Rich Chiles
Houston Astros 1971–1972; New York Mets 1973; Houston Astros 1976; Minnesota Twins 1977–1978
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 | 67 | 128 | 119 | 12 | 27 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 6 | 20 | 0 | 1 | .227 | .268 | .336 | .604 | 70.0 | 72.7 | .280 | -0.2 |
| 1972 | 9 | 12 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .273 | .333 | .364 | .697 | 105.0 | 100.7 | .329 | 0.0 |
| 1973 | 8 | 25 | 25 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .120 | .120 | .200 | .320 | -26.6 | -11.7 | .143 | -0.3 |
| 1976 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 | .500 | .750 | 1.250 | 276.0 | 265.9 | .571 | 0.1 |
| 1977 | 108 | 295 | 261 | 31 | 69 | 16 | 1 | 3 | 36 | 23 | 17 | 0 | 1 | .264 | .323 | .368 | .691 | 88.3 | 89.4 | .312 | -0.3 |
| 1978 | 87 | 225 | 198 | 22 | 53 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 22 | 20 | 25 | 1 | 2 | .268 | .333 | .343 | .677 | 89.0 | 90.0 | .313 | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977-05-14 | TOR @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 1977-08-26 | MIN @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1971-08-12 | HOU @ ATL Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1971-09-24 | HOU @ SD Gameday | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1977-04-26 | SEA @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
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.