Paul Lindblad

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb

BornAugust 9, 1941 · Chanute, KS, USA

MLB debutSeptember 15, 1965

Final gameOctober 1, 1978

Seasons14 (1965–1978)

Kansas City Athletics 1965–1967; Oakland Athletics 1968–1971; Washington Senators 1971; Texas Rangers 1972; Oakland Athletics 1973–1976; Texas Rangers 1977; New York Yankees 1978; Texas Rangers 1978

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

ERA+

104.8

56.2

sWAR

14.7

90.8

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1965	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.6	-100.0	.000	-0.6
1966	38	36	34	0	5	2	0	0	1	10	.147	.171	.206	.377	-1.2	9.0	.174	0.0
1967	48	35	34	1	7	1	1	3	0	7	.206	.206	.324	.529	46.8	56.1	.238	0.7
1968	47	9	8	1	3	1	0	0	0	1	.375	.375	.500	.875	175.8	167.6	.401	1.1
1969	60	14	12	2	4	0	0	2	1	2	.333	.357	.333	.690	96.7	99.1	.320	0.3
1970	62	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.6	-100.0	.000	1.2
1971	51	22	22	2	4	2	0	1	0	6	.182	.182	.273	.455	13.9	28.6	.206	1.8
1972	66	17	15	0	3	0	0	0	0	4	.200	.200	.200	.400	5.4	21.4	.188	1.5
1973	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.7
1974	45	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.6
1975	68	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.1	-100.0	.000	2.5
1976	65	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
1977	42	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.8
1978	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1965	4	0	0	1	0	0	0	12	9	0	12	3	7.3	11.05	1.636	14.73	4.85	139.3	31.6	-0.6
1966	38	14	5	10	1	0	0	138	56	37	69	14	121.0	4.17	1.446	5.13	3.79	111.9	81.4	0.0
1967	46	10	5	8	6	1	1	106	46	35	83	15	115.7	3.58	1.219	6.46	3.73	117.7	88.6	0.7
1968	47	1	4	3	2	0	0	51	15	14	42	6	56.3	2.40	1.154	6.71	2.86	98.7	121.0	1.1
1969	60	0	9	6	9	0	0	72	36	33	64	8	78.3	4.14	1.340	7.35	3.40	97.8	84.0	0.3
1970	62	0	8	2	3	0	0	52	19	28	42	7	63.3	2.70	1.263	5.97	3.87	108.0	132.5	1.2
1971	51	0	7	4	8	0	0	76	31	31	54	7	99.7	2.80	1.074	4.88	3.21	93.8	122.3	1.8
1972	66	0	5	8	9	0	0	95	29	29	51	7	99.7	2.62	1.244	4.61	3.03	101.6	114.0	1.5
1973	36	3	1	5	2	0	0	89	32	28	33	8	78.0	3.69	1.500	3.81	4.26	118.7	97.2	0.7
1974	45	2	4	4	6	0	0	85	23	30	46	4	100.7	2.06	1.142	4.11	3.13	92.7	164.1	2.6
1975	68	0	9	1	7	0	0	105	37	43	58	6	122.3	2.72	1.210	4.27	3.30	90.1	134.6	2.5
1976	65	0	6	5	5	0	0	111	39	24	37	5	114.7	3.06	1.177	2.90	3.25	95.9	110.6	1.6
1977	42	1	4	5	4	0	0	103	46	29	46	16	98.7	4.20	1.338	4.20	4.83	118.4	97.2	0.8
1978	25	1	1	1	2	0	0	62	25	23	34	6	58.0	3.88	1.466	5.28	4.02	108.2	96.0	0.5

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

657

141

133

RBI

.1955

OBP

.2059

SLG

.2632

OPS

.4691

Pitching

G (P)

655

169th-most career G (P)

284th-most career SV

SHO

1,214

SO (P)

671

BB allowed

384

ERA

3.285

301st-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2697

427th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

4.98

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	HR	RBI	TB
1967-07-31	ATH @ NYY Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	4
1967-06-11	CLE @ ATH Gameday	2	0	2	0	0	1	2
1969-06-14	ATH @ BOS Gameday	2	2	2	0	0	1	2
1967-08-12	TEX @ ATH Gameday	1	0	1	1	0	1	2
1971-06-22	BAL @ TEX Gameday	3	0	1	1	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1966-06-19	LAA @ ATH Gameday	8.0	7	2	1	1	9	0
1971-07-24	TEX @ CWS Gameday	5.0	3	0	0	1	7	0
1966-09-13	ATH @ CLE Gameday	8.2	7	1	1	1	6	1
1967-06-07	DET @ ATH Gameday	7.2	7	2	2	3	6	1
1967-06-26	NYY @ ATH Gameday	7.0	5	1	1	1	6	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.