MLB / Players

Rick Helling

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 3 in · 215 lb
BornDecember 15, 1970 · Devils Lake, ND, USA
MLB debutApril 10, 1994
Final gameSeptember 9, 2006
Seasons12 (1994–2006)

Texas Rangers 1994–1995; Florida Marlins 1996; Texas Rangers 1996; Florida Marlins 1997; Texas Rangers 1997–2001; Arizona Diamondbacks 2002; Baltimore Orioles 2003; Florida Marlins 2003; Milwaukee Brewers 2005–2006

Percentile snapshot

2002 season — qualified pitchers

G
30
8.3
GS
30
21.4
W
10
20.2
L
12
19
SV
0
0
CG
0
0
SHO
0
0
H
180
72.6
ER
88
39.3
BB
48
82.1
SO
120
27.4
HR
31
8.3
IP
175.7
13.1
ERA
4.51
21.4
WHIP
1.298
47.6
K/9
6.15
50
FIP
4.73
13.1
FIP-
108.0
22.6
ERA+
97.0
22.6
sWAR
1.3
17.9

of 85 qualified 2002 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+
100.7
40.9
sWAR
15.2
91.1

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19949000000000000-0.1
19953000000000000-0.1
199611991100000300.111.111.111.222-51.3-40.0.1010.6
19974115140100000500.071.071.071.143-81.2-61.7.0651.0
199833650100000200.200.200.200.400-7.43.4.1803.0
199935220000000200.000.000.000.000-124.5-100.0.0002.6
200035550000000200.000.000.000.000-122.5-100.0.0003.5
200134440000000100.000.000.000.000-125.9-100.0.0001.0
200230614632000181600.043.200.043.243-32.5-32.9.1541.3
200335330110000100.333.333.6671.000159.3157.5.4240.5
20051514130000000900.000.000.000.000-132.6-100.0.0001.4
200620330000000200.000.000.000.000-126.0-100.0.0000.5

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
19949932011623418251452.05.881.5384.336.77142.480.9-0.1
1995330200017985212.36.572.0273.656.87142.473.5-0.1
19961163300037231642948.04.311.1047.884.85102.1105.60.6
199741165900010865699917131.04.471.3516.805.00117.097.61.0
199833332070422091067816427216.34.411.3276.824.4292.2108.83.0
1999353513110302281188513141219.34.841.4275.385.68112.6104.22.6
2000353516130002121089914629217.04.481.4336.065.11100.6113.43.5
2001343412110212561246315438215.75.171.4796.434.89103.991.01.0
200230301012000180884812031175.74.511.2986.154.73108.097.01.3
200335248800016789459831155.05.171.3685.695.52123.286.40.5
20051573100039131842249.02.391.1637.713.0371.3178.11.4
20062020200025161532635.04.111.1438.234.80106.7109.30.5

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

G
301
PA
122
AB
104
R
4
H
6
2B
1
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
1
BB
8
SO
43
SB
0
BA
.0577
OBP
.1327
SLG
.0673
OPS
.2000

Pitching

G (P)
301
GS
234
W
93
L
81
SV
0
CG
10
SHO
4
IP
1,526
SO (P)
1,058
BB allowed
562
ERA
4.676
WHIP
1.3772
K/9
6.24
327th-highest career K/9

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
2003-09-20MIA @ ATL Gameday101100002
2002-06-16DET @ AZ Gameday311000111
1996-09-28MIA @ HOU Gameday211000001
1997-05-26MIA @ LAD Gameday201000001
1998-06-09TEX @ COL Gameday201000001

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1997-09-04TEX @ TOR Gameday8.17221121
1998-04-27TEX @ MIN Gameday8.28443101
1999-06-11COL @ TEX Gameday7.06212101
1999-09-27SEA @ TEX Gameday5.17223101
2000-04-14TEX @ CLE Gameday8.0422291

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.