Bruce Sutter played 12 seasons (1976–1988) for CHC, STL and ATL. Career regular-season line: a 68–71 record, 861 strikeouts and a 2.83 ERA. Early Bloomer career, peaking in 1977. Led the league in a statistical category 3 times. Inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2006. Honors: 6× All-Star Selections and 1× Cy Young Awards.
Sport-specific career totals from the active profile tables, with VAL shown whenever the sport has a value file.
Career boards only, within MLB
Cross-sport prominence: 88.4th percentile among MLB careers — a within-sport percentile, because career value is not comparable across sports.
MLB Advanced — ERA+ & OPS+ LeadersMLB Age Milestones — Youngest to 1,000 Hits, 100 HR, 100 Wins and 1,000 KMLB Breakout Seasons — Biggest Career-High LeapsMLB Career Arc TypesMLB Career Dominance — top-25 in multiple all-time categoriesMLB Clutch Delta — Who Rises in OctoberMLB Compilers vs Comets — Career ShapeMLB Consistency Index — Mr. Reliable vs Boom-BustMLB Era-Adjusted Careers — Greatest Careers on One ScaleMLB Era-Adjusted Seasons — Greatest Seasons in Modern TermsMLB Franchise Mt. Rushmores — Four Faces of Every Team
Players whose careers had the same shape — total value, peak, best three-season stretch, length and when the value came — measured with VAL against their own leagues.
Bio, rosters, and year-by-year/career stat splits come directly from MLB's own official public StatsAPI.
Fan Rating
Rate Bruce Sutter — All-Time
11 seasons · peak 7.9 in 1977
VAL (Value Above League) measures each MLB season against that season's league; the dashed line is zero — a season that added nothing above the league's fringe. ● peak · ○ league-best season.
15.2 career wins over 11 seasons · 1 win = 2.61 VAL
Best season · 1977 · +3.0 wins
Latest season · 1988 · +0.2 wins
VAL 3.0 measures each part of a MLB player's game in his sport's own currency against what that season's fringe players produced, converted to team wins with rates fitted from every team-season in the encyclopedia.
How often Bruce Sutter led or placed top-ten on a MLB season board, and the shape of the career — computed from the same per-season boards the year pages publish, so every number is checkable.
Black ink
3
league-leading seasons · 8 top-ten finishes
Career arc
Early Bloomer
Peaked in the first third of their career — came in fast and hot. Peak 1977, 11 rated seasons.
Season boards
8
top-ten finishes across the MLB season boards
Where Bruce Sutter ranks on StatVault's all-time league-relative boards (park-unadjusted; 100 = league average that season).
Swipe sideways for the full stat line →
Wore 3 distinct franchise crests across 13 seasons (1976–1988) — a true nomad. The crest trail: