MLB / Players

Randy Jones

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 178 lb

BornJanuary 12, 1950 · Fullerton, CA, USA

MLB debutJune 16, 1973

Final gameSeptember 7, 1982

Seasons10 (1973–1982)

San Diego Padres 1973–1980; New York Mets 1981–1982

Percentile snapshot

1979 season — qualified pitchers

88.2

97.6

24.7

32.9

30.6

SHO

257

5.9

106

17.6

56.5

112

56.5

63.5

263.0

91.8

ERA

3.63

55.3

WHIP

1.221

75.3

K/9

3.83

25.9

FIP

3.45

81.2

FIP-

97.0

52.9

ERA+

97.9

23.5

sWAR

2.3

34.1

of 86 qualified 1979 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

101.3

43.4

sWAR

18.8

93.1

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1973	20	53	48	2	8	1	2	1	22	0	0	.167	.184	.188	.371	-1.5	6.2	.176	1.9
1974	46	70	65	4	10	1	2	2	29	0	0	.154	.179	.169	.348	-9.3	-0.6	.170	-0.4
1975	40	105	83	7	11	2	4	5	30	0	0	.133	.182	.157	.338	-10.0	-3.2	.170	7.0
1976	40	123	103	6	6	0	2	5	39	0	0	.058	.102	.058	.160	-62.3	-52.1	.088	4.6
1977	28	49	43	2	5	1	1	2	20	0	1	.116	.156	.140	.295	-21.7	-16.5	.144	-0.3
1978	38	91	82	6	15	1	4	2	32	0	0	.183	.200	.195	.395	7.1	15.0	.187	4.1
1979	41	94	86	8	15	2	5	0	29	1	0	.174	.172	.198	.370	-7.6	3.8	.169	2.3
1980	25	54	45	1	3	0	0	2	15	0	0	.067	.106	.067	.173	-61.5	-49.4	.092	0.4
1981	13	18	17	0	2	0	0	0	9	0	0	.118	.118	.118	.235	-53.2	-32.6	.111	-0.5
1982	28	32	27	1	4	0	0	3	10	0	0	.148	.233	.148	.381	11.4	9.4	.200	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1973	20	19	7	6	0	6	1	129	49	37	77	13	139.7	3.16	1.189	4.96	3.47	99.7	110.3	1.9
1974	40	34	8	22	2	4	1	217	103	78	124	16	208.3	4.45	1.416	5.36	3.59	101.4	79.6	-0.4
1975	37	36	20	12	0	18	6	242	71	56	103	17	285.0	2.24	1.046	3.25	3.26	93.3	155.8	7.0
1976	40	40	22	14	0	25	5	274	96	50	93	15	315.3	2.74	1.027	2.65	3.19	96.6	120.5	4.6
1977	27	25	6	12	0	1	0	173	75	36	44	12	147.3	4.58	1.419	2.69	3.93	108.8	78.8	-0.3
1978	37	36	13	14	0	7	2	263	81	64	71	6	253.0	2.88	1.292	2.53	3.13	93.3	116.4	4.1
1979	39	39	11	12	0	6	0	257	106	64	112	17	263.0	3.63	1.221	3.83	3.45	97.0	97.9	2.3
1980	24	24	5	13	0	4	3	165	67	29	53	14	154.3	3.91	1.257	3.09	3.80	109.9	88.5	0.4
1981	13	12	1	8	0	0	0	65	32	38	14	8	59.3	4.85	1.736	2.12	5.92	170.8	71.4	-0.5
1982	28	20	7	10	0	2	1	130	55	51	44	11	107.7	4.60	1.681	3.68	4.79	132.9	78.4	-0.2

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

319

689

599

RBI

235

.1319

OBP

.1621

SLG

.1452

OPS

.3073

Pitching

G (P)

305

285

401st-most career GS

100

123

320th-most career L

SHO

274th-most career SHO

1,933

488th-most career IP

SO (P)

735

BB allowed

503

ERA

3.422

382nd-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2509

343rd-lowest career WHIP

K/9

3.42

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	RBI	BB	TB
1977-05-04	PHI @ SD Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	0	3
1974-07-17	PHI @ SD Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	0	2
1976-09-24	SD @ ATL Gameday	3	0	2	0	1	0	2
1973-07-03	SD @ LAD Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	1	2
1975-09-10	ATL @ SD Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1974-05-22	SD @ HOU Gameday	8.0	8	2	1	2	9
1973-07-28	CIN @ SD Gameday	9.0	8	1	1	3	8
1975-09-23	LAD @ SD Gameday	9.0	8	4	2	4	8
1979-07-01	HOU @ SD Gameday	9.0	7	4	2	3	8
1979-06-23	SD @ HOU Gameday	7.2	3	1	1	2	8

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.

Honors

1× Cy Young Award2× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.