MLB / Players

Amos Otis

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at5 ft 11 in · 165 lb

BornApril 26, 1947 · Mobile, AL, USA

MLB debutSeptember 6, 1967

Final gameAugust 5, 1984

Seasons17 (1967–1984)

New York Mets 1967; New York Mets 1969; Kansas City Royals 1970–1983; Pittsburgh Pirates 1984

Percentile snapshot

1982 season — qualified batters

125

2.1

524

7.1

475

10.7

43.6

136

27.9

46.4

40.7

37.9

RBI

72.1

22.1

57.1

52.1

47.1

.286

67.1

OBP

.335

43.6

SLG

.421

49.3

OPS

.756

47.9

wRC+

105.1

OPS+

106.4

42.9

wOBA

.336

42.1

sWAR

2.4

44.3

of 141 qualified 1982 batters (min 502 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

115.0

71.4

OPS+

114.8

71.5

sWAR

46.1

98.5

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
1967	19	66	59	6	13	2	0	0	1	5	13	0	4	.220	.292	.254	.547	63.5	59.2	.268	-0.1
1969	48	102	93	6	14	3	1	0	4	6	27	1	0	.151	.202	.204	.406	4.2	14.2	.192	-0.9
1970	159	700	620	91	176	36	9	11	58	68	67	33	2	.284	.353	.424	.777	116.5	114.1	.356	4.1
1971	147	607	555	80	167	26	4	15	79	40	74	52	8	.301	.345	.443	.789	125.8	124.6	.361	4.3
1972	143	605	540	75	158	28	2	11	54	50	59	28	12	.293	.352	.413	.765	130.1	125.2	.358	4.5
1973	148	651	583	89	175	21	4	26	93	63	47	13	9	.300	.368	.484	.851	135.4	133.4	.386	5.1
1974	146	632	552	87	157	31	9	12	73	58	67	18	5	.284	.348	.438	.786	121.0	120.8	.359	4.0
1975	132	548	470	87	116	26	6	9	46	66	48	39	11	.247	.342	.385	.727	108.1	104.2	.342	2.7
1976	153	665	592	93	165	40	2	18	86	55	100	26	7	.279	.341	.444	.785	128.6	129.9	.360	4.8
1977	142	561	478	85	120	20	8	17	78	71	88	23	7	.251	.342	.433	.775	110.7	110.9	.346	2.9
1978	141	567	486	74	145	30	7	22	96	66	54	32	8	.298	.380	.525	.905	150.6	150.8	.401	5.6
1979	151	660	577	100	170	28	2	18	90	68	92	30	5	.295	.369	.444	.813	118.1	117.6	.364	3.9
1980	107	448	394	56	99	16	3	10	53	39	70	16	1	.251	.316	.383	.699	90.7	90.4	.319	1.2
1981	99	417	372	49	100	22	3	9	57	31	59	16	7	.269	.321	.417	.738	111.9	113.1	.336	2.1
1982	125	524	475	73	136	25	3	11	88	37	65	9	5	.286	.335	.421	.756	105.1	106.4	.336	2.4
1983	98	384	356	35	93	16	3	4	41	27	63	5	2	.261	.313	.357	.669	83.5	84.5	.303	0.4
1984	40	109	97	6	16	4	0	0	10	7	15	0	0	.165	.213	.206	.419	12.9	18.8	.202	-1.0

Career totals

1,998

256th-most career G

8,246

247th-most career PA

7,299

249th-most career AB

1,092

275th-most career R

2,020

284th-most career H

374

259th-most career 2B

450th-most career 3B

193

415th-most career HR

RBI

1,007

303rd-most career RBI

757

315th-most career BB

1,008

388th-most career SO

341

121st-most career SB

.2768

OBP

.3430

SLG

.4254

OPS

.7684

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
1982-07-04	LAA @ KC Gameday	4	2	4	0	0	2	2	0	10
1972-05-19	ATH @ KC Gameday	6	2	4	2	0	1	5	0	9
1973-04-19	ATH @ KC Gameday	5	3	4	0	1	1	4	1	9
1976-05-04	KC @ BOS Gameday	5	2	3	0	0	2	4	0	9
1980-06-15	KC @ MIL Gameday	4	3	3	0	0	2	3	1	9

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× Gold Glove5× 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.