Ruppert Jones

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at5 ft 10 in · 170 lb

BornMarch 12, 1955 · Dallas, TX, USA

MLB debutAugust 1, 1976

Final gameOctober 4, 1987

Seasons12 (1976–1987)

Kansas City Royals 1976; Seattle Mariners 1977–1979; New York Yankees 1980; San Diego Padres 1981–1983; Detroit Tigers 1984; California Angels 1985–1987

Percentile snapshot

1981 season — qualified batters

105

80.3

451

81.8

397

80.3

72.3

49.6

98.5

32.1

RBI

45.3

71.5

13.9

55.5

10.9

.249

19.7

OBP

.318

SLG

.370

29.9

OPS

.688

26.3

wRC+

101.6

OPS+

101.0

wOBA

.322

29.9

sWAR

1.8

48.2

of 138 qualified 1981 batters (min 341 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

106.4

54.4

OPS+

105.8

53.8

sWAR

20.3

93.7

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
1976	28	54	51	9	11	1	1	1	7	3	16	0	2	.216	.259	.333	.593	70.7	73.6	.279	-0.1
1977	160	663	597	85	157	26	8	24	76	55	120	13	9	.263	.324	.454	.778	109.0	109.6	.344	3.2
1978	129	540	472	48	111	24	3	6	46	55	85	22	6	.235	.312	.337	.649	83.2	82.5	.304	1.0
1979	162	716	622	109	166	29	9	21	78	85	78	33	12	.267	.356	.444	.799	114.4	112.3	.360	4.0
1980	83	373	328	38	73	11	3	9	42	34	50	18	8	.223	.299	.357	.656	81.2	81.9	.300	0.6
1981	105	451	397	53	99	34	1	4	39	43	66	7	9	.249	.318	.370	.688	101.6	101.0	.322	1.8
1982	116	493	424	69	120	20	2	12	61	62	90	18	15	.283	.373	.425	.798	129.0	128.2	.365	3.6
1983	133	372	335	42	78	12	3	12	49	35	58	11	11	.233	.305	.394	.699	95.5	96.3	.320	1.2
1984	79	237	215	26	61	12	1	12	37	21	47	2	4	.284	.346	.516	.862	139.6	137.8	.381	1.7
1985	125	456	389	66	90	17	2	21	67	57	82	7	4	.231	.328	.447	.775	112.9	111.7	.345	1.5
1986	126	470	393	73	90	21	3	17	49	64	87	10	3	.229	.339	.427	.767	109.6	109.2	.342	1.5
1987	85	213	192	25	47	8	2	8	28	20	38	2	1	.245	.316	.432	.748	98.0	99.2	.326	0.3

Career totals

1,331

5,038

4,415

643

1,103

215

147

RBI

579

534

817

143

.2498

OBP

.3301

SLG

.4156

OPS

.7457

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
1985-07-07	BOS @ LAA Gameday	3	3	3	0	0	2	3	2	9
1979-07-07	BOS @ SEA Gameday	4	2	3	1	1	1	1	1	9
1986-07-19	TOR @ LAA Gameday	4	3	2	0	0	2	4	0	8
1977-06-25	SEA @ MIL Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	3	2	8
1979-04-06	LAA @ SEA Gameday	4	2	2	0	0	2	3	1	8

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.

Honors

2× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.