Gene Garber

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 175 lb

BornNovember 13, 1947 · Lancaster, PA, USA

MLB debutJune 17, 1969

Final gameJuly 1, 1988

Seasons19 (1969–1988)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1969–1970; Pittsburgh Pirates 1972; Kansas City Royals 1973–1974; Philadelphia Phillies 1974–1977; Atlanta Braves 1978; Philadelphia Phillies 1978; Atlanta Braves 1979–1987; Kansas City Royals 1987–1988

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

ERA+

114.9

82.4

sWAR

24.0

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1969	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-125.4	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1970	14	3	3	1	2	0	0	0	.667	.667	.667	1.333	283.9	265.6	.616	0.0
1972	4	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.4	-100.0	.000	-0.2
1973	49	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.1
1974	51	3	3	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-130.7	-100.0	.000	1.3
1975	71	13	12	0	2	1	0	2	.167	.167	.167	.333	-25.6	-8.2	.157	1.2
1976	59	12	7	0	2	0	2	3	.286	.444	.286	.730	132.7	109.9	.378	1.9
1977	64	10	10	0	0	0	0	5	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.8	-100.0	.000	2.8
1978	66	15	14	1	1	0	1	6	.071	.133	.071	.205	-50.1	-40.3	.113	3.1
1979	68	15	10	0	3	1	3	4	.300	.462	.300	.762	129.1	106.3	.387	0.8
1980	68	2	2	0	1	1	0	1	.500	.500	.500	1.000	191.8	176.1	.466	0.8
1981	35	5	5	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-135.0	-100.0	.000	1.2
1982	69	19	15	1	2	0	2	6	.133	.235	.133	.369	6.6	4.2	.198	3.2
1983	43	5	3	1	0	0	2	2	.000	.400	.000	.400	73.4	17.2	.301	0.1
1984	62	15	14	1	2	0	0	5	.143	.143	.143	.286	-40.7	-21.5	.133	2.0
1985	59	6	5	1	1	1	0	1	.200	.200	.200	.400	-4.3	9.6	.186	1.2
1986	61	8	6	0	1	0	1	1	.167	.286	.167	.452	31.0	24.9	.240	2.1
1987	62	5	4	0	0	0	1	2	.000	.200	.000	.200	-31.1	-42.5	.149	1.0
1988	26	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1969	2	1	0	0	0	0	6	3	1	3	3	5.0	5.40	1.400	5.40	9.86	281.8	64.8	-0.1
1970	14	0	0	3	0	0	22	13	10	7	4	22.3	5.24	1.433	2.82	6.16	157.1	74.9	0.0
1972	4	0	0	0	0	0	7	5	3	3	3	6.3	7.11	1.579	4.26	9.16	272.4	47.3	-0.2
1973	48	8	9	9	11	4	164	72	49	60	14	152.7	4.24	1.395	3.54	3.99	99.7	94.3	1.1
1974	51	0	5	2	5	0	74	26	44	41	4	76.0	3.08	1.553	4.86	4.00	106.0	122.5	1.3
1975	71	0	10	12	14	0	104	44	27	69	13	110.0	3.60	1.191	5.65	3.69	98.8	103.8	1.2
1976	59	0	9	3	11	0	78	29	30	92	4	92.7	2.82	1.165	8.94	2.32	65.3	126.3	1.9
1977	64	0	8	6	19	0	82	27	23	78	6	103.3	2.35	1.016	6.79	2.70	67.7	169.8	2.8
1978	65	0	6	5	25	0	84	28	24	85	12	117.0	2.15	.923	6.54	3.25	91.7	164.6	3.1
1979	68	0	6	16	25	0	121	51	24	56	10	106.0	4.33	1.368	4.75	3.68	92.1	92.3	0.8
1980	68	0	5	5	7	0	95	35	24	51	6	82.3	3.83	1.445	5.57	3.33	89.0	97.7	0.8
1981	35	0	4	6	2	0	49	17	20	34	2	58.7	2.61	1.176	5.22	2.98	83.0	137.5	1.2
1982	69	0	8	10	30	0	100	31	32	68	4	119.3	2.34	1.106	5.13	2.90	77.4	160.2	3.2
1983	43	0	4	5	9	0	72	31	23	45	8	60.7	4.60	1.566	6.68	4.14	107.5	83.7	0.1
1984	62	0	3	6	11	0	103	36	24	55	7	106.0	3.06	1.198	4.67	3.35	87.8	124.8	2.0
1985	59	0	6	6	1	0	98	39	25	66	8	97.3	3.61	1.264	6.10	3.16	83.3	105.3	1.2
1986	61	0	5	5	24	0	76	22	20	56	3	78.0	2.54	1.231	6.46	2.62	66.4	155.4	2.1
1987	62	0	8	10	18	0	100	38	29	51	8	83.7	4.09	1.542	5.49	4.00	92.2	106.3	1.0
1988	26	0	0	4	6	0	29	13	13	20	4	32.7	3.58	1.286	5.51	4.57	115.0	110.9	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

933

138

115

RBI

.1478

OBP

.2283

SLG

.1478

OPS

.3761

Pitching

G (P)

931

24th-most career G (P)

113

408th-most career L

218

49th-most career SV

SHO

1,510

SO (P)

940

BB allowed

445

ERA

3.338

334th-lowest career ERA

WHIP

1.2642

404th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

5.60

474th-highest career K/9

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	RBI	TB
1970-05-17	WSH @ PIT Gameday	2	1	2	0	2
1975-07-06	NYM @ PHI Gameday	2	0	1	1	1
1979-06-30	ATL @ LAD Gameday	1	0	1	1	1
1980-08-21	CHC @ ATL Gameday	1	0	1	1	1
1975-08-12	LAD @ PHI Gameday	2	0	1	0	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1974-06-13	MIL @ KC Gameday	4.0	2	1	1	0	6	0
1975-08-12	LAD @ PHI Gameday	4.0	4	3	3	1	6	1
1973-05-27	BOS @ KC Gameday	9.0	10	3	3	3	5	0
1973-09-15	KC @ LAA Gameday	8.0	10	3	2	2	5	0
1976-08-04	PHI @ CHC Gameday	4.0	2	0	0	1	5	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.