Ernie Riles
Milwaukee Brewers 1985–1988; San Francisco Giants 1988–1990; Oakland Athletics 1991; Houston Astros 1992; Boston Red Sox 1993
Percentile snapshot
1986 season — qualified batters
of 127 qualified 1986 batters (min 499 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 116 | 495 | 448 | 54 | 128 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 45 | 36 | 54 | 2 | 2 | .286 | .339 | .377 | .717 | 99.3 | 97.0 | .326 | 2.2 |
| 1986 | 145 | 588 | 524 | 69 | 132 | 24 | 2 | 9 | 47 | 54 | 80 | 7 | 7 | .252 | .321 | .357 | .678 | 84.5 | 82.6 | .311 | 1.6 |
| 1987 | 83 | 316 | 276 | 38 | 72 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 38 | 30 | 47 | 3 | 4 | .261 | .329 | .351 | .681 | 80.5 | 79.7 | .306 | 0.5 |
| 1988 | 120 | 336 | 314 | 33 | 87 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 37 | 17 | 59 | 3 | 4 | .277 | .310 | .376 | .686 | 95.3 | 97.6 | .312 | 1.2 |
| 1989 | 122 | 337 | 302 | 43 | 84 | 13 | 2 | 7 | 40 | 28 | 50 | 0 | 6 | .278 | .339 | .404 | .743 | 116.3 | 115.2 | .341 | 2.0 |
| 1990 | 92 | 184 | 155 | 22 | 31 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 21 | 26 | 26 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .313 | .381 | .694 | 93.7 | 93.5 | .317 | 0.7 |
| 1991 | 108 | 321 | 281 | 30 | 60 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 32 | 31 | 42 | 3 | 2 | .214 | .290 | .324 | .614 | 73.8 | 75.1 | .282 | 0.3 |
| 1992 | 39 | 64 | 61 | 5 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 0 | .262 | .281 | .328 | .609 | 71.0 | 75.2 | .280 | 0.0 |
| 1993 | 94 | 170 | 143 | 15 | 27 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 20 | 20 | 40 | 1 | 3 | .189 | .292 | .350 | .641 | 63.5 | 68.0 | .289 | -0.3 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986-04-10 | MIL @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1985-05-29 | CLE @ MIL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1991-05-01 | NYY @ ATH Gameday | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 1987-08-16 | MIL @ BAL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1992-09-19 | HOU @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 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.