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Jim Barr

James Leland Barr

Position: Pitcher
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 6' 3", Weight: 205 lb.

Born: February 10, 1948 in Lynwood, CA
High School: Lynwood (Lynwood, CA)
School: University of Southern California
Drafted by the San Francisco Giants in the 3rd round of the 1970 amateur draft (June Secondary). (All Transactions)
Debut: July 31, 1971
Teams (by GP): Giants/Angels 1971-1983

Final Game: October 2, 1983
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 9, 2012, 11:58PM
All-Time Rank (among Pitchers): #392. Ron Perranoski… #393. Frank Killen… #394. Wilson Alvarez… #395. JIM BARR… #396. Ubaldo Jimenez… #397. Ron Darling… #398. Roberto Hernandez… 

Standard Pitching

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Year Age Tm Lg W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF ERA+ WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB Awards
1971 23 SFG NL 1 1 .500 3.57 17 0 5 0 0 0 35.1 33 15 14 3 5 1 16 1 0 1 142 98 1.075 8.4 0.8 1.3 4.1 3.20
1972 24 SFG NL 8 10 .444 2.87 44 18 13 8 2 2 179.0 166 66 57 16 41 8 86 3 1 1 732 123 1.156 8.3 0.8 2.1 4.3 2.10
1973 25 SFG NL 11 17 .393 3.81 41 33 4 8 3 2 231.1 240 105 98 24 49 7 88 5 0 3 966 101 1.249 9.3 0.9 1.9 3.4 1.80
1974 26 SFG NL 13 9 .591 2.74 44 27 5 11 5 2 239.2 223 81 73 17 47 10 84 2 4 3 959 139 1.127 8.4 0.6 1.8 3.2 1.79
1975 27 SFG NL 13 14 .481 3.06 35 33 2 12 2 0 244.0 244 94 83 17 58 10 77 3 1 3 1004 125 1.238 9.0 0.6 2.1 2.8 1.33
1976 28 SFG NL 15 12 .556 2.89 37 37 0 8 3 0 252.1 260 104 81 9 60 7 75 2 2 3 1056 125 1.268 9.3 0.3 2.1 2.7 1.25
1977 29 SFG NL 12 16 .429 4.76 38 38 0 6 2 0 234.1 286 130 124 18 56 4 97 3 2 2 1011 82 1.459 11.0 0.7 2.2 3.7 1.73
1978 30 SFG NL 8 11 .421 3.53 32 25 2 5 2 1 163.0 180 69 64 7 35 6 44 0 2 0 690 98 1.319 9.9 0.4 1.9 2.4 1.26
1979 31 CAL AL 10 12 .455 4.20 36 25 4 5 0 0 197.0 217 100 92 22 55 5 69 3 1 2 826 97 1.381 9.9 1.0 2.5 3.2 1.25
1980 32 CAL AL 1 4 .200 5.56 24 7 7 0 0 1 68.0 90 43 42 12 23 2 22 3 0 2 311 71 1.662 11.9 1.6 3.0 2.9 0.96
1982 34 SFG NL 4 3 .571 3.29 53 9 9 1 1 2 128.2 125 54 47 9 20 5 36 4 1 1 520 109 1.127 8.7 0.6 1.4 2.5 1.80
1983 35 SFG NL 5 3 .625 3.98 53 0 23 0 0 2 92.2 106 47 41 7 20 9 47 1 0 1 395 90 1.360 10.3 0.7 1.9 4.6 2.35
12 Seasons 101 112 .474 3.56 454 252 74 64 20 12 2065.1 2170 908 816 161 469 74 741 30 14 22 8612 106 1.278 9.5 0.7 2.0 3.2 1.58
162 Game Avg. 10 11 .474 3.56 44 24 7 6 2 1 199 209 87 79 16 45 7 71 3 1 2 829 106 1.278 9.5 0.7 2.0 3.2 1.58
SFG (10 yrs) 90 96 .484 3.41 394 220 63 59 20 11 1800.1 1863 765 682 127 391 67 650 24 13 18 7475 109 1.252 9.3 0.6 2.0 3.2 1.66
CAL (2 yrs) 11 16 .407 4.55 60 32 11 5 0 1 265.0 307 143 134 34 78 7 91 6 1 4 1137 89 1.453 10.4 1.2 2.6 3.1 1.17
NL (10 yrs) NL 90 96 .484 3.41 394 220 63 59 20 11 1800.1 1863 765 682 127 391 67 650 24 13 18 7475 109 1.252 9.3 0.6 2.0 3.2 1.66
AL (2 yrs) AL 11 16 .407 4.55 60 32 11 5 0 1 265.0 307 143 134 34 78 7 91 6 1 4 1137 89 1.453 10.4 1.2 2.6 3.1 1.17

Player Value--Pitchers

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg IP GS R Rrep Rdef aLI RAR WAR Salary Awards
1971 23 SFG NL 35.1 0 15 19 0 .5 4 0.1 $
1972 24 SFG NL 179.0 18 66 97 0 1.0 31 3.2 $
1973 25 SFG NL 231.1 33 105 133 -2 1.0 28 3.0 $
1974 26 SFG NL 239.2 27 81 139 0 1.1 58 6.2 $
1975 27 SFG NL 244.0 33 94 148 -9 1.0 54 5.9 $
1976 28 SFG NL 252.1 37 104 150 -11 1.0 46 4.9 $
1977 29 SFG NL 234.1 38 130 140 -5 1.0 10 1.1 $
1978 30 SFG NL 163.0 25 69 86 -4 1.1 17 2.0 $
1979 31 CAL AL 197.0 25 100 126 -7 .9 26 2.5 $
1980 32 CAL AL 68.0 7 43 43 -3 .5 0 -0.1 $
1982 34 SFG NL 128.2 9 54 77 -6 .9 23 1.9 $
1983 35 SFG NL 92.2 0 47 52 -2 1.0 5 -0.2 $
12 Seasons 2065.1 252 908 1210 -49 1.0 302 30.5 $
SFG (10 yrs) 1800.1 220 765 1041 -39 1.0 276 28.1 $
CAL (2 yrs) 265.0 32 143 169 -10 .8 26 2.4 $

Postseason Pitching

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Rslt Opp W L W-L% ERA G GS GF CG SHO SV IP H R ER HR BB IBB SO HBP BK WP BF WHIP H/9 HR/9 BB/9 SO/9 SO/BB
1971 23 SFG NL NLCS L PIT 0 0 9.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.0 3 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 6 3.000 27.0 9.0 0.0 18.0
1 NLCS 0 0 9.00 1 0 0 0 0 0 1.0 3 1 1 1 0 0 2 0 0 0 6 3.000 27.0 9.0 0.0 18.0

Standard Batting

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1971 23 SFG NL 17 5 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 -100 0 0 0 1 0 0 1
1972 24 SFG NL 44 53 49 4 9 3 0 0 2 0 0 0 10 .184 .184 .245 .429 20 12 0 0 4 0 0 1
1973 25 SFG NL 41 81 66 5 10 2 0 0 1 0 0 1 16 .152 .188 .182 .370 1 12 1 2 12 0 0 1
1974 26 SFG NL 56 82 71 7 18 3 0 1 3 0 0 5 17 .254 .303 .338 .641 76 24 0 0 6 0 0 1
1975 27 SFG NL 38 91 76 5 9 1 0 0 2 0 0 3 24 .118 .152 .132 .283 -22 10 2 0 12 0 0 1
1976 28 SFG NL 41 92 74 3 12 2 2 0 9 2 0 4 21 .162 .213 .243 .456 28 18 0 1 12 1 0 1
1977 29 SFG NL 44 92 76 2 10 2 0 0 9 0 0 2 22 .132 .165 .158 .322 -12 12 0 1 13 0 0 1
1978 30 SFG NL 34 55 50 1 5 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 8 .100 .100 .100 .200 -43 5 0 0 5 0 0 1
1979 31 CAL AL 36 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1980 32 CAL AL 24 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1
1982 34 SFG NL 53 34 32 1 8 1 0 0 3 0 0 0 6 .250 .250 .281 .531 50 9 0 0 2 0 0 1
1983 35 SFG NL 53 16 15 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 .133 .133 .200 .333 -7 3 1 0 1 0 0 1
12 Seasons 481 601 513 28 83 15 2 1 31 2 0 15 129 .162 .191 .205 .396 10 105 4 4 68 1 0
162 Game Avg. 162 202 173 9 28 5 1 0 10 1 0 5 43 .162 .191 .205 .396 10 35 1 1 23 0 0
SFG (10 yrs) 421 601 513 28 83 15 2 1 31 2 0 15 129 .162 .191 .205 .396 10 105 4 4 68 1 0
CAL (2 yrs) 60 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
NL (10 yrs) 421 601 513 28 83 15 2 1 31 2 0 15 129 .162 .191 .205 .396 10 105 4 4 68 1 0
AL (2 yrs) 60 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1971 23 SFG NL 5 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -0.1 -1 -0.1 0.0 $ 1
1972 24 SFG NL 53 -5 0 1 0 0 4 1 1 0.1 1 0.1 0.0 $ 1
1973 25 SFG NL 81 -9 0 0 0 0 6 2 -1 -0.2 -1 -0.1 -0.1 $ 1
1974 26 SFG NL 82 -2 0 -1 0 0 6 2 5 0.5 5 0.5 0.0 $ 1
1975 27 SFG NL 91 -12 0 2 0 0 7 2 -1 -0.2 -1 -0.1 -0.1 $ 1
1976 28 SFG NL 92 -7 0 -1 0 0 7 2 1 0.0 1 0.1 -0.1 $ 1
1977 29 SFG NL 92 -12 0 0 0 0 7 2 -3 -0.3 -3 -0.3 0.0 $ 1
1978 30 SFG NL 55 -9 0 -1 0 0 4 2 -4 -0.6 -4 -0.4 -0.2 $ 1
1982 34 SFG NL 34 -2 0 0 0 0 3 1 2 0.2 2 0.2 0.0 $138,000 1
1983 35 SFG NL 16 -2 0 0 0 0 1 0 -1 -0.1 -1 -0.1 0.0 $280,000 1
10 Seasons 601 -61 0 0 0 0 45 14 -2 -0.7 -2 -0.2 -0.5 $418,000

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1971 23 SFG NL NLCS PIT L 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0
1 NLCS 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0

Standard Fielding

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Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG SB CS CS% PO Awards
1971 SFG NL 23 P 17 35.1 13 3 9 1 0 .923 3.06 0.71 .954 1.91 1.90
1972 SFG NL 24 P 44 179.0 42 8 32 2 2 .952 2.01 0.91 .950 1.78 1.78
1973 SFG NL 25 P 41 231.1 50 19 31 0 4 1.000 1.95 1.22 .950 1.88 1.88
1974 SFG NL 26 P 44 239.2 60 16 41 3 4 .950 2.14 1.30 .944 1.88 1.88
1975 SFG NL 27 P 35 244.0 79 28 48 3 2 .962 2.80 2.17 .946 1.86 1.86
1976 SFG NL 28 P 37 252.1 82 22 56 4 0 .951 2.78 2.11 .950 1.88 1.87
1977 SFG NL 29 P 38 234.1 71 13 53 5 2 .930 2.53 1.74 .950 1.85 1.85
1978 SFG NL 30 P 32 163.0 46 7 35 4 1 .913 2.32 1.31 .951 1.91 1.89
1979 CAL AL 31 P 36 197.0 47 6 41 0 5 1.000 2.15 1.31 .949 1.92 1.89
1980 CAL AL 32 P 24 68.0 13 1 10 2 0 .846 1.46 0.46 .957 1.85 1.85
1982 SFG NL 34 P 53 128.2 35 15 19 1 2 .971 2.38 0.64 .952 1.96 1.97
1983 SFG NL 35 P 53 92.2 24 10 13 1 0 .958 2.23 0.43 .952 1.92 1.91
12 Seasons P 454 2065.1 562 148 388 26 22 .954 2.34 1.18 .949 1.88 1.88
12 Seasons TOT 454 2065.1 562 148 388 26 22 .954 2.34 1.18 .949 1.88 1.88
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1950 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1950 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

Hall of Fame
1989 BBWAA ()

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y
1974 NL  6.7 (8th)

WAR for Pitchers† s c a p y
1974 NL  6.2 (3rd)
1975 NL  5.9 (7th)
1976 NL  4.9 (7th)
Career  30.5 (222nd)

Earned Run Average s c a p y
1974 NL  2.74 (7th)
1975 NL  3.06 (9th)
1976 NL  2.89 (9th)

Walks & Hits per IP s c a p y
1974 NL  1.127 (4th)

Bases On Balls per 9 IP s c a p y
1972 NL  2.062 (9th)
1973 NL  1.906 (3rd)
1974 NL  1.765 (1st)
1975 NL  2.139 (5th)
1976 NL  2.140 (6th)
1977 NL  2.151 (4th)
1978 NL  1.933 (2nd)
Career  2.044 (100th)

Innings Pitched s c a p y
1976 NL  252.3 (10th)
1977 NL  234.3 (9th)

Games Started s c a p y
1976 NL  37 (3rd)
1977 NL  38 (4th)

Complete Games s c a p y
1974 NL  11 (10th)
1975 NL  12 (8th)

Shutouts s c a p y
1973 NL  3 (7th)
1974 NL  5 (3rd)
1977 NL  2 (9th)
Career  20 (244th)

Home Runs s c a p y
1973 NL  24 (9th)

Hits s c a p y
1975 NL  244 (7th)
1976 NL  260 (2nd)
1977 NL  286 (2nd)

Home Runs per 9 IP s c a p y
1976 NL  0.321 (2nd)
1978 NL  0.387 (4th)

Losses s c a p y
1973 NL  17 (3rd)
1975 NL  14 (8th)
1977 NL  16 (5th)

Earned Runs s c a p y
1973 NL  98 (10th)
1977 NL  124 (2nd)

Batters Faced s c a p y
1976 NL  1,056 (7th)
1977 NL  1,011 (8th)

Adjusted ERA+ s c a p y
1974 NL  139 (5th)
1975 NL  125 (7th)
1976 NL  125 (6th)

Adj. Pitching Runs s c a p y
1974 NL  28 (5th)
1975 NL  20 (8th)

Adj. Pitching Wins s c a p y
1974 NL  3.1 (5th)
1975 NL  2.1 (8th)

Base-Out Runs Saved (RE24)† s c a p y
1974 NL  32.59 (5th)
1975 NL  22.98 (10th)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
1974 NL  3.0 (5th)

Sit. Wins Saved (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
1974 NL  3.3 (4th)

Base-Out Wins Saved (REW)† s c a p y
1974 NL  3.5 (6th)

Sacrifice Hits s c a p y
1973 NL  12 (6th)
1976 NL  12 (9th)
1977 NL  13 (3rd)

Putouts as P s c a p y
1975 NL  28 (2nd)

Assists as P s c a p y
1975 NL  48 (2nd)
1976 NL  56 (2nd)
1977 NL  53 (2nd)

Errors Committed as P s c a p y
1977 NL  5 (4th)

Range Factor/Game as P s c a p y
1975 NL  2.17 (2nd)
1976 NL  2.11 (3rd)
1977 NL  1.74 (5th)


† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Black InkPitching - 2 (731), Average HOFer ≈ 40
Gray InkPitching - 41 (611), Average HOFer ≈ 185
Hall of Fame MonitorPitching - 5 (1306), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsPitching - 10 (835), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

Explanation of Similarity Scores
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  3. Randy Jones (937)
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  5. Dave Roberts (934)
  6. Jim Tobin (933)
  7. Max Butcher (933)
  8. Bob Shaw (933)
  9. Ralph Terry (932)
  10. Bill Hands (931)
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  2. Fritz Peterson (976)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  3. Jack Taylor (976)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  4. Dick Bosman (970)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  5. George Winter (975)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  6. Dick Drago (957)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  7. Jim Merritt (948)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  8. Dave Roberts (956)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  9. Dave Roberts (962)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  10. Max Butcher (947)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
  11. Ron Reed (941)  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 C
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Transactions

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Salaries

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Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes
197931Minnesota Twins$286,6671979 TSN GuideIncl. $50K bonus, $210K deferred, $150 insurance
198032Minnesota Twins$286,6671979 TSN GuideIncl. $50K bonus, $210K deferred, $150 insurance
198133Minnesota Twins$286,6671979 TSN Guide$50K bonus, $210K deferred, $150 ins., rel aft '80
198234San Francisco Giants$138,0001984 TSN Guide 25; T. Timmerman database
198335San Francisco Giants$280,0001984 TSN Guide 25; T. Timmerman databasePlayer win; $165,000 offer
Career to date (may be incomplete)$1,278,001
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

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