Stan Bahnsen

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 185 lb

BornDecember 15, 1944 · Council Bluffs, IA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 9, 1966

Final gameOctober 2, 1982

Seasons16 (1966–1982)

New York Yankees 1966; New York Yankees 1968–1971; Chicago White Sox 1972–1975; Oakland Athletics 1975–1976; Montreal Expos 1977; Oakland Athletics 1977; Montreal Expos 1978–1981; California Angels 1982; Philadelphia Phillies 1982

Percentile snapshot

1975 season — qualified pitchers

20.7

17.1

37.8

8.5

SHO

166

91.5

67.1

52.4

19.5

87.8

167.3

4.9

ERA

4.36

12.2

WHIP

1.452

18.3

K/9

4.30

31.7

FIP

3.94

FIP-

104.6

ERA+

85.9

14.6

sWAR

0.4

13.4

of 83 qualified 1975 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

97.1

26.8

sWAR

20.9

93.9

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1966	4	7	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	5	.143	.143	.143	.286	-31.0	-16.0	.130	0.1
1968	37	98	81	4	4	0	0	0	3	6	49	.049	.114	.049	.163	-64.0	-48.2	.093	5.2
1969	40	71	60	1	5	1	0	0	1	2	33	.083	.113	.100	.213	-52.3	-38.5	.106	0.9
1970	36	84	74	3	11	0	1	0	1	2	34	.149	.171	.176	.347	-12.0	-1.5	.164	2.8
1971	36	88	79	6	12	2	1	0	3	1	32	.152	.163	.203	.365	-12.8	3.7	.169	2.6
1972	44	97	92	5	14	2	0	0	2	1	38	.152	.170	.174	.344	-16.5	2.2	.165	0.7
1973	42	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.0
1974	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.5
1975	33	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.1	-100.0	.000	0.4
1976	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.5
1977	34	49	42	0	5	2	0	0	7	3	18	.119	.178	.167	.344	-11.5	-6.0	.169	-0.5
1978	44	12	11	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	.091	.091	.091	.182	-69.0	-48.4	.085	0.4
1979	55	14	14	2	1	0	0	1	2	0	5	.071	.071	.286	.357	-24.1	-6.3	.150	1.5
1980	57	13	9	1	1	1	0	0	0	4	3	.111	.385	.222	.607	104.0	74.9	.334	1.6
1981	25	9	9	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	.111	.111	.111	.222	-58.8	-36.7	.104	-0.5
1982	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1966	4	3	1	1	1	1	0	15	9	7	16	3	23.0	3.52	.957	6.26	3.65	109.7	94.5	0.1
1968	37	34	17	12	0	10	1	216	61	68	162	14	267.3	2.05	1.062	5.45	2.48	85.7	140.7	5.2
1969	40	33	9	16	1	5	2	222	94	90	130	28	220.7	3.83	1.414	5.30	4.06	116.8	90.6	0.9
1970	36	35	14	11	0	6	2	227	86	75	116	23	232.7	3.33	1.298	4.49	3.71	104.8	106.4	2.8
1971	36	34	14	12	0	14	3	221	90	72	110	20	242.0	3.35	1.211	4.09	3.48	101.2	102.7	2.6
1972	43	41	21	16	0	5	1	263	101	73	157	22	252.3	3.60	1.332	5.60	3.10	99.6	86.3	0.7
1973	42	42	18	21	0	14	4	290	112	117	120	20	282.3	3.57	1.442	3.83	3.95	100.6	110.0	4.0
1974	38	35	12	15	0	10	1	230	113	110	102	17	216.3	4.70	1.572	4.24	4.23	114.1	78.8	-0.5
1975	33	28	10	13	0	4	0	166	81	77	80	11	167.3	4.36	1.452	4.30	3.94	104.6	85.9	0.4
1976	35	14	8	7	0	1	1	124	53	43	82	13	143.0	3.34	1.168	5.16	3.60	106.3	101.5	1.5
1977	34	24	9	11	1	3	1	166	83	51	79	19	149.3	5.00	1.453	4.76	4.38	112.3	77.8	-0.5
1978	44	1	1	5	7	0	0	74	32	31	44	9	75.0	3.84	1.400	5.28	4.25	120.6	91.8	0.4
1979	55	0	3	1	5	0	0	80	33	42	71	10	94.3	3.15	1.293	6.77	3.90	105.9	116.9	1.5
1980	57	0	7	6	4	0	0	80	31	33	48	7	91.3	3.05	1.237	4.73	3.77	105.3	117.3	1.6
1981	25	3	2	1	1	0	0	45	27	24	28	7	49.0	4.96	1.408	5.14	4.92	140.1	70.7	-0.5
1982	15	0	0	1	0	0	0	21	7	11	14	0	23.0	2.74	1.391	5.48	2.94	76.0	139.0	0.5

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

575

543

479

RBI

225

.1169

OBP

.1520

SLG

.1482

OPS

.3002

Pitching

G (P)

574

282nd-most career G (P)

327

277th-most career GS

146

277th-most career W

149

175th-most career L

SHO

354th-most career SHO

2,529

247th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,359

304th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

924

147th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.605

WHIP

1.3302

K/9

4.84

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	TB
1979-08-19	ATL @ WSH Gameday	1	1	1	0	0	1	2	4
1972-06-11	MIL @ CWS Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	0	0	3
1971-04-13	DET @ NYY Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	0	1	3
1970-05-20	TEX @ NYY Gameday	2	0	1	0	1	0	0	3
1971-09-17	CLE @ NYY Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	0	2	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1968-08-01	NYY @ BOS Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	0	12	0
1970-04-20	NYY @ TEX Gameday	7.0	10	2	2	2	10	0
1968-06-22	NYY @ MIN Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	2	9	1
1976-05-28	CWS @ ATH Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	0	9	0
1968-09-13	NYY @ TEX Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	2	8	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 Year

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.