Gary Ward

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 195 lb

BornDecember 6, 1953 · Los Angeles, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 3, 1979

Final gameOctober 3, 1990

Seasons12 (1979–1990)

Minnesota Twins 1979–1983; Texas Rangers 1984–1986; New York Yankees 1987–1988; Detroit Tigers 1989; New York Yankees 1989; Detroit Tigers 1990

Percentile snapshot

1987 season — qualified batters

146

40.6

569

30.8

529

41.4

131

19.5

17.3

7.5

36.1

RBI

46.6

101

29.3

42.1

83.5

.248

OBP

.291

2.3

SLG

.384

OPS

.675

wRC+

76.8

1.5

OPS+

78.6

2.3

wOBA

.296

2.3

sWAR

-0.5

0.8

of 134 qualified 1987 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

104.1

50.3

OPS+

104.5

51.3

sWAR

13.2

89.8

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
1979	10	17	14	2	4	0	0	0	1	3	3	0	1	.286	.412	.286	.697	104.7	90.4	.346	0.0
1980	13	46	41	11	19	6	2	1	10	3	6	0	0	.463	.489	.780	1.269	237.9	233.4	.545	0.8
1981	85	326	295	42	78	7	6	3	29	28	48	5	2	.264	.325	.359	.684	92.5	94.2	.316	0.5
1982	152	616	570	85	165	33	7	28	91	37	105	13	1	.289	.330	.519	.849	124.5	126.2	.368	3.2
1983	157	676	623	76	173	34	5	19	88	44	98	8	1	.278	.326	.440	.766	105.8	105.8	.341	2.0
1984	155	659	602	97	171	21	7	21	79	55	95	7	5	.284	.343	.447	.790	116.8	114.9	.354	3.2
1985	154	638	593	77	170	28	7	15	70	39	97	26	7	.287	.329	.433	.763	105.9	106.5	.337	2.0
1986	105	418	380	54	120	15	2	5	51	31	72	12	8	.316	.372	.405	.777	111.9	110.0	.350	1.5
1987	146	569	529	65	131	22	1	16	78	33	101	9	1	.248	.291	.384	.675	76.8	78.6	.296	-0.5
1988	91	262	231	26	52	8	0	4	24	24	41	0	1	.225	.302	.312	.614	71.7	73.5	.282	-0.2
1989	113	321	292	27	74	11	2	9	30	24	59	1	3	.253	.306	.397	.704	96.5	98.7	.319	0.2
1990	106	344	309	32	79	11	2	9	46	30	50	2	0	.256	.322	.392	.713	99.4	97.8	.329	0.5

Career totals

1,287

4,892

4,479

594

1,236

196

130

RBI

597

351

775

.2760

OBP

.3280

SLG

.4251

OPS

.7531

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	TB
1983-05-23	MIN @ BAL Gameday	5	2	4	1	0	2	4	11
1984-09-22	TEX @ LAA Gameday	6	2	4	0	0	2	4	10
1980-09-18	MIN @ MIL Gameday	5	2	4	1	1	1	2	10
1984-08-14	TEX @ CWS Gameday	5	4	4	0	1	1	2	9
1987-05-08	MIN @ NYY Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	4	9

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

2× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.