Al Bumbry
Baltimore Orioles 1972–1984; San Diego Padres 1985
Percentile snapshot
1982 season — qualified batters
of 141 qualified 1982 batters (min 505 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .364 | .364 | .545 | .909 | 177.3 | 167.8 | .417 | 0.1 |
| 1973 | 110 | 395 | 356 | 73 | 120 | 15 | 11 | 7 | 34 | 34 | 49 | 23 | 10 | .337 | .398 | .500 | .898 | 159.9 | 155.3 | .411 | 3.6 |
| 1974 | 94 | 298 | 270 | 35 | 63 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 19 | 21 | 46 | 12 | 4 | .233 | .288 | .304 | .592 | 72.6 | 74.8 | .278 | -0.4 |
| 1975 | 114 | 390 | 349 | 47 | 94 | 19 | 4 | 2 | 32 | 32 | 81 | 16 | 3 | .269 | .336 | .364 | .700 | 105.5 | 105.0 | .327 | 0.8 |
| 1976 | 133 | 499 | 450 | 71 | 113 | 15 | 7 | 9 | 36 | 43 | 76 | 42 | 10 | .251 | .316 | .376 | .691 | 109.4 | 109.3 | .325 | 1.8 |
| 1977 | 133 | 571 | 518 | 74 | 164 | 31 | 3 | 4 | 41 | 45 | 88 | 19 | 8 | .317 | .371 | .411 | .782 | 121.7 | 120.4 | .354 | 3.4 |
| 1978 | 33 | 134 | 114 | 21 | 27 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 17 | 15 | 5 | 3 | .237 | .346 | .368 | .714 | 114.6 | 108.3 | .338 | 0.7 |
| 1979 | 148 | 621 | 569 | 80 | 162 | 29 | 1 | 7 | 49 | 43 | 74 | 37 | 12 | .285 | .336 | .376 | .712 | 97.5 | 96.8 | .324 | 2.2 |
| 1980 | 160 | 738 | 645 | 118 | 205 | 29 | 9 | 9 | 53 | 78 | 75 | 44 | 11 | .318 | .392 | .433 | .825 | 132.3 | 129.1 | .376 | 5.6 |
| 1981 | 101 | 451 | 392 | 61 | 107 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 27 | 51 | 51 | 22 | 15 | .273 | .358 | .337 | .695 | 108.7 | 103.0 | .332 | 2.2 |
| 1982 | 150 | 618 | 562 | 77 | 147 | 20 | 4 | 5 | 40 | 44 | 77 | 10 | 5 | .262 | .314 | .338 | .652 | 80.0 | 80.8 | .297 | 0.9 |
| 1983 | 124 | 416 | 378 | 63 | 104 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 31 | 31 | 33 | 12 | 5 | .275 | .328 | .357 | .685 | 92.1 | 91.5 | .312 | 1.0 |
| 1984 | 119 | 374 | 344 | 47 | 93 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 25 | 35 | 9 | 5 | .270 | .317 | .337 | .654 | 85.2 | 84.1 | .302 | 0.5 |
| 1985 | 68 | 103 | 95 | 6 | 19 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 0 | .200 | .255 | .263 | .518 | 45.8 | 46.8 | .248 | -0.4 |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979-05-26 | BAL @ DET Gameday | 8 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| 1976-08-21 | BAL @ CWS Gameday | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 |
| 1973-09-22 | BAL @ MIL Gameday | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 9 |
| 1984-09-17 | BAL @ NYY Gameday | 5 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1973-06-25 | BAL @ MIL Gameday | 6 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 |
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.