Rich Wortham
Chicago White Sox 1978–1980; Oakland Athletics 1983
Percentile snapshot
1979 season — qualified pitchers
of 86 qualified 1979 pitchers (min 159 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.1 |
| 1979 | 34 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.5 |
| 1980 | 41 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -1.1 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 59 | 20 | 23 | 25 | 1 | 59.0 | 3.05 | 1.390 | 3.81 | 3.09 | 81.1 | 125.0 | 1.1 |
| 1979 | 34 | 33 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 195 | 111 | 100 | 119 | 21 | 204.0 | 4.90 | 1.446 | 5.25 | 4.45 | 105.0 | 86.6 | 0.5 |
| 1980 | 41 | 10 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 102 | 61 | 58 | 45 | 4 | 92.0 | 5.97 | 1.739 | 4.40 | 4.33 | 107.6 | 67.5 | -1.1 |
| 1983 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0.0 | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 | -0.1 |
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
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-04-13 | NYY @ CWS Gameday | 9.0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 0 |
| 1979-05-29 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 8.1 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| 1979-04-08 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 7.1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | 0 |
| 1979-05-24 | ATH @ CWS Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 0 |
| 1979-04-18 | CWS @ TOR Gameday | 8.0 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 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.