Scott Sanderson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 195 lb

BornJuly 22, 1956 · Dearborn, MI, USA

MLB debutAugust 6, 1978

Final gameMay 15, 1996

Seasons19 (1978–1996)

Montreal Expos 1978–1983; Chicago Cubs 1984–1989; Oakland Athletics 1990; New York Yankees 1991–1992; California Angels 1993; San Francisco Giants 1993; Chicago White Sox 1994; California Angels 1995–1996

Percentile snapshot

1993 season — qualified pitchers

32.6

19.8

22.1

24.4

62.8

SHO

38.4

201

59.3

97.7

102

25.6

8.1

184.0

23.3

ERA

4.21

WHIP

1.277

62.8

K/9

4.99

27.9

FIP

4.45

22.1

FIP-

103.9

29.1

ERA+

102.7

44.2

sWAR

1.9

38.4

of 87 qualified 1993 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

101.5

44.1

sWAR

26.1

95.7

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
1978	10	21	19	0	2	0	0	0	0	11	.105	.105	.105	.211	-59.6	-40.3	.098	1.3
1979	34	57	50	0	8	2	0	1	0	23	.160	.160	.200	.360	-14.4	-1.3	.164	2.1
1980	33	74	64	3	5	3	0	1	2	33	.078	.106	.125	.231	-51.1	-35.3	.111	3.0
1981	22	49	35	2	4	2	0	6	9	18	.114	.295	.171	.467	50.7	35.4	.259	2.5
1982	32	76	57	5	8	3	1	6	2	20	.140	.183	.246	.429	11.5	18.7	.202	2.8
1983	18	29	28	1	4	2	0	1	0	8	.143	.143	.214	.357	-15.8	-1.4	.161	-0.2
1984	24	51	42	3	5	0	0	5	3	18	.119	.191	.119	.311	-21.3	-13.8	.163	2.6
1985	19	39	31	1	2	0	0	1	1	17	.065	.121	.065	.186	-66.5	-48.8	.102	2.2
1986	38	58	51	1	3	1	0	2	0	23	.059	.077	.078	.155	-82.8	-58.3	.075	0.9
1987	32	47	40	2	3	0	1	2	3	20	.075	.140	.150	.290	-34.2	-24.5	.142	1.3
1988	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
1989	37	54	43	1	2	0	0	1	5	22	.047	.146	.047	.192	-50.6	-44.1	.117	0.8
1990	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.7
1991	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.8
1992	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4
1993	32	16	14	1	0	0	0	0	1	11	.000	.067	.000	.067	-85.6	-79.8	.050	1.9
1994	18	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.5
1995	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.6
1996	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1978	10	9	4	2	0	1	1	52	17	21	50	3	61.0	2.51	1.197	7.38	2.70	76.8	140.5	1.3
1979	34	24	9	8	1	5	3	148	64	54	138	16	168.0	3.43	1.202	7.39	3.31	89.8	107.4	2.1
1980	33	33	16	11	0	7	3	206	73	56	125	18	211.3	3.11	1.240	5.32	3.51	97.9	115.3	3.0
1981	22	22	9	7	0	4	1	122	45	31	77	10	137.3	2.95	1.114	5.05	3.19	91.1	119.0	2.5
1982	32	32	12	12	0	7	0	212	86	58	158	24	224.0	3.46	1.205	6.35	3.55	97.1	105.7	2.8
1983	18	16	6	7	1	0	0	98	42	20	55	12	81.3	4.65	1.451	6.09	3.98	110.6	77.4	-0.2
1984	24	24	8	5	0	3	0	140	49	24	76	5	140.7	3.14	1.166	4.86	2.73	70.6	123.3	2.6
1985	19	19	5	6	0	2	0	100	42	27	80	13	121.0	3.12	1.050	5.95	3.36	85.3	126.2	2.2
1986	37	28	9	11	1	1	1	165	79	37	124	21	169.7	4.19	1.191	6.58	3.58	89.8	95.2	0.9
1987	32	22	8	9	2	0	0	156	69	50	106	23	144.7	4.29	1.424	6.59	4.57	107.4	99.1	1.3
1988	11	0	1	2	0	0	0	13	9	3	6	1	15.3	5.28	1.043	3.52	3.36	93.7	67.9	-0.2
1989	37	23	11	9	0	2	0	155	64	31	86	16	146.3	3.94	1.271	5.29	3.58	96.1	94.8	0.8
1990	34	34	17	11	0	2	1	205	89	66	128	27	206.3	3.88	1.313	5.58	4.29	114.8	96.2	1.7
1991	34	34	16	10	0	2	2	200	88	29	130	22	208.0	3.81	1.101	5.63	3.50	84.6	108.6	2.8
1992	33	33	12	11	0	2	1	220	106	64	104	28	193.3	4.93	1.469	4.84	4.65	118.6	79.5	-0.4
1993	32	29	11	13	0	4	1	201	86	34	102	27	184.0	4.21	1.277	4.99	4.45	103.9	102.7	1.9
1994	18	14	8	4	0	1	0	110	52	12	36	20	92.0	5.09	1.326	3.52	5.70	121.3	92.3	0.5
1995	7	7	1	3	0	0	0	48	18	4	23	6	39.3	4.12	1.322	5.26	4.41	94.1	113.8	0.6
1996	5	4	0	2	0	0	0	39	15	4	7	5	18.0	7.50	2.389	3.50	7.08	141.6	66.7	-0.3

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

473

571

474

RBI

224

.0970

OBP

.1505

SLG

.1371

OPS

.2876

Pitching

G (P)

472

407

133rd-most career GS

163

221st-most career W

143

195th-most career L

SHO

436th-most career SHO

2,562

238th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,611

195th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

625

ERA

3.840

WHIP

1.2550

356th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

5.66

459th-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	BB	TB
1981-04-16	CHC @ WSH Gameday	2	1	2	2	0	4	1	4
1982-09-11	WSH @ CHC Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	4	0	4
1987-05-01	SD @ CHC Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	1	0	4
1982-07-05	SD @ WSH Gameday	2	0	1	1	0	1	0	2
1982-09-21	WSH @ NYM Gameday	3	1	1	1	0	1	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1991-08-05	NYY @ DET Gameday	6.0	4	4	4	3	12	3
1982-09-16	NYM @ WSH Gameday	5.0	6	4	4	3	11	1
1985-06-05	ATL @ CHC Gameday	10.0	3	2	2	2	10	0
1980-08-01	ATL @ WSH Gameday	9.0	3	1	0	3	10	0
1990-07-26	LAA @ ATH Gameday	8.0	8	2	2	2	10	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× 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.