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Duane Ward

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 185 lb

BornMay 28, 1964 · Park View, NM, USA

MLB debutApril 12, 1986

Final gameJune 22, 1995

Seasons9 (1986–1995)

Atlanta Braves 1986; Toronto Blue Jays 1986–1993; Toronto Blue Jays 1995

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

12.3

89.1

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1986	12	1	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-133.3	-100.0	.000	-0.7
1987	12	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.2
1988	64	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.9
1989	66	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.2
1990	73	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.0
1991	81	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.8
1992	79	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.5
1993	71	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.5
1995	4	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1986	12	1	0	2	0	25	16	12	9	2	18.0	8.00	2.056	4.50	5.36	134.3	49.7	-0.7
1987	12	1	1	0	0	14	9	12	10	0	11.7	6.94	2.229	7.71	4.25	94.2	64.9	-0.2
1988	64	0	9	3	15	101	41	60	91	5	111.7	3.30	1.442	7.33	3.52	90.6	117.6	1.9
1989	66	0	4	10	15	94	48	58	122	4	114.7	3.77	1.326	9.58	2.82	73.8	101.6	1.2
1990	73	0	2	8	11	101	49	42	112	9	127.7	3.45	1.120	7.90	2.98	75.9	113.7	2.0
1991	81	0	7	6	23	80	33	33	132	3	107.3	2.77	1.053	11.07	1.79	42.8	151.1	2.8
1992	79	0	7	4	12	76	22	39	103	5	101.3	1.95	1.135	9.15	2.58	63.8	207.3	3.5
1993	71	0	2	3	45	49	17	25	97	4	71.7	2.13	1.033	12.18	2.11	48.6	203.1	2.5
1995	4	0	0	1	0	11	8	5	3	0	2.7	27.00	6.000	10.13	7.64	162.5	17.4	-0.6

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

462

RBI

.0000

OBP

.0000

SLG

.0000

OPS

.0000

Pitching

G (P)

462

121

131st-most career SV

SHO

667

SO (P)

679

BB allowed

286

ERA

3.281

WHIP

1.2555

K/9

9.17

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
1986-04-12	ATL @ HOU Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1986-04-20	LAD @ ATL Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1986-04-22	HOU @ ATL Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1986-04-26	ATL @ LAD Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1986-04-27	ATL @ LAD Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1990-08-02	TOR @ TEX Gameday	4.0	0	0	0	0	7
1989-07-06	BAL @ TOR Gameday	3.0	4	0	0	2	6
1990-04-13	TOR @ KC Gameday	3.0	1	0	0	0	6
1991-06-18	NYY @ TOR Gameday	3.0	1	1	1	1	6
1991-07-26	KC @ TOR Gameday	3.0	2	0	0	0	6

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

1× 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.