Ruben Gotay
Kansas City Royals 2004–2005; New York Mets 2007; Atlanta Braves 2008
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 44 | 166 | 152 | 17 | 41 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 36 | 0 | 1 | .270 | .315 | .375 | .690 | 79.3 | 79.5 | .307 | 0.2 |
| 2005 | 86 | 317 | 282 | 32 | 64 | 14 | 2 | 5 | 29 | 22 | 51 | 2 | 2 | .227 | .288 | .344 | .632 | 66.8 | 67.6 | .282 | -0.1 |
| 2007 | 98 | 211 | 190 | 25 | 56 | 12 | 0 | 4 | 24 | 16 | 42 | 3 | 3 | .295 | .351 | .421 | .772 | 103.6 | 102.2 | .343 | 0.9 |
| 2008 | 88 | 117 | 102 | 10 | 24 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 32 | 1 | 1 | .235 | .322 | .343 | .665 | 80.0 | 76.7 | .307 | 0.1 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005-04-10 | KC @ LAA Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 2004-10-02 | CWS @ KC Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 2007-06-02 | AZ @ NYM Gameday | 4 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 2005-06-10 | KC @ AZ Gameday | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 2005-06-20 | KC @ CWS Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 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.