Ricky Horton
St. Louis Cardinals 1984–1987; Chicago White Sox 1988; Los Angeles Dodgers 1988–1989; St. Louis Cardinals 1989–1990
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 39 | 38 | 31 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 0 | 0 | .065 | .094 | .065 | .158 | -67.4 | -54.0 | .082 | 1.1 |
| 1985 | 49 | 21 | 16 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .063 | .211 | .063 | .273 | -9.7 | -18.9 | .167 | 1.5 |
| 1986 | 42 | 25 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .056 | .261 | .056 | .316 | 14.0 | -6.3 | .203 | 2.7 |
| 1987 | 68 | 30 | 29 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .172 | .200 | .207 | .407 | 0.7 | 8.0 | .190 | 1.7 |
| 1988 | 64 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.2 |
| 1989 | 34 | 14 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .333 | .583 | 58.8 | 63.9 | .266 | -0.4 |
| 1990 | 32 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -125.6 | -100.0 | .000 | -0.2 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 37 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 140 | 48 | 39 | 76 | 14 | 125.7 | 3.44 | 1.424 | 5.44 | 3.99 | 113.9 | 101.8 | 1.1 |
| 1985 | 49 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 84 | 29 | 34 | 59 | 5 | 89.7 | 2.91 | 1.316 | 5.92 | 3.27 | 92.4 | 121.5 | 1.5 |
| 1986 | 42 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 77 | 25 | 26 | 49 | 7 | 100.3 | 2.24 | 1.027 | 4.40 | 3.48 | 95.4 | 162.9 | 2.7 |
| 1987 | 67 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 127 | 53 | 42 | 55 | 15 | 125.0 | 3.82 | 1.352 | 3.96 | 4.56 | 110.7 | 107.9 | 1.7 |
| 1988 | 64 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 131 | 64 | 38 | 36 | 8 | 118.3 | 4.87 | 1.428 | 2.74 | 4.17 | 106.9 | 80.5 | -0.2 |
| 1989 | 34 | 8 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 85 | 39 | 21 | 26 | 3 | 72.3 | 4.85 | 1.465 | 3.24 | 3.52 | 99.9 | 72.6 | -0.4 |
| 1990 | 32 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 23 | 22 | 18 | 3 | 42.0 | 4.93 | 1.762 | 3.86 | 4.52 | 119.2 | 77.0 | -0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987-07-07 | LAD @ STL Gameday | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1989-09-06 | STL @ NYM Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1984-05-21 | HOU @ STL Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1984-07-04 | STL @ SF Gameday | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1985-09-16 | STL @ PIT Gameday | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985-08-10 | STL @ PHI Gameday | 8.0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 0 |
| 1986-04-20 | STL @ WSH Gameday | 7.2 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 0 |
| 1986-08-14 | STL @ NYM Gameday | 7.0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| 1984-06-29 | STL @ SD Gameday | 9.0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
| 1986-09-20 | STL @ WSH Gameday | 9.0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 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.