MLB / Players

Bill Bonham

HandednessBats Right · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 3 in · 190 lb

BornOctober 1, 1948 · Glendale, CA, USA

MLB debutApril 7, 1971

Final gameJuly 26, 1980

Seasons10 (1971–1980)

Chicago Cubs 1971–1977; Cincinnati Reds 1978–1980

Percentile snapshot

1979 season — qualified pitchers

10.6

27.1

10.6

88.2

3.5

SHO

173

87.1

85.9

63.5

16.5

175.7

14.1

ERA

3.79

42.4

WHIP

1.326

42.4

K/9

4.00

30.6

FIP

4.00

41.2

FIP-

106.7

23.5

ERA+

98.9

29.4

sWAR

1.5

15.3

of 86 qualified 1979 pitchers (min 161 IP)

Career, era-adjusted

ERA+

96.2

sWAR

11.8

88.7

ERA+ measured against qualified careers (1,000+ IP), 1,334 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	RBI	BB	SO	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1971	33	12	12	2	2	0	0	0	0	4	.167	.167	.167	.333	-33.4	-10.1	.155	0.0
1972	19	19	14	3	4	0	0	1	2	3	.286	.375	.286	.661	93.3	83.4	.327	1.2
1973	44	49	43	1	4	0	0	1	0	17	.093	.093	.093	.186	-73.3	-49.6	.087	2.8
1974	48	91	84	8	12	2	0	4	2	25	.143	.163	.167	.329	-23.6	-9.4	.159	1.9
1975	40	92	82	8	15	1	1	6	1	19	.183	.190	.220	.410	-4.2	11.2	.192	-0.2
1976	32	74	65	6	13	4	0	2	2	15	.200	.224	.262	.485	22.4	32.6	.229	1.0
1977	35	77	65	3	15	3	0	3	1	14	.231	.242	.277	.519	23.5	33.1	.237	2.1
1978	23	56	43	2	8	3	0	5	4	9	.186	.271	.256	.527	51.1	48.7	.259	1.7
1979	29	63	57	3	8	2	0	2	0	18	.140	.140	.175	.316	-29.9	-14.2	.144	1.5
1980	4	7	6	1	0	0	0	0	1	1	.000	.143	.000	.143	-54.1	-56.5	.108	-0.1

Pitching

Season	G	GS	W	L	SV	CG	SHO	H	ER	BB	SO	HR	IP	ERA	WHIP	K/9	FIP	FIP-	ERA+	sWAR
1971	33	2	2	1	0	0	0	63	31	36	41	6	60.0	4.65	1.650	6.15	4.53	117.0	83.2	0.0
1972	19	4	1	1	4	0	0	56	20	25	49	4	57.7	3.12	1.405	7.65	3.08	82.3	120.0	1.2
1973	44	15	7	5	6	3	0	126	51	64	121	10	152.0	3.02	1.250	7.16	3.16	81.1	128.8	2.8
1974	44	36	11	22	1	10	2	246	104	109	191	13	242.7	3.86	1.463	7.08	3.13	82.5	98.3	1.9
1975	38	36	13	15	0	7	2	254	120	109	165	15	229.3	4.71	1.583	6.48	3.52	92.2	81.1	-0.2
1976	32	31	9	13	0	3	0	215	93	96	110	11	196.0	4.27	1.587	5.05	3.75	98.9	88.9	1.0
1977	34	34	10	13	0	1	0	207	104	82	134	15	214.7	4.36	1.346	5.62	3.58	83.3	98.6	2.1
1978	23	23	11	5	0	1	0	151	55	50	83	9	140.3	3.53	1.432	5.32	3.36	94.2	101.2	1.7
1979	29	29	9	7	0	2	0	173	74	60	78	14	175.7	3.79	1.326	4.00	4.00	106.7	98.9	1.5
1980	4	4	2	1	0	0	0	21	10	5	13	1	19.0	4.74	1.368	6.16	2.85	79.3	75.9	-0.1

sWAR is the season TOTAL for a player who both hit and pitched: the record book carries one figure per season, not a split, so the same number appears on both lines rather than being counted twice.

Career totals

Batting

307

540

471

RBI

125

.1720

OBP

.1955

SLG

.2081

OPS

.4036

Pitching

G (P)

300

214

SHO

1,487

SO (P)

985

BB allowed

636

486th-most career BB allowed

ERA

4.006

WHIP

1.4442

K/9

5.96

388th-highest career K/9

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	RBI	TB
1975-06-24	CHC @ WSH Gameday	3	1	2	0	1	2	4
1977-07-25	HOU @ CHC Gameday	3	1	2	1	0	2	3
1978-06-07	CIN @ CHC Gameday	2	1	2	1	0	2	3
1974-08-04	CHC @ PIT Gameday	3	0	2	0	0	2	2
1972-09-16	NYM @ CHC Gameday	2	1	2	0	0	1	2

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1975-06-15	CIN @ CHC Gameday	8.0	8	2	2	4	12	1
1974-09-03	NYM @ CHC Gameday	9.0	4	2	2	3	10	1
1973-09-18	PHI @ CHC Gameday	9.0	4	2	2	3	9	1
1974-04-09	PHI @ CHC Gameday	9.0	4	0	0	1	9	0
1975-07-28	WSH @ CHC Gameday	9.0	6	2	2	5	9	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.