Benny Distefano
Pittsburgh Pirates 1984; Pittsburgh Pirates 1986; Pittsburgh Pirates 1988–1989; Houston Astros 1992
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 45 | 86 | 78 | 10 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 1 | .167 | .226 | .346 | .572 | 52.0 | 59.5 | .259 | -0.5 |
| 1986 | 31 | 42 | 39 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .179 | .190 | .282 | .473 | 13.8 | 27.5 | .210 | -0.4 |
| 1988 | 16 | 33 | 29 | 6 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .345 | .394 | .621 | 1.015 | 184.8 | 189.6 | .437 | 0.4 |
| 1989 | 96 | 176 | 154 | 12 | 38 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 15 | 17 | 30 | 1 | 0 | .247 | .333 | .338 | .671 | 98.0 | 96.2 | .314 | 0.1 |
| 1992 | 52 | 66 | 60 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .233 | .303 | .300 | .603 | 72.2 | 74.6 | .282 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989-08-04 | CHC @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1984-06-10 | PIT @ PHI Gameday | 7 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1984-07-24 | PIT @ WSH Gameday | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
| 1988-09-12 | PIT @ NYM Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1992-05-24 | HOU @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
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.