MLB / Players

Tommy Boggs

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 195 lb

BornOctober 25, 1955 · Poughkeepsie, NY, USA

MLB debutJuly 19, 1976

Final gameMay 7, 1985

Seasons9 (1976–1985)

Texas Rangers 1976–1977; Atlanta Braves 1978–1983; Texas Rangers 1985

Percentile snapshot

1981 season — qualified pitchers

79.3

80.5

2.3

13.8

SHO

140

40.2

17.2

26.4

66.7

25.3

142.7

55.2

ERA

4.10

16.1

WHIP

1.360

27.6

K/9

5.11

73.6

FIP

3.74

20.7

FIP-

104.2

27.6

ERA+

87.4

17.2

sWAR

0.4

16.1

of 88 qualified 1981 pitchers (min 107 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

1.8

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
1976	13	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.0
1977	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.3
1978	16	19	18	1	3	0	1	1	0	4	.167	.167	.333	.500	26.3	38.0	.222	-1.7
1979	3	4	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.250	.500	23.3	32.9	.232	-0.2
1980	32	70	63	2	10	0	0	2	0	22	.159	.156	.159	.315	-31.6	-13.1	.146	2.5
1981	25	47	46	2	7	1	0	3	0	6	.152	.152	.174	.326	-27.4	-8.5	.152	0.4
1982	10	18	17	1	4	0	0	2	0	4	.235	.235	.235	.471	21.1	30.1	.219	0.7
1983	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	—	1.000	—	—	383.6	—	.754	0.0
1985	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1976	13	13	1	7	3	0	87	35	34	36	7	90.3	3.49	1.339	3.59	3.99	111.6	102.5	1.0
1977	6	6	0	3	0	0	40	18	12	15	1	27.3	5.93	1.902	4.94	3.55	87.0	68.8	-0.3
1978	16	12	2	8	1	1	80	44	26	21	8	59.0	6.71	1.797	3.20	5.05	143.0	52.6	-1.7
1979	3	3	0	2	0	0	21	9	4	1	0	12.7	6.39	1.974	0.71	3.72	93.0	62.5	-0.2
1980	32	26	12	9	4	3	180	73	46	84	14	192.3	3.42	1.175	3.93	3.60	96.2	109.5	2.5
1981	25	24	3	13	2	0	140	65	54	81	11	142.7	4.10	1.360	5.11	3.74	104.2	87.4	0.4
1982	10	10	2	2	0	0	43	17	22	29	2	46.3	3.30	1.403	5.63	3.61	96.4	113.5	0.7
1983	5	0	0	0	0	0	8	4	1	5	1	6.3	5.68	1.421	7.11	3.62	94.0	67.8	0.0
1985	4	0	0	0	0	0	13	9	2	6	3	7.0	11.57	2.143	7.71	7.46	178.0	36.2	-0.5

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

114

159

148

RBI

.1689

OBP

.1733

SLG

.1959

OPS

.3692

Pitching

G (P)

114

SHO

584

SO (P)

278

BB allowed

201

ERA

4.223

WHIP

1.3921

K/9

4.28

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
1978-05-05	HOU @ ATL Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	4
1981-04-21	ATL @ CIN Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	2	2
1980-08-13	ATL @ LAD Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	0	2
1982-09-06	SF @ ATL Gameday	2	1	2	0	0	0	2
1981-05-10	CHC @ ATL Gameday	2	1	1	1	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1976-09-13	LAA @ TEX Gameday	10.0	5	2	2	4	8	0
1978-07-25	ATL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	1	7	0
1980-07-25	ATL @ PHI Gameday	9.0	7	0	0	0	7	0
1981-09-29	LAD @ ATL Gameday	6.1	4	2	2	5	7	0
1980-08-19	CHC @ ATL Gameday	7.2	5	4	3	2	6	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.