Rich Reese
Minnesota Twins 1964–1972; Detroit Tigers 1973; Minnesota Twins 1973
Percentile snapshot
1970 season — qualified batters
of 114 qualified 1970 batters (min 502 PA)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -132.2 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
| 1965 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .286 | .444 | .429 | .873 | 133.3 | 146.6 | .371 | 0.0 |
| 1966 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .333 | .000 | .333 | 44.9 | 3.7 | .245 | 0.0 |
| 1967 | 95 | 110 | 101 | 13 | 25 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 20 | 8 | 17 | 0 | 0 | .248 | .300 | .416 | .716 | 98.6 | 103.8 | .319 | -0.1 |
| 1968 | 126 | 359 | 332 | 40 | 86 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 28 | 18 | 36 | 3 | 1 | .259 | .301 | .352 | .654 | 91.4 | 94.7 | .301 | -0.1 |
| 1969 | 132 | 451 | 419 | 52 | 135 | 24 | 4 | 16 | 69 | 23 | 57 | 1 | 5 | .322 | .362 | .513 | .875 | 143.4 | 142.4 | .394 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 153 | 564 | 501 | 63 | 131 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 56 | 48 | 70 | 5 | 4 | .261 | .332 | .371 | .703 | 93.8 | 93.7 | .324 | 0.1 |
| 1971 | 120 | 359 | 329 | 40 | 72 | 8 | 3 | 10 | 39 | 20 | 35 | 7 | 4 | .219 | .270 | .353 | .623 | 69.0 | 74.7 | .286 | -1.1 |
| 1972 | 132 | 223 | 197 | 23 | 43 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 26 | 25 | 27 | 0 | 1 | .218 | .305 | .330 | .635 | 82.9 | 85.6 | .298 | -0.8 |
| 1973 | 81 | 140 | 125 | 17 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 13 | 23 | 0 | 0 | .144 | .225 | .248 | .473 | 24.0 | 32.4 | .225 | -1.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1969-07-01 | MIN @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 11 |
| 1969-08-13 | MIN @ NYY Gameday | 4 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| 1970-05-30 | NYY @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 1969-07-16 | CWS @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 9 |
| 1971-06-22 | ATH @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
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.