Gary Gaetti

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornAugust 19, 1958 · Centralia, IL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 20, 1981

Final gameApril 12, 2000

Seasons20 (1981–2000)

Minnesota Twins 1981–1990; California Angels 1991–1993; Kansas City Royals 1993–1995; St. Louis Cardinals 1996–1997; Chicago Cubs 1998; St. Louis Cardinals 1998; Chicago Cubs 1999; Boston Red Sox 2000

Percentile snapshot

1997 season — qualified batters

148

44.8

554

20.3

502

26.6

12.6

126

13.3

24.5

11.9

43.4

RBI

35.7

16.1

57.3

36.4

68.5

.251

12.6

OBP

.305

7.7

SLG

.404

OPS

.710

16.1

wRC+

82.7

16.1

OPS+

85.3

16.8

wOBA

.315

12.6

sWAR

0.7

12.6

of 144 qualified 1997 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

94.4

30.6

OPS+

96.9

35.6

sWAR

28.7

96.3

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
1981	9	26	26	4	5	0	0	2	3	0	6	0	0	.192	.192	.423	.615	60.8	70.3	.271	0.0
1982	145	565	508	59	117	25	4	25	84	37	107	0	4	.230	.280	.443	.723	87.4	92.4	.314	1.3
1983	157	650	584	81	143	30	3	21	78	54	121	7	1	.245	.309	.414	.724	93.8	94.5	.324	2.1
1984	162	644	588	55	154	29	4	5	65	44	81	11	5	.262	.315	.350	.665	81.3	81.0	.305	1.0
1985	160	608	560	71	138	31	0	20	63	37	89	13	5	.246	.301	.409	.710	86.8	88.2	.315	1.3
1986	157	661	596	91	171	34	1	34	108	52	108	14	15	.287	.347	.518	.865	129.1	130.0	.376	4.9
1987	154	628	584	95	150	36	2	31	109	37	92	10	7	.257	.303	.485	.788	98.2	102.2	.335	2.2
1988	133	516	468	66	141	29	2	28	88	36	85	7	4	.301	.353	.551	.905	146.5	147.8	.395	4.8
1989	130	536	498	63	125	11	4	19	75	25	87	6	2	.251	.286	.404	.690	81.6	87.9	.307	0.9
1990	154	625	577	61	132	27	5	16	85	36	101	6	1	.229	.274	.376	.650	71.9	76.2	.294	0.3
1991	152	634	586	58	144	22	1	18	66	33	104	5	5	.246	.293	.379	.672	83.1	85.6	.303	1.2
1992	130	486	456	41	103	13	2	12	48	21	79	3	1	.226	.267	.342	.610	64.6	70.3	.277	-0.9
1993	102	369	331	40	81	20	1	14	50	21	87	1	3	.245	.300	.438	.738	90.4	92.6	.328	0.7
1994	90	352	327	53	94	15	3	12	57	19	63	0	2	.287	.328	.462	.789	96.6	99.4	.343	1.1
1995	137	578	514	76	134	27	0	35	96	47	91	3	3	.261	.329	.518	.846	112.6	116.9	.364	2.9
1996	141	574	522	71	143	27	4	23	80	35	97	2	2	.274	.326	.473	.799	107.1	109.7	.348	2.5
1997	148	554	502	63	126	24	1	17	69	36	88	7	3	.251	.305	.404	.710	82.7	85.3	.315	0.7
1998	128	492	434	60	122	34	1	19	70	43	62	1	1	.281	.356	.495	.852	121.9	120.8	.373	3.2
1999	113	308	280	22	57	9	1	9	46	21	51	0	1	.204	.260	.339	.599	47.7	51.3	.267	-1.1
2000	5	11	10	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.4	-100.0	.000	-0.3

Pitching

Season	G	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1997	1	1	0	0	0	0	0.3	0.00	3.000	0.00	12.07	289.6	—	0.7
1998	1	2	0	0	0	0	1.0	0.00	2.000	0.00	3.07	72.7	—	3.2
1999	1	2	2	1	1	1	1.0	18.00	3.000	9.00	17.07	377.8	25.1	-1.1

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

2,507

58th-most career G

9,817

99th-most career PA

8,951

80th-most career AB

1,130

240th-most career R

2,280

163rd-most career H

443

120th-most career 2B

360

92nd-most career HR

RBI

1,341

93rd-most career RBI

634

477th-most career BB

1,602

57th-most career SO

.2547

OBP

.3076

SLG

.4336

OPS

.7412

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

7.714

WHIP

2.5714

K/9

3.86

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
1982-04-06	SEA @ MIN Gameday	4	2	4	0	1	2	4	0	12
1995-05-29	TEX @ KC Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	2	6	0	11
1992-09-01	CLE @ LAA Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	2	3	0	10
1997-07-10	STL @ CHC Gameday	4	2	4	0	0	2	3	0	10
1996-06-14	NYM @ STL Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	2	5	1	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1999-07-03	CHC @ PHI Gameday	1.0	2	2	2	1	1	1
1998-07-24	STL @ COL Gameday	1.0	2	0	0	0	0	0
1997-09-20	STL @ PIT Gameday	0.1	1	0	0	0	0	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

4× Gold Glove1× ALCS MVP1× Silver Slugger2× 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.