Jason LaRue
Cincinnati Reds 1999–2006; Kansas City Royals 2007; St. Louis Cardinals 2008–2010
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
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 36 | 103 | 90 | 12 | 19 | 7 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 32 | 4 | 1 | .211 | .311 | .389 | .700 | 73.5 | 74.5 | .312 | 0.3 |
| 2000 | 31 | 107 | 98 | 12 | 23 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 12 | 5 | 19 | 0 | 0 | .235 | .299 | .418 | .717 | 72.2 | 77.9 | .309 | 0.2 |
| 2001 | 121 | 403 | 364 | 39 | 86 | 21 | 2 | 12 | 43 | 27 | 106 | 3 | 3 | .236 | .303 | .404 | .707 | 75.4 | 78.0 | .308 | 0.9 |
| 2002 | 113 | 397 | 353 | 42 | 88 | 17 | 1 | 12 | 52 | 27 | 117 | 1 | 2 | .249 | .324 | .405 | .729 | 87.5 | 89.8 | .323 | 1.6 |
| 2003 | 118 | 437 | 379 | 52 | 87 | 23 | 1 | 16 | 50 | 33 | 111 | 3 | 3 | .230 | .321 | .422 | .743 | 92.0 | 93.0 | .328 | 2.0 |
| 2004 | 114 | 445 | 390 | 46 | 98 | 24 | 2 | 14 | 55 | 26 | 108 | 0 | 2 | .251 | .334 | .431 | .765 | 96.9 | 97.4 | .335 | 2.2 |
| 2005 | 110 | 422 | 361 | 38 | 94 | 27 | 0 | 14 | 60 | 41 | 101 | 0 | 0 | .260 | .355 | .452 | .806 | 109.2 | 109.3 | .354 | 2.8 |
| 2006 | 72 | 230 | 191 | 22 | 37 | 5 | 0 | 8 | 21 | 27 | 51 | 1 | 0 | .194 | .317 | .346 | .663 | 59.4 | 66.9 | .288 | 0.1 |
| 2007 | 66 | 195 | 169 | 14 | 25 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 13 | 17 | 66 | 1 | 0 | .148 | .240 | .272 | .512 | 33.9 | 34.1 | .239 | -0.4 |
| 2008 | 61 | 189 | 164 | 17 | 35 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 21 | 15 | 20 | 0 | 0 | .213 | .296 | .348 | .643 | 69.6 | 70.8 | .291 | 0.4 |
| 2009 | 51 | 112 | 104 | 10 | 25 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 22 | 1 | 0 | .240 | .288 | .327 | .615 | 62.9 | 64.6 | .281 | 0.2 |
| 2010 | 29 | 63 | 56 | 3 | 11 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .196 | .274 | .321 | .596 | 63.4 | 62.9 | .275 | 0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003-06-13 | PHI @ CIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 2005-07-28 | CIN @ LAD Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
| 2002-07-16 | CIN @ MIL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 2004-06-14 | CIN @ PHI Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 2000-08-12 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
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.