Butch Benton
New York Mets 1978; New York Mets 1980; Chicago Cubs 1982; 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .600 | .500 | 1.100 | 238.6 | 216.1 | .525 | 0.1 |
| 1980 | 12 | 24 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .048 | .167 | .048 | .214 | -34.8 | -36.4 | .133 | -0.2 |
| 1982 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .286 | -37.2 | -20.6 | .133 | -0.1 |
| 1985 | 31 | 73 | 67 | 5 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .179 | .208 | .239 | .447 | 5.8 | 22.6 | .187 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985-04-27 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1978-10-01 | NYM @ CHC Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1985-05-04 | TEX @ CLE Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1985-05-11 | CLE @ TEX Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1985-05-14 | CLE @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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.