MLB / Players

Tom Phoebus

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 8 in · 185 lb

BornApril 7, 1942 · Baltimore, MD, USA

MLB debutSeptember 15, 1966

Final gameOctober 2, 1972

Seasons7 (1966–1972)

Baltimore Orioles 1966–1970; San Diego Padres 1971; Chicago Cubs 1972; San Diego Padres 1972

Percentile snapshot

1969 season — qualified pitchers

24.4

38.5

87.2

24.4

SHO

180

76.9

64.1

34.6

117

20.5

24.4

202.0

28.2

ERA

3.52

39.7

WHIP

1.322

28.2

K/9

5.21

29.5

FIP

4.03

11.5

FIP-

112.7

11.5

ERA+

101.7

39.7

sWAR

2.3

34.6

of 79 qualified 1969 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

100.3

39.5

sWAR

10.8

87.8

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
1966	3	8	6	1	1	0	0	0	1	3	.167	.286	.167	.452	43.9	35.5	.235	0.8
1967	33	82	76	6	11	1	1	6	3	32	.145	.177	.197	.375	1.5	11.6	.178	1.7
1968	36	92	82	3	15	2	1	8	3	23	.183	.212	.244	.456	29.1	38.9	.215	3.8
1969	35	83	75	8	15	2	0	4	3	26	.200	.231	.227	.457	22.9	29.6	.218	2.3
1970	27	46	43	2	7	1	0	3	0	16	.163	.163	.186	.349	-18.7	-3.2	.160	2.3
1971	29	41	36	2	6	2	0	0	3	18	.167	.231	.222	.453	30.4	32.5	.222	-0.5
1972	39	18	17	0	2	0	0	0	0	7	.118	.118	.118	.235	-61.2	-35.4	.110	0.4

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1966	3	3	2	1	0	2	2	16	3	6	17	0	22.0	1.23	1.000	6.95	1.71	50.6	275.0	0.8
1967	33	33	14	9	0	7	4	177	77	114	179	16	208.0	3.33	1.399	7.75	3.34	104.8	95.7	1.7
1968	36	36	15	15	0	9	3	186	70	105	193	10	240.7	2.62	1.209	7.22	2.52	85.4	112.6	3.8
1969	35	33	14	7	0	6	2	180	79	87	117	23	202.0	3.52	1.322	5.21	4.03	112.7	101.7	2.3
1970	27	21	5	5	0	3	0	106	46	62	72	11	135.0	3.07	1.244	4.80	3.93	106.9	120.0	2.3
1971	29	21	3	11	0	2	0	144	66	64	80	14	133.3	4.46	1.560	5.40	4.22	127.7	74.1	-0.5
1972	38	2	3	4	6	0	0	79	40	51	67	11	89.0	4.04	1.461	6.78	4.42	119.7	91.9	0.4

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

202

370

335

RBI

125

.1701

OBP

.2011

SLG

.2119

OPS

.4130

Pitching

G (P)

201

149

SHO

1,030

SO (P)

725

BB allowed

489

ERA

3.329

331st-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.3369

K/9

6.33

316th-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	TB
1967-06-06	BAL @ LAA Gameday	4	3	3	0	1	2	6
1968-08-08	MIN @ BAL Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	4
1969-05-14	BAL @ MIN Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	1	3
1969-07-08	NYY @ BAL Gameday	4	1	2	1	0	1	3
1967-06-25	BAL @ TEX Gameday	3	0	2	1	0	0	3

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1968-07-03	CWS @ BAL Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	5	12	0
1967-08-16	BAL @ NYY Gameday	7.0	8	3	2	3	12	0
1967-05-22	NYY @ BAL Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	6	11	0
1967-06-29	CWS @ BAL Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	0	11	1
1968-05-02	NYY @ BAL Gameday	9.0	6	3	3	4	11	1

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.