Ross Baumgarten
Chicago White Sox 1978–1981; Pittsburgh Pirates 1982
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 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.3 |
| 1979 | 28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3.4 |
| 1980 | 24 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2.2 |
| 1981 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.4 |
| 1982 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .083 | .083 | .083 | .167 | -75.7 | -53.8 | .078 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 29 | 15 | 9 | 15 | 3 | 23.0 | 5.87 | 1.652 | 5.87 | 4.25 | 111.4 | 65.0 | -0.3 |
| 1979 | 28 | 28 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 175 | 75 | 83 | 72 | 18 | 190.7 | 3.54 | 1.353 | 3.40 | 4.56 | 107.5 | 119.9 | 3.4 |
| 1980 | 24 | 23 | 2 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 127 | 52 | 52 | 66 | 10 | 136.0 | 3.44 | 1.316 | 4.37 | 3.91 | 97.1 | 117.1 | 2.2 |
| 1981 | 19 | 19 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 101 | 46 | 40 | 52 | 9 | 101.7 | 4.07 | 1.387 | 4.60 | 3.88 | 108.1 | 88.1 | 0.4 |
| 1982 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 32 | 27 | 17 | 3 | 44.0 | 6.55 | 1.977 | 3.48 | 4.70 | 126.2 | 56.9 | -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
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
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982-07-01 | PIT @ CHC Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1981-04-28 | CWS @ BAL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1981-05-03 | CWS @ CLE Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982-04-11 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1982-04-17 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-05-15 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 8.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 0 |
| 1981-09-22 | CWS @ LAA Gameday | 8.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
| 1981-09-05 | TOR @ CWS Gameday | 6.1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 0 |
| 1978-08-27 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 1981-05-11 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 8.0 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 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.