Richie Hebner

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 195 lb

BornNovember 26, 1947 · Boston, MA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 23, 1968

Final gameOctober 3, 1985

Seasons18 (1968–1985)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1968–1976; Philadelphia Phillies 1977–1978; New York Mets 1979; Detroit Tigers 1980–1982; Pittsburgh Pirates 1982–1983; Chicago Cubs 1984–1985

Percentile snapshot

1979 season — qualified batters

136

14.4

549

22.3

473

15.8

7.9

127

16.5

22.3

36.7

RBI

60.4

21.6

88.5

.268

29.5

OBP

.354

60.4

SLG

.393

33.1

OPS

.747

38.1

wRC+

109.0

50.4

OPS+

106.9

46.8

wOBA

.344

45.3

sWAR

2.6

50.4

of 140 qualified 1979 batters (min 505 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

120.4

79.5

OPS+

120.3

79.8

sWAR

38.8

97.8

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; 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
1968	2	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-136.5	-100.0	.000	0.0
1969	129	532	459	72	138	23	4	8	47	53	53	4	1	.301	.380	.420	.801	129.5	128.0	.368	3.9
1970	120	475	420	60	122	24	8	11	46	42	48	2	3	.290	.362	.464	.827	124.5	124.1	.372	3.2
1971	112	434	388	50	105	17	8	17	67	32	68	2	2	.271	.326	.487	.813	130.8	130.3	.367	3.3
1972	124	492	427	63	128	24	4	19	72	52	54	0	0	.300	.378	.508	.886	155.5	154.0	.398	5.2
1973	144	576	509	73	138	28	1	25	74	56	60	0	1	.271	.346	.477	.823	127.5	130.0	.367	4.1
1974	146	628	550	97	160	21	6	18	68	60	53	0	3	.291	.363	.449	.812	132.2	131.1	.377	4.8
1975	128	533	472	65	116	16	4	15	57	43	48	0	1	.246	.319	.392	.711	97.5	99.2	.330	1.8
1976	132	493	434	60	108	21	3	8	51	47	39	1	3	.249	.325	.366	.692	99.8	97.6	.327	1.9
1977	118	466	397	67	113	17	4	18	62	61	46	7	8	.285	.381	.484	.864	129.9	128.6	.385	2.4
1978	137	505	435	61	123	22	3	17	71	53	58	4	7	.283	.369	.464	.834	130.5	132.7	.373	2.5
1979	136	549	473	54	127	25	2	10	79	59	59	3	1	.268	.354	.393	.747	109.0	106.9	.344	2.6
1980	104	388	341	48	99	10	7	12	82	38	45	0	3	.290	.360	.466	.826	124.9	124.3	.370	2.0
1981	78	258	226	19	51	8	2	5	28	27	28	1	2	.226	.311	.345	.656	84.5	87.6	.302	-0.3
1982	93	281	249	31	70	8	0	10	30	30	24	5	1	.281	.357	.434	.791	120.4	118.0	.358	0.9
1983	78	186	162	23	43	4	1	5	26	17	28	8	3	.265	.332	.395	.727	95.1	99.5	.327	0.5
1984	44	91	81	12	27	3	0	2	8	10	15	1	0	.333	.407	.444	.851	135.6	131.4	.391	0.7
1985	83	128	120	10	26	2	0	3	22	7	15	0	1	.217	.266	.308	.574	47.1	53.4	.266	-0.5

Career totals

1,908

323rd-most career G

7,016

458th-most career PA

6,144

477th-most career AB

865

1,694

491st-most career H

273

203

372nd-most career HR

RBI

890

412th-most career RBI

687

396th-most career BB

741

.2757

OBP

.3521

SLG

.4378

OPS

.7899

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1974-07-21	PIT @ ATL Gameday	5	4	4	2	2	2	0	12
1970-09-07	CHC @ PIT Gameday	4	3	3	1	2	4	0	10
1974-04-05	PIT @ STL Gameday	5	3	3	1	2	3	0	10
1979-04-05	NYM @ CHC Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	4	0	9
1978-07-09	WSH @ PHI Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	5	1	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1968-05-31	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1968-06-02	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1968-06-02	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1968-06-14	HOU @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1968-06-16	HOU @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	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.