MLB / Players

Gary Thurman

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 10 in · 170 lb
BornNovember 12, 1964 · Indianapolis, IN, USA
MLB debutAugust 30, 1987
Final gameMay 26, 1997
Seasons9 (1987–1997)

Kansas City Royals 1987–1992; Detroit Tigers 1993; Seattle Mariners 1995; New York Mets 1997

Percentile snapshot

No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR
-2.1
1.3

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19872790811224200582072.296.360.321.68187.082.2.3150.1
1988357066611100242051.167.214.182.3969.112.7.192-0.6
19897210587241721051526160.195.311.241.55267.259.0.277-0.2
1990236360514300321211.233.258.283.54148.853.1.251-0.3
1991802001842451902131142155.277.320.359.67888.587.9.3120.1
19928821620025496302093496.245.281.305.58661.163.4.274-0.7
19937510289221922013113070.213.297.281.57860.256.9.277-0.4
19951327253820031352.320.333.400.73386.790.1.3240.0
199711660100000001.167.167.167.333-23.0-10.6.152-0.1

Career totals

G
424
PA
879
AB
798
R
121
H
194
2B
27
3B
6
HR
2
RBI
64
BB
61
SO
187
SB
65
BA
.2431
OBP
.2971
SLG
.2995
OPS
.5966

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1993-04-17SEA @ DET Gameday513010415
1993-08-12BAL @ DET Gameday312110205
1992-06-15KC @ MIN Gameday522110105
1989-07-28BAL @ KC Gameday512110015
1991-07-04KC @ LAA Gameday624000104

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.