MLB / Players

Rick Monday

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 193 lb

BornNovember 20, 1945 · Batesville, AR, USA

MLB debutSeptember 3, 1966

Final gameJune 20, 1984

Seasons19 (1966–1984)

Kansas City Athletics 1966–1967; Oakland Athletics 1968–1971; Chicago Cubs 1972–1976; Los Angeles Dodgers 1977–1984

Percentile snapshot

1976 season — qualified batters

137

16.1

601

49.2

534

48.3

107

96.6

145

46.6

34.7

97.5

RBI

68.6

67.8

125

1.7

30.5

.272

55.1

OBP

.346

60.2

SLG

.507

97.5

OPS

.853

93.2

wRC+

131.6

75.4

OPS+

131.3

wOBA

.386

sWAR

4.2

77.1

of 119 qualified 1976 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

127.2

88.4

OPS+

125.3

sWAR

48.5

98.7

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
1966	17	47	41	4	4	1	1	0	2	6	16	1	1	.098	.213	.171	.383	15.3	13.0	.196	-0.3
1967	124	459	406	52	102	14	6	14	58	42	107	3	6	.251	.322	.419	.740	121.2	119.8	.339	2.9
1968	148	563	482	56	132	24	7	8	49	72	143	14	6	.274	.371	.402	.773	144.7	138.1	.361	5.2
1969	122	481	399	57	108	17	4	12	54	72	100	12	3	.271	.388	.424	.811	134.5	132.6	.374	3.8
1970	112	442	376	63	109	19	7	10	37	58	99	17	11	.290	.387	.457	.844	143.5	137.2	.389	4.0
1971	116	409	355	53	87	9	3	18	56	49	93	6	9	.245	.335	.439	.774	122.8	122.6	.354	2.7
1972	138	520	434	68	108	22	5	11	42	78	102	12	9	.249	.362	.399	.760	112.4	108.1	.354	2.7
1973	149	651	554	93	148	24	5	26	56	92	124	5	12	.267	.372	.469	.841	130.5	125.8	.385	4.9
1974	142	617	538	84	158	19	7	20	58	70	94	7	9	.294	.375	.467	.842	133.6	130.2	.390	4.8
1975	136	583	491	89	131	29	4	17	60	83	95	8	3	.267	.373	.446	.819	124.0	121.9	.379	3.8
1976	137	601	534	107	145	20	5	32	77	60	125	5	9	.272	.346	.507	.853	131.6	131.3	.386	4.2
1977	118	456	392	47	90	13	1	15	48	60	109	1	4	.230	.330	.383	.713	94.5	93.3	.326	1.4
1978	119	397	342	54	87	14	1	19	57	49	100	2	4	.254	.348	.468	.816	125.7	128.4	.365	2.4
1979	12	38	33	2	10	0	0	0	2	5	6	0	0	.303	.395	.303	.698	107.5	95.8	.343	0.2
1980	96	223	194	35	52	7	1	10	25	28	49	2	2	.268	.363	.469	.832	137.1	133.9	.379	1.7
1981	66	156	130	24	41	1	2	11	25	24	42	1	2	.315	.423	.608	1.031	198.2	196.7	.461	2.1
1982	104	254	210	37	54	6	4	11	42	39	51	2	1	.257	.372	.481	.852	140.5	141.5	.383	1.7
1983	99	208	178	21	44	7	1	6	20	29	42	0	0	.247	.351	.399	.750	103.9	109.7	.335	0.5
1984	31	57	47	4	9	2	0	1	7	8	16	0	0	.191	.309	.298	.607	63.4	73.9	.272	-0.2

Career totals

1,986

271st-most career G

7,162

423rd-most career PA

6,136

479th-most career AB

950

416th-most career R

1,619

248

478th-most career 3B

241

281st-most career HR

RBI

775

924

169th-most career BB

1,513

82nd-most career SO

.2639

OBP

.3607

456th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4430

OPS

.8037

466th-highest career OPS

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	BB	TB
1972-05-16	CHC @ PHI Gameday	5	3	4	0	3	5	0	13
1976-04-17	PHI @ CHC Gameday	6	3	4	0	2	4	0	10
1970-08-10	ATH @ MIN Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	2	0	9
1976-05-05	LAD @ CHC Gameday	6	4	3	0	2	6	0	9
1978-04-19	CIN @ LAD Gameday	3	2	3	0	2	4	1	9

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

2× All-Star

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