Ruben Rivera
New York Yankees 1995–1996; San Diego Padres 1997–2000; Cincinnati Reds 2001; Texas Rangers 2002; San Francisco Giants 2003
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -118.0 | -100.0 | .000 | 0.0 |
| 1996 | 46 | 106 | 88 | 17 | 25 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 13 | 26 | 6 | 2 | .284 | .381 | .443 | .824 | 112.6 | 109.6 | .369 | 0.4 |
| 1997 | 17 | 22 | 20 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 1 | .250 | .318 | .300 | .618 | 72.0 | 68.7 | .291 | 0.0 |
| 1998 | 95 | 204 | 172 | 31 | 36 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 29 | 28 | 52 | 5 | 1 | .209 | .325 | .378 | .703 | 94.6 | 90.5 | .323 | 0.1 |
| 1999 | 147 | 475 | 411 | 65 | 80 | 16 | 1 | 23 | 48 | 55 | 143 | 18 | 7 | .195 | .295 | .406 | .701 | 81.2 | 81.6 | .311 | 0.7 |
| 2000 | 135 | 479 | 423 | 62 | 88 | 18 | 6 | 17 | 57 | 44 | 137 | 8 | 4 | .208 | .296 | .400 | .696 | 80.1 | 79.9 | .309 | 0.6 |
| 2001 | 117 | 290 | 263 | 37 | 67 | 13 | 1 | 10 | 34 | 21 | 83 | 6 | 3 | .255 | .321 | .426 | .747 | 88.3 | 87.8 | .328 | 0.5 |
| 2002 | 69 | 186 | 158 | 17 | 33 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 14 | 17 | 45 | 4 | 2 | .209 | .302 | .310 | .612 | 60.5 | 58.8 | .282 | -0.2 |
| 2003 | 31 | 55 | 50 | 6 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 14 | 1 | 0 | .180 | .255 | .340 | .595 | 47.4 | 54.9 | .260 | -0.2 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999-06-18 | PIT @ SD Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1999-05-03 | SD @ PHI Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1999-07-03 | SD @ COL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
| 1999-07-06 | SF @ SD Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
| 1998-05-26 | SD @ AZ Gameday | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 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.