Rich Batchelor
St. Louis Cardinals 1993; St. Louis Cardinals 1996; San Diego Padres 1997; St. Louis Cardinals 1997
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -119.6 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.4 |
| 1996 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -118.7 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.6 |
| 1997 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 10.0 | 8.10 | 1.700 | 3.60 | 4.38 | 110.4 | 48.9 | -0.4 |
| 1996 | 11 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 0 | 15.0 | 1.20 | .667 | 6.60 | 1.83 | 43.8 | 347.7 | 0.6 |
| 1997 | 23 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 | 19 | 14 | 18 | 2 | 28.7 | 5.97 | 1.884 | 5.65 | 4.50 | 111.1 | 68.3 | -0.3 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993-09-03 | SF @ STL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993-09-05 | SF @ STL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993-09-07 | STL @ CIN Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993-09-14 | WSH @ STL Gameday | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1993-09-21 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1996-05-13 | STL @ MIA Gameday | 2.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 1996-09-27 | CIN @ STL Gameday | 2.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 1997-04-20 | STL @ SD Gameday | 2.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 1997-04-26 | COL @ STL Gameday | 2.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| 1997-06-24 | SD @ SF Gameday | 2.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 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.