MLB / Players

Greg Gross

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 160 lb

BornAugust 1, 1952 · York, PA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 5, 1973

Final gameSeptember 27, 1989

Seasons17 (1973–1989)

Houston Astros 1973–1976; Chicago Cubs 1977–1978; Philadelphia Phillies 1979–1988; Houston Astros 1989

Percentile snapshot

1975 season — qualified batters

132

13.4

558

31.5

483

24.4

41.7

142

45.7

8.7

94.5

RBI

62.2

92.9

18.1

77.2

.294

73.2

OBP

.373

77.2

SLG

.364

32.3

OPS

.738

47.2

wRC+

119.0

61.4

OPS+

112.5

53.5

wOBA

.355

57.5

sWAR

2.5

47.2

of 128 qualified 1975 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

107.6

56.9

OPS+

103.1

48.5

sWAR

11.6

88.5

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
1973	14	43	39	5	9	2	1	0	1	4	4	2	1	.231	.302	.333	.636	80.2	77.1	.302	0.0
1974	156	676	589	78	185	21	8	0	36	76	39	12	20	.314	.393	.377	.770	127.8	120.8	.370	3.4
1975	132	558	483	67	142	14	10	0	41	63	37	2	2	.294	.373	.364	.738	119.0	112.5	.355	2.5
1976	128	501	426	52	122	12	3	0	27	64	39	2	6	.286	.375	.329	.704	116.1	109.5	.342	2.0
1977	115	280	239	43	77	10	4	5	32	33	19	0	1	.322	.397	.460	.857	122.1	119.5	.385	1.5
1978	124	390	347	34	92	12	7	1	39	33	19	3	1	.265	.323	.349	.672	76.2	79.4	.311	0.0
1979	111	206	174	21	58	6	3	0	15	29	5	5	2	.333	.422	.402	.825	130.6	124.9	.382	1.2
1980	127	182	154	19	37	7	2	0	12	24	7	1	1	.240	.346	.312	.658	89.9	82.5	.320	-0.1
1981	83	119	102	14	23	6	1	0	7	15	5	2	2	.225	.319	.304	.623	69.7	76.1	.288	-0.3
1982	119	155	134	14	40	4	0	0	10	19	8	4	3	.299	.386	.328	.714	107.1	102.0	.340	0.3
1983	136	284	245	25	74	12	3	0	29	34	16	3	5	.302	.385	.376	.761	118.1	113.8	.356	1.1
1984	112	229	202	19	65	9	1	0	16	24	11	1	0	.322	.393	.376	.769	121.3	116.6	.361	0.8
1985	93	205	169	21	44	5	2	0	14	32	9	1	0	.260	.374	.314	.688	102.3	92.7	.335	0.4
1986	87	125	101	11	25	5	0	0	8	21	11	1	0	.248	.379	.297	.676	82.8	86.8	.311	0.0
1987	114	163	133	14	38	4	1	1	12	25	12	0	0	.286	.395	.353	.748	100.6	97.8	.344	0.2
1988	98	151	133	10	27	1	0	0	5	16	3	0	0	.203	.291	.211	.502	47.3	45.1	.250	-0.8
1989	60	88	75	2	15	0	0	0	4	11	6	0	0	.200	.310	.200	.510	54.3	51.8	.252	-0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1986	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	2	0	0.7	0.00	3.000	27.00	1.25	32.4	—	0.0
1989	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	1	1	0	1.0	18.00	4.000	9.00	3.66	107.8	18.9	-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

1,809

403rd-most career G

4,355

3,745

449

1,073

130

RBI

308

523

250

.2865

492nd-highest career batting average

OBP

.3717

263rd-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3514

OPS

.7231

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

10.800

WHIP

3.6000

K/9

16.20

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
1974-06-23	SD @ HOU Gameday	4	2	4	1	1	0	1	0	7
1976-06-09	STL @ HOU Gameday	5	1	4	0	1	0	0	0	6
1978-04-30	CHC @ ATL Gameday	5	1	3	0	0	1	3	0	6
1977-08-25	CHC @ ATL Gameday	4	1	3	0	0	1	2	1	6
1978-05-19	STL @ CHC Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	0	1	0	6

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1986-06-08	PHI @ WSH Gameday	0.2	1	0	0	1	2	0
1989-05-21	PIT @ HOU Gameday	1.0	3	2	2	1	1	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.