Marv Foley
Chicago White Sox 1978–1980; Chicago White Sox 1982; Texas Rangers 1984
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 11 | 38 | 34 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 1 | .353 | .421 | .353 | .774 | 129.8 | 119.8 | .370 | 0.4 |
| 1979 | 34 | 110 | 97 | 6 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .247 | .292 | .340 | .633 | 66.5 | 70.5 | .284 | 0.2 |
| 1980 | 68 | 153 | 137 | 14 | 29 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 15 | 9 | 22 | 0 | 0 | .212 | .263 | .336 | .599 | 54.1 | 63.8 | .263 | 0.2 |
| 1982 | 27 | 42 | 36 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .238 | .111 | .349 | -1.7 | 0.5 | .179 | -0.3 |
| 1984 | 63 | 134 | 115 | 13 | 25 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 19 | 15 | 24 | 0 | 0 | .217 | .306 | .391 | .697 | 88.1 | 89.8 | .313 | 0.5 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984-05-12 | TEX @ CWS Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 1984-04-25 | DET @ TEX Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 1980-09-21 | CWS @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 1979-09-27 | CWS @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1980-09-18 | CWS @ SEA Gameday | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 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.