Gerald Laird
Texas Rangers 2003–2008; Detroit Tigers 2009–2010; St. Louis Cardinals 2011; Detroit Tigers 2012; Atlanta Braves 2013–2014; Arizona Diamondbacks 2015
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 19 | 50 | 44 | 9 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .273 | .360 | .432 | .792 | 104.1 | 99.9 | .354 | 0.3 |
| 2004 | 49 | 168 | 147 | 20 | 33 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 12 | 35 | 0 | 1 | .224 | .287 | .286 | .572 | 44.4 | 46.0 | .263 | -0.2 |
| 2005 | 13 | 42 | 40 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .225 | .262 | .350 | .612 | 54.4 | 57.8 | .270 | 0.0 |
| 2006 | 78 | 260 | 243 | 46 | 72 | 20 | 1 | 7 | 22 | 12 | 54 | 3 | 1 | .296 | .332 | .473 | .805 | 103.9 | 104.0 | .349 | 1.6 |
| 2007 | 120 | 448 | 407 | 48 | 91 | 18 | 3 | 9 | 47 | 30 | 103 | 6 | 2 | .224 | .278 | .349 | .627 | 60.0 | 62.4 | .281 | 0.3 |
| 2008 | 95 | 381 | 344 | 54 | 95 | 24 | 0 | 6 | 41 | 23 | 63 | 2 | 4 | .276 | .329 | .398 | .727 | 89.4 | 90.4 | .324 | 1.5 |
| 2009 | 135 | 477 | 413 | 49 | 93 | 23 | 2 | 4 | 33 | 40 | 68 | 5 | 0 | .225 | .306 | .320 | .626 | 66.2 | 64.8 | .287 | 0.7 |
| 2010 | 89 | 299 | 270 | 22 | 56 | 11 | 0 | 5 | 25 | 18 | 57 | 3 | 1 | .207 | .263 | .304 | .567 | 51.2 | 54.2 | .259 | 0.0 |
| 2011 | 37 | 108 | 95 | 11 | 22 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 19 | 1 | 1 | .232 | .302 | .358 | .660 | 75.0 | 83.3 | .288 | 0.3 |
| 2012 | 63 | 191 | 174 | 24 | 49 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 14 | 21 | 0 | 0 | .282 | .337 | .374 | .710 | 95.0 | 93.0 | .318 | 1.0 |
| 2013 | 47 | 141 | 121 | 12 | 34 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 14 | 23 | 1 | 1 | .281 | .367 | .372 | .739 | 113.9 | 107.4 | .341 | 1.1 |
| 2014 | 53 | 167 | 152 | 12 | 31 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 14 | 33 | 0 | 0 | .204 | .275 | .257 | .532 | 47.4 | 52.5 | .246 | -0.1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -140.2 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-06-04 | TEX @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 12 |
| 2008-04-06 | TEX @ LAA Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 10 |
| 2008-08-03 | TOR @ TEX Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 2003-09-27 | TEX @ LAA Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 2012-04-15 | DET @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 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.