Benny Ayala
New York Mets 1974; New York Mets 1976; St. Louis Cardinals 1977; Baltimore Orioles 1979–1984; Cleveland Indians 1985
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 23 | 78 | 68 | 9 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 17 | 0 | 0 | .235 | .308 | .338 | .646 | 84.3 | 83.1 | .308 | 0.0 |
| 1976 | 22 | 28 | 26 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 1 | .115 | .179 | .231 | .409 | 14.5 | 19.3 | .198 | -0.2 |
| 1977 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 81.0 | 81.7 | .306 | 0.0 |
| 1979 | 42 | 94 | 86 | 15 | 22 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 13 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .256 | .298 | .523 | .821 | 114.4 | 121.9 | .350 | 0.2 |
| 1980 | 76 | 191 | 170 | 28 | 45 | 8 | 1 | 10 | 33 | 19 | 21 | 0 | 0 | .265 | .335 | .500 | .835 | 125.0 | 128.7 | .366 | 0.6 |
| 1981 | 44 | 100 | 86 | 12 | 24 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 1 | .279 | .364 | .407 | .771 | 129.1 | 123.7 | .360 | 0.3 |
| 1982 | 64 | 133 | 128 | 17 | 39 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 24 | 5 | 14 | 1 | 1 | .305 | .331 | .492 | .823 | 121.3 | 124.4 | .358 | 0.4 |
| 1983 | 47 | 115 | 104 | 12 | 23 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 9 | 18 | 0 | 0 | .221 | .278 | .404 | .682 | 86.0 | 88.0 | .303 | 0.0 |
| 1984 | 60 | 128 | 118 | 9 | 25 | 6 | 0 | 4 | 24 | 8 | 24 | 1 | 1 | .212 | .258 | .364 | .622 | 69.3 | 72.6 | .278 | -0.5 |
| 1985 | 46 | 81 | 76 | 10 | 19 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 4 | 17 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .284 | .421 | .705 | 84.6 | 90.6 | .304 | 0.0 |
Career totals
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 | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-06-10 | TEX @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1982-09-14 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 1980-05-06 | MIN @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1983-04-21 | TEX @ BAL Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1979-08-10 | NYY @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
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.