MLB / Players

Wayne Gross

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 210 lb

BornJanuary 14, 1952 · Riverside, CA, USA

MLB debutAugust 21, 1976

Final gameOctober 1, 1986

Seasons11 (1976–1986)

Oakland Athletics 1976–1983; Baltimore Orioles 1984–1985; Oakland Athletics 1986

Percentile snapshot

1979 season — qualified batters

138

20.1

521

8.6

442

2.2

7.9

17.3

47.5

RBI

15.8

79.9

55.4

35.3

67.6

.224

1.4

OBP

.332

34.5

SLG

.367

19.4

OPS

.699

21.6

wRC+

93.7

26.6

OPS+

93.4

26.6

wOBA

.318

20.1

sWAR

1.4

25.9

of 140 qualified 1979 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

106.9

55.5

OPS+

105.0

52.2

sWAR

15.8

91.5

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
1976	10	20	18	0	4	0	0	0	1	2	1	0	0	.222	.300	.222	.522	63.6	58.4	.264	-0.1
1977	146	582	485	66	113	21	1	22	63	86	84	5	4	.233	.352	.416	.769	113.6	111.0	.348	3.2
1978	118	335	285	18	57	10	2	7	23	40	63	0	2	.200	.308	.323	.631	84.9	81.9	.299	0.6
1979	138	521	442	54	99	19	1	14	50	72	62	4	3	.224	.332	.367	.699	93.7	93.4	.318	1.4
1980	113	419	366	45	103	20	3	14	61	44	39	5	3	.281	.355	.467	.822	126.6	131.2	.362	2.8
1981	82	287	243	29	50	7	1	10	31	34	28	2	1	.206	.304	.366	.670	99.6	97.1	.314	1.1
1982	129	451	386	43	97	14	0	9	41	53	50	3	1	.251	.342	.358	.700	101.4	96.5	.325	1.7
1983	137	384	339	34	79	18	0	12	44	36	52	3	5	.233	.311	.392	.703	95.8	96.8	.315	0.7
1984	127	414	342	53	74	9	1	22	64	68	69	1	2	.216	.346	.442	.788	122.0	119.6	.355	2.7
1985	103	264	217	31	51	8	0	11	18	46	48	1	1	.235	.369	.424	.793	126.4	119.7	.363	1.7
1986	3	3	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	.000	.333	.000	.333	48.9	4.3	.245	0.0

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1983	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	2.3	0.00	1.286	0.00	5.40	138.1	—	0.7

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

1,106

3,680

3,125

373

727

126

121

RBI

396

482

496

.2326

OBP

.3366

SLG

.3949

OPS

.7315

Pitching

G (P)

SHO

SO (P)

BB allowed

ERA

.000

WHIP

1.2857

K/9

0.00

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	BB	TB
1981-05-05	DET @ ATH Gameday	4	2	4	2	1	3	0	9
1977-04-24	CWS @ ATH Gameday	4	1	4	1	1	4	0	8
1979-05-04	ATH @ NYY Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	5	0	8
1980-09-21	ATH @ KC Gameday	4	2	2	0	2	5	1	8
1980-07-30	ATH @ TOR Gameday	5	2	2	0	2	4	0	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1983-05-18	ATH @ MIN Gameday	2.1	2	0	0	1	0	0

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

1× All-Star

Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.