MLB / Players

Allen Ripley

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 3 in · 190 lb
BornOctober 18, 1952 · Norwood, MA, USA
MLB debutApril 10, 1978
Final gameSeptember 24, 1982
Seasons5 (1978–1982)

Boston Red Sox 1978–1979; San Francisco Giants 1980–1981; Chicago Cubs 1982

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

sWAR
-0.0
39.7

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
197815000000000000-0.6
1979160000000000000.1
198023444026010211400.150.171.200.371-5.64.9.1740.2
19811932300400020500.133.133.133.267-41.1-22.9.1250.0
198228403835000101000.132.132.132.263-44.4-26.9.1230.2

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
1978151125010924522261073.05.551.5623.214.65114.073.5-0.6
19791633110077372534964.75.151.5774.734.82109.685.50.1
1980232091002011952366510112.74.151.3765.193.81108.384.70.2
1981191444010103412747590.74.071.4344.673.3498.183.70.0
198228195700013058385712122.74.261.3704.184.07109.687.20.2

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

G
101
PA
116
AB
108
R
5
H
15
2B
0
3B
1
HR
0
RBI
5
BB
1
SO
29
SB
0
BA
.1389
OBP
.1468
SLG
.1574
OPS
.3042

Pitching

G (P)
101
GS
67
W
23
L
27
SV
1
CG
4
SHO
0
IP
464
SO (P)
229
BB allowed
148
ERA
4.523
WHIP
1.4428
K/9
4.45

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1980-08-23SF @ PHI Gameday411010203
1982-05-13CHC @ HOU Gameday312000102
1981-05-04SF @ PHI Gameday201000201
1980-06-29LAD @ SF Gameday201000001
1980-07-04SF @ LAD Gameday201000001

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1981-04-28SF @ LAD Gameday9.0311281
1981-05-18NYM @ SF Gameday8.0611381
1980-09-27SF @ ATL Gameday8.0711160
1979-08-10MIL @ BOS Gameday6.0533062
1980-09-22CIN @ SF Gameday6.0732161

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.