MLB / Players

Tom Buskey

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 3 in · 200 lb
BornFebruary 20, 1947 · Harrisburg, PA, USA
MLB debutAugust 5, 1973
Final gameAugust 4, 1980
Seasons8 (1973–1980)

New York Yankees 1973; Cleveland Indians 1974; New York Yankees 1974; Cleveland Indians 1975–1977; Toronto Blue Jays 1978–1980

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
5.8
81

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19738000000000000-0.2
1974550000000000001.3
1975500000000000001.9
1976390000000000000.8
197721000000000000-0.2
197880000000000000.2
1979440000000000001.6
1980330000000000000.5

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19738001100181048216.75.401.3204.324.08110.868.2-0.2
19745502718001033736431198.73.381.4093.924.30119.0107.21.3
19755005370069222929777.02.571.2733.394.15109.6147.41.9
19763905410088383432994.33.631.2933.054.36124.796.40.8
1977210000004520815634.05.291.5593.974.95124.774.9-0.2
1978800100014557113.33.381.4254.733.6092.5115.30.2
1979440610700743025441078.73.431.2585.034.2999.4125.81.6
198033031000683326341166.74.461.4104.595.05120.694.10.5

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

G
258
PA
0
AB
0
R
0
H
0
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
0
SO
0
SB
0

Pitching

G (P)
258
GS
0
W
21
L
27
SV
34
493rd-most career SV
CG
0
SHO
0
IP
479
SO (P)
212
BB allowed
167
ERA
3.661
WHIP
1.3477
K/9
3.98

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

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1976-07-26CLE @ BOS Gameday5.0211041
1975-06-22MIL @ CLE Gameday3.2200340
1980-05-03CLE @ TOR Gameday3.1100240
1974-06-22CLE @ BOS Gameday2.2422440
1979-06-08TOR @ ATH Gameday2.0100040

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.