Roger Metzger
Chicago Cubs 1970; Houston Astros 1971–1978; San Francisco Giants 1978–1980
Percentile snapshot
1976 season — qualified batters
of 119 qualified 1976 batters (min 502 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -131.4 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1971 | 150 | 617 | 562 | 64 | 132 | 14 | 11 | 0 | 26 | 44 | 50 | 15 | 6 | .235 | .294 | .299 | .593 | 70.0 | 71.0 | .280 | 0.7 |
| 1972 | 153 | 715 | 641 | 84 | 142 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 38 | 60 | 71 | 23 | 9 | .222 | .288 | .259 | .547 | 59.3 | 58.5 | .265 | -0.2 |
| 1973 | 154 | 637 | 580 | 67 | 145 | 11 | 14 | 1 | 35 | 39 | 70 | 10 | 4 | .250 | .299 | .322 | .622 | 74.4 | 73.4 | .293 | 0.9 |
| 1974 | 143 | 633 | 572 | 66 | 145 | 18 | 10 | 0 | 30 | 37 | 73 | 9 | 7 | .253 | .297 | .320 | .617 | 76.2 | 76.4 | .294 | 1.0 |
| 1975 | 127 | 510 | 450 | 54 | 102 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 26 | 41 | 39 | 4 | 5 | .227 | .289 | .296 | .584 | 62.2 | 68.0 | .273 | 0.1 |
| 1976 | 152 | 543 | 481 | 37 | 101 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 29 | 52 | 63 | 1 | 1 | .210 | .286 | .270 | .556 | 62.1 | 65.3 | .264 | 0.2 |
| 1977 | 97 | 307 | 269 | 24 | 50 | 9 | 6 | 0 | 16 | 32 | 24 | 2 | 0 | .186 | .272 | .264 | .535 | 51.3 | 50.8 | .253 | -0.3 |
| 1978 | 120 | 393 | 358 | 28 | 88 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 23 | 24 | 26 | 8 | 1 | .246 | .292 | .285 | .577 | 64.4 | 66.2 | .272 | 0.3 |
| 1979 | 94 | 288 | 259 | 24 | 65 | 7 | 8 | 0 | 31 | 23 | 31 | 11 | 3 | .251 | .311 | .340 | .651 | 83.9 | 83.4 | .302 | 0.8 |
| 1980 | 28 | 31 | 27 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .074 | .167 | .074 | .241 | -31.1 | -29.3 | .137 | -0.3 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972-09-07 | HOU @ SF Gameday | 5 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 |
| 1977-07-04 | HOU @ SD Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1973-05-19 | SF @ HOU Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1975-06-03 | HOU @ NYM Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 |
| 1973-07-27 | HOU @ LAD Gameday | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.