Al Oliver

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 195 lb

BornOctober 14, 1946 · Portsmouth, OH, USA

MLB debutSeptember 23, 1968

Final gameOctober 5, 1985

Seasons18 (1968–1985)

Pittsburgh Pirates 1968–1977; Texas Rangers 1978–1981; Montreal Expos 1982–1983; Philadelphia Phillies 1984; San Francisco Giants 1984; Los Angeles Dodgers 1985; Toronto Blue Jays 1985

Percentile snapshot

1983 season — qualified batters

157

82.3

664

83.1

614

88.5

39.2

184

93.1

91.5

29.2

24.6

RBI

76.2

33.8

84.6

10.8

64.6

.300

80.8

OBP

.347

61.5

SLG

.410

43.8

OPS

.757

51.5

wRC+

107.3

48.5

OPS+

111.1

53.8

wOBA

.341

46.9

sWAR

1.4

25.4

of 131 qualified 1983 batters (min 505 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

120.2

79.2

OPS+

122.0

82.2

sWAR

46.7

98.6

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
1968	4	8	8	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0	.125	.125	.125	.250	-46.5	-24.1	.118	-0.1
1969	129	502	463	55	132	19	2	17	70	21	38	8	5	.285	.333	.445	.778	115.4	119.8	.348	1.5
1970	151	609	551	63	149	33	5	12	83	35	35	1	1	.270	.326	.414	.740	98.1	100.7	.332	0.8
1971	143	573	529	69	149	31	7	14	64	27	72	4	3	.282	.317	.446	.763	115.1	116.5	.345	3.0
1972	140	612	565	88	176	27	4	12	89	34	44	2	4	.312	.352	.437	.789	128.2	126.9	.360	4.4
1973	158	690	654	90	191	38	7	20	99	22	52	6	0	.292	.316	.463	.779	116.1	117.3	.351	3.5
1974	147	661	617	96	198	38	12	11	85	33	58	10	1	.321	.358	.475	.832	137.7	136.5	.385	5.0
1975	155	666	628	90	176	39	8	18	84	25	73	4	2	.280	.309	.454	.763	109.4	112.6	.347	3.2
1976	121	481	443	62	143	22	5	12	61	26	29	6	2	.323	.363	.476	.839	137.1	138.5	.381	3.9
1977	154	622	568	75	175	29	6	19	82	40	38	13	16	.308	.353	.481	.834	119.3	121.0	.367	2.9
1978	133	568	525	65	170	35	5	14	89	31	41	8	9	.324	.358	.490	.848	135.9	137.7	.377	3.6
1979	136	538	492	69	159	28	4	12	76	34	34	4	5	.323	.367	.470	.836	123.6	126.2	.368	3.2
1980	163	709	656	96	209	43	3	19	117	39	47	5	7	.319	.357	.480	.838	128.5	130.6	.371	4.0
1981	102	448	421	53	130	29	1	4	55	24	28	3	0	.309	.348	.411	.759	119.1	123.2	.342	1.3
1982	160	687	617	90	204	43	2	22	109	61	59	5	2	.331	.392	.514	.906	152.2	150.9	.406	5.2
1983	157	664	614	70	184	38	3	8	84	44	44	1	3	.300	.347	.410	.757	107.3	111.1	.341	1.4
1984	119	460	432	36	130	26	2	0	48	27	36	3	4	.301	.343	.370	.714	102.2	102.4	.330	0.7
1985	96	280	266	21	67	11	1	5	31	12	24	1	0	.252	.286	.357	.643	73.2	76.5	.288	-0.8

Career totals

2,368

98th-most career G

9,778

101st-most career PA

9,049

72nd-most career AB

1,189

194th-most career R

2,743

58th-most career H

529

44th-most career 2B

309th-most career 3B

219

327th-most career HR

RBI

1,326

100th-most career RBI

535

756

.3031

181st-highest career batting average

OBP

.3442

SLG

.4512

472nd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.7954

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
1971-08-23	PIT @ ATL Gameday	6	4	5	0	1	2	5	0	13
1974-09-26	PIT @ NYM Gameday	5	4	5	1	0	2	5	0	12
1979-05-23	MIN @ TEX Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	3	4	0	12
1980-08-17	TEX @ DET Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	3	4	1	12
1972-09-04	PHI @ PIT Gameday	5	4	4	0	0	2	6	0	10

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1968-05-31	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1968-06-02	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1968-06-02	ATL @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1968-06-14	HOU @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1968-06-16	HOU @ PIT Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	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

3× Silver Slugger7× 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.