Larry Andersen

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 200 lb

BornMay 6, 1953 · Portland, OR, USA

MLB debutSeptember 5, 1975

Final gameJuly 31, 1994

Seasons17 (1975–1994)

Cleveland Indians 1975; Cleveland Indians 1977; Cleveland Indians 1979; Seattle Mariners 1981–1982; Philadelphia Phillies 1983–1985; Houston Astros 1986; Philadelphia Phillies 1986; Houston Astros 1987–1989; Boston Red Sox 1990; Houston Astros 1990; San Diego Padres 1991–1992; Philadelphia Phillies 1993–1994

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

sWAR

17.3

92.3

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
1975	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1977	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3
1979	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4
1981	41	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
1982	40	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.8
1983	17	2	2	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.2	-100.0	.000	0.6
1984	64	4	4	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.8	-100.0	.000	2.2
1985	57	5	4	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.1	-100.0	.000	0.1
1986	48	7	6	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-124.3	-100.0	.000	1.3
1987	67	7	6	1	1	1	4	.167	.286	.167	.452	36.5	26.7	.237	1.6
1988	53	6	6	1	2	0	1	.333	.333	.333	.667	96.3	96.2	.310	1.3
1989	60	4	3	0	1	0	2	.333	.333	.333	.667	95.0	94.8	.310	2.9
1990	65	4	3	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.5	-100.0	.000	3.2
1991	38	2	2	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.2	-100.0	.000	1.3
1992	34	2	1	1	0	1	1	.000	.500	.000	.500	134.4	52.6	.375	0.5
1993	64	1	1	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	482.4	442.5	.914	1.4
1994	29	1	0	0	0	1	0	—	1.000	—	—	361.0	—	.739	0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1975	3	0	0	0	0	4	3	2	4	0	5.7	4.76	1.059	6.35	2.20	58.1	79.6	0.0
1977	11	0	0	1	0	10	5	9	8	1	14.3	3.14	1.326	5.02	4.42	111.3	126.4	0.3
1979	8	0	0	0	0	25	14	4	7	3	16.7	7.56	1.740	3.78	4.99	116.8	56.5	-0.4
1981	41	0	3	3	5	57	20	18	40	4	67.7	2.66	1.108	5.32	3.01	79.1	143.2	1.6
1982	40	1	0	0	1	100	53	23	32	16	79.7	5.99	1.544	3.62	5.51	131.4	70.1	-0.8
1983	17	0	1	0	0	19	7	9	14	0	26.3	2.39	1.063	4.78	2.64	73.4	150.1	0.6
1984	64	0	3	7	4	85	24	25	54	5	90.7	2.38	1.213	5.36	3.15	86.5	152.7	2.2
1985	57	0	3	3	3	78	35	26	50	5	73.0	4.32	1.425	6.16	3.33	90.3	85.5	0.1
1986	48	0	2	1	1	83	26	26	42	2	77.3	3.03	1.409	4.89	3.04	83.8	120.5	1.3
1987	67	0	9	5	5	95	39	41	94	7	101.7	3.45	1.338	8.32	3.18	81.1	113.6	1.6
1988	53	0	2	4	5	82	27	20	66	3	82.7	2.94	1.234	7.19	2.34	70.3	113.4	1.3
1989	60	0	4	4	3	63	15	24	85	2	87.7	1.54	.992	8.73	1.84	54.2	220.6	2.9
1990	65	0	5	2	7	79	19	27	93	2	95.7	1.79	1.108	8.75	2.05	54.5	212.2	3.2
1991	38	0	3	4	13	39	12	13	40	0	47.0	2.30	1.106	7.66	1.92	50.9	164.1	1.3
1992	34	0	1	1	2	26	13	8	35	2	35.0	3.34	.971	9.00	2.29	64.0	107.0	0.5
1993	64	0	3	2	0	54	20	21	67	4	61.7	2.92	1.216	9.78	2.72	67.8	137.2	1.4
1994	29	0	1	2	0	33	16	15	27	2	32.7	4.41	1.469	7.44	3.59	83.8	97.0	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

699

RBI

.1316

OBP

.1951

SLG

.1316

OPS

.3267

Pitching

G (P)

699

122nd-most career G (P)

380th-most career SV

SHO

995

SO (P)

758

BB allowed

311

ERA

3.147

WHIP

1.2488

K/9

6.85

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
1987-09-24	HOU @ ATL Gameday	1	0	1	1
1988-04-08	HOU @ CIN Gameday	1	1	1	1
1988-06-06	HOU @ LAD Gameday	1	0	1	1
1989-04-23	HOU @ CIN Gameday	1	0	1	1
1993-04-18	PHI @ CHC Gameday	1	0	1	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1990-09-04	ATH @ BOS Gameday	2.2	3	0	0	0	6	0
1987-05-24	STL @ HOU Gameday	2.0	0	0	0	2	5	0
1989-08-13	CIN @ HOU Gameday	2.0	1	0	0	1	5	0
1981-09-03	SEA @ BOS Gameday	6.0	3	0	0	0	4	0
1981-04-25	ATH @ SEA Gameday	4.2	3	2	2	0	4	1

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.