Ron Hunt

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 186 lb

BornFebruary 23, 1941 · St. Louis, MO, USA

MLB debutApril 16, 1963

Final gameSeptember 28, 1974

Seasons12 (1963–1974)

New York Mets 1963–1966; Los Angeles Dodgers 1967; San Francisco Giants 1968–1970; Montreal Expos 1971–1974; St. Louis Cardinals 1974

Percentile snapshot

1974 season — qualified batters

127

4.6

513

6.9

426

40.5

112

5.3

6.9

RBI

0.8

99.2

50.4

.263

32.8

OBP

.372

82.4

SLG

.298

3.1

OPS

.670

19.1

wRC+

97.3

OPS+

85.8

17.6

wOBA

.337

34.4

sWAR

1.7

23.7

of 132 qualified 1974 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

111.8

65.4

OPS+

103.4

49.2

sWAR

32.2

96.9

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	143	600	533	64	145	28	4	10	42	40	50	5	4	.272	.334	.396	.730	111.4	107.5	.335	3.2
1964	127	521	475	59	144	19	6	6	42	29	30	6	2	.303	.357	.406	.763	117.3	114.3	.347	3.1
1965	57	223	196	21	47	12	1	1	10	14	19	2	7	.240	.309	.327	.635	81.3	80.8	.293	0.3
1966	132	543	479	63	138	19	2	3	33	41	34	8	10	.288	.356	.355	.711	105.0	99.8	.330	2.4
1967	110	442	388	44	102	17	3	3	33	39	24	2	1	.263	.344	.345	.689	112.3	107.0	.326	2.3
1968	148	650	529	79	132	19	0	2	28	78	41	6	6	.250	.371	.297	.667	118.3	103.8	.333	3.9
1969	128	569	478	72	125	23	3	3	41	51	47	9	2	.262	.361	.341	.702	108.2	99.8	.339	2.7
1970	117	442	367	70	103	17	1	6	41	44	29	1	2	.281	.394	.381	.776	119.6	110.6	.368	2.7
1971	152	638	520	89	145	20	3	5	38	58	41	5	7	.279	.402	.358	.759	129.8	116.4	.369	4.7
1972	129	531	443	56	112	20	0	0	18	51	29	9	2	.253	.363	.298	.661	97.7	88.8	.324	1.9
1973	113	486	401	61	124	14	0	0	18	52	19	10	7	.309	.418	.344	.763	123.7	111.3	.371	3.2
1974	127	513	426	67	112	15	0	0	26	58	19	2	5	.263	.372	.298	.670	97.3	85.8	.337	1.7

Career totals

1,483

6,158

5,235

745

1,429

223

RBI

370

555

382

.2730

OBP

.3678

330th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.3467

OPS

.7145

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
1963-06-14	NYM @ CIN Gameday	5	4	4	1	1	0	1	0	7
1971-05-05	HOU @ WSH Gameday	5	2	4	0	0	1	1	0	7
1969-08-28	PHI @ SF Gameday	4	1	4	2	0	0	2	1	6
1970-07-06	SF @ ATL Gameday	5	2	4	0	1	0	0	0	6
1970-04-18	SF @ CIN Gameday	6	1	3	0	0	1	6	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

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.