MLB / Players

Mark Littell

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 210 lb

BornJanuary 17, 1953 · Cape Girardeau, MO, USA

MLB debutJune 14, 1973

Final gameJune 24, 1982

Seasons9 (1973–1982)

Kansas City Royals 1973; Kansas City Royals 1975–1977; St. Louis Cardinals 1978–1982

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

8.2

84.6

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1973	8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4
1975	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3
1976	60	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.6	-100.0	.000	2.8
1977	48	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-123.2	-100.0	.000	1.5
1978	72	8	7	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.125	.000	.125	-75.0	-64.0	.094	2.6
1979	63	16	14	1	0	1	1	11	.000	.067	.000	.067	-94.4	-80.2	.050	2.2
1980	14	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-132.4	-100.0	.000	-0.6
1981	28	8	8	0	2	2	0	2	.250	.250	.250	.500	32.0	41.2	.235	0.0
1982	16	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000	.000	-126.5	-100.0	.000	-0.2

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1973	8	7	1	3	0	1	44	24	23	16	5	38.0	5.68	1.763	3.79	5.26	131.6	70.4	-0.4
1975	7	3	1	2	0	1	19	10	15	19	1	24.3	3.70	1.397	7.03	3.38	87.8	104.1	0.3
1976	60	1	8	4	16	0	68	24	60	92	1	104.0	2.08	1.231	7.96	2.70	77.0	169.1	2.8
1977	48	5	8	4	12	0	73	42	55	106	6	104.7	3.61	1.223	9.11	3.07	75.6	112.4	1.5
1978	72	2	4	8	11	0	80	33	59	130	8	106.3	2.79	1.307	11.00	2.93	73.8	142.3	2.6
1979	63	0	9	4	13	0	60	20	39	67	2	82.3	2.19	1.202	7.32	2.80	74.1	172.9	2.2
1980	14	0	0	2	2	0	14	11	7	7	2	10.7	9.28	1.969	5.91	5.84	157.3	40.0	-0.6
1981	28	1	1	3	2	0	36	20	31	22	2	41.0	4.39	1.634	4.83	4.50	126.0	81.3	0.0
1982	16	0	0	1	0	0	22	12	15	7	1	20.7	5.23	1.790	3.05	4.88	134.4	69.4	-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

316

RBI

.0588

OBP

.1111

SLG

.0588

OPS

.1699

Pitching

G (P)

316

329th-most career SV

SHO

532

SO (P)

466

BB allowed

304

ERA

3.316

WHIP

1.3534

K/9

7.88

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	RBI	BB	TB
1981-08-12	STL @ PHI Gameday	2	0	1	2	0	1
1981-05-29	STL @ PHI Gameday	2	0	1	0	0	1
1979-07-01	PHI @ STL Gameday	0	1	0	1	1	0
1975-09-01	KC @ CWS Gameday	0	0	0	0	0	0
1976-06-02	KC @ ATH Gameday	1	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1975-09-28	KC @ TEX Gameday	8.0	5	3	2	4	10	0
1977-09-28	KC @ ATH Gameday	7.2	8	5	5	2	9	0
1977-08-16	KC @ BOS Gameday	6.0	3	3	3	3	8	1
1978-05-10	STL @ LAD Gameday	6.0	2	0	0	1	8	0
1977-08-20	BOS @ KC Gameday	5.0	0	0	0	3	6	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.