MLB / Players

Rick Langford

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 180 lb

BornMarch 20, 1952 · Farmville, VA, USA

MLB debutJune 13, 1976

Final gameJuly 13, 1986

Seasons11 (1976–1986)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1976; Oakland Athletics 1977–1986

Percentile snapshot

1982 season — qualified pitchers

20.2

41.6

4.5

94.4

SHO

60.7

265

2.2

111

6.7

85.4

15.7

2.2

237.3

77.5

ERA

4.21

21.3

WHIP

1.323

43.8

K/9

3.00

5.6

FIP

4.48

10.1

FIP-

113.3

12.4

ERA+

93.8

sWAR

1.6

29.2

of 90 qualified 1982 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

95.8

21.4

sWAR

11.9

88.7

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

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1976	12	5	5	1	1	1	2	.200	.200	.400	.600	59.0	68.4	.269	-0.5
1977	37	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.1
1978	40	0	0	2	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.2
1979	34	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
1980	35	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	4.6
1981	24	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	3.2
1982	33	1	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.4	-100.0	.000	1.6
1983	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.7
1984	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.4
1985	23	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
1986	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-1.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1976	12	1	0	1	0	0	27	16	14	17	2	23.0	6.26	1.783	6.65	4.13	118.8	55.5	-0.5
1977	37	31	8	19	6	1	223	93	73	141	18	208.3	4.02	1.421	6.09	3.59	89.4	100.0	2.1
1978	37	24	7	13	4	2	169	67	56	92	15	175.7	3.43	1.281	4.71	3.62	99.7	105.8	2.2
1979	34	29	12	16	14	1	233	104	57	101	22	218.7	4.28	1.326	4.16	3.99	98.7	94.4	1.6
1980	35	33	19	12	28	2	276	105	64	102	29	290.0	3.26	1.172	3.17	4.03	106.0	116.6	4.6
1981	24	24	12	10	18	2	190	65	58	84	14	195.3	2.99	1.270	3.87	3.55	101.0	117.3	3.2
1982	32	31	11	16	15	2	265	111	49	79	33	237.3	4.21	1.323	3.00	4.48	113.3	93.8	1.6
1983	7	7	0	4	0	0	43	27	10	2	4	20.0	12.15	2.650	0.90	7.03	179.7	32.2	-1.7
1984	3	2	0	0	0	0	15	8	2	2	2	8.7	8.31	1.962	2.08	5.98	157.2	45.8	-0.4
1985	23	3	3	5	0	0	60	23	15	21	8	59.0	3.51	1.271	3.20	4.56	116.2	111.8	0.9
1986	16	11	1	10	0	0	69	45	18	30	13	55.0	7.36	1.582	4.91	5.81	147.5	53.5	-1.6

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

265

RBI

.1667

OBP

.1667

SLG

.3333

OPS

.5000

Pitching

G (P)

260

196

106

484th-most career L

SHO

1,491

SO (P)

671

BB allowed

416

ERA

4.008

WHIP

1.3320

K/9

4.05

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	TB
1976-06-20	HOU @ PIT Gameday	2	1	1	1	2
1976-06-13	PIT @ ATL Gameday	0	0	0	0	0
1976-06-24	PIT @ CHC Gameday	0	0	0	0	0
1976-07-04	PHI @ PIT Gameday	0	0	0	0	0
1976-07-06	PIT @ ATL Gameday	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1978-08-01	ATH @ LAA Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	1	11	0
1977-08-13	ATH @ BAL Gameday	6.1	6	5	4	1	11	1
1979-08-28	ATH @ TOR Gameday	9.0	7	3	3	0	10	1
1977-07-25	ATH @ MIN Gameday	10.0	7	2	2	5	8	1
1977-05-23	ATH @ TOR Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	2	8	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.