Rich Folkers
New York Mets 1970; St. Louis Cardinals 1972–1974; San Diego Padres 1975–1976; Milwaukee Brewers 1977
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 16 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .333 | .333 | .333 | .667 | 80.5 | 80.9 | .308 | -0.5 |
| 1972 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -131.6 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.1 |
| 1973 | 34 | 22 | 20 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .100 | .095 | .100 | .195 | -64.7 | -45.3 | .089 | 0.7 |
| 1974 | 55 | 11 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .100 | .100 | .100 | .200 | -61.6 | -43.3 | .095 | 1.4 |
| 1975 | 45 | 44 | 36 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .250 | .194 | .444 | 29.4 | 27.6 | .228 | 0.3 |
| 1976 | 33 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -123.2 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.9 |
| 1977 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.0 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 16 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 21 | 25 | 15 | 6 | 29.3 | 6.44 | 2.080 | 4.60 | 7.04 | 175.8 | 62.2 | -0.5 |
| 1972 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 7 | 0 | 13.3 | 3.38 | 1.275 | 4.73 | 2.60 | 76.4 | 100.9 | 0.1 |
| 1973 | 34 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 74 | 33 | 34 | 44 | 10 | 82.3 | 3.61 | 1.312 | 4.81 | 4.41 | 121.6 | 100.5 | 0.7 |
| 1974 | 55 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 30 | 38 | 57 | 4 | 90.0 | 3.00 | 1.144 | 5.70 | 3.23 | 90.2 | 119.4 | 1.4 |
| 1975 | 45 | 15 | 6 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 155 | 66 | 39 | 87 | 8 | 142.0 | 4.18 | 1.366 | 5.51 | 2.97 | 85.0 | 83.5 | 0.3 |
| 1976 | 33 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 67 | 35 | 25 | 26 | 10 | 59.7 | 5.28 | 1.542 | 3.92 | 5.31 | 160.9 | 62.5 | -0.9 |
| 1977 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 6.3 | 4.26 | 1.737 | 8.53 | 6.85 | 168.2 | 95.5 | 0.0 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975-08-08 | SD @ STL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1975-06-16 | SD @ SF Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 1970-07-20 | NYM @ SF Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1970-07-29 | SF @ NYM Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1973-07-17 | SF @ STL Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975-08-18 | SD @ WSH Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 0 |
| 1975-06-30 | SD @ LAD Gameday | 7.0 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 1 |
| 1974-09-04 | WSH @ STL Gameday | 5.0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 0 |
| 1973-06-26 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 6.2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 |
| 1975-05-25 | PIT @ SD Gameday | 4.2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 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.