Max Venable
San Francisco Giants 1979–1983; Montreal Expos 1984; Cincinnati Reds 1985–1987; California Angels 1989–1991
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 55 | 97 | 85 | 12 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 18 | 3 | 3 | .165 | .260 | .200 | .460 | 33.2 | 31.8 | .228 | -0.6 |
| 1980 | 64 | 157 | 138 | 13 | 37 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 15 | 22 | 8 | 2 | .268 | .333 | .304 | .638 | 86.5 | 82.2 | .306 | 0.1 |
| 1981 | 18 | 36 | 32 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | .188 | .278 | .313 | .590 | 72.5 | 69.9 | .286 | 0.0 |
| 1982 | 71 | 132 | 125 | 17 | 28 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 16 | 9 | 3 | .224 | .265 | .280 | .545 | 52.7 | 53.8 | .259 | -0.5 |
| 1983 | 94 | 256 | 228 | 28 | 50 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 27 | 22 | 34 | 15 | 2 | .219 | .295 | .364 | .659 | 84.9 | 84.1 | .307 | 0.2 |
| 1984 | 38 | 76 | 71 | 7 | 17 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 0 | .239 | .276 | .352 | .628 | 73.6 | 79.9 | .284 | -0.1 |
| 1985 | 77 | 146 | 135 | 21 | 39 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 17 | 11 | 3 | .289 | .315 | .422 | .737 | 100.2 | 100.8 | .334 | 0.3 |
| 1986 | 108 | 168 | 147 | 17 | 31 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 17 | 24 | 7 | 2 | .211 | .289 | .313 | .602 | 61.1 | 64.0 | .280 | -0.5 |
| 1987 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .143 | .143 | .286 | -40.8 | -24.9 | .130 | -0.1 |
| 1989 | 20 | 57 | 53 | 7 | 19 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 0 | .358 | .370 | .434 | .804 | 131.0 | 128.8 | .368 | 0.3 |
| 1990 | 93 | 222 | 189 | 26 | 49 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 21 | 24 | 31 | 5 | 1 | .259 | .340 | .402 | .742 | 110.2 | 109.9 | .339 | 0.8 |
| 1991 | 82 | 206 | 187 | 24 | 46 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 21 | 11 | 30 | 2 | 1 | .246 | .292 | .358 | .650 | 76.0 | 80.2 | .293 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990-05-26 | MIL @ LAA Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1991-07-02 | KC @ LAA Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 1981-10-03 | SD @ SF Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 1991-09-23 | TOR @ LAA Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1980-09-22 | CIN @ SF Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
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.