MLB / Players

Rich Hand

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 195 lb

BornJuly 10, 1948 · Bellevue, WA, USA

MLB debutApril 9, 1970

Final gameSeptember 26, 1973

Seasons4 (1970–1973)

Cleveland Indians 1970–1971; Texas Rangers 1972; California Angels 1973; Texas Rangers 1973

Percentile snapshot

1972 season — qualified pitchers

17.9

26.2

21.4

23.8

2.4

SHO

8.3

139

78.6

103

4.8

109

29.8

170.7

17.9

ERA

3.32

WHIP

1.418

3.6

K/9

5.75

61.9

FIP

3.77

8.3

FIP-

126.3

2.4

ERA+

89.9

sWAR

1.0

of 85 qualified 1972 pitchers (min 154 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

1.7

68.5

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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1970	35	49	41	2	6	0	0	5	1	11	.146	.159	.146	.305	-35.8	-16.8	.143	1.6
1971	16	19	16	1	2	0	0	0	1	7	.125	.176	.125	.301	-32.1	-16.1	.154	-1.0
1972	30	58	52	2	8	2	1	3	1	13	.154	.200	.231	.431	20.5	30.1	.208	1.0
1973	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1970	35	25	6	13	3	3	1	132	68	69	110	27	159.7	3.83	1.259	6.20	4.62	118.8	101.5	1.6
1971	15	12	2	6	0	0	0	74	39	38	26	6	60.7	5.79	1.846	3.86	4.86	130.5	64.4	-1.0
1972	30	28	10	14	0	2	1	139	63	103	109	12	170.7	3.32	1.418	5.75	3.77	126.3	89.9	1.0
1973	24	13	6	6	0	1	0	107	47	40	33	7	96.3	4.39	1.526	3.08	4.18	114.6	83.1	0.1

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

105

126

109

RBI

.1468

OBP

.1810

SLG

.1835

OPS

.3645

Pitching

G (P)

104

SHO

487

SO (P)

278

BB allowed

250

ERA

4.008

WHIP

1.4405

K/9

5.13

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	RBI	TB
1972-08-16	BOS @ TEX Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	0	3
1970-06-16	LAA @ CLE Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	1	2
1971-06-28	CLE @ NYY Gameday	2	1	2	0	0	0	2
1972-07-18	BAL @ TEX Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	0	2
1972-07-13	CLE @ TEX Gameday	4	0	1	1	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1972-07-04	TEX @ CLE Gameday	6.1	5	2	2	2	10	1
1970-06-07	CLE @ LAA Gameday	8.2	7	4	4	0	9	3
1970-06-12	MIL @ CLE Gameday	8.0	6	4	4	3	9	1
1972-07-31	TEX @ ATH Gameday	7.1	2	2	1	3	8	0
1972-07-08	TEX @ BAL Gameday	9.0	7	1	1	4	7	1

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.