Butch Metzger
San Francisco Giants 1974; San Diego Padres 1975–1977; St. Louis Cardinals 1977; New York Mets 1978
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 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.2 |
| 1975 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.2 |
| 1976 | 77 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .200 | .000 | .200 | -17.4 | -37.4 | .152 | 1.8 |
| 1977 | 75 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -121.5 | -100.0 | .000 | 1.3 |
| 1978 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -1.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 12.7 | 3.55 | 1.816 | 3.55 | 4.64 | 122.8 | 106.3 | 0.2 |
| 1975 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 4.7 | 7.71 | 2.143 | 11.57 | 5.40 | 154.6 | 45.3 | -0.2 |
| 1976 | 77 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 119 | 40 | 52 | 89 | 5 | 123.3 | 2.92 | 1.386 | 6.49 | 3.07 | 93.0 | 113.1 | 1.8 |
| 1977 | 75 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 105 | 46 | 50 | 54 | 13 | 115.3 | 3.59 | 1.344 | 4.21 | 4.61 | 122.2 | 106.0 | 1.3 |
| 1978 | 25 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 27 | 22 | 21 | 4 | 37.3 | 6.51 | 1.875 | 5.06 | 4.74 | 136.1 | 53.5 | -1.0 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974-09-08 | SF @ ATL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1974-09-11 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1974-09-12 | LAD @ SF Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1974-09-14 | HOU @ SF Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1974-09-18 | ATL @ SF Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977-09-11 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 3.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 1976-07-10 | SD @ PHI Gameday | 2.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1976-08-14 | SD @ WSH Gameday | 2.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 |
| 1976-05-18 | SD @ SF Gameday | 3.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 1976-08-23 | PIT @ SD Gameday | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
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.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.