1.094	3.55	3.38	95.4	102.2	1.8
1986	35	25	8	11	0	1	0	170	91	68	85	27	159.0	5.15	1.497	4.81	5.22	142.6	71.1	-1.4

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

246

127

110

RBI

.0909

OBP

.1071

SLG

.1000

OPS

.2071

Pitching

G (P)

244

172

SHO

1,311

SO (P)

681

BB allowed

279

ERA

3.994

WHIP

1.2140

206th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.67

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	RBI	TB
1986-07-13	STL @ SD Gameday	3	1	1	1	1	2
1985-05-20	SD @ NYM Gameday	3	0	1	0	1	1
1985-07-01	HOU @ SD Gameday	1	0	1	0	1	1
1985-05-26	SD @ PHI Gameday	2	0	1	0	0	1
1985-06-26	LAD @ SD Gameday	4	1	1	0	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1983-06-20	SEA @ CWS Gameday	9.0	6	3	3	1	9
1983-08-12	BAL @ CWS Gameday	9.0	6	1	1	3	9
1985-06-05	PHI @ SD Gameday	9.0	4	1	0	0	9
1983-06-25	MIN @ CWS Gameday	7.1	6	3	3	1	9
1981-09-27	CWS @ ATH Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	1	8

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 Award1× All-Star Game MVP1× 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.