MLB / Players

Kevin Ritz

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 195 lb

BornJune 8, 1965 · Eatontown, NJ, USA

MLB debutJuly 15, 1989

Final gameMay 16, 1998

Seasons9 (1989–1998)

Detroit Tigers 1989–1992; Colorado Rockies 1994–1998

Percentile snapshot

1996 season — qualified pitchers

65.4

91.4

32.1

28.4

SHO

236

18.5

125

4.9

105

3.7

105

12.3

43.2

213.0

56.8

ERA

5.28

11.1

WHIP

1.601

7.4

K/9

4.44

3.7

FIP

5.22

7.4

FIP-

102.7

30.9

ERA+

96.3

27.2

sWAR

2.1

40.7

of 82 qualified 1996 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

2.7

72.9

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1989	12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3
1990	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.5
1991	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.2
1992	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.7
1994	15	25	20	0	0	0	0	0	0	13	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-143.0	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1995	31	63	48	3	9	1	0	2	2	20	1	1	.188	.250	.208	.458	1.6	11.9	.222	3.4
1996	35	83	65	7	15	2	1	5	7	28	0	0	.231	.306	.308	.613	46.1	48.6	.287	2.1
1997	18	41	35	4	2	0	0	0	4	15	1	0	.057	.154	.057	.211	-65.7	-46.8	.123	-0.1
1998	2	3	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.333	.333	.333	.667	55.6	61.8	.302	-0.5

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1989	12	12	4	6	0	1	75	36	44	56	2	74.0	4.38	1.608	6.81	3.51	91.5	87.7	0.3
1990	4	4	0	4	0	0	14	9	14	3	0	7.3	11.05	3.818	3.68	7.72	194.1	36.0	-0.5
1991	11	5	0	3	0	0	17	20	22	9	1	15.3	11.74	2.543	5.28	7.28	174.3	35.6	-1.2
1992	23	11	2	5	0	0	88	50	44	57	4	80.3	5.60	1.643	6.39	3.77	94.6	71.2	-0.7
1994	15	15	5	6	0	0	88	46	35	53	5	73.7	5.62	1.670	6.48	4.10	82.4	88.5	-0.1
1995	31	28	11	11	2	0	171	81	65	120	16	173.3	4.21	1.362	6.23	4.11	81.4	120.1	3.4
1996	35	35	17	11	0	2	236	125	105	105	24	213.0	5.28	1.601	4.44	5.22	102.7	96.3	2.1
1997	18	18	6	8	0	1	142	70	46	56	16	107.3	5.87	1.752	4.70	5.28	104.3	86.2	-0.1
1998	2	2	0	2	0	0	17	11	2	3	1	9.0	11.00	2.111	3.00	4.84	95.8	46.0	-0.5

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

151

215

171

RBI

.1579

OBP

.2258

SLG

.1930

OPS

.4188

Pitching

G (P)

151

130

SHO

753

SO (P)

462

BB allowed

377

ERA

5.352

WHIP

1.6261

K/9

5.52

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	TB
1996-09-02	COL @ PIT Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	1	4
1996-06-11	HOU @ COL Gameday	2	1	2	1	0	0	3
1995-07-28	COL @ WSH Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	1	2
1996-06-06	COL @ HOU Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	1	2
1996-08-28	CIN @ COL Gameday	2	0	2	0	0	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1989-08-02	TEX @ DET Gameday	9.0	7	4	4	3	9	0
1995-06-08	COL @ CHC Gameday	7.0	5	2	2	1	9	1
1995-05-09	SF @ COL Gameday	6.2	6	3	3	2	8	1
1995-07-28	COL @ WSH Gameday	8.0	9	3	3	3	7	0
1989-08-31	DET @ KC Gameday	7.0	5	2	1	4	7	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.