Ken Reitz

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornJune 24, 1951 · San Francisco, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 5, 1972

Final gameJune 3, 1982

Seasons11 (1972–1982)

St. Louis Cardinals 1972–1975; San Francisco Giants 1976; St. Louis Cardinals 1977–1980; Chicago Cubs 1981; Pittsburgh Pirates 1982

Percentile snapshot

1980 season — qualified batters

151

59.7

561

523

41.1

0.8

141

31.5

82.3

32.3

RBI

33.9

6.5

83.9

88.7

.270

31.5

OBP

.300

7.3

SLG

.379

26.6

OPS

.679

18.5

wRC+

82.7

15.3

OPS+

86.3

13.7

wOBA

.308

15.3

sWAR

0.9

14.5

of 125 qualified 1980 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

72.6

4.6

OPS+

77.8

7.4

sWAR

2.3

71.3

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
1972	21	81	78	5	28	4	0	0	10	2	4	0	1	.359	.370	.410	.781	127.1	124.0	.360	0.6
1973	147	446	426	40	100	20	2	6	42	9	25	0	1	.235	.256	.333	.589	57.9	63.5	.268	-0.6
1974	154	612	579	48	157	28	2	7	54	23	63	0	0	.271	.299	.363	.662	81.1	86.3	.305	0.9
1975	161	627	592	43	159	25	1	5	63	22	54	1	1	.269	.298	.340	.637	67.4	74.6	.293	-0.1
1976	155	614	577	40	154	21	1	5	66	24	48	5	4	.267	.293	.333	.626	70.0	75.7	.290	0.1
1977	157	620	587	58	153	36	1	17	79	19	74	2	6	.261	.291	.412	.703	85.3	88.4	.313	1.2
1978	150	578	540	41	133	26	2	10	75	23	61	1	0	.246	.280	.357	.637	61.5	68.6	.290	-0.5
1979	159	643	605	42	162	41	2	8	73	25	85	1	0	.268	.299	.382	.681	79.8	84.1	.306	0.8
1980	151	561	523	39	141	33	0	8	58	22	44	0	1	.270	.300	.379	.679	82.7	86.3	.308	0.9
1981	82	286	260	10	56	9	1	2	28	15	56	0	0	.215	.261	.281	.541	41.7	50.7	.252	-0.9
1982	7	11	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	.000	.091	.000	.091	-82.1	-72.8	.069	-0.2

Career totals

1,344

5,079

4,777

366

1,243

243

RBI

548

184

518

.2602

OBP

.2898

SLG

.3588

OPS

.6486

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
1977-05-30	CHC @ STL Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	2	0	9
1977-06-28	PIT @ STL Gameday	5	3	3	0	2	8	0	9
1975-07-28	NYM @ STL Gameday	4	2	4	1	1	2	1	8
1979-06-08	SD @ STL Gameday	5	1	4	1	1	2	0	8
1980-09-03	CIN @ STL Gameday	3	2	2	0	2	3	1	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

1× Gold Glove1× 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.