Alan Bannister

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 170 lb

BornSeptember 3, 1951 · Montebello, CA, USA

MLB debutJuly 13, 1974

Final gameOctober 6, 1985

Seasons12 (1974–1985)

Philadelphia Phillies 1974–1975; Chicago White Sox 1976–1980; Cleveland Indians 1980–1983; Houston Astros 1984; Texas Rangers 1984–1985

Percentile snapshot

1979 season — qualified batters

136

14.4

560

25.2

506

32.4

38.1

144

38.8

62.6

83.5

5.8

RBI

22.3

37.4

88.5

76.3

43.2

.285

61.9

OBP

.342

44.6

SLG

.383

30.9

OPS

.725

30.2

wRC+

97.8

32.4

OPS+

95.8

29.5

wOBA

.331

30.2

sWAR

1.6

31.7

of 140 qualified 1979 batters (min 492 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

91.6

25.8

OPS+

89.9

22.8

sWAR

6.9

82.7

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
1974	26	29	25	4	3	0	0	0	1	3	7	0	0	.120	.241	.120	.361	7.2	2.0	.203	-0.2
1975	24	63	61	10	16	3	1	0	0	1	9	2	2	.262	.274	.344	.618	64.0	69.1	.288	0.0
1976	73	165	145	19	36	6	2	0	8	14	21	12	4	.248	.317	.317	.634	86.7	85.9	.303	0.2
1977	139	630	560	87	154	20	3	3	57	54	49	4	3	.275	.335	.338	.672	85.9	84.3	.310	1.8
1978	49	119	107	16	24	3	2	0	8	11	12	3	3	.224	.303	.290	.592	67.0	67.3	.281	-0.3
1979	136	560	506	71	144	28	8	2	55	43	40	22	6	.285	.342	.383	.725	97.8	95.8	.331	1.6
1980	126	443	392	57	111	23	4	1	41	40	41	14	4	.283	.346	.370	.715	95.4	96.7	.326	1.1
1981	68	250	232	36	61	11	1	1	17	16	19	16	2	.263	.309	.332	.641	84.0	85.8	.298	0.3
1982	101	398	348	40	93	16	1	4	41	42	41	18	5	.267	.347	.353	.700	97.3	93.2	.325	1.0
1983	117	422	377	51	100	25	4	5	45	31	43	6	6	.265	.323	.393	.715	94.5	93.3	.324	0.7
1984	56	157	132	22	37	4	1	2	9	23	19	3	0	.280	.389	.371	.760	120.7	111.3	.358	0.9
1985	57	137	122	17	32	4	1	1	6	14	17	8	2	.262	.338	.336	.674	90.0	85.4	.314	0.0

Career totals

972

3,373

3,007

430

811

143

RBI

288

292

318

108

.2697

OBP

.3341

SLG

.3548

OPS

.6889

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
1981-05-31	NYY @ CLE Gameday	4	2	3	1	0	1	2	1	7
1979-07-04	CWS @ CLE Gameday	6	3	5	1	0	0	3	0	6
1977-06-09	CWS @ TEX Gameday	6	1	5	1	0	0	2	0	6
1979-04-13	NYY @ CWS Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	1	3	0	6
1980-09-17	CLE @ BOS Gameday	5	1	3	1	1	0	2	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.