MLB / Players

Gregg Olson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 4 in · 210 lb
BornOctober 11, 1966 · Scribner, NE, USA
MLB debutSeptember 2, 1988
Final gameJune 22, 2001
Seasons14 (1988–2001)

Baltimore Orioles 1988–1993; Atlanta Braves 1994; Cleveland Indians 1995; Kansas City Royals 1995; Detroit Tigers 1996; Houston Astros 1996; Kansas City Royals 1997; Minnesota Twins 1997; Arizona Diamondbacks 1998–1999; Los Angeles Dodgers 2000–2001

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
12.8
89.5

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
1988100000000000000.2
1989640000000000003.0
1990640000000000002.0
1991720000000000001.4
1992600000000000002.0
199350110000000100.000.000.000.000-123.4-100.0.0001.8
199416110000000100.000.000.000.000-125.0-100.0.000-0.7
1995230000000000000.5
1996520000000000000.4
1997450000000000000.0
199864221100120100.500.5002.0002.500547.1519.71.0101.7
1999611000000010001.000347.7.7401.2
2000130000000000000.1
200128000000000000-0.8

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
198810011000104109111.03.271.8187.365.09130.1119.60.2
198964052270057164690185.01.691.2129.532.5466.8224.83.0
199064065370057203174374.32.421.1848.962.7170.7158.42.0
199172046310074262972173.73.181.3988.802.3558.5126.61.4
199260015360046142458361.32.051.1418.512.7168.5192.42.0
19935000229003781844145.01.601.2228.802.5357.2276.91.8
19941600210019151310114.79.202.1826.145.45129.445.8-0.7
19952303330028151921433.04.091.4245.735.17109.8115.10.5
19965204080055293537752.34.991.7206.365.61116.497.00.4
19974504310058312834350.05.581.7206.124.3192.583.40.0
199864034300056232555468.73.011.1807.213.3679.5140.11.7
199961094140054252545960.73.711.3026.684.85105.8123.61.2
2000130010002110715417.75.091.5857.645.66127.587.10.1
20012800100026222024424.78.031.8658.765.60136.051.3-0.8

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
622
PA
5
AB
4
R
1
H
1
2B
0
3B
0
HR
1
RBI
2
BB
1
SO
3
SB
0
BA
.2500
OBP
.4000
SLG
1.0000
OPS
1.4000

Pitching

G (P)
622
208th-most career G (P)
GS
0
W
40
L
39
SV
217
50th-most career SV
CG
0
SHO
0
IP
672
SO (P)
588
BB allowed
330
ERA
3.455
WHIP
1.3810
K/9
7.88

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
1998-04-20MIA @ AZ Gameday211001204
1989-07-18SEA @ BAL Gameday000000000
1991-09-23BOS @ BAL Gameday000000000
1992-10-04BAL @ CLE Gameday000000000
1993-07-21KC @ BAL Gameday100000000

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1990-05-26BAL @ TEX Gameday3.0100350
1989-04-22MIN @ BAL Gameday3.0100140
1990-04-30LAA @ BAL Gameday2.2100040
1998-04-20MIA @ AZ Gameday2.2000140
1989-04-26BAL @ ATH Gameday2.0000040

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.

Honors

Rookie of the Year All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.