Tom Underwood

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb

BornDecember 22, 1953 · Kokomo, IN, USA

MLB debutAugust 19, 1974

Final gameSeptember 23, 1984

Seasons11 (1974–1984)

Philadelphia Phillies 1974–1977; St. Louis Cardinals 1977; Toronto Blue Jays 1978–1979; New York Yankees 1980–1981; Oakland Athletics 1981–1983; Baltimore Orioles 1984

Percentile snapshot

1980 season — qualified pitchers

86.4

14.8

53.4

71.6

3.4

SHO

51.1

163

89.8

77.3

46.6

116

59.1

61.4

187.0

20.5

ERA

3.66

56.8

WHIP

1.225

76.1

K/9

5.58

81.8

FIP

3.68

56.8

FIP-

93.5

62.5

ERA+

107.7

62.5

sWAR

2.4

of 89 qualified 1980 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

100.1

sWAR

15.2

91.1

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1974	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.7	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1975	35	84	74	4	9	1	8	3	19	.122	.156	.135	.291	-33.9	-19.5	.145	0.8
1976	34	52	46	2	5	0	5	3	18	.109	.163	.109	.272	-31.2	-21.9	.143	1.4
1977	33	42	33	4	4	1	3	4	7	.121	.205	.152	.357	-3.7	-3.1	.181	-0.4
1978	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.5
1979	33	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.8
1980	38	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.4
1981	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.7
1982	56	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.7
1983	51	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.2
1984	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1974	7	0	1	0	0	0	0	15	7	5	8	1	13.0	4.85	1.538	5.54	3.51	93.3	77.6	-0.1
1975	35	35	14	13	0	7	2	221	101	84	123	12	219.3	4.14	1.391	5.05	3.44	92.0	90.1	0.8
1976	33	25	10	5	2	3	0	154	61	63	94	9	155.7	3.53	1.394	5.43	3.42	96.3	100.9	1.4
1977	33	17	9	11	1	1	0	148	74	75	86	9	133.3	5.00	1.673	5.81	4.03	103.8	77.8	-0.4
1978	31	30	6	14	0	7	1	201	90	87	139	23	197.7	4.10	1.457	6.33	4.01	103.0	95.0	1.5
1979	33	32	9	16	0	12	1	213	93	95	127	23	227.0	3.69	1.357	5.04	4.34	100.5	117.1	3.8
1980	38	27	13	9	2	2	2	163	76	66	116	15	187.0	3.66	1.225	5.58	3.68	93.5	107.7	2.4
1981	25	11	4	6	1	1	0	69	34	38	75	6	83.7	3.66	1.279	8.07	3.11	88.0	96.8	0.7
1982	56	10	10	6	7	2	0	136	56	68	79	11	153.0	3.29	1.333	4.65	3.94	99.9	119.9	2.7
1983	51	15	9	7	4	0	0	156	65	50	62	13	144.7	4.04	1.424	3.86	4.21	107.8	96.7	1.2
1984	37	1	1	0	1	0	0	78	28	31	39	8	71.7	3.52	1.521	4.90	4.41	112.8	111.1	1.0

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

380

179

154

RBI

.1169

OBP

.1687

SLG

.1299

OPS

.2986

Pitching

G (P)

379

203

SHO

1,586

SO (P)

948

BB allowed

662

450th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.887

WHIP

1.3972

K/9

5.38

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	RBI	TB
1977-07-22	HOU @ STL Gameday	3	1	2	0	0	2
1975-07-29	PHI @ PIT Gameday	3	1	1	1	2	2
1977-07-27	ATL @ STL Gameday	2	1	1	1	0	2
1976-06-02	PHI @ STL Gameday	3	0	1	0	2	1
1975-05-18	ATL @ PHI Gameday	4	0	1	0	1	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1981-09-29	TOR @ ATH Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	2	10	1
1975-05-13	CIN @ PHI Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	4	9	0
1978-05-09	ATH @ TOR Gameday	9.0	5	0	0	4	9	0
1979-05-26	BOS @ TOR Gameday	8.1	9	6	6	4	9	1
1981-04-26	TOR @ NYY Gameday	7.2	7	2	2	2	9	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.