MLB / Players

Wayne Garrett

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 175 lb

BornDecember 3, 1947 · Brooksville, FL, USA

MLB debutApril 12, 1969

Final gameSeptember 26, 1978

Seasons10 (1969–1978)

New York Mets 1969–1975; Montreal Expos 1976; New York Mets 1976; Montreal Expos 1977–1978; St. Louis Cardinals 1978

Percentile snapshot

1976 season — qualified batters

139

20.3

513

6.8

428

0.8

1.7

19.5

34.7

RBI

9.3

89.8

43.2

38.1

.231

5.9

OBP

.356

66.9

SLG

.311

12.7

OPS

.667

30.5

wRC+

97.7

32.2

OPS+

93.7

wOBA

.322

32.2

sWAR

1.8

37.3

of 119 qualified 1976 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

100.0

41.8

OPS+

95.4

32.3

sWAR

14.8

90.9

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
1969	124	454	400	38	87	11	3	1	39	40	75	4	2	.218	.290	.268	.558	56.8	57.3	.268	-0.6
1970	114	454	366	74	93	17	4	12	45	81	60	5	1	.254	.390	.421	.811	124.7	119.3	.376	3.1
1971	56	235	202	20	43	2	0	1	11	28	31	1	3	.213	.310	.238	.548	63.1	59.5	.271	-0.1
1972	111	377	298	41	69	13	3	2	29	70	58	3	2	.232	.374	.315	.689	112.5	101.5	.338	2.0
1973	140	589	504	76	129	20	3	16	58	72	74	6	5	.256	.348	.403	.751	114.2	110.3	.350	3.3
1974	151	619	522	55	117	14	3	13	53	89	96	4	6	.224	.337	.337	.674	95.9	91.7	.325	2.1
1975	107	328	274	49	73	8	3	6	34	50	45	3	2	.266	.379	.383	.762	123.4	117.8	.364	2.2
1976	139	513	428	51	99	12	2	6	37	82	46	9	7	.231	.356	.311	.667	97.7	93.7	.322	1.8
1977	68	193	159	17	43	6	1	2	22	30	18	2	2	.270	.385	.358	.744	102.7	103.0	.339	0.8
1978	82	151	132	17	33	4	0	2	12	19	26	1	0	.250	.344	.326	.670	88.5	84.1	.320	0.4

Career totals

1,092

3,913

3,285

438

786

107

RBI

340

561

529

.2393

OBP

.3502

SLG

.3409

OPS

.6911

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
1970-07-26	LAD @ NYM Gameday	3	2	2	0	0	2	3	0	8
1974-08-01	CHC @ NYM Gameday	4	1	4	0	0	1	2	1	7
1973-09-12	NYM @ PHI Gameday	5	1	3	1	0	1	1	0	7
1970-06-19	PHI @ NYM Gameday	3	2	2	0	1	1	3	1	7
1973-09-21	PIT @ NYM Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	1	1	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.