MLB / Players

Tom Bolton

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 172 lb

BornMay 6, 1962 · Nashville, TN, USA

MLB debutMay 17, 1987

Final gameJuly 30, 1994

Seasons8 (1987–1994)

Boston Red Sox 1987–1992; Cincinnati Reds 1992; Detroit Tigers 1993; Baltimore Orioles 1994

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

3.0

73.7

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	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1987	29	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.7
1988	28	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
1989	4	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.7
1990	21	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.1
1991	25	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
1992	37	15	14	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	-138.1	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1993	43	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
1994	22	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1987	29	0	1	0	0	0	83	30	27	49	5	61.7	4.38	1.784	7.15	3.75	82.6	103.7	0.7
1988	28	0	1	3	1	0	35	16	14	21	1	30.3	4.75	1.615	6.23	3.25	79.2	86.5	0.1
1989	4	4	0	4	0	0	21	16	10	9	1	17.3	8.31	1.788	4.67	4.29	105.2	49.1	-0.7
1990	21	16	10	5	0	3	111	45	47	65	6	119.7	3.38	1.320	4.89	3.63	89.4	119.9	2.1
1991	25	19	8	9	0	0	136	64	51	64	16	110.0	5.24	1.700	5.24	5.06	118.9	81.2	-0.2
1992	37	9	4	5	0	0	86	38	37	50	9	75.3	4.54	1.633	5.97	4.64	124.6	84.0	-0.1
1993	43	8	6	6	0	0	113	51	45	66	5	102.7	4.47	1.539	5.79	3.87	89.1	97.1	0.9
1994	22	0	1	2	0	0	29	14	13	12	3	23.3	5.40	1.800	4.63	5.51	111.4	91.6	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

209

RBI

.0000

OBP

.0000

SLG

.0000

OPS

.0000

Pitching

G (P)

209

SHO

540

SO (P)

336

BB allowed

244

ERA

4.564

WHIP

1.5879

K/9

5.60

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
1992-07-10	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0
1992-07-11	PIT @ CIN Gameday	0
1992-07-20	CHC @ CIN Gameday	2
1992-07-25	CIN @ STL Gameday	3
1992-07-29	CIN @ SD Gameday	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1992-08-09	SF @ CIN Gameday	7.1	9	7	7	2	7	2
1993-08-22	ATH @ DET Gameday	6.0	4	1	1	3	7	0
1990-07-17	MIN @ BOS Gameday	8.0	5	0	0	4	6	0
1991-05-04	BOS @ CWS Gameday	6.2	4	0	0	2	6	0
1993-06-16	CLE @ DET Gameday	5.2	5	2	2	2	6	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.