Tom Griffin

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 210 lb

BornFebruary 22, 1948 · Los Angeles, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 10, 1969

Final gameMay 11, 1982

Seasons14 (1969–1982)

Houston Astros 1969–1976; San Diego Padres 1976–1977; California Angels 1978; San Francisco Giants 1979–1981; Pittsburgh Pirates 1982

Percentile snapshot

1981 season — qualified pitchers

18.4

37.9

28.7

39.1

27.6

SHO

37.9

121

79.3

44.8

17.2

71.3

129.3

29.9

ERA

3.76

34.5

WHIP

1.376

21.8

K/9

5.78

82.8

FIP

3.68

28.7

FIP-

107.9

17.2

ERA+

90.7

sWAR

0.9

25.3

of 88 qualified 1981 pitchers (min 111 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

86.7

2.3

sWAR

6.3

81.9

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1969	31	73	62	6	9	1	2	8	5	35	.145	.203	.258	.461	23.3	29.8	.216	2.1
1970	23	38	33	1	2	1	0	1	1	13	.061	.088	.091	.179	-61.0	-50.8	.088	-1.4
1971	10	10	9	0	1	0	0	0	1	2	.111	.200	.111	.311	-10.1	-8.3	.168	-0.3
1972	39	28	25	3	7	3	1	2	0	9	.280	.280	.520	.800	125.0	125.8	.357	1.4
1973	25	33	28	1	3	2	1	1	0	9	.107	.138	.286	.424	4.1	15.2	.190	0.4
1974	37	80	68	11	20	5	2	8	2	24	.294	.324	.456	.780	121.3	121.0	.361	2.8
1975	17	25	22	2	3	0	0	0	1	6	.136	.174	.136	.310	-17.7	-10.0	.156	-1.1
1976	32	36	31	2	2	0	0	0	1	9	.065	.094	.065	.158	-65.5	-53.4	.083	-0.2
1977	39	49	45	2	6	3	2	4	0	23	.133	.130	.333	.464	12.4	24.9	.195	0.1
1978	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3
1979	59	15	14	1	1	0	0	0	0	6	.071	.071	.071	.143	-76.8	-59.6	.066	0.4
1980	44	20	18	1	2	0	1	1	0	7	.111	.111	.278	.389	-8.8	6.9	.170	2.1
1981	22	50	41	1	8	1	1	5	2	12	.195	.227	.293	.520	41.6	49.0	.242	0.9
1982	6	9	9	0	2	0	0	2	0	3	.222	.222	.222	.444	13.3	23.2	.207	-1.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1969	31	31	11	10	0	6	3	156	74	93	200	19	188.3	3.54	1.322	9.56	3.44	97.1	100.1	2.1
1970	23	20	3	13	0	2	1	118	71	72	72	9	111.3	5.74	1.707	5.82	4.63	118.4	68.1	-1.4
1971	10	6	0	6	0	0	0	44	20	20	29	4	37.7	4.78	1.699	6.93	4.14	122.2	70.8	-0.3
1972	39	5	5	4	3	1	1	92	34	38	83	7	94.3	3.24	1.378	7.92	3.04	89.6	104.4	1.4
1973	25	12	4	6	0	4	0	83	46	46	69	10	99.7	4.15	1.294	6.23	3.92	107.3	87.8	0.4
1974	34	34	14	10	0	8	3	202	83	89	110	14	211.0	3.54	1.379	4.69	3.74	106.8	99.0	2.8
1975	17	13	3	8	0	3	1	89	47	46	56	11	79.3	5.33	1.702	6.35	4.82	141.0	64.2	-1.1
1976	31	13	9	6	0	2	0	100	51	79	69	4	112.0	4.10	1.598	5.54	4.05	123.5	80.1	-0.2
1977	38	20	6	9	0	0	0	144	75	88	79	17	151.3	4.46	1.533	4.70	4.99	138.4	80.9	0.1
1978	24	4	3	4	0	0	0	63	25	31	35	8	56.0	4.02	1.679	5.63	4.87	133.7	90.7	0.3
1979	59	3	5	6	2	0	0	83	41	46	82	9	94.3	3.91	1.367	7.82	3.78	107.2	90.3	0.4
1980	42	4	5	1	0	0	0	80	33	49	79	8	107.7	2.76	1.198	6.60	3.83	109.0	127.5	2.1
1981	22	22	8	8	0	3	1	121	54	57	83	8	129.3	3.76	1.376	5.78	3.68	107.9	90.7	0.9
1982	6	4	1	3	0	0	0	32	22	15	8	5	22.3	8.87	2.104	3.22	7.09	190.4	42.0	-1.2

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

408

466

405

RBI

158

.1630

OBP

.1910

SLG

.2765

OPS

.4675

Pitching

G (P)

401

191

SHO

1,495

SO (P)

1,054

BB allowed

769

288th-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.070

WHIP

1.4558

K/9

6.35

314th-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	BB	TB
1974-07-14	CHC @ HOU Gameday	2	2	2	1	1	1	0	6
1974-04-16	SF @ HOU Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	2	0	5
1981-05-05	SF @ NYM Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	2	0	5
1972-05-23	HOU @ SD Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	1	0	5
1969-06-04	HOU @ CHC Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	2	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1969-05-23	NYM @ HOU Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	4	13
1969-06-21	SD @ HOU Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	1	12
1974-05-11	HOU @ CIN Gameday	9.0	4	2	2	5	12
1969-04-15	ATL @ HOU Gameday	8.1	4	2	1	3	12
1969-06-25	SF @ HOU Gameday	8.0	6	2	2	3	12

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.