Bill Buckner

HandednessBats Left · Throws Left

Listed at6 ft 0 in · 185 lb

BornDecember 14, 1949 · Vallejo, CA, USA

MLB debutSeptember 21, 1969

Final gameMay 30, 1990

Seasons22 (1969–1990)

Los Angeles Dodgers 1969–1976; Chicago Cubs 1977–1983; Boston Red Sox 1984; Chicago Cubs 1984; Boston Red Sox 1985–1987; California Angels 1987–1988; Kansas City Royals 1988–1989; Boston Red Sox 1990

Percentile snapshot

1986 season — qualified batters

153

57.1

681

84.9

629

92.9

168

77.8

95.2

21.4

52.4

RBI

102

90.5

100

41.3

57.1

.267

42.9

OBP

.311

16.7

SLG

.421

40.5

OPS

.733

wRC+

93.1

24.6

OPS+

97.8

29.4

wOBA

.319

sWAR

0.4

8.7

of 127 qualified 1986 batters (min 499 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

96.7

35.2

OPS+

99.9

41.4

sWAR

11.2

88.1

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
1969	1	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000	.000	-121.5	-100.0	.000	0.0
1970	28	71	68	6	13	3	1	0	4	3	7	0	1	.191	.225	.265	.490	26.9	34.5	.221	-0.5
1971	108	383	358	37	99	15	1	5	41	11	18	4	1	.277	.306	.366	.672	92.1	95.9	.307	0.3
1972	105	405	383	47	122	14	3	5	37	17	13	10	3	.319	.348	.410	.758	120.7	118.8	.349	1.7
1973	140	606	575	68	158	20	0	8	46	17	34	12	2	.275	.297	.351	.648	80.5	84.3	.296	-0.5
1974	145	620	580	83	182	30	3	7	58	30	24	31	13	.314	.351	.412	.763	116.9	119.3	.352	2.5
1975	92	315	288	30	70	11	2	6	31	17	15	8	3	.243	.286	.358	.644	74.0	83.4	.291	-0.3
1976	154	680	642	76	193	28	4	7	60	26	26	28	9	.301	.326	.389	.716	104.2	106.7	.330	1.7
1977	122	457	426	40	121	27	0	11	60	21	23	7	5	.284	.314	.425	.739	84.8	87.9	.329	-0.2
1978	117	470	446	47	144	26	1	5	74	18	17	7	5	.323	.345	.419	.765	102.3	103.3	.348	0.7
1979	149	628	591	72	168	34	7	14	66	30	28	9	4	.284	.319	.437	.756	94.2	96.5	.339	0.4
1980	145	614	578	69	187	41	3	10	68	30	18	1	2	.324	.353	.457	.810	116.5	117.6	.363	2.1
1981	106	453	421	45	131	35	3	10	75	26	16	5	2	.311	.349	.480	.829	126.9	128.7	.372	2.0
1982	161	709	657	93	201	34	5	15	105	36	26	15	5	.306	.342	.441	.783	114.7	115.3	.354	2.2
1983	153	665	626	79	175	38	6	16	66	25	30	12	4	.280	.310	.436	.746	98.8	101.2	.336	0.7
1984	135	517	482	54	131	21	2	11	69	25	39	2	2	.272	.313	.392	.705	87.6	91.1	.314	-0.1
1985	162	718	673	89	201	46	3	16	110	30	36	18	4	.299	.325	.447	.773	103.9	106.8	.337	1.5
1986	153	681	629	73	168	39	2	18	102	40	25	6	4	.267	.311	.421	.733	93.1	97.8	.319	0.4
1987	132	498	469	39	134	18	2	5	74	22	26	2	3	.286	.314	.365	.678	78.0	80.1	.299	-0.7
1988	108	311	285	19	71	14	0	3	43	17	19	5	1	.249	.287	.330	.616	66.2	72.8	.274	-1.0
1989	79	183	176	7	38	4	1	1	16	6	11	1	0	.216	.240	.267	.507	35.2	44.1	.230	-1.2
1990	22	48	43	4	8	0	0	1	3	3	2	0	0	.186	.234	.256	.490	12.7	35.1	.207	-0.4

Career totals

2,517

56th-most career G

10,033

85th-most career PA

9,397

51st-most career AB

1,077

290th-most career R

2,715

66th-most career H

498

67th-most career 2B

174

485th-most career HR

RBI

1,208

153rd-most career RBI

450

453

183

426th-most career SB

.2889

437th-highest career batting average

OBP

.3211

SLG

.4079

OPS

.7290

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	TB
1982-08-09	CHC @ WSH Gameday	5	3	4	1	2	2	11
1977-08-19	LAD @ CHC Gameday	5	2	4	0	2	5	10
1981-09-27	PHI @ CHC Gameday	5	3	3	1	2	4	10
1979-05-01	CHC @ CIN Gameday	5	2	3	1	2	2	10
1985-10-01	BOS @ BAL Gameday	5	2	4	2	1	5	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× 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.