Rick Reed

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 195 lb

BornAugust 16, 1964 · Huntington, WV, USA

MLB debutAugust 8, 1988

Final gameSeptember 26, 2003

Seasons15 (1988–2003)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1988–1991; Kansas City Royals 1992–1993; Texas Rangers 1993–1994; Cincinnati Reds 1995; New York Mets 1997–2000; Minnesota Twins 2001; New York Mets 2001; Minnesota Twins 2002–2003

Percentile snapshot

2002 season — qualified pitchers

48.8

46.4

67.9

82.1

48.8

SHO

48.8

192

52.4

64.3

100

121

29.8

3.6

188.0

27.4

ERA

3.78

51.2

WHIP

1.160

85.7

K/9

5.79

40.5

FIP

4.50

29.8

FIP-

100.6

34.5

ERA+

118.2

63.1

sWAR

3.3

54.8

of 85 qualified 2002 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

105.2

58.1

sWAR

19.4

93.3

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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1988	2	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.2	-100.0	.000	0.1
1989	15	15	13	1	1	0	0	0	2	5	.077	.200	.077	.277	-9.2	-16.0	.162	-1.0
1990	13	18	16	0	4	0	0	1	1	6	.250	.278	.250	.528	46.2	49.6	.247	0.2
1991	1	2	2	0	1	1	0	2	0	0	.500	.500	1.000	1.500	332.6	317.3	.659	-0.2
1992	19	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.4
1993	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	-0.1
1994	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.0
1995	4	5	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.3	-100.0	.000	-0.2
1997	33	66	57	6	10	5	1	5	3	18	.175	.217	.316	.532	34.4	40.0	.238	5.2
1998	31	79	64	6	8	0	1	5	3	21	.125	.164	.172	.336	-19.2	-10.3	.158	3.7
1999	27	54	45	2	11	2	0	5	1	14	.244	.261	.289	.550	38.4	42.3	.248	1.4
2000	30	67	49	6	10	0	0	2	1	11	.204	.226	.204	.430	7.7	13.0	.198	2.5
2001	32	46	40	2	5	1	0	4	1	15	.125	.143	.150	.293	-32.1	-21.9	.133	2.5
2002	33	6	4	0	1	0	0	0	1	2	.250	.400	.250	.650	95.0	79.4	.324	3.3
2003	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.6

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1988	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	10	4	2	6	1	12.0	3.00	1.000	4.50	3.29	96.3	114.0	0.1
1989	15	7	1	4	0	0	0	62	34	11	34	5	54.7	5.60	1.335	5.60	3.32	97.9	60.6	-1.0
1990	13	8	2	3	1	1	1	62	26	12	27	6	53.7	4.36	1.379	4.53	3.98	108.6	84.1	0.2
1991	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	8	5	1	2	1	4.3	10.38	2.077	4.15	5.56	154.2	34.7	-0.2
1992	19	18	3	7	0	1	1	105	41	20	49	10	100.3	3.68	1.246	4.40	3.86	96.0	109.2	1.4
1993	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	12	5	2	5	1	7.7	5.87	1.826	5.87	4.96	115.8	74.0	-0.1
1994	4	3	1	1	0	0	0	17	11	7	12	3	16.7	5.94	1.440	6.48	5.54	116.4	80.1	0.0
1995	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	18	11	3	10	5	17.0	5.82	1.235	5.29	6.24	150.7	71.1	-0.2
1997	33	31	13	9	0	2	0	186	67	31	113	19	208.3	2.89	1.042	4.88	3.69	90.7	140.6	5.2
1998	31	31	16	11	0	2	1	208	82	29	153	30	212.3	3.48	1.116	6.49	3.96	95.2	119.6	3.7
1999	26	26	11	5	0	1	1	163	76	47	104	23	149.3	4.58	1.406	6.27	4.65	106.0	95.7	1.4
2000	30	30	11	5	0	0	0	192	84	34	121	28	184.0	4.11	1.228	5.92	4.35	98.5	107.6	2.5
2001	32	32	12	12	0	3	1	211	91	31	142	28	202.3	4.05	1.196	6.32	3.97	92.0	105.9	2.5
2002	33	32	15	7	0	2	1	192	79	26	121	32	188.0	3.78	1.160	5.79	4.50	100.6	118.2	3.3
2003	27	21	6	12	0	2	1	155	76	29	71	21	135.0	5.07	1.363	4.73	4.82	105.3	90.4	0.6

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

274

362

297

RBI

.1717

OBP

.2063

SLG

.2222

OPS

.4285

Pitching

G (P)

273

245

SHO

1,546

SO (P)

970

BB allowed

285

ERA

4.029

WHIP

1.2202

228th-lowest career WHIP

K/9

5.65

462nd-highest career K/9

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
1997-07-19	CIN @ NYM Gameday	2	1	1	0	1	2	0	4
1998-04-15	CHC @ NYM Gameday	1	1	1	0	1	2	1	4
1997-08-21	LAD @ NYM Gameday	2	0	2	1	0	1	0	3
2001-04-05	NYM @ ATL Gameday	4	1	2	0	0	2	0	2
1999-06-25	NYM @ ATL Gameday	4	0	2	0	0	1	0	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1999-10-02	PIT @ NYM Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	0	12
1998-06-08	TB @ NYM Gameday	9.0	3	0	0	1	10
2000-05-16	COL @ NYM Gameday	7.0	6	3	2	0	10
1990-06-25	PHI @ PIT Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	2	9
1998-07-21	PIT @ NYM Gameday	8.0	6	0	0	0	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.