MLB / Players

Steve Trout

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 195 lb

BornJuly 30, 1957 · Detroit, MI, USA

MLB debutJuly 1, 1978

Final gameJune 5, 1989

Seasons12 (1978–1989)

Chicago White Sox 1978–1982; Chicago Cubs 1983–1987; New York Yankees 1987; Seattle Mariners 1988–1989

Percentile snapshot

1986 season — qualified pitchers

3.7

SHO

184

68.3

37.8

100

161.0

ERA

4.75

8.5

WHIP

1.627

1.2

K/9

3.86

6.1

FIP

3.85

48.8

FIP-

96.4

46.3

ERA+

83.9

4.9

sWAR

0.2

4.9

of 83 qualified 1986 pitchers (min 160 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

95.2

18.8

sWAR

11.2

88.1

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1978	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2
1979	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.1
1980	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.7
1981	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.4
1982	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
1983	34	72	62	6	12	0	1	2	20	.194	.219	.194	.412	4.3	13.2	.198	0.0
1984	32	71	61	4	8	0	3	4	21	.131	.182	.131	.313	-24.5	-13.6	.159	2.8
1985	24	57	46	2	5	1	2	2	13	.109	.146	.130	.276	-42.6	-25.3	.136	2.2
1986	37	48	43	5	9	1	3	1	15	.209	.227	.233	.460	13.3	23.3	.216	0.2
1987	25	29	26	1	4	0	0	0	9	.154	.154	.154	.308	-35.1	-19.5	.140	1.1
1988	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.9
1989	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1978	4	3	3	0	0	1	0	19	10	11	11	0	22.3	4.03	1.343	4.43	3.04	79.8	94.7	0.2
1979	34	18	11	8	4	6	2	165	67	59	76	10	155.0	3.89	1.445	4.41	3.86	91.1	109.1	2.1
1980	32	30	9	16	0	7	2	229	82	49	89	14	199.7	3.70	1.392	4.01	3.65	90.6	109.0	2.7
1981	20	18	8	7	0	3	0	122	48	38	54	7	124.7	3.47	1.283	3.90	3.41	95.2	103.5	1.4
1982	25	19	6	9	0	2	0	130	57	50	62	9	120.3	4.26	1.496	4.64	3.93	96.8	95.2	0.9
1983	34	32	10	14	0	1	0	217	93	59	80	13	180.0	4.65	1.533	4.00	3.74	98.7	81.5	0.0
1984	32	31	13	7	0	6	2	205	72	59	81	7	190.0	3.41	1.389	3.84	3.38	87.5	113.3	2.8
1985	24	24	9	7	0	3	1	142	53	63	44	8	140.7	3.39	1.457	2.82	4.10	103.9	116.3	2.2
1986	37	25	5	7	0	0	0	184	85	78	69	6	161.0	4.75	1.627	3.86	3.85	96.4	83.9	0.2
1987	25	20	6	7	0	3	2	123	59	64	59	7	121.3	4.38	1.541	4.38	4.28	98.9	98.6	1.1
1988	15	13	4	7	0	0	0	86	49	31	14	6	56.3	7.83	2.077	2.24	5.63	136.2	52.8	-1.9
1989	19	3	4	3	0	0	0	43	22	17	17	3	30.0	6.60	2.000	5.10	4.72	117.8	60.7	-0.6

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

301

277

238

RBI

.1597

OBP

.1895

SLG

.1681

OPS

.3576

Pitching

G (P)

301

236

SHO

1,501

SO (P)

656

BB allowed

578

ERA

4.178

WHIP

1.4940

K/9

3.93

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	TB
1983-05-28	CHC @ ATL Gameday	2	1	2	2
1983-06-13	CHC @ NYM Gameday	4	1	2	2
1983-07-03	WSH @ CHC Gameday	2	0	2	2
1984-04-13	NYM @ CHC Gameday	4	0	2	2
1986-06-08	CHC @ STL Gameday	2	1	2	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1979-08-13	CWS @ BAL Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	1	7	0
1980-04-25	CWS @ NYY Gameday	9.0	7	0	0	4	7	0
1981-04-24	CWS @ DET Gameday	8.0	10	2	2	4	7	0
1983-06-02	PIT @ CHC Gameday	8.0	5	2	2	5	7	0
1981-05-18	CWS @ TOR Gameday	7.0	5	2	2	2	7	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.