Tippy Martinez

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 180 lb

BornMay 31, 1950 · La Junta, CO, USA

MLB debutAugust 9, 1974

Final gameApril 18, 1988

Seasons14 (1974–1988)

New York Yankees 1974–1975; Baltimore Orioles 1976; New York Yankees 1976; Baltimore Orioles 1977–1986; Minnesota Twins 1988

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

12.1

88.9

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1974	10	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1975	23	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.8
1976	39	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
1977	41	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.1
1978	43	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4
1979	39	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.8
1980	54	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.7
1981	37	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.1
1982	76	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
1983	65	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.9
1984	55	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
1985	49	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4
1986	14	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
1988	3	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1974	10	0	0	0	0	14	6	9	10	0	12.7	4.26	1.816	7.11	3.36	94.4	83.5	0.0
1975	23	2	1	2	8	27	11	32	20	2	37.0	2.68	1.595	4.86	4.85	130.9	138.6	0.8
1976	39	0	5	1	10	50	18	42	45	1	69.7	2.33	1.321	5.81	3.36	99.7	145.0	1.6
1977	41	0	5	1	9	47	15	27	29	2	50.0	2.70	1.480	5.22	3.72	97.2	141.9	1.1
1978	42	0	3	3	5	77	37	40	57	4	69.0	4.83	1.696	7.43	3.44	96.9	73.4	-0.4
1979	39	0	10	3	3	59	25	31	61	0	78.0	2.88	1.154	7.04	2.43	60.0	140.5	1.8
1980	53	0	4	4	10	69	27	34	68	5	80.7	3.01	1.277	7.59	3.18	80.3	131.5	1.7
1981	37	0	3	3	11	48	19	32	50	4	59.0	2.90	1.356	7.63	3.35	92.5	125.1	1.1
1982	76	0	8	8	16	81	36	37	78	6	95.0	3.41	1.242	7.39	3.07	76.0	118.4	1.6
1983	65	0	9	3	21	76	27	37	81	10	103.3	2.35	1.094	7.05	3.59	90.2	169.2	2.9
1984	55	0	4	9	17	88	39	51	72	9	89.7	3.91	1.550	7.23	4.15	106.3	99.8	0.9
1985	49	0	3	3	4	70	42	37	47	8	70.0	5.40	1.529	6.04	4.47	110.1	75.2	-0.4
1986	14	0	0	2	1	18	10	12	11	1	16.0	5.63	1.875	6.19	4.48	107.8	73.9	-0.1
1988	3	0	0	0	0	8	8	4	3	1	4.0	18.00	3.000	6.75	8.32	205.5	22.5	-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

548

RBI

Pitching

G (P)

546

344th-most career G (P)

115

140th-most career SV

SHO

834

SO (P)

632

BB allowed

425

ERA

3.453

WHIP

1.3873

K/9

6.82

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	BB	TB
1978-05-14	BAL @ TEX Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1979-10-11	PIT @ BAL Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1979-10-14	BAL @ PIT Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1979-10-17	PIT @ BAL Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1980-09-11	BAL @ TOR Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1980-08-30	LAA @ BAL Gameday	6.1	7	4	4	2	9	0
1981-08-30	LAA @ BAL Gameday	5.2	3	2	2	4	9	1
1985-10-03	BOS @ BAL Gameday	6.2	2	1	1	2	7	0
1979-05-07	ATH @ BAL Gameday	4.2	5	2	2	1	7	0
1983-04-21	TEX @ BAL Gameday	4.0	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.

Honors

1× 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.