Ron Taylor
Cleveland Indians 1962; St. Louis Cardinals 1963–1964; Houston Astros 1965; St. Louis Cardinals 1965; Houston Astros 1966; New York Mets 1967–1971; San Diego Padres 1972
Percentile snapshot
No qualified season. This player never reached the qualification floor — 3.1 plate appearances, or one inning, per game his team played — in any archived season, so there is no season population to rank him inside.
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .273 | .273 | .273 | .545 | 43.5 | 49.5 | .249 | -0.4 |
| 1963 | 54 | 34 | 32 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 0 | .031 | .031 | .031 | .063 | -116.7 | -82.5 | .029 | 2.2 |
| 1964 | 63 | 15 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .133 | .133 | .133 | .267 | -46.6 | -27.0 | .122 | -0.1 |
| 1965 | 57 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .111 | .111 | .167 | .278 | -37.1 | -24.5 | .124 | -1.6 |
| 1966 | 36 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .167 | .167 | .250 | .417 | 7.0 | 16.9 | .184 | -1.1 |
| 1967 | 50 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -127.1 | -100.0 | .000 | 1.6 |
| 1968 | 58 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -137.3 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.9 |
| 1969 | 59 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 32.8 | 40.6 | .233 | 1.6 |
| 1970 | 57 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .200 | .000 | .200 | -22.7 | -40.8 | .150 | 0.7 |
| 1971 | 45 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .250 | .250 | .500 | 35.8 | 44.0 | .233 | 0.5 |
| 1972 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | -0.5 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 36 | 22 | 13 | 15 | 6 | 33.3 | 5.94 | 1.470 | 4.05 | 5.21 | 134.2 | 65.4 | -0.4 |
| 1963 | 54 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 0 | 119 | 42 | 30 | 91 | 10 | 133.3 | 2.84 | 1.118 | 6.14 | 2.87 | 81.5 | 124.4 | 2.2 |
| 1964 | 63 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 109 | 52 | 33 | 69 | 15 | 101.3 | 4.62 | 1.401 | 6.13 | 4.32 | 113.9 | 82.1 | -0.1 |
| 1965 | 57 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 111 | 63 | 31 | 63 | 11 | 101.3 | 5.60 | 1.401 | 5.60 | 3.90 | 110.4 | 63.0 | -1.6 |
| 1966 | 36 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 89 | 41 | 10 | 29 | 5 | 64.7 | 5.71 | 1.531 | 4.04 | 3.48 | 100.9 | 60.4 | -1.1 |
| 1967 | 50 | 0 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 60 | 19 | 23 | 46 | 1 | 73.0 | 2.34 | 1.137 | 5.67 | 2.56 | 76.7 | 142.6 | 1.6 |
| 1968 | 58 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 64 | 23 | 18 | 49 | 4 | 76.7 | 2.70 | 1.070 | 5.75 | 2.69 | 90.3 | 110.3 | 0.9 |
| 1969 | 59 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 61 | 23 | 24 | 42 | 7 | 76.0 | 2.72 | 1.118 | 4.97 | 3.74 | 103.4 | 132.6 | 1.6 |
| 1970 | 57 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 29 | 16 | 28 | 5 | 66.3 | 3.93 | 1.221 | 3.80 | 3.71 | 92.6 | 101.8 | 0.7 |
| 1971 | 45 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 71 | 28 | 11 | 32 | 7 | 69.0 | 3.65 | 1.188 | 4.17 | 3.46 | 101.8 | 93.0 | 0.5 |
| 1972 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5.0 | 12.60 | 1.800 | 0.00 | 15.53 | 472.8 | 26.1 | -0.5 |
sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.
Career totals
Batting
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1962-04-11 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1965-04-12 | STL @ CHC Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1966-07-02 | CIN @ HOU Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1963-06-19 | NYM @ STL Gameday | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1962-04-24 | CLE @ LAA Gameday | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963-06-01 | SF @ STL Gameday | 9.0 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 1 |
| 1962-04-11 | CLE @ BOS Gameday | 11.0 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 1 |
| 1963-09-02 | PIT @ STL Gameday | 9.0 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 1 |
| 1964-09-01 | ATL @ STL Gameday | 6.2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 |
| 1971-09-05 | NYM @ PHI Gameday | 2.0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 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.