MLB / Players

Pat Putnam

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 205 lb

BornDecember 3, 1953 · Bethel, VT, USA

MLB debutSeptember 2, 1977

Final gameSeptember 20, 1984

Seasons8 (1977–1984)

Texas Rangers 1977–1982; Seattle Mariners 1983; Minnesota Twins 1984; Seattle Mariners 1984

Percentile snapshot

1983 season — qualified batters

144

517

3.8

469

9.2

20.8

126

17.7

34.6

15.4

71.5

RBI

24.6

70.8

83.8

.269

39.2

OBP

.326

36.9

SLG

.448

69.2

OPS

.773

55.4

wRC+

104.6

41.5

OPS+

107.9

50.8

wOBA

.339

43.1

sWAR

0.9

16.2

of 131 qualified 1983 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

-0.2

22.8

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
1977	11	27	26	3	8	4	0	0	3	1	4	0	1	.308	.333	.462	.795	105.6	114.7	.339	0.0
1978	20	49	46	4	7	1	0	1	2	2	5	0	0	.152	.188	.239	.427	2.7	20.0	.187	-0.6
1979	139	465	426	57	118	19	2	18	64	23	50	1	6	.277	.319	.458	.777	104.2	108.8	.339	0.7
1980	147	454	410	42	108	16	2	13	55	36	49	0	2	.263	.319	.407	.727	97.4	100.5	.324	0.2
1981	95	317	297	33	79	17	2	8	35	17	38	4	2	.266	.304	.418	.721	107.1	110.9	.325	0.5
1982	43	133	122	14	28	8	0	2	9	10	18	0	2	.230	.293	.344	.637	77.6	78.7	.289	-0.2
1983	144	517	469	58	126	23	2	19	67	39	57	2	1	.269	.326	.448	.773	104.6	107.9	.339	0.9
1984	78	212	193	12	34	7	0	2	20	16	39	3	0	.176	.236	.244	.479	28.6	33.2	.223	-1.7

Career totals

677

2,174

1,989

223

508

RBI

255

144

260

.2554

OBP

.3059

SLG

.4062

OPS

.7121

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	BB	TB
1981-09-11	TEX @ LAA Gameday	5	3	4	1	2	4	0	11
1979-06-09	TEX @ BAL Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	3	0	10
1983-09-28	KC @ SEA Gameday	5	3	4	2	1	4	0	9
1980-06-01	ATH @ TEX Gameday	3	2	3	0	2	4	1	9
1983-07-27	SEA @ DET Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	4	1	8

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.