Tim Belcher

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 210 lb

BornOctober 19, 1961 · Mount Gilead, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 6, 1987

Final gameSeptember 30, 2000

Seasons14 (1987–2000)

Los Angeles Dodgers 1987–1991; Cincinnati Reds 1992; Chicago White Sox 1993; Cincinnati Reds 1993; Detroit Tigers 1994; Seattle Mariners 1995; Kansas City Royals 1996–1998; Anaheim Angels 1999–2000

Percentile snapshot

1998 season — qualified pitchers

68.4

78.9

58.9

10.5

41.1

SHO

247

6.3

111

14.7

35.8

130

28.4

2.1

234.0

89.5

ERA

4.27

43.2

WHIP

1.368

43.2

K/9

5.00

11.6

FIP

5.19

9.5

FIP-

109.0

22.1

ERA+

111.6

sWAR

3.6

66.3

of 96 qualified 1998 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

101.1

42.6

sWAR

25.2

95.4

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1987	6	10	10	0	2	0	0	1	0	4	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	0.1	8.6	.183	1.0
1988	36	61	56	2	4	2	1	3	0	28	0	.071	.071	.161	.232	-51.4	-33.6	.102	2.5
1989	39	83	70	3	7	1	0	6	2	26	0	.100	.137	.114	.251	-35.5	-26.2	.125	3.7
1990	24	54	43	5	7	1	0	1	0	15	0	.163	.200	.186	.386	4.2	9.1	.186	1.0
1991	33	74	67	3	8	2	0	3	0	26	0	.119	.119	.149	.269	-38.3	-23.7	.122	4.4
1992	35	83	76	3	8	1	1	4	0	28	0	.105	.105	.158	.263	-52.1	-27.2	.119	1.1
1993	34	54	50	2	10	1	0	7	0	15	1	.200	.216	.220	.436	11.4	17.7	.201	1.3
1994	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
1995	28	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.2
1996	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.9
1997	32	6	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.0	-100.0	.000	1.2
1998	34	6	5	1	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	.200	.200	.200	.400	-6.7	3.8	.180	3.6
1999	24	5	5	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	.200	.200	.400	.600	40.7	49.1	.253	-1.3
2000	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1987	6	5	4	2	0	0	0	30	9	7	23	2	34.0	2.38	1.088	6.09	2.90	73.3	165.9	1.0
1988	36	27	12	6	4	4	1	143	58	51	152	8	179.7	2.91	1.080	7.61	2.48	74.7	114.2	2.5
1989	39	30	15	12	1	10	8	182	72	80	200	20	230.0	2.82	1.139	7.83	3.19	93.3	121.2	3.7
1990	24	24	9	9	0	5	2	136	68	48	102	17	153.0	4.00	1.203	6.00	3.90	106.1	91.9	1.0
1991	33	33	10	9	0	2	1	189	61	75	156	10	209.3	2.62	1.261	6.71	3.03	84.0	137.4	4.4
1992	35	34	15	14	0	2	1	201	99	80	149	17	227.7	3.91	1.234	5.89	3.53	97.8	92.2	1.1
1993	34	33	12	11	0	5	3	198	103	74	135	19	208.7	4.44	1.304	5.82	4.05	98.8	92.1	1.3
1994	25	25	7	15	0	3	0	192	106	78	76	21	162.0	5.89	1.667	4.22	5.46	112.5	82.4	-0.1
1995	28	28	10	12	0	1	0	188	90	88	96	19	179.3	4.52	1.539	4.82	5.00	105.6	104.9	2.2
1996	35	35	15	11	0	4	1	262	104	68	113	28	238.7	3.92	1.383	4.26	4.76	95.5	127.0	4.9
1997	32	32	13	12	0	3	1	242	119	70	113	31	213.3	5.02	1.463	4.77	5.03	107.9	92.8	1.2
1998	34	34	14	14	0	2	0	247	111	73	130	37	234.0	4.27	1.368	5.00	5.19	109.0	111.6	3.6
1999	24	24	6	8	0	0	0	168	99	46	52	27	132.3	6.73	1.617	3.54	6.23	129.1	71.6	-1.3
2000	9	9	4	5	0	1	0	45	31	22	22	8	40.7	6.86	1.648	4.87	6.47	130.4	72.3	-0.4

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

394

436

388

RBI

147

.1237

OBP

.1371

SLG

.1624

OPS

.2995

Pitching

G (P)

394

373

178th-most career GS

146

277th-most career W

140

213th-most career L

SHO

292nd-most career SHO

2,443

270th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,519

226th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

860

188th-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.163

WHIP

1.3440

K/9

5.60

474th-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	TB
1988-09-11	CIN @ LAD Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	1	4
1992-05-16	PHI @ CIN Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	4
1989-04-25	LAD @ CHC Gameday	4	0	2	1	0	2	3
1993-06-05	STL @ CIN Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	2	3
1991-06-23	PIT @ LAD Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1992-09-20	SD @ CIN Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	0	13
1989-05-30	WSH @ LAD Gameday	8.0	6	4	4	2	12
1989-09-27	SF @ LAD Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	1	11
1989-04-18	CIN @ LAD Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	0	10
1991-08-30	CHC @ LAD Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	0	10

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.