MLB / Players

Ron Swoboda

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 195 lb

BornJune 30, 1944 · Baltimore, MD, USA

MLB debutApril 12, 1965

Final gameSeptember 30, 1973

Seasons9 (1965–1973)

New York Mets 1965–1970; Montreal Expos 1971; New York Yankees 1971–1973

Percentile snapshot

1968 season — qualified batters

132

5.7

508

1.1

450

2.3

11.4

109

10.2

68.2

53.4

RBI

113

12.5

86.4

.242

18.2

OBP

.325

SLG

.373

45.5

OPS

.699

46.6

wRC+

117.4

52.3

OPS+

110.2

45.5

wOBA

.333

53.4

sWAR

2.1

30.7

of 89 qualified 1968 batters (min 505 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

sWAR

6.9

82.8

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
1965	135	438	399	52	91	15	3	19	50	33	102	2	3	.228	.291	.424	.714	99.1	100.1	.319	1.0
1966	112	381	342	34	76	9	4	8	50	31	76	4	2	.222	.296	.342	.638	77.2	77.7	.290	-0.3
1967	134	494	449	47	126	17	3	13	53	41	96	3	1	.281	.340	.419	.759	120.9	117.8	.348	2.1
1968	132	508	450	46	109	14	6	11	59	52	113	8	1	.242	.325	.373	.699	117.4	110.2	.333	2.1
1969	109	375	327	38	77	10	2	9	52	43	90	1	1	.235	.326	.361	.687	93.9	92.5	.322	0.4
1970	115	289	245	29	57	8	2	9	40	40	72	2	4	.233	.340	.392	.732	102.6	97.4	.342	0.5
1971	93	259	213	24	55	6	4	2	26	38	51	0	1	.258	.381	.352	.733	120.7	109.8	.355	1.2
1972	63	133	113	9	28	8	0	1	12	17	29	0	1	.248	.341	.345	.686	112.7	108.3	.328	0.5
1973	35	47	43	6	5	0	0	1	2	4	18	0	0	.116	.191	.186	.378	6.2	9.1	.188	-0.6

Career totals

928

2,924

2,581

285

624

RBI

344

299

647

.2418

OBP

.3238

SLG

.3789

OPS

.7027

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
1967-06-06	NYM @ PIT Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	1	2	0	9
1970-05-31	HOU @ NYM Gameday	4	3	2	0	0	2	5	1	8
1965-05-08	ATL @ NYM Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	4	1	8
1969-09-15	NYM @ STL Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	4	0	8
1966-07-04	NYM @ PHI Gameday	4	2	2	0	1	1	5	1	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.