Terry Forster

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 200 lb

BornJanuary 14, 1952 · Sioux Falls, SD, USA

MLB debutApril 11, 1971

Final gameOctober 2, 1986

Seasons16 (1971–1986)

Chicago White Sox 1971–1976; Pittsburgh Pirates 1977; Los Angeles Dodgers 1978–1982; Atlanta Braves 1983–1985; California Angels 1986

Percentile snapshot

1973 season — qualified pitchers

98.8

1.2

61.6

98.8

9.3

SHO

174

95.3

40.7

120

98.8

172.7

5.8

ERA

3.23

WHIP

1.459

11.6

K/9

6.25

74.4

FIP

3.07

FIP-

78.3

90.7

ERA+

121.5

80.2

sWAR

3.1

of 87 qualified 1973 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

114.0

80.3

sWAR

18.3

92.8

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	RBI	BB	SO	SB	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1971	45	5	5	1	2	1	0	0	0	1	0	.400	.400	.600	1.000	188.3	177.6	.453	0.3
1972	63	22	19	1	10	0	0	3	1	2	1	.526	.550	.526	1.076	246.6	220.4	.508	2.6
1973	53	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.4	-100.0	.000	3.1
1974	59	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.5
1975	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.1
1976	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1977	36	27	26	2	9	1	1	1	0	4	0	.346	.346	.462	.808	115.9	114.3	.362	0.7
1978	47	9	8	1	4	1	0	2	0	0	0	.500	.500	.625	1.125	231.6	215.9	.517	2.1
1979	17	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	—	1.000	—	—	385.3	—	.751	-0.2
1980	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2
1981	21	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.3	-100.0	.000	0.0
1982	56	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.8	-100.0	.000	1.3
1983	56	9	8	1	4	1	0	0	0	1	0	.500	.500	.625	1.125	219.9	202.3	.515	2.6
1984	25	3	3	1	2	0	0	1	0	1	0	.667	.667	.667	1.333	296.5	266.1	.622	0.7
1985	46	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-133.1	-100.0	.000	1.6
1986	41	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.7

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1971	45	3	2	3	1	0	46	22	23	48	5	49.7	3.99	1.389	8.70	3.18	89.7	89.0	0.3
1972	62	0	6	5	29	0	75	25	44	104	0	100.0	2.25	1.190	9.36	1.60	51.4	138.2	2.6
1973	51	12	6	11	16	4	174	62	78	120	7	172.7	3.23	1.459	6.25	3.07	78.3	121.5	3.1
1974	59	1	7	8	24	0	120	54	48	105	6	134.3	3.62	1.251	7.03	2.84	76.6	102.5	1.5
1975	17	1	3	3	4	0	30	9	24	32	0	37.0	2.19	1.459	7.78	2.77	71.8	176.4	1.1
1976	29	16	2	12	1	1	126	54	41	70	7	111.3	4.37	1.500	5.66	3.31	93.0	81.6	0.0
1977	33	6	6	4	1	0	90	43	32	58	7	87.3	4.43	1.397	5.98	3.62	91.5	89.1	0.7
1978	47	0	5	4	22	0	56	14	23	46	2	65.3	1.93	1.209	6.34	2.67	75.5	183.2	2.1
1979	17	0	1	2	2	0	18	10	11	8	0	16.3	5.51	1.776	4.41	3.73	101.6	66.6	-0.2
1980	9	0	0	0	0	0	10	4	4	2	0	11.7	3.09	1.200	1.54	3.43	97.0	114.6	0.2
1981	21	0	0	1	0	0	37	14	15	17	1	30.7	4.11	1.696	4.99	3.45	103.0	81.6	0.0
1982	56	0	5	6	3	0	66	28	31	52	3	83.0	3.04	1.169	5.64	3.23	92.4	115.2	1.3
1983	56	0	3	2	13	0	60	19	31	54	3	79.3	2.16	1.147	6.13	3.05	79.2	178.7	2.6
1984	25	0	2	0	5	0	30	8	7	10	1	26.7	2.70	1.388	3.38	3.32	87.0	141.2	0.7
1985	46	0	2	3	1	0	49	15	28	37	7	59.3	2.28	1.298	5.61	4.32	113.8	166.9	1.6
1986	41	0	4	1	5	0	47	16	17	28	2	41.0	3.51	1.561	6.15	3.52	85.4	117.5	0.7

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

620

RBI

.3974

OBP

.4125

SLG

.4744

OPS

.8869

Pitching

G (P)

614

227th-most career G (P)

127

120th-most career SV

SHO

1,106

SO (P)

791

BB allowed

457

ERA

3.232

274th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3485

K/9

6.44

292nd-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	3B	RBI	TB
1977-09-29	NYM @ PIT Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	1	3
1971-09-24	CWS @ LAA Gameday	2	1	2	1	0	0	3
1983-04-26	PHI @ ATL Gameday	2	1	2	1	0	0	3
1977-06-19	PIT @ SF Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	0	3
1977-09-24	PIT @ CHC Gameday	2	0	2	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1976-05-11	CWS @ TEX Gameday	6.0	7	4	4	1	8	0
1974-04-24	MIL @ CWS Gameday	3.0	1	0	0	1	8	0
1973-08-18	CWS @ BAL Gameday	8.0	5	3	3	5	7	2
1974-06-05	NYY @ CWS Gameday	7.0	5	1	1	0	7	0
1972-06-11	MIL @ CWS Gameday	3.0	1	0	0	0	7	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.