MLB / Players

Ron Oester

HandednessBats Switch · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 185 lb

BornMay 5, 1956 · Cincinnati, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 10, 1978

Final gameOctober 3, 1990

Seasons13 (1978–1990)

Cincinnati Reds 1978–1990

Percentile snapshot

1986 season — qualified batters

153

57.1

586

38.1

523

42.1

8.7

135

30.2

31.7

21.4

RBI

7.1

38.9

40.5

52.4

72.2

.258

OBP

.325

29.4

SLG

.356

13.5

OPS

.680

13.5

wRC+

79.8

9.5

OPS+

85.2

14.3

wOBA

.307

11.9

sWAR

0.8

14.3

of 127 qualified 1986 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

83.9

14.6

OPS+

87.4

sWAR

8.9

85.5

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
1978	6	9	8	1	3	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	.375	.375	.375	.750	114.7	111.4	.351	0.1
1979	6	3	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-127.7	-100.0	.000	-0.1
1980	100	335	303	40	84	16	2	2	20	26	44	6	2	.277	.336	.363	.699	94.6	96.3	.321	1.1
1981	105	408	354	45	96	16	7	5	42	42	49	2	5	.271	.342	.398	.741	106.9	108.9	.340	1.9
1982	151	595	549	63	143	19	4	9	47	35	82	5	6	.260	.303	.359	.662	80.1	83.5	.302	0.9
1983	157	612	549	63	145	23	5	11	58	49	106	2	2	.264	.322	.384	.707	87.4	92.3	.318	1.4
1984	150	601	553	54	134	26	3	3	38	41	97	7	2	.242	.295	.316	.612	65.7	69.1	.285	-0.2
1985	152	584	526	59	155	26	3	1	34	51	65	5	0	.295	.354	.361	.715	93.2	97.1	.324	1.7
1986	153	586	523	52	135	23	2	8	44	52	84	9	2	.258	.325	.356	.680	79.8	85.2	.307	0.8
1987	69	261	237	28	60	9	6	2	23	22	51	2	3	.253	.317	.367	.684	76.0	78.2	.307	0.2
1988	54	163	150	20	42	7	0	0	10	9	24	0	2	.280	.319	.327	.645	79.1	83.5	.295	0.2
1989	109	337	305	23	75	15	0	1	14	32	47	1	0	.246	.318	.305	.622	74.6	77.5	.289	0.3
1990	64	171	154	10	46	10	1	0	13	10	29	1	2	.299	.339	.377	.716	95.2	94.3	.329	0.6

Career totals

1,276

4,665

4,214

458

1,118

190

RBI

344

369

681

.2653

OBP

.3231

SLG

.3560

OPS

.6791

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
1986-05-30	STL @ CIN Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	3	0	8
1982-09-18	ATL @ CIN Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	2	1	8
1985-07-26	CIN @ WSH Gameday	6	1	5	2	0	0	2	0	7
1987-04-20	CIN @ SD Gameday	4	3	4	1	1	0	2	1	7
1986-09-26	CIN @ SD Gameday	3	3	3	1	0	1	2	0	7

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.