MLB / Players

Rich Garces

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 250 lb

BornMay 18, 1971 · Maracay, Aragua, Venezuela

MLB debutSeptember 18, 1990

Final gameJuly 20, 2002

Seasons10 (1990–2002)

Minnesota Twins 1990; Minnesota Twins 1993; Chicago Cubs 1995; Florida Marlins 1995; Boston Red Sox 1996–2002

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

6.9

82.7

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	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1990	5	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2
1993	3	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.2
1995	18	1	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.2	-100.0	.000	0.1
1996	37	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.5
1997	12	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
1998	30	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.1
1999	30	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.8
2000	64	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.1
2001	62	2	2	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.1	-100.0	.000	1.1
2002	26	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.5

Pitching

Season	G	W	L	SV	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1990	5	0	0	2	4	1	4	1	0	5.7	1.59	1.412	1.59	4.57	111.0	259.3	0.2
1993	3	0	0	0	4	0	2	3	0	4.0	0.00	1.500	6.75	3.00	68.8	—	0.2
1995	18	0	2	0	25	12	11	22	1	24.3	4.44	1.479	8.14	3.15	75.9	93.4	0.1
1996	37	3	2	0	42	24	33	55	5	44.0	4.91	1.705	11.25	4.48	88.2	103.4	0.5
1997	12	0	1	0	14	7	9	12	2	13.7	4.61	1.683	7.90	5.49	118.4	100.5	0.1
1998	30	1	1	1	36	17	27	34	6	46.0	3.33	1.370	6.65	5.33	113.8	140.8	1.1
1999	30	5	1	2	25	7	18	33	1	40.7	1.55	1.057	7.30	3.23	65.9	316.0	1.8
2000	64	8	1	1	64	27	23	69	7	74.7	3.25	1.165	8.32	3.56	70.8	154.4	2.1
2001	62	6	1	1	55	29	25	51	6	67.0	3.90	1.194	6.85	4.04	89.8	115.4	1.1
2002	26	0	1	0	21	18	12	16	4	21.3	7.59	1.547	6.75	6.11	133.8	60.1	-0.5

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

287

RBI

.0000

OBP

.0000

SLG

.0000

OPS

.0000

Pitching

G (P)

287

SHO

341

SO (P)

296

BB allowed

164

ERA

3.744

WHIP

1.3301

K/9

7.80

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
1995-06-27	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0
1995-06-29	STL @ CHC Gameday	0
1995-07-01	STL @ CHC Gameday	0
1995-07-13	CIN @ CHC Gameday	0
1995-07-18	NYM @ CHC Gameday	1

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1996-04-30	DET @ BOS Gameday	3.0	3	0	0	0	7	0
1996-06-16	TEX @ BOS Gameday	3.0	5	2	2	1	5	1
1998-05-23	NYY @ BOS Gameday	3.0	4	3	2	3	4	0
1998-04-03	BOS @ SEA Gameday	2.2	5	3	3	2	4	2
2000-04-14	ATH @ BOS Gameday	2.2	2	0	0	1	4	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.