Ken Rudolph
Chicago Cubs 1969–1973; San Francisco Giants 1974; St. Louis Cardinals 1975–1976; Baltimore Orioles 1977; San Francisco Giants 1977
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 27 | 40 | 34 | 7 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .206 | .325 | .324 | .649 | 80.0 | 73.9 | .316 | 0.1 |
| 1970 | 20 | 43 | 40 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .100 | .122 | .125 | .247 | -64.7 | -36.4 | .102 | -0.6 |
| 1971 | 25 | 86 | 76 | 5 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 20 | 0 | 0 | .197 | .265 | .237 | .502 | 31.6 | 36.0 | .246 | -0.2 |
| 1972 | 42 | 116 | 106 | 10 | 25 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 14 | 1 | 2 | .236 | .283 | .321 | .604 | 62.8 | 65.1 | .285 | 0.3 |
| 1973 | 64 | 182 | 170 | 12 | 35 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 7 | 25 | 1 | 4 | .206 | .239 | .300 | .539 | 38.1 | 44.6 | .250 | -0.2 |
| 1974 | 57 | 181 | 158 | 11 | 41 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 21 | 15 | 0 | 0 | .259 | .350 | .278 | .628 | 74.2 | 74.6 | .302 | 0.5 |
| 1975 | 44 | 83 | 80 | 5 | 16 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .229 | .263 | .491 | 26.6 | 34.7 | .233 | -0.2 |
| 1976 | 27 | 51 | 50 | 1 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .160 | .176 | .220 | .396 | 0.1 | 12.1 | .186 | -0.3 |
| 1977 | 22 | 30 | 29 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .241 | .267 | .276 | .543 | 35.9 | 50.7 | .234 | 0.1 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975-07-26 | PHI @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 7 |
| 1973-05-12 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 1972-09-10 | CHC @ PHI Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 1972-05-18 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1973-06-27 | WSH @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
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.