MLB / Players

Paul Kilgus

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left
Listed at6 ft 1 in · 175 lb
BornFebruary 2, 1962 · Bowling Green, KY, USA
MLB debutJune 7, 1987
Final gameOctober 3, 1993
Seasons6 (1987–1993)

Texas Rangers 1987–1988; Chicago Cubs 1989; Toronto Blue Jays 1990; Baltimore Orioles 1991; St. Louis Cardinals 1993

Percentile snapshot

1988 season — qualified pitchers

G
32
26.7
GS
32
44.4
W
12
32.2
L
15
8.9
SV
0
0
CG
5
46.7
SHO
3
80
H
190
61.1
ER
94
23.3
BB
71
33.3
SO
88
18.9
HR
18
38.9
IP
203.3
45.6
ERA
4.16
20
WHIP
1.284
41.1
K/9
3.90
11.1
FIP
4.30
11.1
FIP-
105.7
24.4
ERA+
97.8
33.3
sWAR
1.8
31.1

of 91 qualified 1988 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
4.0
76.7

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
1987250000000000001.2
1988320000000000001.8
198935464113000211100.073.095.073.168-73.6-52.5.0840.0
199011000000000000-0.2
199138000000000000-0.1
199322550100000000.200.200.200.4001.09.1.1831.4

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
1987251227000954131421489.34.131.4104.235.08113.3108.51.2
19883232121505319094718818203.34.161.2843.904.30105.797.81.8
198935236102001647149619145.74.391.4623.773.74100.285.00.0
199011000000191177216.36.061.5923.865.01127.664.8-0.2
19913800210060352432862.05.081.3554.654.86120.979.1-0.1
199322110100182821128.70.63.9076.592.9173.3630.91.4

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

G
163
PA
51
AB
46
R
1
H
4
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
2
BB
1
SO
11
SB
0
BA
.0870
OBP
.1064
SLG
.0870
OPS
.1934

Pitching

G (P)
163
GS
68
W
21
L
34
SV
4
CG
5
SHO
3
IP
545
SO (P)
251
BB allowed
190
ERA
4.192
WHIP
1.3496
K/9
4.14

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
1989-07-25CHC @ STL Gameday111000111
1989-04-23CHC @ NYM Gameday301000001
1989-05-14HOU @ CHC Gameday201000001
1993-06-03STL @ CIN Gameday301000001
1989-07-05SD @ CHC Gameday000000100

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1988-08-26TOR @ TEX Gameday8.22114100
1987-08-12TEX @ MIL Gameday6.2922270
1988-05-11BAL @ TEX Gameday9.0400460
1987-08-27TEX @ KC Gameday8.2622461
1988-09-27TEX @ CWS Gameday8.0731161

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.