MLB / Players

Gary Geiger

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 168 lb

BornApril 4, 1937 · Sand Ridge, IL, USA

MLB debutApril 15, 1958

Final gameJuly 10, 1970

Seasons12 (1958–1970)

Cleveland Indians 1958; Boston Red Sox 1959–1965; Atlanta Braves 1966–1967; Houston Astros 1969–1970

Percentile snapshot

1962 season — qualified batters

131

1.9

543

13.6

466

6.8

24.3

116

3.9

14.6

47.6

RBI

17.5

72.8

60.2

87.4

2.9

.249

10.7

OBP

.344

49.5

SLG

.408

36.9

OPS

.752

41.7

wRC+

100.8

37.9

OPS+

98.8

37.9

wOBA

.341

42.7

sWAR

2.1

36.9

of 104 qualified 1962 batters (min 496 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

9.3

86.2

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
1958	91	229	195	28	45	3	1	1	6	27	43	2	2	.231	.330	.272	.602	76.0	70.0	.293	0.0
1959	120	360	335	45	82	10	4	11	48	21	55	9	3	.245	.289	.397	.686	79.8	82.3	.309	0.2
1960	77	273	245	32	74	13	3	9	33	23	38	2	2	.302	.369	.490	.859	130.0	126.2	.388	1.6
1961	140	599	499	82	116	21	6	18	64	87	91	16	4	.232	.349	.407	.756	101.4	99.2	.346	2.3
1962	131	543	466	67	116	18	4	16	54	67	66	18	11	.249	.344	.408	.752	100.8	98.8	.341	2.1
1963	121	440	399	67	105	13	5	16	44	36	63	9	4	.263	.327	.441	.768	111.0	109.7	.342	2.2
1964	5	15	13	3	5	0	1	0	1	2	2	0	0	.385	.467	.538	1.005	186.0	171.5	.453	0.2
1965	24	58	45	5	9	3	0	1	2	13	10	3	0	.200	.379	.333	.713	108.3	98.0	.342	0.2
1966	78	151	126	23	33	5	3	4	10	21	29	0	1	.262	.367	.444	.811	127.7	122.8	.366	1.0
1967	69	140	117	17	19	1	1	1	5	20	35	1	1	.162	.285	.214	.498	55.1	45.9	.256	-0.3
1969	93	156	125	19	28	4	1	0	16	24	34	2	1	.224	.351	.272	.623	86.3	78.7	.308	-0.1
1970	5	4	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.250	.250	.250	.500	32.6	37.4	.231	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1958	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	1	2	0	2.0	9.00	1.500	9.00	1.94	52.6	41.1	0.0

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

954

2,968

2,569

388

633

RBI

283

341

466

.2464

OBP

.3370

SLG

.3943

OPS

.7313

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

9.000

WHIP

1.5000

K/9

9.00

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
1959-05-06	BOS @ DET Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	2	4	0	11
1959-08-05	ATH @ BOS Gameday	5	3	3	1	1	1	6	0	9
1963-08-08	BOS @ DET Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	3	0	9
1962-09-09	BOS @ NYY Gameday	7	1	4	1	0	1	2	1	8
1962-06-30	ATH @ BOS Gameday	5	4	4	1	0	1	1	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1958-06-11	CLE @ BAL Gameday	2.0	2	2	2	1	2
1958-09-23	CLE @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1958-09-24	CLE @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1959-06-03	BOS @ ATH Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0
1966-05-17	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	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.