MLB / Players

Gary Ross

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb

BornSeptember 16, 1947 · McKeesport, PA, USA

MLB debutJune 28, 1968

Final gameJuly 8, 1977

Seasons10 (1968–1977)

Chicago Cubs 1968–1969; San Diego Padres 1969–1974; California Angels 1975–1977

Percentile snapshot

1976 season — qualified pitchers

41.4

37.9

2.3

5.7

24.1

SHO

27.6

224

33.3

64.4

71.3

100

37.9

64.4

225.0

56.3

ERA

3.00

WHIP

1.253

51.7

K/9

4.00

28.7

FIP

3.26

59.8

FIP-

97.4

44.8

ERA+

111.6

59.8

sWAR

3.2

59.8

of 88 qualified 1976 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

3.1

74.1

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1968	13	11	11	1	1	0	1	0	4	.091	.091	.091	.182	-77.5	-46.5	.086	-0.2
1969	48	29	23	0	0	0	0	1	10	.000	.042	.000	.042	-104.5	-87.2	.031	-0.3
1970	33	10	8	1	4	1	2	0	1	.500	.500	.625	1.125	213.9	204.2	.510	-0.1
1971	13	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-128.0	-100.0	.000	0.3
1972	60	14	13	0	2	0	1	0	3	.154	.154	.154	.308	-25.2	-9.7	.143	1.8
1973	58	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.4	-100.0	.000	-1.1
1974	9	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-124.6	-100.0	.000	0.0
1975	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
1976	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.2
1977	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1968	13	5	1	1	0	1	0	44	19	25	31	1	41.0	4.17	1.683	6.80	3.18	101.0	75.5	-0.2
1969	48	8	3	12	3	0	0	105	54	58	60	5	111.7	4.35	1.460	4.84	3.86	109.2	81.2	-0.3
1970	33	2	2	3	1	0	0	72	36	36	39	8	62.3	5.20	1.733	5.63	5.14	130.1	76.0	-0.1
1971	13	0	1	3	0	0	0	27	8	11	13	0	24.3	2.96	1.562	4.81	2.95	89.5	111.6	0.3
1972	60	0	4	3	3	0	0	87	25	49	46	2	91.7	2.45	1.484	4.52	3.54	107.8	133.8	1.8
1973	58	0	4	4	0	0	0	93	46	33	44	8	76.3	5.42	1.651	5.19	4.21	121.0	64.2	-1.1
1974	9	0	0	0	0	0	0	23	9	6	11	1	18.0	4.50	1.611	5.50	3.09	87.1	78.7	0.0
1975	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	6	3	1	4	1	5.0	5.40	1.400	7.20	4.16	116.1	66.3	-0.1
1976	34	31	8	16	0	7	2	224	75	58	100	12	225.0	3.00	1.253	4.00	3.26	97.4	111.6	3.2
1977	14	12	2	4	0	0	0	83	36	11	30	10	58.3	5.55	1.611	4.63	4.61	117.3	70.8	-0.5

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

283

RBI

.1148

OBP

.1290

SLG

.1311

OPS

.2601

Pitching

G (P)

283

SHO

714

SO (P)

378

BB allowed

288

ERA

3.922

WHIP

1.4741

K/9

4.77

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	RBI	TB
1970-09-22	SD @ ATL Gameday	1	0	1	1	0	2
1970-06-02	SD @ PIT Gameday	1	1	1	0	2	1
1968-07-17	CHC @ PHI Gameday	1	0	1	0	0	1
1970-05-19	LAD @ SD Gameday	1	0	1	0	0	1
1970-05-23	SD @ SF Gameday	1	0	1	0	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1976-04-23	LAA @ MIL Gameday	7.1	7	3	2	1	10	1
1976-06-21	MIN @ LAA Gameday	10.0	8	1	0	3	7	0
1977-06-06	DET @ LAA Gameday	4.2	7	5	5	1	7	1
1976-06-02	LAA @ MIN Gameday	8.1	10	2	2	1	6	0
1968-07-13	CHC @ NYM Gameday	7.1	5	1	1	2	6	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.