Norm Bass
Kansas City Athletics 1961–1963
Percentile snapshot
1961 season — qualified pitchers
of 67 qualified 1961 pitchers (min 162 IP)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 41 | 63 | 59 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 34 | 0 | 0 | .119 | .133 | .169 | .303 | -37.1 | -20.7 | .138 | 0.4 |
| 1962 | 22 | 25 | 22 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .045 | .125 | .045 | .170 | -64.8 | -52.9 | .100 | -1.1 |
| 1963 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -135.7 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.7 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961 | 40 | 23 | 11 | 11 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 164 | 89 | 82 | 74 | 17 | 170.7 | 4.69 | 1.441 | 3.90 | 4.44 | 106.9 | 88.5 | 0.4 |
| 1962 | 22 | 10 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 96 | 51 | 46 | 33 | 7 | 75.3 | 6.09 | 1.885 | 3.94 | 4.68 | 111.9 | 68.6 | -1.1 |
| 1963 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 7.7 | 11.74 | 2.609 | 4.70 | 8.33 | 215.4 | 32.9 | -0.7 |
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
Pitching
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 | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961-08-16 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1961-09-20 | ATH @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1961-08-04 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1961-08-08 | ATH @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1961-06-13 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1961-06-18 | LAA @ ATH Gameday | 11.0 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 8 | 2 |
| 1961-09-26 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 8.1 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 1 |
| 1961-08-04 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1961-08-22 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 8.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 1962-04-28 | BAL @ ATH Gameday | 7.0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 |
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.