Ron Kittle

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 4 in · 200 lb

BornJanuary 5, 1958 · Gary, IN, USA

MLB debutSeptember 2, 1982

Final gameAugust 13, 1991

Seasons10 (1982–1991)

Chicago White Sox 1982–1986; New York Yankees 1986–1987; Cleveland Indians 1988; Chicago White Sox 1989; Baltimore Orioles 1990; Chicago White Sox 1990–1991

Percentile snapshot

1984 season — qualified batters

139

525

10.1

466

33.6

100

4.2

92.4

RBI

52.1

51.3

137

2.5

23.5

36.1

.215

OBP

.295

5.9

SLG

.453

66.4

OPS

.748

43.7

wRC+

98.6

26.1

OPS+

101.4

31.9

wOBA

.329

32.8

sWAR

1.0

12.6

of 120 qualified 1984 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

6.8

82.6

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
1982	20	32	29	3	7	2	0	1	7	3	12	0	0	.241	.313	.414	.726	100.4	98.7	.328	0.1
1983	145	570	520	75	132	19	3	35	100	39	150	8	3	.254	.314	.504	.818	115.8	119.3	.354	2.3
1984	139	525	466	67	100	15	0	32	74	49	137	3	6	.215	.295	.453	.748	98.6	101.4	.329	1.0
1985	116	417	379	51	87	12	0	26	58	31	92	1	4	.230	.295	.467	.762	101.4	102.6	.333	0.5
1986	116	422	376	42	82	13	0	21	60	35	110	4	1	.218	.284	.420	.705	84.9	88.1	.309	-0.4
1987	59	173	159	21	44	5	0	12	28	10	36	0	1	.277	.318	.535	.853	118.2	122.4	.359	0.4
1988	75	254	225	31	58	8	0	18	43	16	65	0	0	.258	.323	.533	.856	130.4	132.9	.373	1.1
1989	51	196	169	26	51	10	0	11	37	22	42	0	1	.302	.378	.556	.934	161.9	163.5	.413	1.7
1990	105	369	338	33	78	16	0	18	46	26	91	0	0	.231	.293	.438	.731	101.7	104.3	.328	0.3
1991	17	55	47	7	9	0	0	2	7	5	9	0	0	.191	.291	.319	.610	72.9	70.4	.287	-0.1

Career totals

843

3,013

2,708

356

648

100

176

481st-most career HR

RBI

460

236

744

.2393

OBP

.3060

SLG

.4734

275th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.7794

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	TB
1985-09-26	CWS @ ATH Gameday	5	3	4	0	2	5	10
1985-08-08	BOS @ CWS Gameday	4	2	4	0	2	3	10
1986-06-18	CWS @ MIN Gameday	5	3	3	1	2	3	10
1986-06-23	MIN @ CWS Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	3	10
1988-06-14	CLE @ TOR Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	2	10

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× Rookie of the Year1× 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.