Phil Garner

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 175 lb

BornApril 30, 1949 · Jefferson City, TN, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1973

Final gameOctober 2, 1988

Seasons16 (1973–1988)

Oakland Athletics 1973–1976; Pittsburgh Pirates 1977–1980; Houston Astros 1981; Pittsburgh Pirates 1981; Houston Astros 1982–1987; Los Angeles Dodgers 1987; San Francisco Giants 1988

Percentile snapshot

1985 season — qualified batters

135

505

1.5

463

11.8

29.4

124

19.9

28.7

94.1

19.1

RBI

22.8

14.7

55.9

32.4

.268

46.3

OBP

.317

30.9

SLG

.400

33.8

OPS

.717

33.1

wRC+

102.6

41.9

OPS+

103.2

41.9

wOBA

.327

34.6

sWAR

2.1

44.9

of 137 qualified 1985 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

98.9

39.3

OPS+

99.8

41.1

sWAR

25.6

95.5

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
1973	9	5	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.6	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1974	30	30	28	4	5	1	0	0	1	1	5	1	1	.179	.207	.214	.421	20.8	26.2	.201	-0.1
1975	160	547	488	46	120	21	5	6	54	30	65	4	6	.246	.295	.346	.641	83.3	84.3	.299	1.1
1976	159	603	555	54	145	29	12	8	74	36	71	35	13	.261	.307	.400	.707	109.6	110.7	.328	3.1
1977	153	651	585	99	152	35	10	17	77	55	65	32	9	.260	.325	.441	.766	103.3	102.9	.343	2.7
1978	154	609	528	66	138	25	9	10	66	66	71	27	14	.261	.345	.400	.745	105.0	105.5	.341	2.7
1979	150	612	549	76	161	32	8	11	59	55	74	17	8	.293	.359	.441	.800	112.8	114.3	.358	3.3
1980	151	610	548	62	142	27	6	5	58	46	53	32	7	.259	.315	.358	.673	82.3	86.7	.306	1.0
1981	87	340	294	35	73	9	3	1	26	36	32	10	8	.248	.326	.310	.636	84.2	81.4	.306	0.6
1982	155	638	588	65	161	33	8	13	83	40	92	24	13	.274	.320	.423	.743	112.9	113.9	.338	3.5
1983	154	644	567	76	135	24	2	14	79	63	84	18	12	.238	.317	.362	.678	93.3	93.7	.314	1.9
1984	128	430	374	60	104	17	6	4	45	43	63	3	2	.278	.355	.388	.743	119.6	116.0	.348	2.7
1985	135	505	463	65	124	23	10	6	51	34	72	4	4	.268	.317	.400	.717	102.6	103.2	.327	2.1
1986	107	347	313	43	83	14	3	9	41	30	45	12	6	.265	.329	.415	.744	108.4	107.8	.339	1.7
1987	113	275	238	29	49	9	0	5	23	28	44	6	1	.206	.285	.307	.592	52.9	60.1	.262	-0.5
1988	15	14	13	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	3	0	1	.154	.214	.154	.368	8.7	10.1	.186	-0.1

Career totals

1,860

361st-most career G

6,860

494th-most career PA

6,136

479th-most career AB

780

1,594

299

497th-most career 2B

264th-most career 3B

109

RBI

738

564

842

225

298th-most career SB

.2598

OBP

.3227

SLG

.3885

OPS

.7112

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
1986-04-15	HOU @ SF Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	4	1	9
1979-06-01	SD @ PIT Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	0	0	0	8
1980-04-30	WSH @ PIT Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	3	0	8
1979-06-19	PIT @ SF Gameday	5	1	5	0	1	0	1	0	7
1983-04-21	CIN @ HOU Gameday	5	1	3	1	0	1	4	0	7

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.

Honors

3× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.