Dick Ruthven

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 190 lb

BornMarch 27, 1951 · Sacramento, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 17, 1973

Final gameMay 1, 1986

Seasons14 (1973–1986)

Philadelphia Phillies 1973–1975; Atlanta Braves 1976–1978; Philadelphia Phillies 1978–1982; Chicago Cubs 1983; Philadelphia Phillies 1983; Chicago Cubs 1984–1986

Percentile snapshot

1983 season — qualified pitchers

26.4

51.7

56.3

33.3

SHO

51.7

202

52.9

44.8

97.7

34.5

21.8

183.0

24.1

ERA

4.38

16.1

WHIP

1.311

49.4

K/9

4.87

40.2

FIP

3.83

48.3

FIP-

102.0

35.6

ERA+

85.8

14.9

sWAR

0.6

16.1

of 88 qualified 1983 pitchers (min 163 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

91.0

7.9

sWAR

12.1

88.9

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 of them; 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
1973	27	45	38	1	5	1	0	0	2	1	14	0	0	.132	.154	.158	.312	-27.5	-14.3	.149	0.5
1974	35	73	68	1	13	1	0	0	5	0	19	1	1	.191	.191	.206	.397	-4.0	9.5	.187	1.3
1975	12	15	13	1	2	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	.154	.154	.154	.308	-33.9	-15.3	.145	0.1
1976	37	89	76	6	13	1	0	0	5	3	21	0	1	.171	.213	.184	.397	1.0	10.3	.196	1.0
1977	25	52	45	4	12	1	1	1	3	2	15	0	0	.267	.298	.400	.698	73.9	76.1	.315	2.1
1978	34	84	77	7	17	0	2	0	4	1	25	0	0	.221	.231	.273	.503	33.6	41.3	.234	3.1
1979	21	47	41	2	6	0	0	0	0	2	11	0	0	.146	.222	.146	.369	0.1	2.1	.190	0.6
1980	33	82	68	7	16	5	1	0	8	2	22	1	1	.235	.257	.338	.595	58.0	62.6	.274	3.2
1981	23	57	50	2	7	3	0	0	5	2	14	0	0	.140	.173	.200	.373	-8.0	4.7	.179	-1.5
1982	33	77	64	2	7	1	1	0	5	0	26	0	1	.109	.108	.156	.264	-44.8	-26.9	.119	1.3
1983	32	71	62	6	13	2	0	0	3	2	16	0	0	.210	.234	.242	.476	23.5	30.4	.225	0.6
1984	25	50	44	2	7	3	0	0	2	1	18	0	0	.159	.178	.227	.405	-4.1	9.5	.188	-0.5
1985	20	30	24	1	5	0	0	0	1	0	7	0	1	.208	.208	.208	.417	-2.9	12.1	.193	0.2
1986	6	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-134.5	-100.0	.000	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1973	25	23	6	9	1	3	1	125	60	75	98	10	128.3	4.21	1.558	6.87	3.86	102.4	89.6	0.5
1974	35	35	9	13	0	6	0	182	95	116	153	11	212.7	4.02	1.401	6.47	3.50	93.0	93.6	1.3
1975	11	7	2	2	0	0	0	37	19	22	26	2	40.7	4.20	1.451	5.75	3.67	98.4	88.8	0.1
1976	36	36	14	17	0	8	4	255	112	90	142	14	240.3	4.19	1.436	5.32	3.45	92.4	89.0	1.0
1977	25	23	7	13	0	6	2	158	71	62	84	14	151.0	4.23	1.457	5.01	4.08	93.5	103.0	2.1
1978	33	33	15	11	0	11	3	214	87	56	120	21	231.7	3.38	1.165	4.66	3.50	98.5	105.3	3.1
1979	20	20	7	5	0	3	2	121	58	37	58	10	122.3	4.27	1.292	4.27	3.76	98.6	89.4	0.6
1980	33	33	17	10	0	6	1	241	88	74	86	9	223.3	3.55	1.410	3.47	3.53	94.5	105.4	3.2
1981	23	22	12	7	0	5	0	162	84	54	80	10	146.7	5.15	1.473	4.91	3.63	101.5	69.4	-1.5
1982	33	31	11	11	0	8	2	189	86	59	115	18	204.3	3.79	1.214	5.07	3.72	102.7	95.7	1.3
1983	32	32	13	12	0	5	2	202	89	38	99	22	183.0	4.38	1.311	4.87	3.83	102.0	85.8	0.6
1984	23	22	6	10	0	0	0	154	71	41	55	14	126.7	5.04	1.539	3.91	4.43	114.5	76.6	-0.5
1985	20	15	4	7	0	0	0	103	44	37	26	6	87.3	4.53	1.603	2.68	4.19	106.2	87.0	0.2
1986	6	0	0	0	0	0	0	12	6	6	3	4	10.7	5.06	1.688	2.53	8.75	219.3	78.8	0.0

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

363

773

671

123

RBI

212

.1833

OBP

.2055

SLG

.2295

OPS

.4350

Pitching

G (P)

355

332

250th-most career GS

123

424th-most career W

127

294th-most career L

SHO

317th-most career SHO

2,109

393rd-most career IP

SO (P)

1,145

439th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

767

290th-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.139

WHIP

1.3855

K/9

4.89

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	TB
1977-08-16	HOU @ ATL Gameday	2	1	2	0	1	1	1	7
1974-09-01	HOU @ PHI Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	0	1	4
1982-07-21	PHI @ SD Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	0	0	4
1980-08-24	SF @ PHI Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	0	1	4
1984-04-20	PIT @ CHC Gameday	2	1	2	2	0	0	0	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1974-07-12	PHI @ SF Gameday	9.0	7	2	2	4	10	0
1976-08-04	SD @ ATL Gameday	9.0	8	0	0	3	10	0
1977-04-19	SD @ ATL Gameday	9.0	5	1	0	1	10	0
1973-07-29	PHI @ PIT Gameday	7.0	5	3	3	2	10	1
1973-08-02	CHC @ PHI Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	7	9	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

2× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.