Rico Carty

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 200 lb

BornSeptember 1, 1939 · San Pedro de Macoris, San Pedro de Macorís, D.R.

MLB debutSeptember 15, 1963

Final gameSeptember 23, 1979

Seasons15 (1963–1979)

Milwaukee Braves 1963–1965; Atlanta Braves 1966–1967; Atlanta Braves 1969–1970; Atlanta Braves 1972; Chicago Cubs 1973; Oakland Athletics 1973; Texas Rangers 1973; Cleveland Indians 1974–1977; Oakland Athletics 1978; Toronto Blue Jays 1978–1979

Percentile snapshot

1979 season — qualified batters

132

7.9

512

3.6

461

7.9

118

4.3

46.8

RBI

22.3

82.7

21.6

88.5

.256

15.8

OBP

.322

SLG

.390

31.7

OPS

.713

25.2

wRC+

89.4

OPS+

90.1

23.7

wOBA

.321

23.7

sWAR

-0.4

3.6

of 140 qualified 1979 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

133.1

92.8

OPS+

131.4

91.2

sWAR

34.5

97.2

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 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	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1963	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-129.3	-100.0	.000	0.0
1964	133	505	455	72	150	28	4	22	88	43	78	1	2	.330	.388	.554	.942	165.5	161.8	.415	5.2
1965	83	293	271	37	84	18	1	10	35	17	44	1	4	.310	.355	.494	.849	140.8	136.9	.380	2.1
1966	151	588	521	73	170	25	2	15	76	60	74	4	6	.326	.391	.468	.859	140.2	136.3	.383	4.4
1967	134	496	444	41	113	16	2	15	64	49	70	4	3	.255	.329	.401	.730	109.5	109.5	.333	1.5
1969	104	339	304	47	104	15	0	16	58	32	28	0	2	.342	.401	.549	.951	167.6	164.1	.428	3.5
1970	136	560	478	84	175	23	3	25	101	77	46	1	2	.366	.454	.584	1.037	175.7	170.1	.463	6.5
1972	86	315	271	31	75	12	2	6	29	44	33	0	0	.277	.378	.402	.780	120.1	113.3	.365	1.4
1973	115	434	384	29	88	13	0	5	42	44	50	2	0	.229	.307	.302	.609	74.0	73.6	.290	-0.6
1974	33	96	91	6	33	5	0	1	16	5	9	0	0	.363	.396	.451	.846	149.7	144.0	.393	0.7
1975	118	436	383	57	118	19	1	18	64	45	31	2	2	.308	.378	.504	.882	148.6	148.3	.399	2.9
1976	152	628	552	67	171	34	0	13	83	67	45	1	1	.310	.379	.442	.821	142.2	141.8	.379	3.4
1977	127	521	461	50	129	23	1	15	80	56	51	1	2	.280	.355	.432	.787	117.0	116.9	.352	1.4
1978	145	593	528	70	149	21	1	31	99	57	57	1	1	.282	.348	.502	.850	134.2	136.3	.377	2.7
1979	132	512	461	48	118	26	0	12	55	46	45	3	1	.256	.322	.390	.713	89.4	90.1	.321	-0.4

Career totals

1,651

6,318

5,606

712

1,677

278

204

368th-most career HR

RBI

890

412th-most career RBI

642

465th-most career BB

663

.2991

234th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3693

297th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4640

349th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8333

268th-highest career OPS

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
1970-05-31	PHI @ ATL Gameday	4	4	4	0	0	3	6	1	13
1964-08-24	PHI @ ATL Gameday	5	4	5	3	0	1	1	0	11
1977-08-28	SEA @ CLE Gameday	3	2	3	0	1	2	5	1	11
1964-08-30	SF @ ATL Gameday	5	2	5	1	0	1	2	0	9
1975-08-03	CLE @ NYY Gameday	4	2	4	2	0	1	2	0	9

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1963-06-07	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1963-06-19	PIT @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1963-08-07	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1964-04-28	PIT @ ATL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1964-05-08	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	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.

Honors

1× 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.