Steve Barber

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 195 lb

BornFebruary 22, 1938 · Takoma Park, MD, USA

MLB debutApril 21, 1960

Final gameJuly 31, 1974

Seasons15 (1960–1974)

Baltimore Orioles 1960–1967; New York Yankees 1967–1968; Seattle Pilots 1969; Atlanta Braves 1970; Chicago Cubs 1970; Atlanta Braves 1971–1972; California Angels 1972–1973; San Francisco Giants 1974

Percentile snapshot

1967 season — qualified pitchers

22.4

55.2

11.9

1.5

4.5

SHO

28.4

150

92.5

41.8

115

118

22.4

88.1

172.3

4.5

ERA

4.07

4.5

WHIP

1.538

K/9

6.16

41.8

FIP

3.87

4.5

FIP-

122.6

1.5

ERA+

77.4

1.5

sWAR

-0.3

1.5

of 68 qualified 1967 pitchers (min 163 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

104.5

55.1

sWAR

22.5

94.5

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1960	36	63	54	1	3	0	0	0	1	5	32	0	.056	.136	.056	.191	-51.3	-45.3	.110	2.6
1961	37	95	80	6	13	1	0	2	6	5	42	0	.163	.221	.250	.471	25.9	29.1	.221	4.1
1962	28	50	42	2	3	0	0	0	1	2	24	0	.071	.133	.071	.205	-46.0	-40.9	.110	1.6
1963	39	96	87	3	12	2	0	1	4	4	38	0	.138	.176	.195	.371	-1.3	6.6	.173	4.8
1964	36	52	47	2	7	0	0	1	4	4	24	1	.149	.216	.213	.428	16.6	21.2	.205	1.1
1965	37	76	65	2	5	1	0	1	2	4	43	0	.077	.129	.138	.267	-36.3	-24.0	.130	4.2
1966	25	51	44	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	30	0	.068	.068	.068	.136	-81.8	-60.2	.062	2.8
1967	32	57	51	2	7	1	1	0	7	3	31	0	.137	.185	.196	.381	7.2	13.9	.184	-0.3
1968	20	47	39	1	2	0	0	0	0	6	23	0	.051	.178	.051	.229	-26.7	-26.5	.141	0.6
1969	25	27	25	4	5	0	1	0	1	1	15	0	.200	.231	.280	.511	35.7	42.7	.239	-0.3
1970	10	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	24.2	31.7	.231	-0.2
1971	39	14	13	0	2	0	0	0	0	1	10	0	.154	.214	.154	.368	-5.2	3.2	.187	-0.3
1972	39	17	12	0	2	0	0	0	0	3	5	0	.167	.333	.167	.500	67.5	50.8	.276	1.1
1973	50	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
1974	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1960	36	27	10	7	2	6	1	148	65	113	112	10	181.7	3.22	1.437	5.55	3.80	100.7	117.3	2.6
1961	37	34	18	12	1	14	8	194	92	130	150	13	248.3	3.33	1.305	5.44	3.57	93.0	115.1	4.1
1962	28	19	9	6	0	5	2	145	54	61	89	9	140.3	3.46	1.468	5.71	3.40	91.6	107.3	1.6
1963	39	36	20	13	0	11	2	253	79	92	180	12	258.7	2.75	1.334	6.26	2.79	80.2	126.3	4.8
1964	36	26	9	13	1	4	0	144	67	81	118	15	157.0	3.84	1.433	6.76	3.88	108.8	92.8	1.1
1965	37	32	15	10	0	7	2	177	66	81	130	16	220.7	2.69	1.169	5.30	3.29	94.7	129.1	4.2
1966	25	22	10	5	0	5	3	104	34	49	91	6	133.3	2.30	1.148	6.14	2.83	83.7	147.0	2.8
1967	32	32	10	18	0	4	2	150	78	115	118	9	172.3	4.07	1.538	6.16	3.87	122.6	77.4	-0.3
1968	20	19	6	5	0	3	1	127	46	64	87	7	128.3	3.23	1.488	6.10	3.14	108.8	89.6	0.6
1969	25	16	4	7	0	0	0	99	46	48	69	9	86.3	4.80	1.703	7.19	3.82	105.3	75.7	-0.3
1970	10	2	0	2	0	0	0	27	14	11	14	3	20.3	6.20	1.869	6.20	5.16	120.1	69.4	-0.2
1971	39	3	3	1	2	0	0	92	40	25	40	6	75.0	4.80	1.560	4.80	3.60	97.9	76.5	-0.3
1972	39	3	4	4	2	0	0	55	23	36	40	5	73.7	2.81	1.235	4.89	3.67	119.3	110.2	1.1
1973	50	1	3	2	4	0	0	90	35	32	58	5	89.3	3.53	1.366	5.84	3.19	89.0	101.5	0.9
1974	13	0	0	1	1	0	0	13	8	12	13	0	13.7	5.27	1.829	8.56	3.32	87.8	71.7	-0.1

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

649

563

RBI

320

.1155

OBP

.1738

SLG

.1581

OPS

.3319

Pitching

G (P)

466

272

446th-most career GS

121

440th-most career W

106

484th-most career L

SHO

232nd-most career SHO

1,999

453rd-most career IP

SO (P)

1,309

322nd-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

950

137th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.363

350th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3847

K/9

5.89

402nd-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	BB	TB
1961-07-25	BOS @ BAL Gameday	2	2	2	1	1	0	5
1964-07-16	BAL @ NYY Gameday	3	1	1	1	2	1	4
1965-07-06	BAL @ ATH Gameday	2	1	1	1	2	0	4
1961-06-23	BAL @ LAA Gameday	2	1	1	1	1	0	4
1963-08-04	BAL @ NYY Gameday	3	1	1	1	1	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1964-09-09	BAL @ TEX Gameday	8.2	6	4	3	4	13	2
1961-08-13	BOS @ BAL Gameday	11.0	6	5	3	11	11	0
1963-04-21	CLE @ BAL Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	2	11	0
1960-07-28	ATH @ BAL Gameday	9.0	1	0	0	5	10	0
1961-05-06	BAL @ ATH Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	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

2× 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.