Gary Pettis
California Angels 1982–1987; Detroit Tigers 1988–1989; Texas Rangers 1990–1991; Detroit Tigers 1992; San Diego Padres 1992
Percentile snapshot
1989 season — qualified batters
of 126 qualified 1989 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .800 | 1.000 | 157.5 | 160.7 | .411 | 0.1 |
| 1983 | 22 | 93 | 85 | 19 | 25 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 15 | 8 | 3 | .294 | .348 | .494 | .842 | 133.1 | 130.7 | .375 | 0.7 |
| 1984 | 140 | 466 | 397 | 63 | 90 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 29 | 60 | 115 | 48 | 17 | .227 | .332 | .300 | .632 | 84.2 | 77.8 | .302 | 0.9 |
| 1985 | 125 | 516 | 443 | 67 | 114 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 32 | 62 | 125 | 56 | 9 | .257 | .347 | .323 | .670 | 92.9 | 86.7 | .315 | 1.5 |
| 1986 | 154 | 628 | 539 | 93 | 139 | 23 | 4 | 5 | 58 | 69 | 132 | 50 | 13 | .258 | .339 | .343 | .683 | 91.6 | 88.4 | .315 | 1.7 |
| 1987 | 133 | 448 | 394 | 49 | 82 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 17 | 52 | 124 | 24 | 5 | .208 | .302 | .259 | .561 | 59.6 | 53.6 | .267 | -0.5 |
| 1988 | 129 | 512 | 458 | 65 | 96 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 36 | 47 | 85 | 44 | 10 | .210 | .285 | .277 | .562 | 64.3 | 61.2 | .268 | -0.2 |
| 1989 | 119 | 536 | 444 | 77 | 114 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 18 | 84 | 106 | 43 | 15 | .257 | .375 | .309 | .684 | 108.2 | 96.9 | .336 | 2.6 |
| 1990 | 136 | 498 | 423 | 66 | 101 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 31 | 57 | 118 | 38 | 15 | .239 | .333 | .336 | .668 | 93.0 | 88.0 | .318 | 1.5 |
| 1991 | 137 | 343 | 282 | 37 | 61 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 19 | 54 | 91 | 29 | 13 | .216 | .341 | .277 | .618 | 84.9 | 74.9 | .305 | 0.7 |
| 1992 | 78 | 192 | 159 | 27 | 32 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 29 | 45 | 14 | 4 | .201 | .323 | .289 | .612 | 80.4 | 73.1 | .301 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985-09-14 | TEX @ LAA Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1983-09-27 | TOR @ LAA Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1986-10-02 | LAA @ TEX Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1984-04-28 | SEA @ LAA Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 |
| 1992-08-29 | KC @ DET Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.