Larry Biittner

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 205 lb

BornJuly 27, 1946 · Pocahontas, IA, USA

MLB debutJuly 17, 1970

Final gameSeptember 29, 1983

Seasons14 (1970–1983)

Washington Senators 1970–1971; Texas Rangers 1972–1973; Montreal Expos 1974–1975; Chicago Cubs 1976; Montreal Expos 1976; Chicago Cubs 1977–1980; Cincinnati Reds 1981–1982; Texas Rangers 1983

Percentile snapshot

1977 season — qualified batters

138

16.4

532

493

21.9

40.4

147

38.4

59.6

2.1

37.7

RBI

34.9

16.4

95.2

91.1

.298

75.3

OBP

.345

48.6

SLG

.432

45.2

OPS

.777

46.6

wRC+

99.5

28.8

OPS+

98.1

wOBA

.351

51.4

sWAR

0.2

4.1

of 147 qualified 1977 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

85.3

16.4

OPS+

87.0

18.4

sWAR

-1.5

2.7

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
1970	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.7	-100.0	.000	0.0
1971	66	189	171	12	44	4	1	0	16	16	20	1	0	.257	.323	.292	.615	74.4	76.7	.290	-0.2
1972	137	422	382	34	99	18	1	3	31	29	37	1	3	.259	.313	.335	.648	93.7	96.1	.303	0.1
1973	83	281	258	19	65	8	2	1	12	20	21	1	0	.252	.307	.310	.617	77.6	76.7	.293	-0.3
1974	18	27	26	2	7	1	0	0	3	0	2	0	0	.269	.269	.308	.577	51.6	58.1	.270	-0.1
1975	121	384	346	34	109	13	5	3	28	34	33	2	1	.315	.376	.408	.784	115.0	114.0	.364	1.5
1976	89	237	224	23	53	14	1	0	18	10	9	0	2	.237	.272	.308	.580	50.8	59.2	.269	-1.1
1977	138	532	493	74	147	28	1	12	62	35	36	2	1	.298	.345	.432	.777	99.5	98.1	.351	0.2
1978	120	374	343	32	88	15	1	4	50	23	37	0	1	.257	.300	.341	.641	65.4	70.9	.295	-1.1
1979	111	295	272	35	79	13	3	3	50	21	23	1	1	.290	.339	.393	.732	93.3	91.8	.337	0.2
1980	127	299	273	21	68	12	2	1	34	18	33	1	3	.249	.294	.319	.613	61.5	65.8	.284	-1.0
1981	42	66	61	1	13	4	0	0	8	4	4	0	0	.213	.258	.279	.536	41.8	51.6	.248	-0.3
1982	97	208	184	18	57	9	2	2	24	17	16	1	0	.310	.369	.413	.782	119.8	117.3	.360	0.9
1983	66	127	116	5	32	5	1	0	18	9	16	0	0	.276	.323	.336	.659	73.2	84.2	.285	-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
1977	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	6	1	3	3	1.3	40.50	4.500	20.25	29.73	691.8	10.6	0.2

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

1,217

3,443

3,151

310

861

144

RBI

354

236

287

.2732

OBP

.3235

SLG

.3593

OPS

.6828

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

40.500

WHIP

4.5000

K/9

20.25

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
1977-09-26	PHI @ CHC Gameday	6	2	4	2	0	1	2	9
1977-05-17	SD @ CHC Gameday	7	3	3	0	0	2	3	9
1977-07-25	HOU @ CHC Gameday	5	2	3	1	0	1	3	7
1975-08-23	WSH @ LAD Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	2	7
1975-09-27	WSH @ CHC Gameday	6	0	3	0	2	0	2	7

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1977-07-04	WSH @ CHC Gameday	1.1	5	6	6	1	3	3

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.