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Oil Can Boyd

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 155 lb

BornOctober 6, 1959 · Meridian, MS, USA

MLB debutSeptember 13, 1982

Final gameOctober 1, 1991

Seasons10 (1982–1991)

Boston Red Sox 1982–1989; Montreal Expos 1990–1991; Texas Rangers 1991

Percentile snapshot

1991 season — qualified pitchers

19.2

34.6

1.3

3.8

SHO

35.9

196

44.9

23.1

70.5

115

32.1

20.5

182.3

20.5

ERA

4.59

2.6

WHIP

1.388

16.7

K/9

5.68

48.7

FIP

4.01

29.5

FIP-

105.7

19.2

ERA+

81.9

3.8

sWAR

0.0

2.6

of 79 qualified 1991 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

100.8

41.2

sWAR

13.8

90.2

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1982	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1983	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.1
1984	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.4
1985	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.4
1986	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.1
1987	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
1988	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.6
1989	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3
1990	31	71	59	1	3	0	0	20	.051	.051	.051	.102	-90.1	-71.3	.047	3.1
1991	31	42	36	1	3	2	3	19	.083	.154	.083	.237	-33.9	-30.4	.129	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1982	3	1	0	1	0	0	11	5	2	2	2	8.3	5.40	1.560	2.16	6.05	141.9	79.0	0.0
1983	15	13	4	8	5	0	103	36	23	43	9	98.7	3.28	1.277	3.92	3.87	89.7	131.3	2.1
1984	29	26	12	12	10	3	207	96	53	134	18	197.7	4.37	1.315	6.10	3.39	81.9	94.9	1.4
1985	35	35	15	13	13	3	273	112	67	154	26	272.3	3.70	1.248	5.09	3.63	85.1	115.3	4.4
1986	30	30	16	10	10	0	222	90	45	129	32	214.3	3.78	1.246	5.42	4.19	100.1	110.7	3.1
1987	7	7	1	3	0	0	47	24	9	12	6	36.7	5.89	1.527	2.95	5.25	115.6	77.1	-0.2
1988	23	23	9	7	1	0	147	77	41	71	25	129.7	5.34	1.450	4.93	5.23	127.3	76.8	-0.6
1989	10	10	3	2	0	0	57	29	19	26	8	59.0	4.42	1.288	3.97	4.70	115.1	92.2	0.3
1990	31	31	10	6	3	3	164	62	52	113	19	190.7	2.93	1.133	5.33	3.79	103.3	125.2	3.1
1991	31	31	8	15	1	1	196	93	57	115	21	182.3	4.59	1.388	5.68	4.01	105.7	81.9	0.0

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

214

113

RBI

.0632

OBP

.0918

SLG

.0632

OPS

.1550

Pitching

G (P)

214

207

SHO

1,390

SO (P)

799

BB allowed

368

ERA

4.041

WHIP

1.2917

K/9

5.17

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	RBI	TB
1991-05-08	SF @ WSH Gameday	2	0	1	1	1
1991-05-18	WSH @ SF Gameday	3	0	1	1	1
1990-05-23	SD @ WSH Gameday	4	1	1	0	1
1990-06-10	STL @ WSH Gameday	2	0	1	0	1
1990-07-19	WSH @ HOU Gameday	2	0	1	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1985-05-03	BOS @ ATH Gameday	9.0	8	0	0	2	12	0
1985-04-28	KC @ BOS Gameday	8.1	11	5	5	2	12	2
1986-08-26	BOS @ TEX Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	1	10	1
1984-07-29	BOS @ DET Gameday	8.0	4	3	1	3	10	0
1984-06-20	BAL @ BOS Gameday	9.0	4	4	4	2	9	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.