MLB / Players

George Riley

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left
Listed at6 ft 2 in · 210 lb
BornOctober 6, 1956 · Philadelphia, PA, USA
MLB debutSeptember 15, 1979
Final gameMay 4, 1986
Seasons4 (1979–1986)

Chicago Cubs 1979–1980; San Francisco Giants 1984; Montreal Expos 1986

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
-0.5
14

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
19794320000000200.000.000.000.000-136.1-100.0.000-0.1
198022210000000000.000.000.000.000-136.8-100.0.000-0.5
1984511101100000500.100.100.100.200-60.4-42.9.0930.1
1986100000000000000.0

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
1979410100016865113.05.541.6923.464.77117.473.4-0.1
19802200400041232018236.05.751.6944.504.30111.167.3-0.5
198454100003913712129.33.991.5683.683.3494.588.50.1
198610000000748508.74.151.7315.194.71127.289.10.0

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

G
41
PA
16
AB
13
R
1
H
1
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
0
SO
7
SB
0
BA
.0769
OBP
.0769
SLG
.0769
OPS
.1538

Pitching

G (P)
41
GS
5
W
1
L
5
SV
0
CG
0
SHO
0
IP
87
SO (P)
40
BB allowed
41
ERA
4.966
WHIP
1.6552
K/9
4.14

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
1984-09-18SF @ HOU Gameday311000001
1979-09-15CHC @ PHI Gameday000000000
1979-09-19CHC @ STL Gameday200000000
1979-09-22PIT @ CHC Gameday000000000
1979-09-26NYM @ CHC Gameday000000000

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1984-09-03CIN @ SF Gameday6.0833171
1979-09-19CHC @ STL Gameday5.2433541
1980-06-25NYM @ CHC Gameday2.0311130
1980-09-17STL @ CHC Gameday2.0433030
1984-09-23LAD @ SF Gameday8.11122120

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.