Ray Busse
Houston Astros 1971; Houston Astros 1973; St. Louis Cardinals 1973; Houston Astros 1974
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 10 | 37 | 34 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .147 | .194 | .235 | .430 | 15.7 | 23.1 | .204 | -0.2 |
| 1973 | 39 | 94 | 87 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 33 | 0 | 1 | .126 | .183 | .287 | .470 | 15.6 | 29.2 | .206 | -0.5 |
| 1974 | 19 | 37 | 34 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .206 | .270 | .235 | .506 | 47.2 | 45.5 | .252 | -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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1973-05-08 | STL @ SF Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1971-09-06 | HOU @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 1973-04-14 | CHC @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1973-05-10 | STL @ SF Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 1973-04-25 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
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.