MLB / Players

Gene Richards

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 175 lb

BornSeptember 29, 1953 · Monticello, SC, USA

MLB debutApril 6, 1977

Final gameSeptember 30, 1984

Seasons8 (1977–1984)

San Diego Padres 1977–1983; San Francisco Giants 1984

Percentile snapshot

1982 season — qualified batters

132

7.9

562

25.7

521

33.6

24.3

149

51.4

2.1

84.3

5.7

RBI

17.1

79.3

87.1

2.1

.286

67.1

OBP

.333

41.4

SLG

.359

17.1

OPS

.692

20.7

wRC+

101.3

33.6

OPS+

98.4

wOBA

.325

29.3

sWAR

1.2

of 141 qualified 1982 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

113.9

69.5

OPS+

111.4

65.3

sWAR

16.1

91.6

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
1977	146	591	525	79	152	16	11	5	32	60	80	56	12	.290	.363	.390	.754	111.0	111.4	.342	2.1
1978	154	629	555	90	171	26	12	4	45	64	80	37	17	.308	.381	.420	.801	135.5	132.0	.372	4.0
1979	150	606	545	77	152	17	9	4	41	47	62	24	8	.279	.343	.365	.708	100.9	99.3	.328	2.2
1980	158	712	642	91	193	26	8	4	41	61	73	61	16	.301	.363	.385	.748	117.8	114.2	.349	3.0
1981	104	453	393	47	113	14	12	3	42	53	44	20	8	.288	.373	.407	.780	134.0	128.3	.368	2.8
1982	132	562	521	63	149	13	8	3	28	36	52	30	20	.286	.333	.359	.692	101.3	98.4	.325	1.2
1983	95	252	233	37	64	11	3	3	22	17	17	14	5	.275	.325	.386	.712	101.6	100.4	.329	0.6
1984	87	153	135	18	34	4	0	0	4	18	28	5	3	.252	.340	.281	.621	82.5	78.6	.300	0.0

Career totals

1,026

3,958

3,549

502

1,028

127

493rd-most career 3B

RBI

255

356

436

247

246th-most career SB

.2897

415th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3565

SLG

.3829

OPS

.7394

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
1982-07-10	SD @ NYM Gameday	5	2	5	0	0	1	3	0	8
1981-05-23	SD @ ATL Gameday	6	2	3	0	1	1	2	0	8
1977-07-26	WSH @ SD Gameday	7	1	6	1	0	0	0	1	7
1982-09-13	SD @ LAD Gameday	8	2	5	0	1	0	0	0	7
1980-07-19	SD @ CHC Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	1	0	7

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.