Keith Atherton
Oakland Athletics 1983–1985; Minnesota Twins 1986; Oakland Athletics 1986; Minnesota Twins 1987–1988; Cleveland Indians 1989
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 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 29 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -118.5 | -100.0 | .000 | 1.5 |
| 1984 | 57 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.4 |
| 1985 | 56 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.6 |
| 1986 | 60 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.1 |
| 1987 | 59 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.8 |
| 1988 | 49 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1.3 |
| 1989 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 29 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 53 | 21 | 23 | 40 | 7 | 68.3 | 2.77 | 1.112 | 5.27 | 4.04 | 103.3 | 141.3 | 1.5 |
| 1984 | 57 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 110 | 50 | 39 | 58 | 13 | 104.0 | 4.33 | 1.433 | 5.02 | 4.44 | 116.7 | 87.9 | 0.4 |
| 1985 | 56 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 89 | 50 | 42 | 77 | 17 | 104.7 | 4.30 | 1.252 | 6.62 | 4.59 | 116.9 | 91.2 | 0.6 |
| 1986 | 60 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 100 | 44 | 46 | 67 | 11 | 97.0 | 4.08 | 1.505 | 6.22 | 4.34 | 103.3 | 103.4 | 1.1 |
| 1987 | 59 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 81 | 40 | 30 | 51 | 10 | 79.3 | 4.54 | 1.399 | 5.79 | 4.51 | 98.4 | 101.1 | 0.8 |
| 1988 | 49 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 28 | 22 | 43 | 10 | 74.0 | 3.41 | 1.176 | 5.23 | 4.39 | 108.4 | 118.9 | 1.3 |
| 1989 | 32 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 18 | 13 | 13 | 7 | 39.0 | 4.15 | 1.564 | 3.00 | 5.52 | 139.9 | 94.9 | 0.3 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983-08-06 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984-05-30 | DET @ ATH Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984-07-23 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1984-09-24 | ATH @ TEX Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1986-08-05 | LAA @ MIN Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1983-08-13 | MIN @ ATH Gameday | 5.2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1986-05-30 | BOS @ MIN Gameday | 5.1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 1985-08-13 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 4.2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 1985-09-29 | CWS @ ATH Gameday | 4.2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| 1983-07-16 | ATH @ BOS Gameday | 5.1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 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.