Steve Renko

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 5 in · 230 lb

BornDecember 10, 1944 · Kansas City, KS, USA

MLB debutJune 27, 1969

Final gameAugust 28, 1983

Seasons15 (1969–1983)

Montreal Expos 1969–1975; Chicago Cubs 1976; Montreal Expos 1976; Chicago White Sox 1977; Chicago Cubs 1977; Oakland Athletics 1978; Boston Red Sox 1979–1980; California Angels 1981–1982; Kansas City Royals 1983

Percentile snapshot

1980 season — qualified pitchers

14.8

4.5

10.2

71.6

SHO

180

85.2

76.1

68.2

27.3

46.6

165.3

4.5

ERA

4.19

19.3

WHIP

1.427

15.9

K/9

4.90

FIP

4.04

28.4

FIP-

96.3

51.1

ERA+

100.1

43.2

sWAR

1.6

27.3

of 89 qualified 1980 pitchers (min 160 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

96.8

25.2

sWAR

23.2

94.7

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1969	18	39	36	4	6	0	0	1	3	1	14	0	.167	.189	.250	.439	11.4	21.6	.204	0.7
1970	41	85	80	8	16	3	0	1	6	2	18	0	.200	.220	.275	.495	25.0	31.3	.227	1.9
1971	41	106	100	9	21	5	0	2	12	2	21	0	.210	.225	.320	.545	44.6	52.7	.250	2.3
1972	32	24	24	0	7	0	0	0	0	0	5	0	.292	.292	.292	.583	60.2	65.3	.272	-0.9
1973	41	100	88	7	24	6	0	0	9	8	23	2	.273	.333	.341	.674	89.3	85.1	.320	6.2
1974	37	88	81	8	17	1	2	1	4	5	21	0	.210	.256	.309	.564	50.7	54.4	.269	2.0
1975	33	64	54	5	15	1	0	1	7	5	13	1	.278	.339	.352	.691	92.7	88.9	.331	1.6
1976	34	60	56	3	6	0	0	0	1	0	17	0	.107	.107	.107	.214	-66.8	-40.9	.101	0.9
1977	21	14	12	0	2	0	0	0	0	2	7	0	.167	.286	.167	.452	23.8	19.7	.238	1.2
1978	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.3
1979	27	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	2.3
1980	32	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.6
1981	22	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	1.3
1982	31	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9
1983	25	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	0.9

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1969	18	15	6	7	0	4	0	94	46	50	68	14	103.3	4.01	1.394	5.92	4.61	126.3	91.1	0.7
1970	41	33	13	11	1	7	1	203	107	104	142	27	222.7	4.32	1.379	5.74	4.63	113.0	94.8	1.9
1971	40	37	15	14	0	9	3	256	115	135	129	24	275.7	3.75	1.418	4.21	4.24	121.2	93.2	2.3
1972	30	12	1	10	0	0	0	96	56	67	66	11	97.0	5.20	1.680	6.12	4.71	133.8	67.8	-0.9
1973	36	34	15	11	1	9	0	201	78	108	164	26	249.7	2.81	1.238	5.91	3.90	103.2	134.4	6.2
1974	37	35	12	16	0	8	1	222	102	81	138	17	227.7	4.03	1.331	5.46	3.41	89.9	94.2	2.0
1975	31	25	6	12	1	3	1	175	77	76	99	20	170.3	4.07	1.474	5.23	4.34	114.8	92.9	1.6
1976	33	28	8	12	0	4	1	179	78	46	116	14	176.3	3.98	1.276	5.92	3.15	83.4	95.0	0.9
1977	21	16	7	2	1	0	0	106	47	38	70	13	104.7	4.04	1.376	6.02	4.16	98.7	103.8	1.2
1978	27	25	6	12	0	3	1	152	72	67	89	10	151.0	4.29	1.450	5.30	3.61	99.3	84.6	0.3
1979	27	27	11	9	0	4	1	174	78	53	99	22	171.0	4.11	1.327	5.21	4.25	96.4	107.3	2.3
1980	32	23	9	9	0	1	0	180	77	56	90	17	165.3	4.19	1.427	4.90	4.04	96.3	100.1	1.6
1981	22	15	8	4	1	0	0	93	39	42	50	7	102.0	3.44	1.324	4.41	3.72	101.9	105.9	1.3
1982	31	23	11	6	0	4	0	163	77	51	81	17	156.0	4.44	1.372	4.67	4.07	100.3	91.3	0.9
1983	25	17	6	11	1	1	0	144	58	36	54	9	121.3	4.30	1.484	4.01	3.79	93.0	94.7	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

462

580

531

114

RBI

139

.2147

OBP

.2500

SLG

.2863

OPS

.5363

Pitching

G (P)

451

365

191st-most career GS

134

343rd-most career W

146

181st-most career L

SHO

2,494

257th-most career IP

SO (P)

1,455

257th-most career SO (P)

BB allowed

1,010

111th-most career BB allowed

ERA

3.995

WHIP

1.3825

K/9

5.25

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
1970-09-20	CHC @ WSH Gameday	2	1	2	0	1	1	5
1971-09-29	CHC @ WSH Gameday	3	0	3	1	0	2	4
1975-06-29	STL @ WSH Gameday	4	1	3	1	0	2	4
1971-08-30	WSH @ CHC Gameday	3	1	1	0	1	2	4
1969-08-12	CIN @ WSH Gameday	3	2	1	0	1	1	4

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
1970-07-04	STL @ WSH Gameday	9.0	6	0	0	0	10
1978-09-05	KC @ ATH Gameday	8.0	5	3	3	3	10
1970-06-30	PHI @ WSH Gameday	9.0	3	1	1	0	9
1973-06-14	SD @ WSH Gameday	9.0	6	3	2	2	9
1978-06-10	BAL @ ATH Gameday	8.2	5	1	1	2	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.