MLB / Players

Russ Swan

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left
Listed at6 ft 4 in · 210 lb
BornJanuary 3, 1964 · Fremont, CA, USA
MLB debutAugust 3, 1989
Final gameApril 30, 1994
Seasons6 (1989–1994)

San Francisco Giants 1989; Seattle Mariners 1990; San Francisco Giants 1990; Seattle Mariners 1991–1993; Cleveland Indians 1994

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
0.2
53.1

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

SeasonGPAABRH2B3BHRRBIBBSOSBCSBAOBPSLGOPSwRC+OPS+wOBAsWAR
19892220000000000.000.000.000.000-124.0-100.0.000-0.6
199013110000000100.000.000.000.000-122.7-100.0.0000.6
1991630000000000001.4
1992550000000000000.1
199323000000000000-0.8
199412000000000000-0.5

Pitching

SeasonGGSWLSVCGSHOHERBBSOHRIPERAWHIPK/9FIPFIP-ERA+sWAR
198922020001184246.710.802.2502.7011.66341.531.6-0.6
19901392400048202216349.33.651.4192.924.29109.1107.90.6
19916306220081302833878.73.431.3863.784.46108.4119.91.4
19925593109101045545458104.34.741.4283.884.30108.583.60.1
19932303300025201810219.79.152.1864.586.36145.747.7-0.8
19941200100013107218.011.252.5002.256.95149.341.3-0.5

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

G
168
PA
3
AB
3
R
0
H
0
2B
0
3B
0
HR
0
RBI
0
BB
0
SO
1
SB
0
BA
.0000
OBP
.0000
SLG
.0000
OPS
.0000

Pitching

G (P)
168
GS
20
W
14
L
22
SV
11
CG
1
SHO
0
IP
267
SO (P)
108
BB allowed
124
ERA
4.826
WHIP
1.5225
K/9
3.65

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

DateGameABRH2B3BHRRBIBBTB
1989-08-03SF @ LAD Gameday200000000
1989-08-08CIN @ SF Gameday000000000
1990-04-11SF @ ATL Gameday100000000
1990-04-17LAD @ SF Gameday000000000

Pitching

DateGameIPHRERBBSOHR
1990-09-01KC @ SEA Gameday7.0100550
1992-05-14SEA @ TOR Gameday6.1544451
1992-04-13SEA @ CWS Gameday7.2311440
1991-05-05NYY @ SEA Gameday2.2310240
1990-06-14TEX @ SEA Gameday7.1621230

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.