MLB / Players

Ben Oglivie

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 2 in · 160 lb

BornFebruary 11, 1949 · Colon, Colón, Panama

MLB debutSeptember 4, 1971

Final gameOctober 5, 1986

Seasons16 (1971–1986)

Boston Red Sox 1971–1973; Detroit Tigers 1974–1977; Milwaukee Brewers 1978–1986

Percentile snapshot

1984 season — qualified batters

131

4.2

509

1.7

461

4.2

121

8.4

5.9

18.5

39.5

RBI

32.8

39.5

79.8

36.1

.262

26.9

OBP

.327

37.8

SLG

.384

27.7

OPS

.711

29.4

wRC+

99.6

27.7

OPS+

99.9

29.4

wOBA

.321

23.5

sWAR

1.0

12.6

of 120 qualified 1984 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

115.1

71.6

OPS+

118.1

76.6

sWAR

24.9

95.3

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
1971	14	38	38	2	10	3	0	0	4	0	5	0	0	.263	.263	.342	.605	58.3	66.2	.277	-0.1
1972	94	273	253	27	61	10	2	8	30	18	61	1	1	.241	.293	.391	.684	96.5	98.3	.317	0.4
1973	58	161	147	16	32	9	1	2	9	9	32	1	1	.218	.269	.333	.602	57.1	65.4	.273	-0.6
1974	92	289	252	28	68	11	3	4	29	34	38	12	3	.270	.353	.385	.738	108.2	109.2	.340	0.8
1975	100	357	332	45	95	14	1	9	36	16	62	11	8	.286	.319	.416	.735	101.0	102.2	.336	0.8
1976	115	325	305	36	87	12	3	15	47	11	44	9	4	.285	.313	.492	.804	125.3	129.2	.362	1.7
1977	132	497	450	63	118	24	2	21	61	40	80	9	9	.262	.325	.464	.789	108.2	108.4	.349	1.6
1978	128	527	469	71	142	29	4	18	72	52	69	11	7	.303	.370	.497	.867	141.6	142.8	.385	3.5
1979	139	572	514	88	145	30	4	29	81	48	56	12	5	.282	.343	.525	.869	127.0	132.2	.374	3.0
1980	156	660	592	94	180	26	2	41	118	54	71	11	9	.304	.362	.563	.925	146.8	153.8	.397	5.1
1981	107	452	400	53	97	15	2	14	72	37	49	2	2	.243	.310	.395	.705	100.8	107.6	.316	1.0
1982	159	677	602	92	147	22	1	34	102	70	81	3	5	.244	.326	.453	.780	114.5	118.1	.341	2.7
1983	125	483	411	49	115	19	3	13	66	60	64	4	6	.280	.371	.436	.806	125.6	129.1	.356	2.5
1984	131	509	461	49	121	16	2	12	60	44	56	0	6	.262	.327	.384	.711	99.6	99.9	.321	1.0
1985	101	394	341	40	99	17	2	10	61	37	51	0	2	.290	.354	.440	.794	115.6	116.8	.350	1.5
1986	103	384	346	31	98	20	1	5	53	30	33	1	2	.283	.334	.390	.724	90.4	94.5	.319	0.1

Career totals

1,754

458th-most career G

6,598

5,913

784

1,615

277

235

293rd-most career HR

RBI

901

404th-most career RBI

560

852

.2731

OBP

.3360

SLG

.4504

479th-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.7864

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	HR	RBI	BB	TB
1982-06-20	MIL @ DET Gameday	3	3	3	0	3	5	1	12
1983-05-14	BOS @ MIL Gameday	4	3	3	0	3	5	1	12
1979-07-08	DET @ MIL Gameday	3	3	3	0	3	4	1	12
1980-04-29	MIL @ CLE Gameday	5	3	4	1	2	5	0	11
1986-05-23	MIL @ MIN Gameday	4	2	3	0	2	4	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

1× Silver Slugger3× 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.