MLB / Players

Alan Ashby

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 185 lb

BornJuly 8, 1951 · Long Beach, CA, USA

MLB debutJuly 3, 1973

Final gameMay 9, 1989

Seasons17 (1973–1989)

Cleveland Indians 1973–1976; Toronto Blue Jays 1977–1978; Houston Astros 1979–1989

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

91.6

25.9

OPS+

93.0

27.8

sWAR

22.7

94.6

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1973	11	31	29	4	5	1	0	1	3	2	11	0	0	.172	.226	.310	.536	43.6	49.1	.249	0.0
1974	10	8	7	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	2	0	0	.143	.250	.143	.393	21.0	15.9	.211	0.0
1975	90	301	254	32	57	10	1	5	32	30	42	3	2	.224	.309	.331	.639	83.7	81.4	.304	1.2
1976	89	283	247	26	59	5	1	4	32	27	49	0	2	.239	.310	.316	.626	83.0	85.2	.295	1.2
1977	124	459	396	25	83	16	3	2	29	50	51	0	2	.210	.301	.280	.581	60.2	58.6	.274	0.4
1978	81	298	264	27	69	15	0	9	29	28	32	1	1	.261	.333	.420	.754	107.2	108.3	.341	2.0
1979	108	370	336	25	68	15	2	2	35	26	70	0	0	.202	.262	.277	.538	42.5	51.9	.242	-0.4
1980	116	394	352	30	90	19	2	3	48	35	40	0	0	.256	.319	.347	.665	86.5	93.3	.300	1.7
1981	83	295	255	20	69	13	0	4	33	35	33	0	2	.271	.356	.369	.725	112.0	111.2	.339	2.1
1982	100	372	339	40	87	14	2	12	49	27	53	2	0	.257	.311	.416	.727	106.9	109.1	.330	2.4
1983	87	311	275	31	63	18	1	8	34	31	38	0	0	.229	.303	.389	.692	94.1	96.8	.315	1.6
1984	66	219	191	16	50	7	0	4	27	20	22	0	0	.262	.330	.361	.691	101.3	101.0	.322	1.3
1985	65	216	189	20	53	8	0	8	25	24	27	0	0	.280	.363	.450	.813	133.2	130.4	.371	2.1
1986	120	361	315	24	81	15	0	7	38	39	56	1	0	.257	.333	.371	.705	93.9	97.9	.318	1.8
1987	125	441	386	53	111	16	0	14	63	50	52	0	1	.288	.367	.438	.805	120.5	117.3	.364	3.5
1988	73	261	227	19	54	10	0	7	33	29	36	0	0	.238	.319	.374	.694	103.1	102.9	.319	1.6
1989	22	71	61	4	10	1	1	0	3	7	8	0	0	.164	.257	.213	.470	42.6	38.5	.236	-0.1

Career totals

1,370

4,691

4,123

397

1,010

183

RBI

513

461

622

.2450

OBP

.3197

SLG

.3611

OPS

.6808

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	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1983-06-04	HOU @ CIN Gameday	5	3	3	0	1	2	6	11
1982-09-27	HOU @ SD Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	4	9
1988-05-24	HOU @ PIT Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	3	9
1980-04-27	NYM @ HOU Gameday	5	1	3	2	0	1	2	8
1982-08-09	HOU @ SD Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	2	8

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.