Ron Fairly

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 175 lb

BornJuly 12, 1938 · Macon, GA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 9, 1958

Final gameSeptember 23, 1978

Seasons21 (1958–1978)

Los Angeles Dodgers 1958–1969; Montreal Expos 1969–1974; St. Louis Cardinals 1975; Oakland Athletics 1976; St. Louis Cardinals 1976; Toronto Blue Jays 1977; California Angels 1978

Percentile snapshot

1977 season — qualified batters

132

6.2

528

10.3

458

7.5

16.4

128

13.7

36.3

12.3

61.6

RBI

56.2

71.2

.279

46.6

OBP

.362

71.9

SLG

.465

66.4

OPS

.827

69.2

wRC+

120.5

65.1

OPS+

122.0

67.8

wOBA

.364

65.1

sWAR

1.9

32.9

of 147 qualified 1977 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

119.3

OPS+

117.0

74.7

sWAR

30.4

96.6

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
1958	15	60	53	6	15	1	0	2	8	6	7	0	0	.283	.350	.415	.765	99.3	96.8	.345	0.2
1959	118	284	244	27	58	12	1	4	23	31	29	0	4	.238	.324	.344	.668	75.1	74.1	.307	-0.3
1960	14	45	37	6	4	0	3	1	3	7	12	0	0	.108	.250	.351	.601	61.9	59.9	.279	-0.1
1961	111	301	245	42	79	15	2	10	48	48	22	0	0	.322	.434	.522	.956	159.6	152.3	.428	2.8
1962	147	555	460	80	128	15	7	14	71	75	59	1	1	.278	.379	.433	.811	124.0	122.2	.368	2.2
1963	152	564	490	62	133	21	0	12	77	58	69	5	2	.271	.347	.388	.735	120.8	119.5	.335	2.0
1964	150	535	454	62	116	19	5	10	74	65	59	4	0	.256	.349	.385	.734	117.8	115.4	.336	1.6
1965	158	654	555	73	152	28	1	9	70	76	72	2	0	.274	.361	.377	.738	118.2	117.1	.337	2.7
1966	117	409	351	53	101	20	0	14	61	52	38	3	2	.288	.380	.464	.844	147.0	144.4	.379	3.0
1967	153	554	486	45	107	19	0	10	55	54	51	1	4	.220	.295	.321	.616	82.6	84.4	.285	-0.5
1968	141	494	441	32	103	15	1	4	43	41	61	0	2	.234	.301	.299	.600	84.2	87.8	.281	-0.2
1969	100	357	317	38	87	16	6	12	47	37	28	1	0	.274	.349	.476	.826	131.8	129.7	.375	2.0
1970	119	471	385	54	111	19	0	15	61	72	64	10	2	.288	.402	.455	.857	131.2	128.5	.389	2.3
1971	146	542	447	58	115	23	0	13	71	81	65	1	3	.257	.373	.396	.769	121.7	117.6	.357	1.9
1972	140	499	446	51	124	15	1	17	68	46	45	3	4	.278	.348	.430	.779	120.3	118.8	.356	1.8
1973	142	505	413	70	123	13	1	17	49	86	33	2	2	.298	.422	.458	.880	147.9	141.1	.406	3.9
1974	101	342	282	35	69	9	1	12	43	57	28	2	1	.245	.372	.411	.784	119.2	115.0	.369	1.2
1975	107	279	229	32	69	13	2	7	37	45	22	0	1	.301	.421	.467	.888	146.9	143.6	.409	1.8
1976	88	191	156	22	40	5	0	3	31	32	24	0	0	.256	.379	.346	.725	112.0	110.3	.343	0.5
1977	132	528	458	60	128	24	2	19	64	58	58	0	4	.279	.362	.465	.827	120.5	122.0	.364	1.9
1978	91	268	235	23	51	5	0	10	40	25	31	0	1	.217	.289	.366	.655	83.8	87.2	.298	-0.3

Career totals

2,442

74th-most career G

8,437

213th-most career PA

7,184

273rd-most career AB

931

443rd-most career R

1,913

344th-most career H

307

460th-most career 2B

215

337th-most career HR

RBI

1,044

269th-most career RBI

1,052

106th-most career BB

877

.2663

OBP

.3603

466th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.4080

OPS

.7683

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1963-07-21	LAD @ ATL Gameday	4	2	4	1	2	6	1	11
1966-08-08	LAD @ ATL Gameday	5	3	3	1	2	3	0	10
1969-08-20	SD @ WSH Gameday	5	3	3	0	2	5	0	9
1965-05-19	LAD @ HOU Gameday	7	2	4	1	1	3	0	8
1966-08-07	LAD @ HOU Gameday	4	1	4	1	1	3	2	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1968-08-16	LAD @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1968-08-17	LAD @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1968-08-20	LAD @ HOU 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

2× 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.