MLB / Players

Gary Varsho

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right
Listed at5 ft 11 in · 190 lb
BornJune 20, 1961 · Marshfield, WI, USA
MLB debutJuly 6, 1988
Final gameOctober 1, 1995
Seasons8 (1988–1995)

Chicago Cubs 1988–1990; Pittsburgh Pirates 1991–1992; Cincinnati Reds 1993; Pittsburgh Pirates 1994; Philadelphia Phillies 1995

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
-0.9
7.6

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
198846757362030051650.274.280.315.59563.468.1.274-0.2
19896191871016420641330.184.220.276.49626.237.0.226-0.6
1990464948101240011620.250.265.333.59947.559.1.263-0.2
1991992101872351112423193492.273.344.417.762117.4116.3.3470.9
1992103173162223663422103252.222.266.370.63674.779.5.289-0.2
199377109958226021191910.232.302.358.66078.476.8.3030.0
19946790821521630541901.256.307.402.70979.382.1.313-0.1
1995721131037261101171720.252.310.282.59156.657.8.274-0.4

Career totals

G
571
PA
910
AB
837
R
101
H
204
2B
41
3B
11
HR
10
RBI
84
BB
55
SO
146
SB
27
BA
.2437
OBP
.2942
SLG
.3548
OPS
.6490

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
1991-07-02PIT @ CHC Gameday4330126011
1992-09-28PIT @ CHC Gameday612101306
1991-09-15PIT @ PHI Gameday412001205
1991-09-29WSH @ PIT Gameday313100014
1989-05-23CHC @ HOU Gameday312010004

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.