MLB / Players

Stan Papi

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right
Listed at6 ft 0 in · 170 lb
BornFebruary 4, 1951 · Fresno, CA, USA
MLB debutApril 11, 1974
Final gameOctober 1, 1981
Seasons6 (1974–1981)

St. Louis Cardinals 1974; Montreal Expos 1977–1978; Boston Red Sox 1979–1980; Detroit Tigers 1980–1981

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
-0.6
11.2

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
19748440100010000.250.250.250.50034.741.7.2360.0
197713444351021041910.233.250.326.57650.054.5.260-0.1
1978671671521535110011102800.230.285.303.58764.666.2.2770.0
197950126117922801652000.188.221.282.50327.032.6.229-0.5
19804712211412273431752400.237.267.412.67979.282.8.3020.2
19814099938192131231810.204.224.344.56951.860.6.256-0.2

Career totals

G
225
PA
562
AB
523
R
49
H
114
2B
26
3B
6
HR
7
RBI
51
BB
24
SO
99
SB
2
BA
.2180
OBP
.2532
SLG
.3308
OPS
.5840

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
1980-05-30LAA @ DET Gameday413011308
1978-05-27WSH @ PIT Gameday614200306
1979-08-05BOS @ MIL Gameday634200206
1980-08-31MIL @ DET Gameday422001305
1980-09-08BAL @ DET Gameday312001305

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.