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Merv Rettenmund

Mervin Weldon Rettenmund

Positions: Outfielder and Pinch Hitter
Bats: Right, Throws: Right
Height: 5' 10", Weight: 190 lb.

Born: June 6, 1943 in Flint, MI
High School: Southwestern (Flint, MI)
School: Ball State University
Signed by the Baltimore Orioles as an amateur free agent in 1964. (All Transactions)
Debut: April 14, 1968
Teams (by GP): Orioles/Padres/Reds/Angels 1968-1980

Final Game: June 22, 1980
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Fine Details  · Last Updated Feb 10, 2012, 12:18AM
All-Time Rank (among Batters): #1179. Tim Teufel… #1180. Hank Gowdy… #1181. Ron Hassey… #1182. MERV RETTENMUND… #1183. Alex Johnson… #1184. Jacque Jones… #1185. Ed McFarland… 

Standard Batting

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Year Age Tm Lg G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS OPS+ TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB Pos Awards
1968 25 BAL AL 31 85 64 10 19 5 0 2 7 1 1 18 20 .297 .452 .469 .921 179 30 0 1 1 1 0
1969 26 BAL AL 95 226 190 27 47 10 3 4 25 6 1 28 28 .247 .338 .395 .733 104 75 6 0 4 4 1
1970 27 BAL AL 106 385 338 60 109 17 2 18 58 13 7 38 59 .322 .394 .544 .938 156 184 8 3 4 2 1
1971 28 BAL AL 141 589 491 81 156 23 4 11 75 15 6 87 60 .318 .422 .448 .870 149 220 13 4 4 3 2 * MVP-19
1972 29 BAL AL 102 346 301 40 70 10 2 6 21 6 4 41 37 .233 .325 .339 .663 96 102 10 0 4 0 0
1973 30 BAL AL 95 390 321 59 84 17 2 9 44 11 2 57 38 .262 .378 .411 .789 124 132 4 4 6 2 4
1974 31 CIN NL 80 252 208 30 45 6 0 6 28 5 1 37 39 .216 .337 .332 .669 89 69 7 2 3 2 1
1975 32 CIN NL 93 226 188 24 45 6 1 2 19 5 0 35 22 .239 .356 .314 .669 86 59 6 0 1 2 3 /5
1976 33 SDP NL 86 172 140 16 32 7 0 2 11 4 1 29 23 .229 .361 .321 .682 103 45 3 0 3 0 0
1977 34 SDP NL 107 166 126 23 36 6 1 4 17 1 2 33 28 .286 .432 .444 .877 147 56 2 1 4 2 2 /5
1978 35 CAL AL 50 142 108 16 29 5 1 1 14 0 3 30 13 .269 .433 .361 .794 131 39 3 2 1 1 0
1979 36 CAL AL 35 90 76 7 20 2 0 1 10 1 0 11 14 .263 .360 .329 .688 91 25 3 1 1 1 1 /
1980 37 CAL AL 2 5 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 .250 .400 .250 .650 86 1 0 0 0 0 0
13 Seasons 1023 3074 2555 393 693 114 16 66 329 68 28 445 382 .271 .381 .406 .786 123 1037 65 18 36 20 15
162 Game Avg. 162 487 405 62 110 18 3 10 52 11 4 70 60 .271 .381 .406 .786 123 164 10 3 6 3 2
BAL (6 yrs) 570 2021 1705 277 485 82 13 50 230 52 21 269 242 .284 .383 .436 .819 133 743 41 12 23 12 8
CAL (3 yrs) 87 237 188 23 50 7 1 2 24 1 3 42 28 .266 .404 .346 .750 114 65 6 3 2 2 1
SDP (2 yrs) 193 338 266 39 68 13 1 6 28 5 3 62 51 .256 .396 .380 .775 125 101 5 1 7 2 2
CIN (2 yrs) 173 478 396 54 90 12 1 8 47 10 1 72 61 .227 .346 .323 .669 88 128 13 2 4 4 4
AL (9 yrs) 657 2258 1893 300 535 89 14 52 254 53 24 311 270 .283 .386 .427 .812 131 808 47 15 25 14 9
NL (4 yrs) 366 816 662 93 158 25 2 14 75 15 4 134 112 .239 .366 .346 .712 102 229 18 3 11 6 6

Player Value--Batters

WAR: 8+ MVP, 5+ A-S, 2+ Strtr, 0-2 Sub, < 0 Repl.
Year Age Tm Lg PA Rbat Rbaser Rroe Rdp Rfield Rpos Rrep RAR WAR oRAR oWAR dWAR Salary Pos Awards
1968 25 BAL AL 85 7 0 0 0 -0 -1 2 8 1.0 8 0.9 0.1 $
1969 26 BAL AL 226 0 1 -1 -1 0 -2 6 2 0.2 3 0.3 -0.1 $
1970 27 BAL AL 385 26 0 -1 -1 10 -3 13 44 4.6 34 3.5 1.1 $
1971 28 BAL AL 589 37 2 -1 0 5 -6 19 56 6.2 51 5.5 0.7 $ * MVP-19
1972 29 BAL AL 346 1 1 -2 -2 2 -4 11 6 0.6 5 0.5 0.1 $
1973 30 BAL AL 390 11 5 0 0 13 -4 13 37 3.8 25 2.6 1.2 $40,000
1974 31 CIN NL 252 -3 2 -2 0 -2 -3 8 1 0.0 2 0.2 -0.2 $
1975 32 CIN NL 226 -3 1 -1 -1 2 -2 7 2 0.1 1 0.1 0.0 $ /5
1976 33 SDP NL 172 2 1 0 1 6 -2 5 13 1.4 7 0.7 0.7 $
1977 34 SDP NL 166 11 -1 -1 0 -3 -1 5 10 1.0 13 1.4 -0.4 $ /5
1978 35 CAL AL 142 8 0 0 0 -4 -3 5 5 0.5 10 1.0 -0.5 $62,500
1979 36 CAL AL 90 0 0 1 -1 -2 -2 3 -1 -0.1 1 0.1 -0.2 $ /
1980 37 CAL AL 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0.0 $
13 Seasons 3074 97 12 -8 -5 25 -33 97 183 19.3 160 16.8 2.5 $102,500
BAL (6 yrs) 2021 82 9 -5 -4 29 -20 64 153 16.4 126 13.3 3.1 $40,000
CAL (3 yrs) 237 8 0 1 -1 -7 -5 8 4 0.4 11 1.1 -0.7 $62,500
SDP (2 yrs) 338 13 0 -1 1 2 -3 10 23 2.4 20 2.1 0.3 $
CIN (2 yrs) 478 -6 3 -3 -1 -0 -5 15 3 0.1 3 0.3 -0.2 $

Postseason Batting

Postseason Gamelog
Year Age Tm Lg Series Opp Rslt G PA AB R H 2B 3B HR RBI SB CS BB SO BA OBP SLG OPS TB GDP HBP SH SF IBB
1969 26 BAL AL ALCS MIN W 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1969 26 BAL AL WS NYM L 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
1970 27 BAL AL ALCS MIN W 1 5 3 1 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 2 1 .333 .600 .333 .933 1 0 0 0 0 0
1970 27 BAL AL WS CIN W 2 6 5 2 2 0 0 1 2 0 0 1 0 .400 .500 1.000 1.500 5 0 0 0 0 0
1971 28 BAL AL ALCS OAK W 3 8 8 0 2 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 3 .250 .250 .375 .625 3 0 0 0 0 0
1971 28 BAL AL WS PIT L 7 27 27 3 5 0 0 1 4 0 0 0 4 .185 .185 .296 .481 8 0 0 0 0 0
1973 30 BAL AL ALCS OAK L 3 14 11 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 2 .091 .286 .091 .377 1 0 0 0 0 0
1975 32 CIN NL NLCS PIT W 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .000 .500 .000 .500 0 0 0 0 0 0
1975 32 CIN NL WS BOS W 3 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 .000 .000 .000 .000 0 1 0 0 0 0
1979 36 CAL AL ALCS BAL L 2 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 1 .000 .500 .000 .500 0 0 0 0 0 0
6 Seasons (10 Series) 25 69 60 8 11 1 0 2 8 0 2 9 12 .183 .290 .300 .590 18 1 0 0 0 0
5 ALCS 10 31 24 2 4 1 0 0 2 0 2 7 7 .167 .355 .208 .563 5 0 0 0 0 0
1 NLCS 2 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 .000 .500 .000 .500 0 0 0 0 0 0
4 WS 13 36 35 5 7 0 0 2 6 0 0 1 5 .200 .222 .371 .594 13 1 0 0 0 0

Standard Fielding

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Adv Fielding w/ run summary
Year Tm Lg Age Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
1968 BAL AL 25 OF 23 30 29 1 0 0 1.000 -0 1.30 .981 2.07
1968 BAL AL 25 CF 13 7 4 65.0 13 13 0 0 0 1.000 -1 -13 1.80 1.00 .986 2.53 2.52
1968 BAL AL 25 RF 13 9 7 94.0 18 17 1 0 0 1.000 0 6 1.72 1.38 .977 1.88 1.87
1968 BAL AL 25 LF 4 0 0 7.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 0 0 1.29 0.25 .980 1.80 1.85
1969 BAL AL 26 OF 78 111 107 3 1 0 .991 0 1.41 .978 2.13
1969 BAL AL 26 LF 44 19 18 218.1 52 51 0 1 0 .981 1 8 2.10 1.16 .978 1.99 1.99
1969 BAL AL 26 RF 22 10 7 114.0 24 23 1 0 0 1.000 -2 -17 1.89 1.09 .974 1.91 1.91
1969 BAL AL 26 CF 18 13 12 134.2 40 38 2 0 0 1.000 0 3 2.67 2.22 .982 2.50 2.50
1970 BAL AL 27 OF 93 212 201 6 5 1 .976 10 2.23 .980 2.13
1970 BAL AL 27 CF 44 43 32 367.0 121 116 2 3 0 .975 4 13 2.89 2.68 .985 2.62 2.61
1970 BAL AL 27 RF 36 19 13 196.1 49 46 2 1 1 .980 2 14 2.20 1.33 .975 1.98 1.97
1970 BAL AL 27 LF 30 16 14 178.1 44 41 2 1 0 .977 4 24 2.17 1.43 .978 1.81 1.80
1971 BAL AL 28 OF 134 306 292 7 7 4 .977 5 2.23 .982 2.22 MVP-19
1971 BAL AL 28 RF 72 58 51 543.2 128 123 3 2 1 .984 1 2 2.09 1.75 .980 2.05 2.04 MVP-19
1971 BAL AL 28 LF 47 34 32 326.2 75 70 2 3 1 .960 2 7 1.98 1.53 .981 1.93 1.92 MVP-19
1971 BAL AL 28 CF 40 37 19 300.1 110 106 2 2 2 .982 2 7 3.24 2.70 .983 2.73 2.72 MVP-19
1972 BAL AL 29 OF 98 182 174 6 2 2 .989 2 1.84 .983 2.21
1972 BAL AL 29 RF 79 56 53 546.0 134 128 4 2 1 .985 2 5 2.18 1.67 .980 2.12 2.11
1972 BAL AL 29 CF 23 21 9 140.0 43 42 1 0 1 1.000 1 9 2.76 1.87 .987 2.65 2.64
1972 BAL AL 29 LF 6 3 1 26.0 4 3 1 0 0 1.000 -2 -69 1.38 0.67 .980 1.90 1.88
1973 BAL AL 30 OF 90 203 196 4 3 1 .985 13 2.22 .979 2.27
1973 BAL AL 30 RF 81 71 62 644.1 184 176 4 4 2 .978 12 23 2.51 2.22 .976 2.09 2.07
1973 BAL AL 30 LF 11 6 4 63.1 15 15 0 0 0 1.000 1 21 2.13 1.36 .977 2.00 1.99
1973 BAL AL 30 CF 3 1 1 13.0 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 -1 -55 2.08 1.00 .983 2.77 2.77
1974 CIN NL 31 OF 69 106 103 3 0 0 1.000 -2 1.54 .979 2.27
1974 CIN NL 31 RF 64 51 32 442.1 83 80 3 0 0 1.000 -2 -7 1.69 1.30 .975 2.03 2.03
1974 CIN NL 31 CF 8 7 4 55.0 21 21 0 0 0 1.000 1 17 3.44 2.63 .985 2.77 2.78
1975 CIN NL 32 OF 61 100 99 1 0 1 1.000 1 1.64 .978 2.28
1975 CIN NL 32 3B 1 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0 1.00 .940 3.00
1975 CIN NL 32 RF 39 32 25 290.1 61 61 0 0 0 1.000 -2 -7 1.89 1.56 .974 2.03 2.03
1975 CIN NL 32 LF 21 10 7 113.0 30 29 1 0 1 1.000 2 23 2.39 1.43 .973 2.10 2.10
1975 CIN NL 32 CF 3 2 0 16.0 10 10 0 0 0 1.000 1 75 5.62 3.33 .984 2.70 2.73
1976 SDP NL 33 OF 43 87 79 6 2 1 .977 6 1.98 .979 2.33
1976 SDP NL 33 LF 34 19 17 209.0 75 68 5 2 1 .973 7 39 3.14 2.15 .976 2.02 2.01
1976 SDP NL 33 RF 11 6 3 56.1 13 12 1 0 0 1.000 -1 -13 2.08 1.18 .974 2.14 2.15
1976 SDP NL 33 CF 1 0 0 5.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -72 0.00 0.00 2.88 2.80
1977 SDP NL 34 OF 27 30 30 0 0 0 1.000 -3 1.11 .978 2.26
1977 SDP NL 34 3B 1 0 0 0 0 0 -0 0.00 3.00
1977 SDP NL 34 LF 23 14 14 159.0 31 31 0 0 0 1.000 -3 -24 1.75 1.35 .972 1.93 1.93
1977 SDP NL 34 RF 3 0 0 9.0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 0 13 2.00 0.67 .975 2.10 2.10
1977 SDP NL 34 CF 1 0 0 2.0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -120 0.00 0.00 2.70 2.70
1978 CAL AL 35 OF 22 31 30 0 1 0 .968 -4 1.36 .979 2.45
1978 CAL AL 35 RF 18 15 9 122.0 23 22 0 1 0 .957 -5 -46 1.62 1.22 .978 2.24 2.22
1978 CAL AL 35 DH 14 14
1978 CAL AL 35 LF 5 2 2 22.0 7 7 0 0 0 1.000 0 22 2.86 1.40 .974 2.21 2.20
1979 CAL AL 36 OF 9 6 6 0 0 0 1.000 -2 0.67 .982 2.43
1979 CAL AL 36 DH 14 14
1979 CAL AL 36 LF 4 1 0 18.0 2 2 0 0 0 1.000 -1 -53 1.00 0.50 .980 2.20 2.20
1979 CAL AL 36 RF 4 4 1 30.0 3 3 0 0 0 1.000 -1 -56 0.90 0.75 .980 2.25 2.22
1979 CAL AL 36 CF 1 1 0 6.0 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 -0 -40 1.50 1.00 .980 2.85 2.90
1980 CAL AL 37 DH 1 1
12 Seasons OF 747 1404 1346 37 21 10 .985 25 1.85 .980 2.23
12 Seasons RF 442 331 263 3088.1 722 693 19 10 5 .986 6 2 2.07 1.61 .977 2.06 2.05
11 Seasons LF 229 124 109 1340.2 336 318 11 7 3 .979 12 11 2.21 1.44 .977 1.96 1.96
11 Seasons CF 155 132 81 1104.0 362 350 7 5 3 .986 7 8 2.91 2.30 .984 2.65 2.64
2 Seasons 3B 2 1 0 1 0 0 1.000 0 0.50 .940 3.00
13 Seasons TOT 749 1405 1346 38 21 10 .985 25 1.85 .980 2.23
Lg Pos G GS CG Inn Ch PO A E DP Fld% Rtot Rtot/yr RF/9 RF/G lgFld% lgRF9 lgRFG Awards
Note: Fielding stats are a combination of official records and RetroSheet records. Both are likely to have substantial errors and will not match perfectly.
View Complete Notes on Fielding Data
Leagues historically made no effort to balance team, league, and player fielding stats. Since 1990 or so, computers have made this feasible, but prior to that there are hundreds or thousands of discrepancies each year in games played (even whether a player played a position), putouts, assists, double plays and errors.
  • Pre-1950 SB & CS data for catchers is estimated from catcher assists, games started and opposition stolen bases.
  • From 1950 on SB, CS, Pickoff, & WP data for catchers and pitchers is taken from play-by-play accounts in the retrosheet files. There are several hundred games without pbp from 1950 to 1973 and for those we may not have any data.
  • CG & GS come from the retrosheet data and should be complete and pretty accurate from 1919 on.
  • Innings played (like SB and CS) come from the retrosheet play-by-play data and should be considered mostly complete from 1950 to 1973 and complete from then on.
  • Stats (PO,A,G, etc) for LF-CF-RF positions (since 1919) is taken from play-by-play or box score data as available.
  • Stats (PO,A,G,etc) for C,P,1B,2B,3B,SS,OF positions is taken from the official reported totals and may have been corrected at various times since their publication.
  • For detailed information on which games retrosheet is missing play-by-play from 1950 to 1973, please see their most wanted games list
  • For detailed information on the availability of data on this site by year, see our data coverage page

Appearances on Leader Boards, Awards, and Honors

Stats are Year-Value-Rank · Glossary

MVP (yr lg (rk, shr))
1971 AL (19, 2%)
0.02 Career Shares (1362nd)

Wins Above Replacement† s c a p y
1971 AL  6.2 (10th)

WAR Position Players† s c a p y
1971 AL  6.2 (6th)

Offensive WAR† s c a p y
1971 AL  5.5 (4th)

Defensive WAR† s c a p y
1973 AL  1.2 (10th)

Batting Average s c a p y
1971 AL  .318 (3rd)

On-Base% s c a p y
1971 AL  .422 (2nd)
Career  .381 (161st)

On-Base Plus Slugging s c a p y
1971 AL  .870 (7th)

Bases on Balls s c a p y
1971 AL  87 (7th)

Singles s c a p y
1971 AL  118 (9th)

Adjusted OPS+ s c a p y
1971 AL  149 (7th)

Runs Created s c a p y
1971 AL  99 (5th)

Adj. Batting Runs s c a p y
1970 AL  26 (10th)
1971 AL  37 (3rd)

Adj. Batting Wins s c a p y
1970 AL  2.6 (10th)
1971 AL  3.8 (3rd)

Times On Base s c a p y
1971 AL  247 (4th)

Offensive Win % s c a p y
1971 AL  .752 (4th)
Career  .639 (245th)

Power-Speed # s c a p y
1971 AL  12.7 (10th)

Base-Out Runs Added (RE24)† s c a p y
1970 AL  34.83 (10th)
1971 AL  49.25 (2nd)

Win Probability Added (WPA)† s c a p y
1971 AL  5.7 (2nd)

Situ. Wins Added (WPA/LI)† s c a p y
1971 AL  4.1 (4th)

Base-Out Wins Added (REW)† s c a p y
1970 AL  3.5 (10th)
1971 AL  5.1 (2nd)

Errors Committed as OF s c a p y
1971 AL  7 (5th)

Range Factor/9Inn as RF (s.1954)† s c a p y
1972 AL  2.18 (3rd)
1973 AL  2.51 (1st)

Range Factor/Game as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1973 AL  2.22 (1st)

Fielding % as RF (s.1954) s c a p y
1972 AL  .985 (2nd)
1973 AL  .978 (4th)

Total Zone Runs as OF s c a p y
1973 AL  13 (3rd)

                           

† Statistics like WPA, REW and RE24 are computed from play-by-play data which is only complete from 1974 to the present. From 1950-1973, the data is incomplete, though for most seasons only less than 20 games per season total are missing. Please see our page on data coverage for a full view of the data used to create these leaderboards.

Hall Of Fame Statistics

Player rank in (·)

Gray InkBatting - 6 (1684), Average HOFer ≈ 144
Hall of Fame MonitorBatting - 5 (1535), Likely HOFer ≈ 100
Hall of Fame StandardsBatting - 15 (1121), Average HOFer ≈ 50

Similarity Scores

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Transactions

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Salaries

Salaries may not be complete (especially pre-1985) and may not include some earned bonuses
Year Age Team Salary Sources Notes
197330Baltimore Orioles$40,000Noll/Fort/Hylan database
197835California Angels$62,5002/10/79 TSN
Career to date (may be incomplete)$102,500
Salary Data (about) courtesy Doug Pappas, and the Society for American Baseball Research.
Salaries for mid-season call-ups or traded players may not be shown.

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