MLB / Players

Rick Rhoden

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 195 lb

BornMay 16, 1953 · Boynton Beach, FL, USA

MLB debutJuly 5, 1974

Final gameSeptember 29, 1989

Seasons16 (1974–1989)

Los Angeles Dodgers 1974–1978; Pittsburgh Pirates 1979–1986; New York Yankees 1987–1988; Houston Astros 1989

Percentile snapshot

1988 season — qualified pitchers

12.2

26.7

32.2

37.8

46.7

SHO

27.8

206

38.9

23.3

63.3

24.4

197.0

33.3

ERA

4.29

12.2

WHIP

1.330

23.3

K/9

4.29

26.7

FIP

4.16

18.9

FIP-

105.3

26.7

ERA+

92.1

sWAR

1.1

16.7

of 91 qualified 1988 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

103.3

50.7

sWAR

34.0

97.1

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	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1974	4	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	.500	.500	.500	1.000	198.9	188.9	.472	0.3
1975	26	30	28	0	2	0	0	1	1	6	0	.071	.103	.071	.175	-62.6	-49.2	.091	1.2
1976	27	73	65	6	20	3	1	9	1	12	0	.308	.318	.400	.718	106.4	107.1	.334	3.4
1977	32	84	78	8	18	3	3	12	0	13	0	.231	.231	.385	.615	57.7	63.9	.271	2.8
1978	30	62	52	5	7	1	0	4	3	14	0	.135	.179	.154	.332	-13.9	-5.3	.164	1.3
1979	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	1.000	2.000	499.7	440.8	.927	-0.1
1980	20	45	40	3	15	3	1	11	1	2	0	.375	.390	.525	.915	159.8	152.2	.417	1.7
1981	21	52	48	4	9	2	0	0	1	7	0	.188	.204	.229	.433	9.2	21.1	.205	0.9
1982	36	89	83	10	22	6	3	12	3	8	0	.265	.287	.446	.733	97.8	99.8	.330	2.1
1983	36	88	86	2	13	1	0	5	0	19	0	.151	.151	.163	.314	-29.5	-13.4	.145	4.0
1984	35	92	84	9	28	6	0	4	2	10	0	.333	.345	.405	.750	111.7	110.9	.345	5.9
1985	37	78	74	2	14	3	0	6	2	7	0	.189	.211	.230	.440	16.2	23.9	.206	0.0
1986	41	101	90	9	25	9	1	10	3	13	1	.278	.298	.411	.709	89.8	91.8	.320	6.5
1987	30	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.9
1988	31	2	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-122.1	-100.0	.000	1.1
1989	20	31	29	0	6	1	0	0	0	2	0	.207	.207	.241	.448	21.8	30.2	.206	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1974	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	5	2	4	7	1	9.0	2.00	1.000	7.00	3.81	110.6	172.2	0.3
1975	26	11	3	3	0	1	0	94	34	32	40	8	99.3	3.08	1.268	3.62	3.85	112.1	111.6	1.2
1976	27	26	12	3	0	10	3	165	60	53	77	17	181.0	2.98	1.204	3.83	3.91	115.4	113.6	3.4
1977	31	31	16	10	0	4	1	223	90	63	122	20	216.3	3.74	1.322	5.08	3.71	96.8	102.4	2.8
1978	30	23	10	8	0	6	3	160	67	51	79	13	164.7	3.66	1.281	4.32	3.67	104.0	96.5	1.3
1979	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	5	4	2	2	0	5.0	7.20	1.400	3.60	3.09	80.0	53.7	-0.1
1980	20	19	7	5	0	2	0	133	54	40	70	9	126.7	3.84	1.366	4.97	3.58	97.7	95.5	1.7
1981	21	21	9	4	0	4	2	147	59	53	76	6	136.3	3.89	1.467	5.02	3.34	92.4	92.7	0.9
1982	35	35	11	14	0	6	1	239	106	70	128	14	230.3	4.14	1.342	5.00	3.36	90.3	89.9	2.1
1983	36	35	13	13	1	7	2	256	84	68	153	13	244.3	3.09	1.326	5.64	2.97	80.3	119.6	4.0
1984	33	33	14	9	0	6	3	216	72	62	136	13	238.3	2.72	1.166	5.14	3.15	87.9	131.9	5.9
1985	35	35	10	15	0	2	0	254	106	69	128	18	213.3	4.47	1.514	5.40	3.57	99.8	80.0	0.0
1986	34	34	15	12	0	12	1	211	80	76	159	17	253.7	2.84	1.131	5.64	3.29	86.1	134.5	6.5
1987	30	29	16	10	0	4	0	184	78	61	107	22	181.7	3.86	1.349	5.30	4.33	98.0	114.3	2.9
1988	30	30	12	12	0	5	1	206	94	56	94	20	197.0	4.29	1.330	4.29	4.16	105.3	92.1	1.1
1989	20	17	2	6	0	0	0	108	46	41	41	7	96.7	4.28	1.541	3.82	4.12	121.3	79.3	0.0

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

427

830

761

181

RBI

114

.2378

OBP

.2529

SLG

.3233

OPS

.5762

Pitching

G (P)

413

380

167th-most career GS

151

258th-most career W

125

305th-most career L

SHO

317th-most career SHO

2,594

229th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,419

271st-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

801

255th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.595

WHIP

1.3136

K/9

4.92

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	TB
1980-09-01	HOU @ PIT Gameday	3	2	3	2	1	3	8
1977-08-21	LAD @ CHC Gameday	4	1	3	0	1	2	6
1982-05-15	CIN @ PIT Gameday	4	2	2	1	1	2	6
1986-09-30	PIT @ STL Gameday	3	1	2	1	1	2	6
1982-06-04	SD @ PIT Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	1	5

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1986-06-27	WSH @ PIT Gameday	9.0	5	1	1	1	11	0
1984-08-09	PIT @ NYM Gameday	9.0	2	0	0	2	10	0
1986-06-21	PIT @ WSH Gameday	9.0	3	1	0	0	10	0
1977-04-25	LAD @ SD Gameday	9.0	7	3	3	4	9	2
1977-07-10	SD @ LAD Gameday	8.1	8	5	5	2	9	2

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

3× Silver Slugger2× 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.