Ray Fosse
Cleveland Indians 1967–1972; Oakland Athletics 1973–1975; Cleveland Indians 1976–1977; Seattle Mariners 1977; Milwaukee Brewers 1979
Percentile snapshot
1973 season — qualified batters
of 115 qualified 1973 batters (min 502 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 7 | 16 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .063 | .063 | .063 | .125 | -88.5 | -62.9 | .058 | -0.2 |
| 1968 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
| 1969 | 37 | 126 | 116 | 11 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 8 | 29 | 1 | 0 | .172 | .230 | .250 | .480 | 24.4 | 33.1 | .226 | -0.4 |
| 1970 | 120 | 497 | 450 | 62 | 138 | 17 | 1 | 18 | 61 | 39 | 55 | 1 | 5 | .307 | .361 | .469 | .830 | 123.9 | 122.8 | .373 | 4.2 |
| 1971 | 133 | 529 | 486 | 53 | 134 | 21 | 1 | 12 | 62 | 36 | 62 | 4 | 1 | .276 | .329 | .397 | .726 | 96.8 | 98.3 | .333 | 2.7 |
| 1972 | 134 | 508 | 457 | 42 | 110 | 20 | 1 | 10 | 41 | 45 | 46 | 5 | 1 | .241 | .312 | .354 | .666 | 88.4 | 95.3 | .304 | 2.3 |
| 1973 | 143 | 532 | 492 | 37 | 126 | 23 | 2 | 7 | 52 | 25 | 62 | 2 | 2 | .256 | .291 | .354 | .644 | 82.2 | 87.0 | .294 | 1.9 |
| 1974 | 69 | 222 | 204 | 20 | 40 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 23 | 11 | 31 | 1 | 1 | .196 | .241 | .324 | .564 | 62.1 | 67.6 | .259 | 0.4 |
| 1975 | 82 | 147 | 136 | 14 | 19 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 8 | 19 | 0 | 1 | .140 | .192 | .191 | .383 | 6.6 | 10.8 | .187 | -0.4 |
| 1976 | 90 | 300 | 276 | 26 | 83 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 30 | 20 | 20 | 1 | 2 | .301 | .347 | .362 | .709 | 111.6 | 109.6 | .335 | 2.2 |
| 1977 | 89 | 293 | 272 | 28 | 75 | 10 | 1 | 6 | 32 | 9 | 28 | 0 | 6 | .276 | .305 | .386 | .691 | 87.0 | 89.8 | .308 | 1.2 |
| 1979 | 19 | 56 | 52 | 6 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .231 | .286 | .327 | .613 | 66.8 | 66.1 | .283 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970-07-07 | TEX @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1972-07-11 | CWS @ CLE Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1972-08-13 | CLE @ DET Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| 1970-05-24 | NYY @ CLE Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1970-06-04 | CLE @ MIL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.