Rick Sutcliffe

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 7 in · 215 lb

BornJune 21, 1956 · Independence, MO, USA

MLB debutSeptember 29, 1976

Final gameJuly 22, 1994

Seasons18 (1976–1994)

Los Angeles Dodgers 1976; Los Angeles Dodgers 1978–1981; Cleveland Indians 1982–1983; Chicago Cubs 1984; Cleveland Indians 1984; Chicago Cubs 1985–1991; Baltimore Orioles 1992–1993; St. Louis Cardinals 1994

Percentile snapshot

1993 season — qualified pitchers

11.6

15.1

51.2

SHO

212

106

10.5

26.7

9.3

19.8

166.0

8.1

ERA

5.75

WHIP

1.723

K/9

4.34

16.3

FIP

5.28

2.3

FIP-

119.3

5.8

ERA+

77.1

2.3

sWAR

-0.8

1.2

of 87 qualified 1993 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

96.7

24.5

sWAR

24.5

95.2

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	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1976	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.7	-100.0	.000	0.2
1978	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
1979	40	93	85	6	21	3	0	1	17	1	20	0	.247	.253	.318	.571	50.7	56.7	.259	3.5
1980	44	32	27	1	4	0	0	0	3	2	5	0	.148	.207	.148	.355	-1.6	2.2	.181	-1.7
1981	14	13	11	2	2	0	0	0	2	2	3	0	.182	.308	.182	.490	56.9	45.2	.261	0.1
1982	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	5.0
1983	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.2
1984	35	63	56	3	14	3	0	0	6	2	18	0	.250	.276	.304	.579	53.4	57.5	.272	3.8
1985	20	48	43	4	10	0	0	1	3	2	10	0	.233	.261	.302	.563	43.4	50.6	.260	2.8
1986	29	60	53	3	11	2	0	1	4	2	13	0	.208	.250	.302	.552	41.9	46.9	.257	0.7
1987	35	100	81	8	12	5	1	0	6	7	19	1	.148	.213	.235	.448	11.7	16.6	.211	4.2
1988	33	85	75	8	12	5	0	1	6	3	18	1	.160	.198	.267	.464	20.8	30.2	.214	1.8
1989	37	90	70	5	10	2	0	0	5	10	19	2	.143	.250	.171	.421	22.0	19.3	.220	2.7
1990	5	8	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	0	.000	.286	.000	.286	13.6	-16.3	.214	-0.2
1991	20	38	32	2	3	1	0	0	2	1	9	0	.094	.121	.125	.246	-47.7	-31.9	.119	0.6
1992	36	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
1993	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.8
1994	16	26	23	0	3	1	0	0	1	0	6	0	.130	.130	.174	.304	-34.8	-20.6	.135	-1.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1976	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	3	0	5.0	0.00	.600	5.40	2.05	60.4	—	0.2
1978	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	1.7	0.00	1.800	0.00	6.22	176.1	—	0.1
1979	39	30	17	10	0	5	1	217	93	97	117	16	242.0	3.46	1.298	4.35	3.81	103.8	106.2	3.5
1980	42	10	3	9	5	1	1	122	68	55	59	10	110.0	5.56	1.609	4.83	4.38	123.9	63.6	-1.7
1981	14	6	2	2	0	0	0	41	21	20	16	5	47.0	4.02	1.298	3.06	4.78	142.5	83.4	0.1
1982	34	27	14	8	1	6	1	174	71	98	142	16	216.0	2.96	1.259	5.92	3.75	91.5	138.7	5.0
1983	36	35	17	11	0	10	2	251	116	102	160	23	243.3	4.29	1.451	5.92	4.07	96.6	98.2	2.2
1984	35	35	20	6	0	9	3	234	99	85	213	16	244.7	3.64	1.304	7.84	2.96	74.6	108.4	3.8
1985	20	20	8	8	0	6	3	119	46	44	102	12	130.0	3.18	1.254	7.06	3.33	84.6	123.8	2.8
1986	28	27	5	14	0	4	1	166	91	96	122	18	176.7	4.64	1.483	6.22	4.34	108.7	86.0	0.7
1987	34	34	18	10	0	6	1	223	97	106	174	24	237.3	3.68	1.386	6.60	4.11	96.6	115.6	4.2
1988	32	32	13	14	0	12	2	232	97	70	144	18	226.0	3.86	1.336	5.73	3.42	95.5	92.8	1.8
1989	35	34	16	11	0	5	1	202	93	69	153	18	229.0	3.66	1.183	6.01	3.28	87.9	102.1	2.7
1990	5	5	0	2	0	0	0	25	14	12	7	2	21.3	5.91	1.734	2.95	5.06	125.0	68.5	-0.2
1991	19	18	6	5	0	0	0	96	44	45	52	4	96.7	4.10	1.459	4.84	3.65	94.5	94.3	0.6
1992	36	36	16	15	0	5	2	251	118	74	109	20	237.3	4.47	1.369	4.13	3.99	101.0	88.3	0.9
1993	29	28	10	10	0	3	0	212	106	74	80	23	166.0	5.75	1.723	4.34	5.28	119.3	77.1	-0.8
1994	16	14	6	4	0	0	0	93	49	32	26	11	67.7	6.52	1.847	3.46	5.92	142.7	63.6	-1.2

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

466

657

562

102

RBI

143

.1815

OBP

.2289

SLG

.2456

OPS

.4745

Pitching

G (P)

457

392

149th-most career GS

171

188th-most career W

139

217th-most career L

SHO

292nd-most career SHO

2,698

203rd-most career IP

SO (P)

1,679

169th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,081

84th-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.080

WHIP

1.3875

K/9

5.60

474th-highest career K/9

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
1988-08-31	CHC @ HOU Gameday	3	1	2	1	1	2	6
1979-05-25	CIN @ LAD Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	2	5
1984-10-02	SD @ CHC Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	1	5
1985-04-23	CHC @ PIT Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	1	5
1986-04-24	WSH @ CHC Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	3	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1984-09-03	CHC @ PHI Gameday	8.0	3	3	3	1	15	1
1984-06-24	STL @ CHC Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	1	14	0
1984-08-12	CHC @ WSH Gameday	9.0	8	3	3	0	12	2
1984-09-08	CHC @ NYM Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	0	12	0
1985-05-08	CHC @ SF Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	2	12	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.

Honors

1× Rookie of the Year1× Cy Young Award3× 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.