Tom Niedenfuer

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 225 lb

BornAugust 13, 1959 · St. Louis Park, MN, USA

MLB debutAugust 15, 1981

Final gameSeptember 20, 1990

Seasons10 (1981–1990)

Los Angeles Dodgers 1981–1986; Baltimore Orioles 1987; Los Angeles Dodgers 1987; Baltimore Orioles 1988; Seattle Mariners 1989; St. Louis Cardinals 1990

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

9.5

86.3

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1981	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
1982	55	4	3	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.250	.000	.250	6.7	-22.7	.188	1.3
1983	66	4	4	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.0	-100.0	.000	2.8
1984	33	4	3	0	0	0	0	3	.000	.000	.000	.000	-124.3	-100.0	.000	1.0
1985	64	10	9	0	1	0	0	3	.111	.111	.111	.222	-52.6	-36.3	.103	2.0
1986	60	5	4	1	2	2	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	196.7	186.8	.463	0.7
1987	60	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.6
1988	52	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
1989	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.8
1990	52	3	3	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.6	-100.0	.000	0.9

Pitching

Season	G	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1981	17	3	1	2	25	11	6	12	1	26.0	3.81	1.192	4.15	3.05	91.1	88.0	0.1
1982	55	3	4	9	71	21	25	60	3	69.7	2.71	1.378	7.75	2.75	78.6	128.9	1.3
1983	66	8	3	11	55	20	29	66	6	94.7	1.90	.887	6.27	3.05	85.3	188.4	2.8
1984	33	2	5	11	39	13	23	45	3	47.3	2.47	1.310	8.56	3.30	93.9	142.2	1.0
1985	64	7	9	19	86	32	24	102	6	106.3	2.71	1.034	8.63	2.14	61.5	128.4	2.0
1986	60	6	6	11	86	33	29	55	11	80.0	3.71	1.438	6.19	4.28	122.6	94.1	0.7
1987	60	4	5	14	68	34	31	47	12	68.7	4.46	1.442	6.16	5.22	120.9	96.6	0.6
1988	52	3	4	18	59	23	19	40	8	59.0	3.51	1.322	6.10	4.30	109.7	111.6	0.9
1989	25	0	3	0	46	27	15	15	7	36.3	6.69	1.679	3.72	5.85	146.1	59.9	-0.8
1990	52	0	6	2	66	25	25	32	3	65.0	3.46	1.400	4.43	3.58	94.3	109.7	0.9

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

484

RBI

.1154

OBP

.1481

SLG

.1154

OPS

.2635

Pitching

G (P)

484

482nd-most career G (P)

180th-most career SV

SHO

653

SO (P)

474

BB allowed

226

ERA

3.294

WHIP

1.2665

K/9

6.53

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	RBI	TB
1986-08-02	CIN @ LAD Gameday	1	0	1	2	1
1985-04-22	LAD @ SF Gameday	1	0	1	0	1
1986-05-13	LAD @ STL Gameday	1	1	1	0	1
1981-08-15	ATL @ LAD Gameday	0	0	0	0	0
1981-08-16	ATL @ LAD Gameday	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1983-08-11	LAD @ CIN Gameday	4.0	1	0	0	0	7	0
1985-05-18	LAD @ PHI Gameday	2.1	2	2	2	2	7	1
1983-07-09	PIT @ LAD Gameday	3.0	1	0	0	0	5	0
1985-06-07	LAD @ ATL Gameday	3.0	2	0	0	1	5	0
1982-08-22	LAD @ PIT Gameday	4.0	1	0	0	0	4	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.