MLB / Players

Richie Zisk

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 200 lb

BornFebruary 6, 1949 · Brooklyn, NY, USA

MLB debutSeptember 8, 1971

Final gameSeptember 21, 1983

Seasons13 (1971–1983)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1971–1976; Chicago White Sox 1977; Texas Rangers 1978–1980; Seattle Mariners 1981–1983

Percentile snapshot

1982 season — qualified batters

131

6.4

556

22.1

503

26.4

21.4

147

47.9

3.6

69.3

RBI

39.3

45.7

27.1

14.3

.292

OBP

.354

67.1

SLG

.477

77.9

OPS

.831

76.4

wRC+

124.5

67.9

OPS+

123.5

wOBA

.368

72.9

sWAR

2.0

37.1

of 141 qualified 1982 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

127.0

87.9

OPS+

126.8

87.4

sWAR

28.0

96.1

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
1971	7	19	15	2	3	1	0	1	2	4	7	0	0	.200	.368	.467	.835	147.1	137.9	.389	0.1
1972	17	44	37	4	7	3	0	0	4	7	10	0	0	.189	.318	.270	.588	81.4	71.7	.295	0.0
1973	103	354	333	44	108	23	7	10	54	21	63	0	0	.324	.364	.526	.890	152.1	148.3	.403	3.0
1974	149	604	536	75	168	30	3	17	100	65	91	1	1	.313	.386	.476	.862	147.2	145.3	.399	4.7
1975	147	578	504	69	146	27	3	20	75	68	109	0	1	.290	.374	.474	.848	138.2	137.3	.389	3.8
1976	155	641	581	91	168	35	2	21	89	52	96	1	0	.289	.343	.465	.808	129.9	129.5	.371	3.7
1977	141	599	531	78	154	17	6	30	101	55	98	0	4	.290	.355	.514	.869	131.6	133.7	.378	3.5
1978	140	581	511	68	134	19	1	22	85	58	76	3	3	.262	.338	.432	.770	115.6	116.7	.348	2.0
1979	144	563	503	69	132	21	1	18	64	57	75	1	1	.262	.336	.416	.752	104.3	103.7	.339	1.5
1980	135	492	448	48	130	17	1	19	77	39	72	0	2	.290	.344	.460	.804	120.2	121.4	.358	1.7
1981	94	388	357	42	111	12	1	16	43	28	63	0	2	.311	.366	.485	.851	142.7	139.4	.387	2.2
1982	131	556	503	61	147	28	1	21	62	49	89	2	1	.292	.354	.477	.831	124.5	123.5	.368	2.0
1983	90	318	285	30	69	12	0	12	36	30	61	0	0	.242	.311	.411	.722	92.7	94.5	.321	-0.2

Career totals

1,453

5,737

5,144

681

1,477

245

207

362nd-most career HR

RBI

792

533

910

499th-most career SO

.2871

478th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3529

SLG

.4656

326th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8185

362nd-highest career OPS

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	TB
1977-04-22	CWS @ ATH Gameday	5	3	4	1	0	2	4	11
1974-06-09	PIT @ SF Gameday	6	4	4	1	1	1	5	10
1974-07-07	PIT @ HOU Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	3	9
1983-06-04	SEA @ NYY Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	3	9
1977-08-13	CWS @ TEX Gameday	4	2	3	0	0	2	2	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.

Honors

2× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.