Joe Rudi

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 200 lb

BornSeptember 7, 1946 · Modesto, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 11, 1967

Final gameOctober 3, 1982

Seasons16 (1967–1982)

Kansas City Athletics 1967; Oakland Athletics 1968–1976; California Angels 1977–1980; Boston Red Sox 1981; Oakland Athletics 1982

Percentile snapshot

1978 season — qualified batters

133

11.5

536

14.4

497

24.5

15.8

127

18.7

61.2

4.3

62.6

RBI

70.5

7.9

30.9

12.9

86.3

.256

24.5

OBP

.295

SLG

.416

52.5

OPS

.711

33.8

wRC+

97.4

28.8

OPS+

102.2

36.7

wOBA

.318

sWAR

0.9

11.5

of 140 qualified 1978 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

108.9

59.5

OPS+

112.9

68.2

sWAR

18.1

92.7

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
1967	19	46	43	4	8	2	0	0	1	3	7	0	0	.186	.239	.233	.472	38.6	41.7	.227	-0.3
1968	68	197	181	10	32	5	1	1	12	12	32	1	1	.177	.236	.232	.468	34.2	44.6	.220	-1.2
1969	35	129	122	10	23	3	1	2	6	5	16	1	1	.189	.220	.279	.499	33.0	42.3	.229	-0.8
1970	106	375	350	40	108	23	2	11	42	16	61	3	1	.309	.341	.480	.821	128.9	128.9	.368	2.0
1971	127	556	513	62	137	23	4	10	52	28	62	3	2	.267	.304	.386	.690	96.4	98.6	.317	0.9
1972	147	653	593	94	181	32	9	19	75	37	62	3	4	.305	.345	.486	.830	154.4	153.5	.379	5.5
1973	120	483	437	53	118	25	1	12	66	30	72	0	0	.270	.315	.414	.729	106.9	111.1	.329	1.4
1974	158	639	593	73	174	39	4	22	99	34	92	2	3	.293	.334	.484	.818	139.0	142.4	.368	4.2
1975	126	515	468	66	130	26	6	21	75	40	56	2	1	.278	.338	.494	.831	131.4	137.2	.369	2.6
1976	130	557	500	54	135	32	3	13	94	41	71	6	1	.270	.323	.424	.747	116.6	122.8	.338	2.3
1977	64	272	242	48	64	13	2	13	53	22	48	1	0	.264	.333	.496	.829	123.9	127.4	.360	1.4
1978	133	536	497	58	127	27	1	17	79	28	82	2	1	.256	.295	.416	.711	97.4	102.2	.318	0.9
1979	90	361	330	35	80	11	3	11	61	24	61	0	0	.242	.294	.394	.688	84.3	87.1	.306	0.1
1980	104	399	372	42	88	17	1	16	53	17	84	1	0	.237	.277	.417	.694	86.7	90.5	.308	0.2
1981	49	135	122	14	22	3	0	6	24	8	29	0	0	.180	.239	.352	.591	57.5	65.3	.267	-0.5
1982	71	223	193	21	41	6	1	5	18	24	35	0	0	.212	.301	.332	.633	80.3	77.2	.294	-0.3

Career totals

1,547

6,076

5,556

684

1,468

287

179

470th-most career HR

RBI

810

369

870

.2642

OBP

.3114

SLG

.4266

OPS

.7380

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	TB
1977-06-14	LAA @ MIN Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	2	5	10
1980-05-23	KC @ LAA Gameday	5	3	3	0	0	2	3	9
1974-08-08	ATH @ TEX Gameday	4	1	4	1	0	1	5	8
1972-08-10	CWS @ ATH Gameday	9	2	3	0	1	1	3	8
1975-06-18	ATH @ MIN Gameday	5	2	2	0	0	2	5	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.

Honors

3× Gold Glove3× 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.