MLB / Players

Ed Putman

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 1 in · 190 lb
BornSeptember 25, 1953 · Los Angeles, CA, USA
MLB debutSeptember 7, 1976
Final gameSeptember 26, 1979
Seasons3 (1976–1979)

Chicago Cubs 1976; Chicago Cubs 1978; Detroit Tigers 1979

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
0.2
53

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19765770300000000.429.429.429.857143.6135.2.4040.1
19781729252500034600.200.310.200.51044.739.0.265-0.1
197921433949302441201.231.302.462.764101.4101.3.3400.2

Career totals

G
43
PA
79
AB
71
R
6
H
17
2B
3
3B
0
HR
2
RBI
7
BB
8
SO
18
SB
0
BA
.2394
OBP
.3165
SLG
.3662
OPS
.6827

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1979-07-31DET @ TEX Gameday111001204
1979-08-17DET @ SEA Gameday411001204
1979-07-27DET @ TOR Gameday402100013
1979-07-08DET @ MIL Gameday301100002
1979-08-19DET @ SEA Gameday311100012

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.