Ralph Garr

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 185 lb

BornDecember 12, 1945 · Monroe, LA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 3, 1968

Final gameJune 4, 1980

Seasons13 (1968–1980)

Atlanta Braves 1968–1975; Chicago White Sox 1976–1978; California Angels 1979; Chicago White Sox 1979; California Angels 1980

Percentile snapshot

1977 season — qualified batters

134

9.6

574

30.1

543

49.3

53.4

163

70.5

67.1

70.5

31.5

RBI

26.7

7.5

88.4

53.4

.300

78.1

OBP

.333

27.4

SLG

.435

49.3

OPS

.767

wRC+

106.6

39.7

OPS+

107.5

41.8

wOBA

.341

35.6

sWAR

1.8

30.1

of 147 qualified 1977 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

106.6

54.6

OPS+

107.2

56.8

sWAR

16.0

91.6

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
1968	11	8	7	3	2	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	.286	.375	.286	.661	114.2	101.0	.329	0.0
1969	22	29	27	6	6	1	0	0	2	2	4	1	1	.222	.276	.259	.535	38.1	50.8	.241	-0.2
1970	37	102	96	18	27	3	0	0	8	5	12	5	2	.281	.314	.313	.626	61.5	65.0	.288	-0.2
1971	154	693	639	101	219	24	6	9	44	30	68	30	14	.343	.372	.441	.813	129.0	123.7	.375	3.8
1972	134	594	554	87	180	22	0	12	53	25	41	25	9	.325	.359	.430	.788	118.6	114.6	.363	2.6
1973	148	698	668	94	200	32	6	11	55	22	64	35	11	.299	.323	.415	.737	95.7	97.0	.335	1.2
1974	143	645	606	87	214	24	17	11	54	28	52	26	16	.353	.383	.503	.886	144.2	142.7	.405	4.5
1975	151	678	625	74	174	26	11	6	31	44	50	14	9	.278	.327	.384	.711	88.9	94.9	.324	0.5
1976	136	558	527	63	158	22	6	4	36	17	41	14	5	.300	.322	.387	.709	104.9	106.7	.329	1.7
1977	134	574	543	78	163	29	7	10	54	27	44	12	7	.300	.333	.435	.767	106.6	107.5	.341	1.8
1978	118	478	443	67	122	18	9	3	29	24	41	7	5	.275	.314	.377	.691	92.8	93.4	.317	0.6
1979	108	353	331	34	89	10	2	9	39	17	22	2	4	.269	.305	.393	.698	86.6	87.5	.314	0.0
1980	21	46	42	5	8	1	0	0	3	4	6	0	0	.190	.261	.214	.475	20.5	34.2	.210	-0.4

Career totals

1,317

5,456

5,108

717

1,562

212

478th-most career 3B

RBI

408

246

445

172

470th-most career SB

.3058

158th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3387

SLG

.4164

OPS

.7551

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
1973-07-04	HOU @ ATL Gameday	5	3	4	0	1	1	1	0	9
1971-05-17	NYM @ ATL Gameday	6	2	3	0	0	2	2	0	9
1974-05-24	HOU @ ATL Gameday	3	2	3	0	0	2	2	1	9
1971-07-01	ATL @ WSH Gameday	5	2	4	0	2	0	3	0	8
1974-08-10	ATL @ PHI Gameday	5	1	4	1	0	1	3	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1968-05-04	ATL @ HOU Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1968-05-05	ATL @ HOU Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1968-05-31	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1968-06-02	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1968-06-02	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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

1× 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.