Rick Ownbey
New York Mets 1982–1983; St. Louis Cardinals 1984; St. Louis Cardinals 1986
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 9 | 18 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .294 | .200 | .494 | 48.2 | 41.4 | .253 | 0.5 |
| 1983 | 12 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .111 | .111 | .222 | -56.1 | -37.9 | .104 | -0.1 |
| 1984 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -123.9 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.1 |
| 1986 | 17 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -125.5 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.3 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 8 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 44 | 21 | 43 | 28 | 3 | 50.3 | 3.75 | 1.728 | 5.01 | 4.97 | 137.9 | 96.0 | 0.5 |
| 1983 | 10 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 31 | 18 | 21 | 19 | 4 | 34.7 | 4.67 | 1.500 | 4.93 | 4.98 | 137.5 | 77.5 | -0.1 |
| 1984 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 10 | 8 | 11 | 1 | 19.0 | 4.74 | 1.632 | 5.21 | 3.58 | 102.3 | 73.9 | -0.1 |
| 1986 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 47 | 18 | 19 | 25 | 4 | 42.7 | 3.80 | 1.547 | 5.27 | 4.27 | 116.9 | 96.2 | 0.3 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982-09-03 | CIN @ NYM Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1982-09-08 | NYM @ PIT Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1982-09-21 | WSH @ NYM Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1983-05-09 | NYM @ HOU Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1982-09-26 | PHI @ NYM Gameday | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1982-09-03 | CIN @ NYM Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 0 |
| 1983-04-30 | ATL @ NYM Gameday | 8.0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 1986-04-28 | STL @ SF Gameday | 6.2 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 0 |
| 1982-09-15 | NYM @ WSH Gameday | 6.0 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 7 | 0 |
| 1984-09-30 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 7.0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 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.