Gary Thurman
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 27 | 90 | 81 | 12 | 24 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 8 | 20 | 7 | 2 | .296 | .360 | .321 | .681 | 87.0 | 82.2 | .315 | 0.1 |
| 1988 | 35 | 70 | 66 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 20 | 5 | 1 | .167 | .214 | .182 | .396 | 9.1 | 12.7 | .192 | -0.6 |
| 1989 | 72 | 105 | 87 | 24 | 17 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 15 | 26 | 16 | 0 | .195 | .311 | .241 | .552 | 67.2 | 59.0 | .277 | -0.2 |
| 1990 | 23 | 63 | 60 | 5 | 14 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 1 | .233 | .258 | .283 | .541 | 48.8 | 53.1 | .251 | -0.3 |
| 1991 | 80 | 200 | 184 | 24 | 51 | 9 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 42 | 15 | 5 | .277 | .320 | .359 | .678 | 88.5 | 87.9 | .312 | 0.1 |
| 1992 | 88 | 216 | 200 | 25 | 49 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 20 | 9 | 34 | 9 | 6 | .245 | .281 | .305 | .586 | 61.1 | 63.4 | .274 | -0.7 |
| 1993 | 75 | 102 | 89 | 22 | 19 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 11 | 30 | 7 | 0 | .213 | .297 | .281 | .578 | 60.2 | 56.9 | .277 | -0.4 |
| 1995 | 13 | 27 | 25 | 3 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 2 | .320 | .333 | .400 | .733 | 86.7 | 90.1 | .324 | 0.0 |
| 1997 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .167 | .167 | .167 | .333 | -23.0 | -10.6 | .152 | -0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993-04-17 | SEA @ DET Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 1993-08-12 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1992-06-15 | KC @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1989-07-28 | BAL @ KC Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
| 1991-07-04 | KC @ LAA Gameday | 6 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
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.