Pokey Reese
Cincinnati Reds 1997–2001; Pittsburgh Pirates 2002–2003; Boston Red Sox 2004
Percentile snapshot
2000 season — qualified batters
of 165 qualified 2000 batters (min 505 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 128 | 437 | 397 | 48 | 87 | 15 | 0 | 4 | 26 | 31 | 82 | 25 | 7 | .219 | .284 | .287 | .571 | 47.9 | 49.8 | .265 | -0.8 |
| 1998 | 59 | 151 | 133 | 20 | 34 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 14 | 28 | 3 | 2 | .256 | .322 | .323 | .645 | 69.8 | 70.4 | .295 | 0.1 |
| 1999 | 149 | 636 | 585 | 85 | 167 | 37 | 5 | 10 | 52 | 35 | 81 | 38 | 7 | .285 | .330 | .417 | .747 | 84.5 | 86.1 | .330 | 1.1 |
| 2000 | 135 | 577 | 518 | 76 | 132 | 20 | 6 | 12 | 46 | 45 | 86 | 29 | 3 | .255 | .319 | .386 | .705 | 74.4 | 76.3 | .312 | 0.2 |
| 2001 | 133 | 474 | 428 | 50 | 96 | 20 | 2 | 9 | 40 | 34 | 82 | 25 | 4 | .224 | .284 | .343 | .627 | 54.7 | 58.7 | .277 | -0.7 |
| 2002 | 119 | 475 | 421 | 46 | 111 | 25 | 0 | 4 | 50 | 41 | 81 | 12 | 1 | .264 | .330 | .352 | .681 | 79.0 | 79.5 | .310 | 0.5 |
| 2003 | 37 | 120 | 107 | 9 | 23 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 31 | 6 | 0 | .215 | .271 | .262 | .533 | 35.7 | 40.8 | .243 | -0.5 |
| 2004 | 96 | 268 | 244 | 32 | 54 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 29 | 17 | 60 | 6 | 2 | .221 | .271 | .303 | .574 | 44.6 | 47.7 | .258 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999-06-22 | CIN @ AZ Gameday | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 2004-05-08 | KC @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 2001-08-23 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 2000-05-24 | CIN @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 2000-04-20 | SF @ CIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.