MLB / Players

Rich Severson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 0 in · 174 lb
BornJanuary 18, 1945 · Artesia, CA, USA
MLB debutApril 10, 1970
Final gameSeptember 29, 1971
Seasons2 (1970–1971)

Kansas City Royals 1970–1971

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
0.5
57.8

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
1970772602402260111122163300.250.300.317.61668.070.7.2860.2
19711633304902013500.300.364.433.797133.5127.5.3710.3

Career totals

G
93
PA
293
AB
270
R
26
H
69
2B
11
3B
3
HR
1
RBI
23
BB
19
SO
38
SB
0
BA
.2556
OBP
.3069
SLG
.3296
OPS
.6365

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1971-09-26MIN @ KC Gameday413020107
1970-08-07MIL @ KC Gameday424200006
1970-08-12KC @ BOS Gameday403200005
1970-05-08KC @ DET Gameday412010204
1970-08-07MIL @ KC Gameday311001304

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.