Sal Butera
Minnesota Twins 1980–1982; Detroit Tigers 1983; Montreal Expos 1984–1985; Cincinnati Reds 1986–1987; Minnesota Twins 1987; Toronto Blue Jays 1988
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 34 | 91 | 85 | 4 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | .271 | .300 | .282 | .582 | 54.2 | 56.7 | .272 | 0.1 |
| 1981 | 62 | 194 | 167 | 13 | 40 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 22 | 14 | 0 | 0 | .240 | .325 | .293 | .618 | 81.2 | 76.7 | .300 | 0.8 |
| 1982 | 54 | 146 | 126 | 9 | 32 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 17 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .254 | .347 | .270 | .617 | 77.3 | 70.3 | .299 | 0.6 |
| 1983 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .200 | .200 | .400 | 4.4 | 12.7 | .182 | 0.0 |
| 1984 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .250 | .000 | .250 | 7.6 | -22.2 | .188 | 0.0 |
| 1985 | 67 | 138 | 120 | 11 | 24 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 0 | .200 | .281 | .283 | .565 | 63.5 | 62.9 | .268 | 0.5 |
| 1986 | 56 | 137 | 113 | 14 | 27 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 21 | 10 | 0 | 0 | .239 | .356 | .363 | .718 | 98.0 | 96.1 | .333 | 0.9 |
| 1987 | 56 | 134 | 122 | 8 | 21 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 14 | 8 | 22 | 0 | 0 | .172 | .220 | .262 | .482 | 21.6 | 26.0 | .218 | -0.4 |
| 1988 | 23 | 62 | 60 | 3 | 14 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 0 | 0 | .233 | .246 | .350 | .596 | 62.9 | 67.3 | .267 | 0.1 |
Pitching
| Season | G | GS | W | L | SV | CG | SHO | H | ER | BB | SO | HR | IP | ERA | WHIP | K/9 | FIP | FIP- | ERA+ | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.0 | 0.00 | .000 | 0.00 | 2.62 | 76.4 | — | 0.5 |
| 1986 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1.0 | 0.00 | 1.000 | 9.00 | 3.75 | 97.3 | — | 0.9 |
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
Pitching
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1981-04-27 | SEA @ MIN Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1985-09-24 | WSH @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 1985-08-14 | WSH @ CHC Gameday | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1986-10-04 | SD @ CIN Gameday | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 1986-07-09 | CIN @ NYM Gameday | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
Pitching
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.