MLB / Players

Rick Miller

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 175 lb

BornApril 19, 1948 · Grand Rapids, MI, USA

MLB debutSeptember 4, 1971

Final gameOctober 4, 1985

Seasons15 (1971–1985)

Boston Red Sox 1971–1977; California Angels 1978–1980; Boston Red Sox 1981–1985

Percentile snapshot

1981 season — qualified batters

35.8

351

10.9

316

9.5

21.9

32.8

52.6

32.1

13.9

RBI

22.6

32.8

70.1

27.7

.291

68.6

OBP

.349

60.6

SLG

.377

38.7

OPS

.725

41.6

wRC+

108.1

43.1

OPS+

105.1

39.4

wOBA

.339

46.7

sWAR

1.7

47.4

of 138 qualified 1981 batters (min 334 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

96.6

35.1

OPS+

93.6

28.8

sWAR

12.6

89.3

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	15	42	33	9	11	5	0	1	7	8	8	0	2	.333	.452	.576	1.028	192.8	182.6	.464	0.6
1972	89	111	98	13	21	4	1	3	15	11	27	0	2	.214	.291	.367	.658	92.2	91.1	.311	0.2
1973	143	503	441	65	115	17	7	6	43	51	59	12	7	.261	.339	.372	.711	98.0	96.0	.332	1.3
1974	114	323	280	41	73	8	1	5	22	37	47	13	2	.261	.347	.350	.697	100.7	96.5	.332	1.1
1975	77	131	108	21	21	2	1	0	15	21	20	3	2	.194	.326	.231	.557	49.1	55.1	.264	-0.6
1976	105	313	269	40	76	15	3	0	27	34	47	11	10	.283	.359	.361	.720	106.2	102.5	.343	1.0
1977	86	220	189	34	48	9	3	0	24	22	30	11	5	.254	.341	.333	.674	80.7	77.7	.315	0.0
1978	132	547	475	66	125	25	4	1	37	54	70	3	13	.263	.341	.339	.680	99.8	96.1	.321	1.9
1979	120	488	427	60	125	15	5	2	28	50	69	5	4	.293	.367	.365	.733	107.2	102.2	.341	2.3
1980	129	470	412	52	113	14	3	2	38	48	71	7	3	.274	.349	.337	.687	95.2	92.4	.321	1.4
1981	97	351	316	38	92	17	2	2	33	28	36	3	5	.291	.349	.377	.725	108.1	105.1	.339	1.7
1982	135	456	409	50	104	13	2	4	38	40	41	5	6	.254	.323	.325	.648	76.6	75.5	.300	0.5
1983	104	293	262	41	75	10	2	2	21	28	30	3	3	.286	.356	.363	.719	97.5	93.7	.332	0.7
1984	95	141	123	17	32	5	1	0	12	17	22	1	1	.260	.348	.317	.665	88.6	82.8	.315	0.2
1985	41	51	45	5	15	2	0	0	9	5	6	1	0	.333	.392	.378	.770	114.6	110.0	.353	0.2

Career totals

1,482

4,440

3,887

552

1,046

161

RBI

369

454

583

.2691

OBP

.3461

SLG

.3501

OPS

.6962

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
1974-07-07	KC @ BOS Gameday	5	3	5	1	0	1	5	9
1981-05-11	BOS @ TOR Gameday	5	3	5	4	0	0	1	9
1981-05-27	CLE @ BOS Gameday	4	1	2	0	1	1	3	7
1983-05-01	BOS @ LAA Gameday	6	1	3	0	0	1	3	6
1973-06-04	KC @ BOS Gameday	5	3	3	1	1	0	1	6

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

1× Gold Glove

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