Steve Swisher
Chicago Cubs 1974–1977; St. Louis Cardinals 1978–1980; San Diego Padres 1981–1982
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 90 | 325 | 280 | 21 | 60 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 27 | 37 | 63 | 0 | 3 | .214 | .307 | .286 | .593 | 66.8 | 63.7 | .292 | 0.6 |
| 1975 | 93 | 298 | 254 | 20 | 54 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 22 | 30 | 57 | 1 | 0 | .213 | .301 | .303 | .605 | 58.5 | 64.6 | .283 | 0.3 |
| 1976 | 109 | 411 | 377 | 25 | 89 | 13 | 3 | 5 | 42 | 20 | 82 | 2 | 1 | .236 | .275 | .326 | .601 | 57.0 | 64.0 | .279 | 0.2 |
| 1977 | 74 | 220 | 205 | 21 | 39 | 7 | 0 | 5 | 15 | 9 | 47 | 0 | 0 | .190 | .229 | .298 | .527 | 17.6 | 34.2 | .229 | -0.9 |
| 1978 | 45 | 124 | 115 | 11 | 32 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 8 | 14 | 1 | 0 | .278 | .331 | .365 | .696 | 87.8 | 85.1 | .328 | 0.6 |
| 1979 | 38 | 80 | 73 | 4 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 17 | 0 | 0 | .151 | .213 | .233 | .445 | 16.4 | 21.3 | .213 | -0.3 |
| 1980 | 18 | 25 | 24 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .280 | .292 | .572 | 55.6 | 58.2 | .270 | 0.0 |
| 1981 | 16 | 30 | 28 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 0 | 0 | .143 | .200 | .143 | .343 | -2.2 | 1.8 | .176 | -0.2 |
| 1982 | 26 | 64 | 58 | 2 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 24 | 0 | 0 | .172 | .238 | .293 | .531 | 51.1 | 51.4 | .252 | 0.1 |
Career totals
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976-08-11 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 |
| 1977-05-20 | CHC @ ATL Gameday | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 1976-04-17 | PHI @ CHC Gameday | 6 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 1974-06-28 | CHC @ WSH Gameday | 7 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 1976-08-10 | CIN @ CHC Gameday | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
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
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.