Ryan Ludwick

HandednessBats Right · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 215 lb

BornJuly 13, 1978 · Satellite Beach, FL, USA

MLB debutJune 5, 2002

Final gameSeptember 27, 2014

Seasons12 (2002–2014)

Texas Rangers 2002; Cleveland Indians 2003; Texas Rangers 2003; Cleveland Indians 2004–2005; St. Louis Cardinals 2007–2009; San Diego Padres 2010; St. Louis Cardinals 2010; Pittsburgh Pirates 2011; San Diego Padres 2011; Cincinnati Reds 2012–2014

Percentile snapshot

2011 season — qualified batters

139

28.5

553

27.1

490

26.4

13.2

116

7.6

15.3

31.9

RBI

54.2

124

23.6

3.5

74.3

.237

9.7

OBP

.310

16.7

SLG

.363

10.4

OPS

.674

11.1

wRC+

89.2

16.7

OPS+

89.8

17.4

wOBA

.304

11.8

sWAR

0.3

8.3

of 145 qualified 2011 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

110.2

61.9

OPS+

109.4

sWAR

12.9

89.6

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
2002	23	88	81	10	19	6	0	1	9	7	24	2	1	.235	.295	.346	.641	64.6	64.9	.289	-0.1
2003	47	175	162	17	40	8	1	7	26	12	48	2	0	.247	.299	.438	.737	90.0	91.4	.319	0.1
2004	15	54	50	3	11	2	0	2	4	2	14	0	0	.220	.278	.380	.658	72.7	73.0	.291	-0.1
2005	19	48	41	8	9	0	0	4	5	7	13	0	1	.220	.333	.512	.846	125.7	124.1	.365	0.2
2007	120	339	303	42	81	22	0	14	52	26	72	4	4	.267	.339	.479	.818	113.0	111.4	.358	1.2
2008	152	617	538	104	161	40	3	37	113	62	146	4	4	.299	.375	.591	.966	152.5	152.2	.413	5.2
2009	139	539	486	63	129	20	1	22	97	41	106	4	2	.265	.329	.447	.775	104.8	105.4	.342	1.4
2010	136	551	490	63	123	27	2	17	69	48	121	0	4	.251	.325	.418	.743	105.6	103.6	.333	1.6
2011	139	553	490	56	116	23	0	13	75	51	124	1	1	.237	.310	.363	.674	89.2	89.8	.304	0.3
2012	125	472	422	53	116	28	1	26	80	42	97	0	1	.275	.346	.531	.877	133.6	131.5	.377	2.9
2013	38	140	129	7	31	5	0	2	12	10	29	0	0	.240	.293	.326	.618	69.5	71.4	.282	-0.3
2014	112	397	357	28	87	20	0	9	45	31	94	0	2	.244	.308	.375	.683	90.0	90.3	.308	0.3

Career totals

1,065

3,973

3,549

454

923

201

154

RBI

587

339

888

.2601

OBP

.3298

SLG

.4514

470th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.7812

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	HR	RBI	TB
2009-09-04	STL @ PIT Gameday	5	3	5	2	2	5	13
2008-08-01	PHI @ STL Gameday	4	3	4	0	2	2	10
2009-07-12	STL @ CHC Gameday	4	2	3	1	2	4	10
2008-06-10	STL @ CIN Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	4	9
2009-04-17	STL @ CHC Gameday	5	2	3	0	2	4	9

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

1× Silver Slugger1× 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.