Ray Knight

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 185 lb

BornDecember 28, 1952 · Albany, GA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1974

Final gameOctober 2, 1988

Seasons13 (1974–1988)

Cincinnati Reds 1974; Cincinnati Reds 1977–1981; Houston Astros 1982–1984; New York Mets 1984–1986; Baltimore Orioles 1987; Detroit Tigers 1988

Percentile snapshot

1987 season — qualified batters

150

51.9

609

47.4

563

60.9

2.3

144

38.3

30.8

28.6

RBI

27.1

40.6

94.7

.256

16.5

OBP

.310

16.5

SLG

.373

9.8

OPS

.683

wRC+

81.8

6.8

OPS+

82.0

8.3

wOBA

.304

5.3

sWAR

0.7

8.3

of 134 qualified 1987 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

97.7

37.3

OPS+

98.9

39.5

sWAR

14.7

90.8

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
1974	14	12	11	1	2	1	0	0	2	1	2	0	0	.182	.250	.273	.523	48.3	48.5	.255	0.0
1977	80	103	92	8	24	5	1	1	13	9	16	1	1	.261	.324	.370	.693	84.3	85.0	.315	0.2
1978	83	68	65	7	13	3	0	1	4	3	13	0	0	.200	.235	.292	.528	42.6	47.4	.247	-0.2
1979	150	604	551	64	175	37	4	10	79	38	57	4	4	.318	.360	.454	.814	122.5	121.1	.368	4.0
1980	162	667	618	71	163	39	7	14	78	36	62	1	2	.264	.307	.417	.724	98.2	101.4	.326	2.4
1981	106	429	386	43	100	23	1	6	34	33	51	2	4	.259	.322	.370	.692	95.9	95.3	.324	1.4
1982	158	676	609	72	179	36	6	6	70	48	58	2	5	.294	.344	.402	.746	113.9	115.8	.340	2.7
1983	145	567	507	43	154	36	4	9	70	42	62	0	3	.304	.355	.444	.798	124.4	127.2	.359	2.3
1984	115	398	371	28	88	14	0	3	35	21	43	0	3	.237	.279	.299	.578	64.9	67.1	.270	-0.5
1985	90	290	271	22	59	12	0	6	36	13	32	1	1	.218	.252	.328	.580	58.9	64.2	.264	-0.4
1986	137	541	486	51	145	24	2	11	76	40	63	2	1	.298	.351	.424	.775	119.0	117.5	.354	3.3
1987	150	609	563	46	144	24	0	14	65	39	90	0	0	.256	.310	.373	.683	81.8	82.0	.304	0.7
1988	105	327	299	34	65	12	2	3	33	20	30	1	1	.217	.271	.301	.572	62.6	63.0	.266	-1.2

Career totals

1,495

5,291

4,829

490

1,311

266

RBI

595

343

579

.2715

OBP

.3207

SLG

.3899

OPS

.7106

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1980-05-06	CIN @ NYM Gameday	5	3	4	1	1	4	1	8
1979-07-29	CIN @ ATL Gameday	5	3	3	2	1	5	0	8
1980-05-13	NYM @ CIN Gameday	5	2	2	0	2	5	0	8
1986-04-25	NYM @ STL Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	4	0	8
1979-07-30	LAD @ CIN Gameday	3	2	2	0	2	3	1	8

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× World Series MVP2× 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.