MLB / Players

Riggs Stephenson

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 185 lb

BornJanuary 5, 1898 · Akron, AL, USA

MLB debutApril 13, 1921

Final gameSeptember 24, 1934

Seasons14 (1921–1934)

Cleveland Indians 1921–1925; Chicago Cubs 1926–1934

Percentile snapshot

1932 season — qualified batters

147

78.9

644

81.9

583

84.3

74.1

189

98.8

56.6

RBI

81.3

77.7

38.6

32.5

27.7

.324

81.9

OBP

.383

75.3

SLG

.443

68.7

OPS

.826

71.7

wRC+

125.8

77.7

OPS+

123.6

75.3

wOBA

.373

67.5

sWAR

3.4

84.9

of 167 qualified 1932 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

132.5

92.4

OPS+

130.8

90.9

sWAR

33.8

97.1

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
1921	65	240	206	45	68	17	2	2	34	23	15	4	1	.330	.408	.461	.869	122.3	120.6	.403	1.5
1922	86	267	233	47	79	24	5	2	32	27	18	3	0	.339	.421	.511	.932	142.7	141.0	.427	2.5
1923	91	327	301	48	96	20	6	5	65	15	25	5	5	.319	.357	.475	.832	113.5	117.0	.383	1.7
1924	71	272	240	33	89	20	0	4	44	27	10	1	2	.371	.439	.504	.943	141.5	139.7	.440	2.4
1925	19	64	54	8	16	3	1	1	9	7	3	1	1	.296	.387	.444	.832	111.0	110.3	.389	0.2
1926	82	324	281	40	95	18	3	3	44	31	16	2	0	.338	.404	.456	.859	133.1	131.0	.399	2.0
1927	152	668	579	101	199	46	9	7	82	65	28	8	0	.344	.415	.491	.906	145.1	143.8	.418	5.3
1928	137	591	512	75	166	36	9	8	90	68	29	8	0	.324	.407	.477	.883	135.0	132.9	.406	3.9
1929	136	582	495	91	179	36	6	17	110	67	21	10	0	.362	.445	.562	1.006	149.0	148.6	.450	4.9
1930	109	382	341	56	125	21	1	5	68	32	20	2	0	.367	.421	.478	.899	118.5	116.5	.403	1.8
1931	80	302	263	34	84	14	4	1	52	37	14	1	0	.319	.405	.414	.820	125.2	119.8	.384	1.6
1932	147	644	583	86	189	49	4	4	85	54	27	3	0	.324	.383	.443	.826	125.8	123.6	.373	3.4
1933	97	388	346	45	114	17	4	4	51	34	16	5	0	.329	.397	.436	.834	145.1	140.4	.388	2.9
1934	38	83	74	5	16	0	0	0	7	7	5	0	0	.216	.293	.216	.509	44.9	41.3	.251	-0.4

Career totals

1,310

5,134

4,508

714

1,515

321

410th-most career 2B

RBI

773

494

247

.3361

29th-highest career batting average

OBP

.4065

51st-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4732

277th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.8797

109th-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
1924-09-01	CLE @ BAL Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	2	6	0	10
1929-07-01	CHC @ STL Gameday	4	3	3	1	0	2	7	0	10
1928-07-04	CHC @ STL Gameday	6	3	5	1	0	1	3	0	9
1931-05-27	CHC @ CIN Gameday	4	1	4	2	1	0	2	1	8
1930-04-17	CHC @ STL Gameday	3	2	3	2	0	1	1	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1921-04-13	CLE @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1921-04-14	CLE @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1921-04-15	CLE @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1921-04-16	CLE @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1921-04-19	CLE @ DET 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.