Rick Sawyer
New York Yankees 1974–1975; San Diego Padres 1976–1977
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.2 |
| 1975 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 0.1 |
| 1976 | 13 | 31 | 24 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .208 | .269 | .208 | .478 | 43.5 | 41.7 | .240 | 1.7 |
| 1977 | 56 | 27 | 20 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 | .150 | .320 | .150 | .470 | 55.9 | 37.0 | .259 | -1.7 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.7 | 16.20 | 1.800 | 5.40 | 3.17 | 89.1 | 22.0 | -0.2 |
| 1975 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6.0 | 3.00 | 1.500 | 4.50 | 2.56 | 68.9 | 123.7 | 0.1 |
| 1976 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 84 | 23 | 38 | 33 | 2 | 81.7 | 2.53 | 1.494 | 3.64 | 3.59 | 108.7 | 130.3 | 1.7 |
| 1977 | 56 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 136 | 72 | 55 | 45 | 15 | 111.0 | 5.84 | 1.721 | 3.65 | 5.36 | 148.4 | 61.8 | -1.7 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976-08-02 | SD @ ATL Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1977-04-18 | SD @ ATL Gameday | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1976-08-12 | SD @ NYM Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 1976-10-03 | SD @ LAD Gameday | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1977-04-13 | SF @ SD Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976-09-05 | SD @ SF Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 1976-08-02 | SD @ ATL Gameday | 9.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 1976-08-12 | SD @ NYM Gameday | 9.0 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 1977-05-21 | SD @ WSH Gameday | 8.0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| 1977-05-27 | HOU @ SD Gameday | 6.2 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 1 |
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.