MLB / Players

Jim Rice

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 200 lb

BornMarch 8, 1953 · Anderson, SC, USA

MLB debutAugust 19, 1974

Final gameAugust 3, 1989

Seasons16 (1974–1989)

Boston Red Sox 1974–1989

Percentile snapshot

1988 season — qualified batters

135

542

16.3

485

16.3

17.1

128

25.6

10.1

42.6

56.6

RBI

63.6

53.5

32.6

3.9

91.5

.264

40.3

OBP

.330

48.1

SLG

.406

48.8

OPS

.736

48.1

wRC+

103.4

39.5

OPS+

102.5

40.3

wOBA

.334

49.6

sWAR

0.7

of 130 qualified 1988 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

128.6

89.3

OPS+

128.7

89.4

sWAR

48.3

98.7

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
1974	24	75	67	6	18	2	1	1	13	4	12	0	0	.269	.307	.373	.680	86.6	90.4	.311	-0.1
1975	144	613	564	92	174	29	4	22	102	36	122	10	5	.309	.350	.491	.841	126.2	128.4	.376	2.9
1976	153	624	581	75	164	25	8	25	85	28	123	8	5	.282	.315	.482	.797	119.4	121.4	.361	2.4
1977	160	710	644	104	206	29	15	39	114	53	120	5	4	.320	.376	.593	.969	150.0	149.2	.417	5.1
1978	163	746	677	121	213	25	15	46	139	58	126	7	5	.315	.370	.600	.970	161.8	159.4	.426	6.9
1979	158	688	619	117	201	39	6	39	130	57	97	9	4	.325	.381	.596	.977	154.5	154.8	.424	6.0
1980	124	542	504	81	148	22	6	24	86	30	87	8	3	.294	.336	.504	.840	122.5	123.6	.370	2.6
1981	108	495	451	51	128	18	1	17	62	34	76	2	2	.284	.333	.441	.775	116.9	117.4	.351	2.2
1982	145	638	573	86	177	24	5	24	97	55	98	0	1	.309	.375	.494	.868	133.9	131.9	.384	4.1
1983	155	689	626	90	191	34	1	39	126	52	102	0	2	.305	.361	.550	.911	140.0	140.6	.395	4.9
1984	159	708	657	98	184	25	7	28	122	44	102	4	0	.280	.323	.467	.791	110.1	112.7	.346	2.5
1985	140	608	546	85	159	20	3	27	103	51	75	2	0	.291	.349	.487	.836	122.3	123.5	.365	3.0
1986	157	693	618	98	200	39	2	20	110	62	78	0	1	.324	.384	.490	.874	137.3	136.7	.385	4.7
1987	108	459	404	66	112	14	0	13	62	45	77	1	1	.277	.357	.408	.766	103.5	101.6	.341	1.2
1988	135	542	485	57	128	18	3	15	72	48	89	1	1	.264	.330	.406	.736	103.4	102.5	.334	0.7
1989	56	228	209	22	49	10	2	3	28	13	39	1	0	.234	.276	.344	.621	66.7	70.6	.284	-0.8

Career totals

2,089

198th-most career G

9,058

157th-most career PA

8,225

129th-most career AB

1,249

155th-most career R

2,452

116th-most career H

373

262nd-most career 2B

292nd-most career 3B

382

71st-most career HR

RBI

1,451

63rd-most career RBI

670

417th-most career BB

1,423

104th-most career SO

.2981

246th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3519

SLG

.5020

115th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8539

181st-highest career OPS

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1977-08-29	ATH @ BOS Gameday	5	3	4	0	3	4	0	13
1983-08-29	BOS @ TOR Gameday	5	3	3	0	3	6	0	12
1976-08-30	TEX @ BOS Gameday	5	3	4	1	2	5	0	11
1978-08-08	CLE @ BOS Gameday	4	3	4	0	2	4	1	10
1983-06-29	BOS @ CLE Gameday	6	3	3	1	2	5	0	10

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

Hall of Fame, 2009 (BBWAA)

2× Silver Slugger1× Most Valuable Player8× 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.