MLB / Players

Rick Mahler

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 195 lb

BornAugust 5, 1953 · Austin, TX, USA

MLB debutApril 20, 1979

Final gameAugust 6, 1991

Seasons13 (1979–1991)

Atlanta Braves 1979–1988; Cincinnati Reds 1989–1990; Atlanta Braves 1991; Montreal Expos 1991

Percentile snapshot

1989 season — qualified pitchers

98.7

24.7

9.1

19.5

40.3

SHO

51.9

242

6.5

14.3

77.9

102

62.3

220.7

64.9

ERA

3.83

WHIP

1.328

33.8

K/9

4.16

11.7

FIP

3.45

57.1

FIP-

96.3

51.9

ERA+

93.4

18.2

sWAR

1.7

23.4

of 78 qualified 1989 pitchers (min 162 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

95.6

20.3

sWAR

16.2

91.7

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	HR	RBI	BB	SO	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1979	15	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	180.9	165.9	.464	-0.3
1980	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.1
1981	34	29	27	0	4	1	0	2	0	4	1	.148	.148	.185	.333	-25.8	-6.8	.154	2.1
1982	39	73	58	5	11	0	1	4	4	17	0	.190	.242	.241	.483	30.6	33.7	.233	1.1
1983	10	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-133.4	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1984	38	76	71	6	21	3	0	3	2	8	0	.296	.315	.338	.653	78.0	78.9	.305	4.7
1985	39	105	90	9	14	1	0	8	3	18	0	.156	.181	.167	.348	-17.6	-4.4	.166	3.6
1986	40	96	83	8	16	3	0	7	4	14	0	.193	.230	.229	.459	16.5	23.9	.218	-0.1
1987	40	74	65	4	11	4	0	5	2	19	0	.169	.194	.231	.425	-0.7	9.4	.195	0.6
1988	39	84	72	3	9	1	0	5	0	20	0	.125	.137	.139	.276	-40.9	-22.4	.130	2.2
1989	40	70	62	4	11	2	0	1	4	8	0	.177	.239	.210	.448	26.7	28.3	.221	1.7
1990	35	42	35	1	4	1	0	2	1	4	0	.114	.135	.143	.278	-39.9	-24.4	.131	0.7
1991	23	18	14	0	2	1	0	0	0	4	0	.143	.143	.214	.357	-14.6	-1.5	.160	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1979	15	0	0	0	0	0	0	28	15	11	12	4	22.0	6.14	1.773	4.91	5.46	136.7	65.1	-0.3
1980	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	1	0	3.7	2.45	.545	2.45	2.20	58.8	152.3	0.1
1981	34	14	8	6	2	1	0	109	35	43	54	5	112.3	2.80	1.353	4.33	3.46	96.6	127.9	2.1
1982	39	33	9	10	0	5	2	213	96	62	105	18	205.3	4.21	1.339	4.60	3.79	101.0	89.0	1.1
1983	10	0	0	0	0	0	0	16	8	9	7	0	14.3	5.02	1.744	4.40	3.58	93.0	76.7	-0.1
1984	38	29	13	10	0	9	1	209	77	62	106	13	222.0	3.12	1.221	4.30	3.48	91.2	122.2	4.7
1985	39	39	17	15	0	6	1	272	103	79	107	24	266.7	3.48	1.316	3.61	3.90	102.6	109.3	3.6
1986	39	39	14	18	0	7	1	283	129	95	137	25	237.7	4.88	1.590	5.19	4.20	106.4	80.7	-0.1
1987	39	28	8	13	0	3	1	212	109	85	95	24	197.0	4.98	1.508	4.34	4.81	111.7	86.5	0.6
1988	39	34	9	16	0	5	0	279	102	42	131	17	249.0	3.69	1.289	4.73	3.15	86.1	99.0	2.2
1989	40	31	9	13	0	5	2	242	94	51	102	15	220.7	3.83	1.328	4.16	3.45	96.3	93.4	1.7
1990	35	16	7	6	4	2	1	134	64	39	68	16	134.7	4.28	1.285	4.54	4.28	109.0	91.8	0.7
1991	23	8	2	4	0	0	0	70	33	28	27	4	66.0	4.50	1.485	3.68	4.13	110.7	82.6	0.0

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

394

671

581

104

RBI

117

.1790

OBP

.2083

SLG

.2134

OPS

.4217

Pitching

G (P)

392

271

452nd-most career GS

111

436th-most career L

SHO

1,951

481st-most career IP

SO (P)

952

BB allowed

606

ERA

3.994

WHIP

1.3709

K/9

4.39

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	TB
1984-06-15	CIN @ ATL Gameday	4	1	3	2	0	2	5
1982-06-23	LAD @ ATL Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	2	5
1984-07-17	ATL @ WSH Gameday	2	0	2	1	0	0	3
1986-09-30	CIN @ ATL Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	0	3
1988-06-22	ATL @ LAD Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	2	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1984-09-21	ATL @ SD Gameday	9.0	4	1	1	1	9	0
1988-09-05	LAD @ ATL Gameday	8.0	8	3	2	2	8	0
1984-07-05	ATL @ PHI Gameday	7.0	3	1	1	3	8	0
1986-05-08	ATL @ CIN Gameday	4.1	8	5	4	1	8	1
1982-04-06	ATL @ SD Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	3	7	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.