Rick Manning
Cleveland Indians 1975–1983; Milwaukee Brewers 1983–1987
Percentile snapshot
1983 season — qualified batters
of 131 qualified 1983 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 120 | 535 | 480 | 69 | 137 | 16 | 5 | 3 | 35 | 44 | 62 | 19 | 11 | .285 | .347 | .358 | .705 | 102.7 | 100.2 | .332 | 1.8 |
| 1976 | 138 | 606 | 552 | 73 | 161 | 24 | 7 | 6 | 43 | 41 | 75 | 16 | 10 | .292 | .337 | .393 | .730 | 116.1 | 115.1 | .342 | 3.5 |
| 1977 | 68 | 283 | 252 | 33 | 57 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 18 | 21 | 35 | 9 | 5 | .226 | .282 | .337 | .619 | 69.8 | 70.8 | .282 | 0.1 |
| 1978 | 148 | 616 | 566 | 65 | 149 | 27 | 3 | 3 | 50 | 38 | 62 | 12 | 12 | .263 | .309 | .337 | .647 | 82.4 | 83.0 | .301 | 1.1 |
| 1979 | 144 | 632 | 560 | 67 | 145 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 51 | 55 | 48 | 30 | 8 | .259 | .323 | .304 | .626 | 71.5 | 70.0 | .292 | 0.2 |
| 1980 | 140 | 555 | 471 | 55 | 110 | 17 | 4 | 3 | 52 | 63 | 66 | 12 | 6 | .234 | .321 | .306 | .627 | 70.1 | 72.2 | .289 | 0.2 |
| 1981 | 103 | 404 | 360 | 47 | 88 | 15 | 3 | 4 | 33 | 40 | 57 | 25 | 3 | .244 | .318 | .336 | .655 | 91.6 | 89.8 | .308 | 1.2 |
| 1982 | 152 | 619 | 562 | 71 | 152 | 18 | 2 | 8 | 44 | 54 | 60 | 12 | 8 | .270 | .334 | .352 | .686 | 89.6 | 88.9 | .314 | 1.6 |
| 1983 | 158 | 615 | 569 | 60 | 140 | 20 | 4 | 4 | 43 | 38 | 62 | 18 | 5 | .246 | .292 | .316 | .609 | 68.5 | 70.8 | .277 | 0.1 |
| 1984 | 119 | 380 | 341 | 53 | 85 | 10 | 5 | 7 | 31 | 34 | 32 | 5 | 7 | .249 | .318 | .370 | .688 | 95.4 | 93.6 | .315 | 1.3 |
| 1985 | 79 | 231 | 216 | 19 | 47 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 18 | 14 | 19 | 1 | 0 | .218 | .265 | .296 | .562 | 53.4 | 54.3 | .258 | -0.5 |
| 1986 | 89 | 227 | 205 | 31 | 52 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 27 | 17 | 20 | 5 | 3 | .254 | .310 | .434 | .744 | 94.4 | 97.8 | .325 | 0.3 |
| 1987 | 97 | 129 | 114 | 21 | 26 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 13 | 12 | 18 | 4 | 0 | .228 | .299 | .307 | .606 | 62.3 | 60.5 | .278 | -0.5 |
Career totals
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 | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1978-06-03 | CLE @ MIL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1977-06-04 | CLE @ SEA Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1981-09-08 | CLE @ BAL Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1976-04-28 | CLE @ MIN Gameday | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 1977-05-21 | CLE @ KC Gameday | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.