Duane Kuiper
Cleveland Indians 1974–1981; San Francisco Giants 1982–1985
Percentile snapshot
1979 season — qualified batters
of 140 qualified 1979 batters (min 499 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 10 | 24 | 22 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | .500 | .542 | .591 | 1.133 | 241.6 | 227.0 | .524 | 0.5 |
| 1975 | 90 | 388 | 346 | 42 | 101 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 30 | 26 | 19 | 18 | .292 | .362 | .329 | .691 | 103.4 | 97.3 | .333 | 1.6 |
| 1976 | 135 | 555 | 506 | 47 | 133 | 13 | 6 | 0 | 37 | 30 | 42 | 10 | 17 | .263 | .303 | .312 | .615 | 80.3 | 81.9 | .292 | 0.8 |
| 1977 | 148 | 679 | 610 | 62 | 169 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 50 | 37 | 55 | 11 | 11 | .277 | .324 | .333 | .656 | 83.6 | 82.6 | .302 | 1.2 |
| 1978 | 149 | 589 | 547 | 52 | 155 | 18 | 6 | 0 | 43 | 19 | 35 | 4 | 9 | .283 | .311 | .338 | .649 | 81.7 | 83.6 | .299 | 1.0 |
| 1979 | 140 | 528 | 479 | 46 | 122 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 39 | 37 | 27 | 4 | 9 | .255 | .313 | .294 | .608 | 63.7 | 65.1 | .280 | -0.3 |
| 1980 | 42 | 166 | 149 | 10 | 42 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 1 | .282 | .337 | .315 | .653 | 77.3 | 79.5 | .300 | 0.2 |
| 1981 | 72 | 219 | 206 | 15 | 53 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 8 | 13 | 1 | 1 | .257 | .284 | .286 | .570 | 59.7 | 65.6 | .263 | -0.1 |
| 1982 | 107 | 257 | 218 | 26 | 61 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 32 | 24 | 2 | 2 | .280 | .375 | .330 | .706 | 110.8 | 100.6 | .343 | 1.3 |
| 1983 | 72 | 211 | 176 | 14 | 44 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 27 | 13 | 0 | 1 | .250 | .353 | .284 | .637 | 81.4 | 80.8 | .302 | 0.3 |
| 1984 | 83 | 130 | 115 | 8 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 0 | 1 | .200 | .273 | .209 | .482 | 27.4 | 39.0 | .221 | -0.6 |
| 1985 | 9 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .600 | .667 | .600 | 1.267 | 284.6 | 264.4 | .589 | 0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978-07-27 | CLE @ NYY Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 7 |
| 1976-08-04 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| 1977-08-06 | CLE @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1976-05-18 | NYY @ CLE Gameday | 8 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| 1977-06-29 | BAL @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 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.