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Rollie Fingers

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 190 lb

BornAugust 25, 1946 · Steubenville, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 15, 1968

Final gameSeptember 17, 1985

Seasons17 (1968–1985)

Oakland Athletics 1968–1976; San Diego Padres 1977–1980; Milwaukee Brewers 1981–1982; Milwaukee Brewers 1984–1985

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+

120.5

90.1

sWAR

29.2

96.3

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
1968	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4
1969	60	28	25	2	5	0	0	0	0	4	.200	.200	.200	.400	3.7	15.0	.186	0.8
1970	45	45	39	1	4	0	1	1	2	11	.103	.146	.179	.326	-19.0	-8.6	.155	1.3
1971	48	39	33	4	7	0	0	0	1	7	.212	.235	.212	.447	22.3	30.4	.214	1.9
1972	65	20	19	2	6	0	1	2	0	3	.316	.316	.474	.789	141.8	140.5	.362	2.0
1973	62	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.6	-100.0	.000	3.7
1974	76	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.2
1975	76	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.1	-100.0	.000	2.2
1976	70	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.8
1977	78	21	20	0	1	0	0	2	0	9	.050	.050	.050	.100	-87.2	-71.9	.046	2.1
1978	67	14	12	0	2	0	0	2	0	3	.167	.167	.167	.333	-14.9	-3.1	.156	2.2
1979	54	13	12	1	1	0	0	2	0	2	.083	.083	.083	.167	-69.8	-53.0	.077	-0.2
1980	66	19	18	0	5	3	0	0	0	5	.278	.278	.444	.722	101.1	103.5	.325	2.0
1981	47	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.1
1982	50	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.9
1984	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.5
1985	47	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1968	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	4	1	0	1	1.3	27.00	3.750	0.00	16.47	567.9	10.7	-0.4
1969	60	8	6	7	12	1	1	116	49	41	61	13	119.0	3.71	1.319	4.61	3.89	112.0	93.7	0.8
1970	45	19	7	9	2	1	0	137	60	48	79	13	148.0	3.65	1.250	4.80	3.52	98.3	98.1	1.3
1971	48	8	4	6	17	2	1	94	43	30	98	14	129.3	2.99	.959	6.82	3.13	93.7	111.7	1.9
1972	65	0	11	9	21	0	0	85	31	32	113	8	111.3	2.51	1.051	9.13	2.06	71.4	115.3	2.0
1973	62	2	7	8	22	0	0	107	27	39	110	5	126.7	1.92	1.153	7.82	2.38	66.2	187.1	3.7
1974	76	0	9	5	18	0	0	104	35	29	95	5	119.0	2.65	1.118	7.18	2.28	67.5	127.5	2.2
1975	75	0	10	6	24	0	0	95	42	33	115	13	126.7	2.98	1.011	8.17	3.00	81.8	122.8	2.2
1976	70	0	13	11	20	0	0	118	37	40	113	3	134.7	2.47	1.173	7.55	2.28	67.2	136.9	2.8
1977	78	0	8	9	35	0	0	123	44	36	113	12	132.3	2.99	1.202	7.69	3.04	84.3	120.6	2.1
1978	67	0	6	13	37	0	0	84	30	29	72	4	107.3	2.52	1.053	6.04	2.60	77.6	133.3	2.2
1979	54	0	9	9	13	0	0	91	42	37	65	7	83.7	4.52	1.530	6.99	3.59	101.1	78.6	-0.2
1980	66	0	11	9	23	0	0	101	32	32	69	3	103.0	2.80	1.291	6.03	2.72	78.5	123.7	2.0
1981	47	0	6	3	28	0	0	55	9	13	61	3	78.0	1.04	.872	7.04	2.01	57.6	336.8	3.1
1982	50	0	5	6	29	0	0	63	23	20	71	5	79.7	2.60	1.042	8.02	2.51	65.0	148.9	1.9
1984	33	0	1	2	23	0	0	38	10	13	40	5	46.0	1.96	1.109	7.83	3.27	84.5	197.7	1.5
1985	47	0	1	6	17	0	0	59	31	19	24	9	55.3	5.04	1.410	3.90	5.02	121.2	82.1	0.0

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

945

201

180

RBI

.1722

OBP

.1858

SLG

.2222

OPS

.4080

Pitching

G (P)

944

22nd-most career G (P)

114

493rd-most career W

118

351st-most career L

341

16th-most career SV

SHO

1,701

SO (P)

1,299

328th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

492

ERA

2.904

146th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.1556

87th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

6.87

226th-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	HR	RBI	TB
1972-06-27	ATH @ TEX Gameday	2	1	1	1	2	4
1970-09-16	ATH @ MIL Gameday	4	1	1	1	1	4
1969-04-27	ATH @ MIL Gameday	5	1	2	0	0	2
1970-05-10	BOS @ ATH Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	2
1971-05-15	ATH @ KC Gameday	2	2	2	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1971-04-29	BAL @ ATH Gameday	9.0	5	3	1	3	10	2
1969-10-01	ATH @ MIL Gameday	7.0	6	3	3	3	9	1
1972-08-10	CWS @ ATH Gameday	5.1	4	1	1	3	8	0
1970-09-16	ATH @ MIL Gameday	9.0	8	1	1	1	7	1
1970-05-03	ATH @ TEX Gameday	8.2	5	1	1	1	7	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

Hall of Fame, 1992 (BBWAA)

1× World Series MVP1× Cy Young Award1× Most Valuable Player7× 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.